Gruesome

Three years on from a suicide attempt, Left To Die drummer Gus Rios discusses living a childhood dream by performing with former Death members.

Castrator’s long-awaited debut album Defiled in Oblivion is now available for pre-order and Decibel has our own exclusive edition on Hot Pink & Black Galaxy vinyl limited to just 100 copies.

Watch Gruesome drummer Gus Rios step out from behind the kit and front tribute/cover band Union Black with an arresting Depeche Mode cover.

Drummer/guitarist/vocalist Gus Rios pens an editorial about overcoming suicidal thoughts.

Current and former members of Megadeth, Soilwork, Gruesome, Malevolent Creation and Venom Inc. join forces in new grind unit Kill Division.

California-based heavy metal purveyors Pounder deafen the world on thunderous new album, Breaking the World. Streaming with metal might now at Decibel!

Gruesome and Filter drummers get together to break the stigma on mental illness.

To celebrate the release of the new Exhumed/Gruesome split 10-inch, Twisted Horror, we caught up with Matt Harvey to find out his top five horror comics of all time.

Buy one Decibel Magazine Metal & Beer Fest “Just Metal” ticket and get a second “Just Metal” ticket for that day of the fest absolutely FREE! Offer ends at 10pm PST tonight!

A weekend of Carcass, Possessed, Nails, Vio-lence, Gruesome, Gatecreeper, Schammasch and more along with a dozen metal-friendly craft breweries is nearly upon us!

Decibel Magazine Metal & Beer Fest: Los Angeles kicks off is just over two weeks, which means it’s time to finalize travel plans and get your tickets. To aid in your planning, weekend set times are now available.

Days (and tickets!) are running for the second annual Decibel Magazine Metal & Beer Fest: Los Angeles. Don’t say we didn’t warn you.

Old-school death metal revivalist Gruesome have been added to the lineup of Decibel Magazine Metal & Beer Fest: Los Angeles, taking place on December 13-14 at the Observatory in Santa Ana, CA.

We’ll send you all four picture discs we’ve done featuring exclusive tracks from Pig Destroyer (our 100th flexi!), Spirit Adrift, Gruesome and Withered. Act now before they’re gone for good!

Matt Harvey goes for trad metal glory with Pounder.

Matt Harvey shares the five heavy albums that changed his life.

Judas Priest return to the cover of Decibel with an decade-in-the-making Hall of Fame story of their Stained Class album.

Hear and acquire a copy of the exclusive new limited edition Gruesome flexi picture disc single here!

Get your deluxe Decibel subscription by Monday, April 9 to obtain a HIGHLY LIMITED Gruesome picture disc flexi!

We caught up with Pounder’s Matt Harvey to talk about how his new trad metal project is really more similar to his extreme metal bands than you might think.

Hear the second song from Expulsion, featuring members of Repulsion, Exhumed, Gruesome, Phobia and more.

DREAM BLOODY GORE shares twisted nightmares, dreams, and hallucinations from members of Gruesome, SubRosa, and Dreaming Dead.

Matt Harvey joins forces with acclaimed artist Kelly Williams (The Cabinet, Eerie) for the deliciously demented banshee-centered graphic novel romp, Howl — and the velocity and transgressive brutality the Exhumed/Gruesome vocalist/guitarist delivers in this new realm is totally what horror-obsessed metalheads would hope for from the guy behind Gore Metal, Slaughtercult, and Necrocracy. 

Harvey was kind enough to give Decibel the inside scoop on the comic — the second volume in Williams’ multi-author series The Dark — out on Halloween via Alterna Comics.  

Exhumed, Ghoul and Arcana 13 members weigh in with horror and slasher flick favorites in honor of today’s metal “holiday.” 

Death worshipers Gruesome let the metal (and horror) flow in new video. 

“Forces of Death,” from upcoming Scream Bloody Gore/demos-inspired Dimensions of Horror, is the Deathly metal you need in your day. Immediately.

Even though Gruesome “pays homage to death metal’s most celebrated founding American acts, Death” (according to a press release), the band’s tastes in the genre don’t stop and end there.  That shouldn’t come as much of a surprise given that the group features members of Exhumed (Deci-fav Matt Harvey), Possessed, Malevolent Creation and Derketa.  So while Savage Land, the quartet’s debut, may sound very Schuldiner-esque, guitarist Dan Gonzalez was kind enough to tell us about some other death metal bands. 

Last week, we brought you an exclusive stream of Savage Land, the forthcoming debut LP from Death-worshipping supergroup Gruesome. This week, vocalist/guitarist Matt Harvey (Exhumed, Dekapitator, the “Death to All” tour) breaks down the inspiration for each song and provides some hilarious insight on what it’s like to write and record music that’s delightfully derivative.

Metal has seen its fair share of worship bands over the years (see Black Sabbath’s direct line to every doom band ever), but it’s rare that one comes along whose sole purpose is to pay homage to one specific group and their highly specific style. Enter Gruesome, a bonafide supergroup (members of Exhumed, Malevolent Creation,…