Hardcore
Full Album Stream: Bushido Code – “The Ronin”
April 12, 2021 Emily Bellino
Hardcore lifers make crossover brutality in Bushido Code.
Health Awaits: Cro-Mags’ Harley Flanagan on Being In the Best Shape of His Life at 54
April 7, 2021 Cosmo Lee
Welcome to Health Awaits, a new Decibel column devoted to fitness. For this first installment, we speak with Harley Flanagan of hardcore punk pioneers Cro-Mags.
Video Premiere: There Were Wires – ‘His Talk, Her Teeth’
March 30, 2021 Emily Bellino
Underappreciated early-aughts metalcore unit There Were Wires rear their heads with a remastered version of 2003 banger “His Talk, Her Teeth.”
Earth Crisis Premiere “Smash or Be Smashed” Via the Decibel Flexi Series
March 24, 2021 Albert Mudrian
Hear and acquire this Earth Crisis flexi disc single, featuring a brand new recording, available as part of the Decibel Flexi Series. Hurry, quantities are extremely limited!
Full Album Stream: Wolf King – “The Path of Wrath”
March 4, 2021 Emily Bellino
Wolf King take the path less traveled and embrace their extreme metal influences on their second LP.
Earth Crisis To Release “Smash or Be Smashed” Via the Decibel Flexi Series
February 26, 2021 Decibel Magazine
Get your deluxe Decibel subscription by Monday, March 1 to obtain this HIGHLY LIMITED flexi disc single from straight edge hardcore heroes Earth Crisis.
Track Premiere: Bridge Burner – ‘Disempath’
February 10, 2021 Emily Bellino
Bridge Burner tell us how they really feel on the title track to their new album, Disempath.
Track Premiere: Seized Up – “Marching Down the Spiral”
February 3, 2021 Sean Frasier
Californian supergroup Seized Up deck you with an uppercut of hardcore punk in the upcoming EP’s title track, “Marching Down the Spiral.”
Full EP Stream: Ten Ton Hammer – ‘New Failures’
December 3, 2020 Gene Meyer
Philadelphia-based bashers Ten Ton Hammer drop five new tracks of ’90s-fueled metal and hardcore squarely on your cranium with the New Failures EP.
Video Premiere: Wolf King – ‘Sanctuary’
November 20, 2020 Emily Bellino
Bay Area blackened hardcore crew Wolf King are on the hunt for “Sanctuary.”
Video Premiere: Violent Life Violent Death – ‘Grave Walk’
November 13, 2020 Emily Bellino
Violent Life Violent Death do the “Grave Walk.”
Video Premiere: Eternal Struggle- “Indoctrination”
November 13, 2020 J. Andrew
Tel-Aviv’s metallic hardcore warriors are here with a new video from their upcoming full-length due out this winter.
Album Premiere: Hanging Fortress – Darkness Devours
November 3, 2020 Dutch Pearce
Morbid Midwest wrecking crew Hanging Fortress make their presence known, painfully loud and frighteningly clear, with their debut full-length Darkness Devours. Out Friday, stream it in its entirety right now.
Dropdead Talk 2020 Reissue campaign, New Discography Album
October 1, 2020 Greg Pratt
Catching up with Dropdead‘s Ben Barnett and Bob Otis to talk about the band’s extensive 2020 reissue campaign.
Exclusive Interview: The Faith/Embrace Drummer Ivor Hanson Talks “Live at CBGBs”
September 28, 2020 Shawn Macomber
Let the sublimely chaotic, enlivening 1981 set captured on “Live at CBGBs” help you regain The Faith.
Track Premiere: Subzero — “House of Grief”
September 23, 2020 Shawn Macomber
Don’t be left out in the cold — stream the first new music in fourteen years from NYHC legends Subzero right now!
Video Premiere: Concrete – ‘Starving Serpent’
September 9, 2020 Emily Bellino
Concrete fuse death metal and hardcore for their heaviest offering yet.
Video Premiere: Horsewhip – ‘Inertia Waits’
September 8, 2020 Emily Bellino
“Inertia Waits” for no man. Hear a new Horsewhip (featuring members of Reversal of Man and Combatwoundedveteran) ripper now.
Video Premiere: EYES – ‘Distance’
August 5, 2020 Emily Bellino
Keep your “Distance” from Danish hardcore maniacs EYES.
Philly Rising: Benefit Comp “19 Notes on a Broken System” Slays & Heals
July 29, 2020 Shawn Macomber
Ready to grind, thrash, and pummel your way to a better world? So are the artists on this extremely extreme benefit comp.
Track Premiere: Reserving Dirtnaps – “Under Siege”
July 23, 2020 Bradley Zorgdrager
Reserving Dirtnaps suggest that their Another Disaster EP proudly proclaims “is that Memphis shit” in its press release. It doesn’t sound like Three 6 Mafia, but it’s just as savage as that terrifying Tennessee troupe.
Five For Friday: July 17, 2020
July 17, 2020 J. Andrew
This week’s new releases come stacked with layers of darkness, filth and brutality with the latest from Fanebærer, Kruelty and more!
Track Premiere: Terminal Nation – ‘Disciple of Deceit’
July 14, 2020 Emily Bellino
Terminal Nation go for the throat of “Disciples of Deceit.”
Video Premiere: The Third Kind – ‘Man vs Earth’
June 10, 2020 Emily Bellino
The Third Kind (featuring All Out War guitarist Taras Apuzzo) take on their biggest challenge yet when it’s Man vs Earth.
Dropdead Premiere “Nothing Remains” Single Via the Decibel Flexi Series!
May 28, 2020 Albert Mudrian
Hear and acquire this ultra-rare Dropdead picture flexi disc single, featuring an exclusive available as part of the Decibel Flexi Series. Hurry, quantities are extremely limited!
Video Premiere: These Streets — “Stay Awake”
May 20, 2020 Shawn Macomber
Better “Stay Awake” if you’re gonna walk These Streets.
Dropdead to Release “Nothing Remains” Single Via the Decibel Flexi Series!
April 29, 2020 Albert Mudrian
Get your deluxe Decibel subscription by Monday, May 4 to obtain this HIGHLY LIMITED flexi disc single from grind punk heroes Dropdead.
Full Album Stream: Cyttorak – ‘Simultaneous Invocation Of Apocalyptic Harbingers’
April 29, 2020 Sean Frasier
Rhode Island bruisers Cyttorak summon beasts from distant worlds on their new slab of slowerviolence Simultaneous Invocation Of Apocalyptic Harbingers.
Full Album Stream: Destroyed In Seconds – ‘Divide and Devour’
April 22, 2020 Albert Mudrian
Get a full D-beatdown from righteous Californian hardcore crushers Destroyed in Seconds (D.I.S.) via Divide and Devour right now.
Track Premiere: New Hell – “Ashes”
April 17, 2020 Dutch Pearce
From their forthcoming EP, Phosphorous, check out this incendiary single from Providence-based subversive blackened death punks New Hell.