Hardcore
Video Premiere: Blistering Joy – ‘Funeral for the Death of My Dreams’
October 5, 2021 Emily Bellino
Chaotic hardcore band Blistering Joy release video for “Funeral for the Death of My Dreams.”
Video Premiere: SPY – “Obtained Under Duress / Exceptional American”
October 1, 2021 Fred Pessaro
Eye Spy a double-dose of hardcore punk in VHS-inspired form from To Live a Lie Records.
Jim Saah On His Defining Photos of DC Hardcore, Black Flag, Minor Threat and More
September 17, 2021 Fred Pessaro
Legendary DC hardcore photographer Jim Saah shares images and ’80 punk tales from his book In My Eyes: Photographs 1982-1997.
Double-Header Track Premiere: Fast Break! Records’ Z9 and MH Chaos
September 14, 2021 Addison Herron-Wheeler
Decibel brings you a double-dose of early ’90 hardcore and late-’90s post hardcore from Fast Break! Records signees Z9 and MH Chaos!
Five Times Harvcore Records Ruled
September 13, 2021 Emily Bellino
Revisiting hardcore label Harvcore Records.
Album Premiere: Turn Cold – ‘Break Your Faith’
September 1, 2021 Sean Frasier
Dive into a riff-blizzard with Atlanta crossover thrashers Turn Cold as they unleash their three-track EP, Break Your Faith.
Listen: Turnstile Release New Album “Glow On”
August 30, 2021 Emily Bellino
Hardcore mainstays Turnstile embrace new sounds on Glow On.
EP and Video Premiere: Getting to the Point with Hardcore Supergroup Under Attack
August 26, 2021 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Check out the new EP and video from Richmond hardcore heroes, Under Attack!
Video Premiere: Wolf King – Live at Rapture Recordings
August 24, 2021 Emily Bellino
Wolf King release a live session from California studio Rapture Recordings.
Album Review: DARE – ‘Against All Odds’
August 18, 2021 Shawn Macomber
DARE deserve to be spoken of in the same breath as Rotting Out, Mizery, Incendiary and others at the vanguard of hardcore.
Video Premiere + Interview: Eyes of Perdition – “When Deeply Ingrained Traumas Spill Forth Like Maggots in Carrion”
July 20, 2021 Brad Sanders
Chameleonic frontwoman Lindsay O. (Coma Cluster Void, Natalia) embraces her slam/death side with Eyes of Perdition. Watch their new video and read an interview with Lindsay here.
Video Premiere: Ingrown – “Waste”
July 6, 2021 Gene Meyer
Watch Idaho’s killer hardcore power trio Ingrown in their natural habitat in the new video “Waste.”
Album Premiere: Vorvaň – ‘Awakened’
May 26, 2021 Sean Frasier
Russian hardcore/sludge outfit Vorvaň rise from slumber to release their bruising sophomore record, Awakened.
Track Premiere: Blue Ox – ‘Lesser Gods and the Science of Superstition’
May 17, 2021 Emily Bellino
Blue Ox dole out sludgy, metallic hardcore on “Lesser Gods and the Science of Superstition.”
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!