Heavy Metal

The rhythm punches, the vocals rip, and the riffs crunch! Check out the new song and video from Norway’s Phantom Fire!

Hear Swedish occult rock combo Skräcken spin their mystical, ’70s-influenced tales from the darkside on their debut full-length Echoes From the Void.

Sink your teeth into a cinematic new video from fantasy-doom champions Castle Rat.

We can’t stop Raven about the new track, “Chasing the Dragon,” from Florida power metal outfit Helms Deep, featuring bassist John Gallagher.

Austrian trad metal combo Venator offer up 10 new fist-pumping anthems on their latest full-length, Psychodrome.

Hear the goth metal incantations of Seattle quintet Dark Meditation on their new Where the Darkness Bleeds mini-album.

Hear Texas trad metal warriors Mean Mistreater lay some rubber on their high-horsepower second full-length, Do or Die.

Ashen Womb arrives this Friday through Dark Descent Records and Me Saco Un Ojo Records. Listen to it in its entirety exclusively at Decibel and pre-order a copy today.

Scottish heavy metal outfit Midnight Force carry the flag of tradition on their third album.

Hear and acquire this flexi disc single from Crypt Sermon featuring an exclusive new song available as part of the Decibel Flexi Series. Hurry, quantities are extremely limited!

Get your deluxe Decibel subscription by Monday, July 1 at noon ET to secure this extremely limited flexi single or forever be doomed—but in the bad way!

Dig into the throwback sounds of Vexing Hex‘s Solve Et Coagula.

Lucifer’s Hammer play heavy metal with style on their new album.

Whether with her fans on Discord or right at home with her daughter, the vocalist tells tale of her powerful love of nerd culture.

Accept guitarist Wolf Hoffmann talks technology, recording with producer Andy Sneap and why he still feels like a teenager.

Heavy metal, hard rock and first-wave black metal collide on Armagh‘s new album, Exclamation Point.

Metallum be damned! Take a trip to middle earth with Gothenburg rockers Riders of Rohan.

Holy harmonies, Batman! Bay Area trad metal trio Hands of Goro unleash a flurry of axe acrobatics on new single “Uncanny.”

Hear Indiana father-son trad metal duo Wizard Death slay some dragons with help from Witch Mountain members Kayla Dixon and Rob Wrong on their new Wise Blood EP, I Am the Night.

Canadian trad metal weirdos Kontact pay homage to cult legends Sacred Blade with their sci-fi insanity on new album, Full Contact.

Hear the ever-prolific Erech Leleth return with his latest heavy black metal creation, the debut full-length LP from Narzissus.

Before the calendar flips to 2024, check out these 10 killer albums you might have missed during list season’s frenzy.

“I am always open and on the lookout for new bands who are hungry … I’ve got to believe they feel the fire.”

Cypriot heavy metal warlords Solitary Sabred charge into battle with an early premiere of Temple of the Serpent.

The new Icarus Witch track is a “pure riff-driven melodic rocker in the vein of Dio-era Rainbow, Deep Purple, or vintage Whitesnake.”

Hear Slovakian evil metal masters Malokarpatan return with their first new material in three years from the forthcoming Vertumnus Caesar.

Check out Terromania‘s love letter to heavy metal aesthetics with their new video for “Disturbingly Beautiful.”

Get your deluxe Decibel subscription by Monday, July 31 to obtain this HIGHLY LIMITED flexi disc single from German heavy metal legend Doro!

Check out the video for End Reign‘s “Chasing Divinity” now ahead of the release of their debut album, The Way of All Flesh is Decay, on July 14 through Relapse Records.

Swiss heavy metallers Burning Witches discuss their new album.