Heavy Metal

Video Premiere: Phantom Fire – “Sleep to Die”

June 19, 2025

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

Full Album Stream: Skräcken –Echoes From the Void

June 16, 2025

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

Video Premiere: Castle Rat – ‘Wizard’

June 10, 2025

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

Track Premiere: Helms Deep – “Chasing the Dragon”

May 12, 2025

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

Full Album Stream: Venator –Psychodrome

April 23, 2025

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

Full Album Stream: Mean Mistreater –Do or Die

February 17, 2025

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

Album Stream: Phrenelith – ‘Ashen Womb’

February 5, 2025

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.

Full Album Stream: Midnight Force – “Severan”

September 23, 2024

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

CRYPT SERMON Unveil Exclusive New Track, “Lachrymose,” via the Decibel Flexi Series

August 8, 2024

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!

CRYPT SERMON to Release Exclusive New Track, “Lachrymose,” via the Decibel Flexi Series

June 28, 2024

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!

Interview: Accept’s Wolf Hoffmann Has No Plans to Slow Down

April 16, 2024

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

Full Album Stream: Armagh – “Exclamation Point”

March 12, 2024

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

EP Premiere: Riders of Rohan – ‘With Hope or Without’

February 21, 2024

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

Track Premiere: Hands of Goro – “Uncanny”

January 25, 2024

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

Full EP Stream: Wizard Death – ‘I Am the Night’

January 23, 2024

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.

Full Album Stream: Kontact – ‘Full Contact’

January 18, 2024

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

Album Stream: Narzissus – ‘Akt III: Erlösung’

January 8, 2024

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

10 Heavy Albums to Hear Before 2024

December 27, 2023

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

Label Spotlight: Dying Victims Productions

December 11, 2023

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

Album Premiere: Solitary Sabred – “Temple of the Serpent”

December 6, 2023

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

Video Premiere: Icarus Witch – “Shadowchaser”

November 2, 2023

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

Track Premiere: Malokarpatan – “Maharal a Golem”

September 25, 2023

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

Video Premiere: Terromania – “Disturbingly Beautiful”

September 5, 2023

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

DORO to Release Exclusive New Track, “Heart In Pain,” via the Decibel Flexi Series

July 28, 2023

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

Video Premiere: End Reign – “Chasing Divinity”

June 14, 2023

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.