Instrumental
Track Premiere: Mayan Bull (ft. members of Trappist & Despise You) “Kid Cleveland”
December 29, 2021 J. Bennett
Hear L.A. trio Mayan Bull — featuring members of Trappist, Despise You and Kevarra — take an instrumental departure.
Track Premiere: Andrew Lee – “Maybe”
October 21, 2021 Addison Herron-Wheeler
If endless riffs and shredding are what you crave above all else, you can scratch that monstrous, gnawing, inner itch with Andrew Lee’s Heavy Metal Shrapnel, out via Nameless Grave Records on December 10.
Toadlickers hypnotize with Hangover songs
November 17, 2020 Dutch Pearce
This is how they play dungeon synth down in Goblin City! Stream Toadlickers outlandish debut in its entirety right now.
INTRCPTR Release Video for “Dusted,” Announce Band Break-up
July 1, 2020 Albert Mudrian
INTRCPTR, the instrumental duo of 5ive guitarist Ben Carr and Pelican drummer Larry Herweg, offers a parting kiss with a new video.
Video Premiere: Telepathy – “Pariah”
February 11, 2020 Dutch Pearce
UK-based atmospheric sludgewielders Telepathy set the tone of their forthcoming record, Burn Embrace, with this evocative video for “Pariah.”
Full Album Stream: The Night Watch – “An Embarrassment of Riches”
November 14, 2019 Bradley Zorgdrager
The Night Watch provide a treasure trove of instrumental music.
Dysrhythmia Defy Expectations on “Terminal Threshold”
October 7, 2019 Vince Bellino
Dysrhythmia take you to progressive metal nirvana with new album Terminal Threshold.
Video Premiere: Gore – ‘No Respect’
March 6, 2019 Vince Bellino
Listen to a reworked song from reformed instrumental trio Gore.
Track Premiere: INTRCPTR – ‘Dusted’
December 18, 2018 Vince Bellino
Hear a new song from post-metal masters INTRCPTR, featuring members of 5ive and Pelican.
Track Premiere: Bangladeafy – ‘Steam’
September 5, 2018 Vince Bellino
Stream a new song from instrumental technical metal wizards Bangladeafy right now.
STAHV, or, How To Make Good Instrumental Metal
December 11, 2017 Joseph Schafer
Solomon Arye Rosenschein’s first outing as STAHV succeeds where most of its ilk fail. Unlike most instrumental one-member doom bands, his first self-titled album hold my interest from beginning to end.
Video: Valence – ‘He Tried to Kill Me With a Forklift’
October 27, 2017 Vince Bellino
Watch a silly new video from Valence.
Full Album Stream: Brandon Seabrook’s Needle Driver – “Needle Driver”
October 26, 2017 Vince Bellino
Genre-defying trio Brandon Seabrook’s Needle Driver‘s first album, Needle Driver is streaming now.
Track Premiere: Knife the Glitter – ‘Idiot City’
September 29, 2017 Vince Bellino
Stream a new track from Knife the Glitter featuring members of The Dillinger Escape Plan and John Frum!
Track Premiere: Double Ferrari – ‘Double Ferrari’
September 11, 2017 Vince Bellino
Double Ferrari unleash instrumental madness with a new song. Listen now!
Track Premiere: INTRCPTR – ‘Turbines’
July 14, 2017 Vince Bellino
Stream a new track from Pelican/5ive offshoot, INTRCPTR.
Full EP Stream + Q&A: Ray Suhy (Six Feet Under, Cannabis Corpse) – ‘Fulmination’
June 15, 2017 Vince Bellino
Ray Suhy (Cannabis Corpse, Six Feet Under, ex-East of the Wall) has returned with a new solo EP. Decibel talked to the guitarist about expectations and writing an instrumental record.
Full Album Stream: NY In 64 – ‘The Gentle Indifference of the Night’
May 25, 2017 Vince Bellino
Stream the entirety of instrumental hardcore/post-metal crew NY in 64‘s sophomore LP, The Gentle Indifference of the Night.
Track Premiere: Set and Setting – ‘…The Idyllic Realm’
January 17, 2017 Vince Bellino
No words are used (and none are needed) to tell a story on “…The Idyllic Realm.”
Video Premiere: Invoking the Abstract – ‘The Summit’
November 1, 2016 Vince Bellino
Invoking the Abstract plays instrumental technical death metal. This is a video of Invoking the Abstract playing instrumental technical death metal.
Video Premiere: MONO – ‘Requiem for Hell’
September 27, 2016 Vince Bellino
MONO‘s video for “Requiem for Hell” is an emotional and visually beautiful companion to the song. Also included: Exclusive Q&A with MONO’s Takaakira “Taka” Goto.
Video Premiere: MoRkObOt – “Ogrog”
September 26, 2016 Vince Bellino
MoRkObOt unleash wordless doom weirdness in this new video for “Ogrog.”
Track Premiere: Pray for Sound – “I Have Seen Hell And It’s White”
September 20, 2016 Vince Bellino
“I Have Seen Hell And It’s White” is an instrumental rollercoaster, capturing excited and calm, collected energy throughout the song.
Video Premiere: MONO – ‘Requiem for Hell’
September 20, 2016 Vince Bellino
MONO have spent the past almost-two decades crafting vibrant soundscapes and instrumental rock albums. The upcoming Requiem for Hell, MONO’s ninth studio album, treads similar territory. In a video for the title track, the Japanese instrumentalists tell, visually and audibly, an exhilarating yet terrifying story. The entirely black and white video features a man running…
Full Album Stream: pg.lost – ‘Versus’
September 14, 2016 Vince Bellino
Swedish experimental instrumentalists pg.lost have put out yet another captivating album. Stream it in full before its official release date.
Friday is for Flutes with the Re-release of Iron Mountain’s “Unum”
April 1, 2016 James Lewis
End your week with some Irish/Native American/psychedelic/Krautrock folk metal. Come on, if Friday isn’t for flutes, what day is?
Stream Full EP by Sisters of… (AKA Don’t Judge a Band By Its…)
January 24, 2014 Daniel Lake
As a general rule, we would suggest you not listen to instrumental “post” metal. It certainly has its occasional charms and does an admirable job drawing the aurally cautious into the integrity-crushing arms of extreme metal. Beyond the realm of intellectual curiosity and compositional hedonism, however, this gravity well of musical talent too often grows…
Throw Me A Frickin’ Label Hack: Seattle’s Giza
April 19, 2013 Daniel Lake
Because every day another band records another song. Because 83% of those songs are unlistenable and you can’t be bothered to sift through the dreck. Because metal is about not giving a shit and waking your own personal storm. Because music is universal, expression is boundless, and even indie labels (whatever that means these days)…