Metalcore

Mouth For War Drop New Video “Captivated,” Breakdown Album Bleed Yourself With Decibel’s Q&A

October 26, 2023

Vicious Colorado-based quintet Mouth for War unleash new video “Captivated,” while frontman Trae Roberts talks brutal therapy via music and the Colorado metal scene.

EXCLUSIVE Excerpt Part 2 from ‘Swing of the Blade’ – “You Win Some, You Lose Some”

April 11, 2023

Read an exclusive excerpt, featuring Killswitch Engage, from Metal Blade founder Brian Slagel’s upcoming book, Swing of the Blade: More Stories from Metal Blade Records.

For Those About Squawk: Waldo Pecks on Sanguisugabogg and All Out War

January 20, 2023

After flying south for the holidays, our bird is back with new releases from slam newjacks and underground metal/hardocre vets.

Hear New ALL OUT WAR Track “Glorious Devastation” & Pre-Order New LP ‘Celestial Rot’ on Decibel-Exclusive Vinyl!

October 13, 2022

We’ve got 100 copies of metallic hardcore heroes All Our War‘ new LP, Celestial Rot, on Decibel-exclusive Bone White vinyl. Pre-order now!

The Lazarus Pit: Drowningman’s ‘Busy Signal at the Suicide Hotline’

September 29, 2022

Revisiting when Drowningman got metalcore very right on 1999’s Busy Signal at the Suicide Hotline.

Video Premiere: Out of Nowhere – “Dying Sun”

July 26, 2022

Iranian metalcore quintet Out of Nowhere burnt brightly in new “Dying Sun” video

Video Premiere: Black Matter Device – “Blood Splatter Ink Blot”

June 14, 2022

Like any good American mathcore act, Richmond, Virginia’s Black Matter Device pass the Rorschach test in latest video.

Video Premiere: Disquiet (ft. Vicky Psarakis) – “Wrecked”

April 14, 2022

Dutch melodic death metal quintet Disquiet turn the vocal mike over to the Agonist vocalist Vicky Psarakis on this emotional rager.

Video Premiere: Model Prisoner – “Dirt Merchant”

April 1, 2022

Check out the new song and video from the hardcore crushers in Model Prisoner, off their new EP, Compulsion Analysis.

Video Premiere: Foreign Hands – “Separation Souvenir”

January 28, 2022

Hear metalcore crushers Foreign Hands take the genre back to its halcyon days of 20 years ago on “Separation Souvenir.”

Track Premiere: Super Structure – “Despair“

August 25, 2021

We are calculating the process of Super Structure‘s late ’90s-inspired metallic hardcore/mathcore by just listening.

Video Premiere: Ovtlier – “Bulletproof”

July 22, 2021

The new song and video from Ovtlier is here for those of you who miss the vibe of the late 90s and early 2000s.

Video Premiere: Hatefulmurder – ‘Santificado Seja o Meu Ódio’

June 23, 2021

Brazilian death thrashers Hatefulmurder release the video for their only Portuguese-language single, “Santificado Seja o Meu Ódio.”

Video Premiere: Mastiff – “Endless”

June 10, 2021

In need of a good crushing? The new song and video from the blackened sludge-core devotees in Mastiff will get that out of your system.

Full Album Stream: Orphan Donor – “Unraveled”

June 8, 2021

According to Orphan Donor, the new album “is an authentic expression and account of some of the hardest and scariest times in my life.”

Video Premiere: Eastern High – “Emperor”

May 14, 2021

Watch the new video for “Emperor,” from Swedish prog-metal heroes Eastern High, off their upcoming new album, Halo.

Video Premiere: Carnivora – “Hypnogenic”

April 14, 2021

Massachusetts metal quintet Carnivora recruit guest performances from two Shadows Fall members for their new single, “Hypnogenic.”

Video Premiere: There Were Wires – ‘His Talk, Her Teeth’

March 30, 2021

Underappreciated early-aughts metalcore unit There Were Wires rear their heads with a remastered version of 2003 banger “His Talk, Her Teeth.”

Track Premiere: Zao – “Croatoan”

March 4, 2021

“This song is a vehicle for that feeling and relates it back to dissociation and being lost in strange dimensions and dreams.”

Video Premiere: Purity – “Serpentine”

February 18, 2021

The Las Vegas collective Purity offer anything but in their hybrid of late ’90s sounds.

Video Premiere: Mind Power- “Mess”

January 29, 2021

The new video from Mind Power features singer Robert Meadows telling you just how furious he is with all of us.

Video Premiere: Left to Vanish – “Pity”

December 30, 2020

Venture into the darkness to watch the music video from metalcore throne-smashers Left to Vanish. Stream their new single “Pity” now.

Video Premiere: Matriarchs – ‘Slave City’

December 10, 2020

Los Angeles metalcore bruisers Matriarchs refuse to go to “Slave City.”

Full EP Stream: Ten Ton Hammer – ‘New Failures’

December 3, 2020

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.