metallic hardcore

Boston bruisers Vaulted bring their latest beatdown in the form of “Chaos Reigns.”

Vultures unleash the video for “Push,” the opener to new EP Hunger.

Cleveland underground metallic hardcore heroes In Cold Blood mount an unlikely — yet triumphant — comeback with Legion of Angels.

Metallic hardcore heroes and Decibel faves All Out War reveal another new track from the forthcoming Crawl Among the Filth.

NC’s VLVD decree viva la EP!

As you wait for the first Sworn Enemy record in five years to drop, check out a new track and then jam an exclusive playlist courtesy vocalist Sal Lococo.

Current and former members of Hatebreed, All Out War, Starkweather and Prime Evil unleash pulverizing, blackened metallic hardcore as Below the Frost.

Rising metallic hardcore outfit Ithaca quickly make a positive impression with “Slow Negative Order.”

Hardcore rising stars Purgatory deliver sonic carnage on Cold Side of Reality.

Stream the bone-crushing new album from Philadelphia-based metallic hardcore bruisers Hell to Pay.

Watch a new Parasight video now.

Harm’s Way discuss Posthuman, nu metal and constantly reinventing their sound.

Stream and acquire the exclusive new All Out War flexi right here.

Get an active deluxe Decibel subscription by Monday, September 4 at 10 AM EST and our 83rd entry into the ever-expanding Decibel Flexi Series is yours. Miss it and be condemned to suffer without it.

Stream the flattening new EP from hardcore heavyweights Vatican NOW before its release on Friday.

Integrity‘s Dwid Hellion on his creative process, new album Howling, for the Nightmare Shall Consume and the blues. 

Check out the new lyric video from metallic hardcore outfit Get the Shot.

Even judged alongside its contemporaries from those fertile, boundary-obliterating metallic hardcore glory days of the late 90s, the discography of Tampa, Florida’s Reversal of Man — a singularly potent amalgamation of powerviolence, post-hardcore, grind, indie, and impossibly abrasive hardcore — stands out and, in many ways, remains ahead of its time nearly two decades after disbanding.  

Where Zao and vinyl bring rad! Hear the band’s brand new track, released exclusively through the Decibel Flexi Series, right here. 

As Cleveland brutalizers/trailblazers Ringworm returns with yet another fiery-as-fuck, slab of bludgeoning occult-infused metallic hardcore entitled Snake Church, it seemed as appropriate a time as any to check in with vocalist and hardcore horror memorabilia collector Human Furnace about his favorite dark films to watch during the offstage lulls on tour. 

Integrity’s Those Who Fear Tomorrow, a genre-defining hardcore record, receives a 25 Year Anniversary reissue. Listen now.

The upcoming Harm’s Way record Rust — out March 10 via Deathwish Inc — is an industrial-by-way-of-metallic-hardcore-by-way-of-Triptykon multidimensional rager that is going to turn a lot of heads. This afternoon Decibel is pleased to exclusively premiere the video for “Amongst the Rust.” For more information, check out our profile of the band in the current…

Today we’re streaming the uber-brutal debut full-length from Columbus, Ohio skull-crushers Empire of Rats — and it’s basically an unforgiving swan dive into the metallic hardcore abyss. Check it out below, then preorder this monster as an early Halloween gift for yourself here before heading over to get tickets for the band’s A389 X Bash…