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Track Premiere: Surachai – ‘Empress of the Starved Lung’
December 14, 2018 Emily Bellino
Producer Surachai joins forces with The Locust’s K. Joseph Karam.
For Those About to Squawk: Gnaw Their Tongues/Crowhurst, Mantar, Le Kraken
August 17, 2018 Blake Harrison
Reviews of the new Crowhurst/Gnaw Their Tongues, Mantar and Le Kraken from our resident birdbrains.
Full Album Stream: Transient with Bastard Noise – “Sources of Human Satisfaction”
August 8, 2018 Emily Bellino
Vicious grinders Transient team up with noise architect Bastard Noise to deliver a relentless collaboration.
Full Album Stream: Statiqbloom – “Infinite Spectre”
July 26, 2018 Emily Bellino
Industrial duo Statiqbloom share their new EP.
Track Premiere: Comess – ‘Decrepit’
June 1, 2018 Emily Bellino
Hardcore outfit Comess unleash noisy new track “Decrepit.”
Track Premiere: Abjection Ritual – ‘Body of Filth’
March 22, 2018 Emily Bellino
Neurosis meets Godflesh on this new song from Abjection Ritual.
Track Premiere: We Dream Alone – “Happiness”
February 14, 2018 Sean Frasier
Swedish melodic hardcore stargazers We Dream Alone examine the pursuit of “Happiness” in their newest single from ÆTHER.
Full Album Stream: Nekrasov – “The Mirror Void”
November 8, 2017 Emily Bellino
Stream Nekrasov‘s latest, The Mirror Void in its entirety right here.
Prurient’s New Album is Too Long
November 6, 2017 Joseph Schafer
Prurient will release Rainbow Mirror, a 3-hour long record. That record is too long.
Making the Perfect Gnaw Album: An Interview with Alan Dubin
October 23, 2017 Emily Bellino
The Gnaw frontman discusses the creative process, the addition of lap steel guitarist Dana Schecter and making “the perfect Gnaw album.”
Track Premiere: Sarin – ‘Amber Guide’
June 12, 2017 Emily Bellino
Stream a new song from experimental metal act Sarin.
Full Album Stream: Heavy Traffic – ‘Plastic Surgery’
May 25, 2017 Emily Bellino
Stream the entirety of Plastic Surgery by Heavy Traffic.
Track Premiere: Endon – ‘Born in Limbo’
April 13, 2017 Emily Bellino
Endon unleash a primal, punishing noise/metal combination on “Born in Limbo.”
Full EP Stream: Crushed – ‘Deep User’
April 12, 2017 Emily Bellino
Stream the insane new EP from New York hardcore/noise outfit Crushed.
Video Premiere: Noise cult members Brown Angel Want you to “See That I am Scourged”
March 23, 2017 Shane Mehling
Some people on the internet just want to make you smile. But with their new video, Brown Angel would prefer if your day were a little bit worse.
Full Album Stream: Pain Tank – ‘97,901,726 Confirmed Kills’
March 15, 2017 Emily Bellino
Pain Tank is on a killing frenzy, or at least exposing one, on 97,901,726 Confirmed Kills.
For Those About to Squawk: Pallbearer, Ascended Dead, Axebreaker
March 10, 2017 Blake Harrison
Our resident birdbrains pecks on new releases from Pallbearer, Ascended Dead and Axebreaker.
Track Premiere: Oozepus – ‘Farmers’
February 8, 2017 Emily Bellino
Oozepus (members of Coffins and Linekraft) craft noisy death-doom on “Farmers,” from their upcoming debut EP, Your Limit.
VIDEO PREMIERE: ZEUS! DELIVERS EPIC, KING OF THE GODS WORTHY INSANITY ON “ENEMY E CORE”
November 16, 2016 Shawn Macomber
Lord, Bologna duo Zeus! sure isn’t looking to make it easy for the File Under peeps to do their job with “Enemy E Core,” a proggy, fuzzed out noise punk take on math rock off the band’s Three One G release MOTOMONOTONO that sort of gives off a Rorschach-wandering-into-a-Pelican-practice-a-decade-ago vibe.
If that sounds like something you’d like to jam while watching various animal species throw down, Decibel totally has your hump day back.
Top 5 Most Anticipated Sets: Southwest Terror Fest
October 12, 2016 Emily Bellino
Be sure to check these sets out when Southwest Terror Fest goes down next weekend.
The Locust – “Plague Soundscapes”
September 27, 2016 Kevin Stewart-Panko
If any band has endured and persevered through extreme music’s potential for divisive conservatism and pedantic nit-picking, it’s the Locust.
Video Premiere: MoRkObOt – “Ogrog”
September 26, 2016 Emily Bellino
MoRkObOt unleash wordless doom weirdness in this new video for “Ogrog.”
TRACK PREMIERE: UNYIELDING LOVE SHOWS THEIR LUST FOR NOISE-GRIND ON “OF HUMAN GREASE AND ASH”
August 10, 2016 Shane Mehling
The noise grind attack of Unyielding Love will tear us apart.
Harshness Descends: Exclusive Brown Angel track premiere + Q&A
August 2, 2016 Dutch Pearce
Pittsburgh’s Brown Angel don’t want to crush you. They want you to listen as they crush themselves.
EXCLUSIVE PREMIERE: SPOORLOOS DISTILLS A “LIFETIME PREPERATION FOR STRANGULATION” INTO SIX DISQUIETING, WEIRD MINUTES
July 20, 2016 Shawn Macomber
Larissa Glasser — AKA Thuringwethil — is best known for her work as the guitarist/vocalist of “witching metal” powerhouse Hekseri and as a rising author of Clive Barker-ian surreal dark fiction found in anthologies such as The Healing Monsters and Procyon. Glasser’s eclectic, disquieting new solo album The Hill was recorded under the moniker Spoorloos, You can hear a track here.
Bass/Drum Gore-Punks Mouth Demand You Open up and “Suck the Worm”
June 1, 2016 Shane Mehling
The Oakland duo gets up in your guts with a slithering track off their new album Deathroll.
Full Album Stream: The Body & Full of Hell
March 23, 2016 James Lewis
That’s a nasty sounding collaboration, you may think — and you would be correct.
When the Pain Goes Marching In: Theologian Premiere!
December 30, 2014 Shawn Macomber
This is one day you most assuredly do not want to be canonized: We’ve got an exclusive premiere courtesy the Decibel noise special issue-approved sonic nightmare factory that is Theologian, and good goddamn does this track from the band’s upcoming two disc set Pain of the Saints — out January 7 on Malignant Records —…