noise

Producer Surachai joins forces with The Locust’s K. Joseph Karam.

Reviews of the new Crowhurst/Gnaw Their Tongues, Mantar and Le Kraken from our resident birdbrains.

Vicious grinders Transient team up with noise architect Bastard Noise to deliver a relentless collaboration.

Industrial duo Statiqbloom share their new EP.

Hardcore outfit Comess unleash noisy new track “Decrepit.”

Neurosis meets Godflesh on this new song from Abjection Ritual.

Swedish melodic hardcore stargazers We Dream Alone examine the pursuit of “Happiness” in their newest single from ÆTHER.

Stream Nekrasov‘s latest, The Mirror Void in its entirety right here.

Prurient will release Rainbow Mirror, a 3-hour long record. That record is too long.

The Gnaw frontman discusses the creative process, the addition of lap steel guitarist Dana Schecter and making “the perfect Gnaw album.”

Stream a new song from experimental metal act Sarin.

Stream the entirety of Plastic Surgery by Heavy Traffic.

Endon unleash a primal, punishing noise/metal combination on “Born in Limbo.”

Stream the insane new EP from New York hardcore/noise outfit Crushed. 

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. 

Pain Tank is on a killing frenzy, or at least exposing one, on 97,901,726 Confirmed Kills.

Our resident birdbrains pecks on new releases from Pallbearer, Ascended Dead and Axebreaker.

Oozepus (members of Coffins and Linekraft) craft noisy death-doom on “Farmers,” from their upcoming debut EP, Your Limit. 

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.

Be sure to check these sets out when Southwest Terror Fest goes down next weekend.

If any band has endured and persevered through extreme music’s potential for divisive conservatism and pedantic nit-picking, it’s the Locust.

MoRkObOt unleash wordless doom weirdness in this new video for “Ogrog.”

The noise grind attack of Unyielding Love will tear us apart. 

Pittsburgh’s Brown Angel don’t want to crush you. They want you to listen as they crush themselves. 

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. 

The Oakland duo gets up in your guts with a slithering track off their new album Deathroll.

That’s a nasty sounding collaboration, you may think — and you would be correct. 

Melk En Honing
Drinking and driven
dB Rating: 8/10

Crowhurst
Noise’s loss, metal’s gain
dB Rating: 8/10

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 —…