Oregon
Track Premiere: Simple Forms – “Unprecedented Uncertainty”
February 9, 2023 Adem Tepedelen
Members of Norska and Yob make old-school grunge in Simple Forms.
Video Premiere: Ape Machine – “Flight”
September 13, 2022 Adem Tepedelen
Hear Portland stoner rock vets Ape Machine get high on new track, “Flight”
Demo:listen: Somatic Decay
May 3, 2022 Dutch Pearce
This week’s Demo:listen comes steeped in existential decadence as we premiere the demo from Oregon-based organ rumblers Somatic Decay.
Demo:listen: Besotten
April 5, 2022 Dutch Pearce
This week’s Demo:listen will be found in filth with Oregon death-doom foul triune Besotten.
Video Premiere: Silver Talon – “Deceiver, I Am”
December 2, 2020 Dutch Pearce
Portland, Oregon dark power metallers Silver Talon reveal their latest single from their new 7”, “Deceiver, I Am” via this bewitching music video.
Album Premiere: Aleynmord ‘The Blinding Light’
August 24, 2020 Chris Dick
Oregon-based black metal duo Aleynmord crawl out of the Great Western Crevasse to reveal The Blinding Light. Harrowing and sentimental black metal streaming only at Decibel.
Split Premiere: Witchbones & Vide
May 13, 2020 Dutch Pearce
Hear a full stream of this unique pairing of two starkly different US-based entities, Portland’s black/death poltergeist Witchbones and the downtrodden Louisiana-based solo act Vide.
Track Premiere: Soft Kill ‘Missing’ + Five Questions With Tobias Grave
April 3, 2018 Chris Dick
Soft Kill premiere new track “Missing” off new album Savior.
Demo:listen: Felled
March 31, 2017 Dutch Pearce
On this week’s Demo:listen, we circumvent your expectations to present Oregon’s Felled.
Stream Barrowlands Album: Thane
November 21, 2014 Daniel Lake
Metal lover, you’ve been damn lucky this year. Your listening habits have been well served by the aural atrocities perpetrated globally throughout 2014. And it all just got sicker. Portland, OR metal collective Barrowlands is a harrowing hybrid of black metal terror, progressive twists and turns, and doomy contemplation with bold, emotive cello. Their first…
Women In Metal Bonus: Uta Plotkin’s Playlist
June 27, 2012 Justin Norton
Decibel published its first ever “Women In Metal,” issue this month, which offers an exhaustive look at the enormous contributions women have made to metal music (and the metal industry). If for some inexplicable reason you don’t subscribe then you can snag a copy from our store . If you are wise, you might have…