Portland
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.
Demo:listen: Dripping Decay
February 15, 2022 Dutch Pearce
This week Demo:listen watches you rot with Portland grinding death gore-tet Dripping Decay.
Q&A and Track Premiere: Eight Bells – ‘Nadir’
November 29, 2021 Justin Norton
Hear a track from Eight Bells‘ album Legacy of Ruin (due on February 25 and available now for preorder), the band’s first record in roughly five years.
Album Premiere: Decrepisy – Emetic Communion
July 27, 2021 Dutch Pearce
Featuring members of Funebrarum, Ritual Necromancy and Acephalix, Portland graveblazers Decrepisy contemptuously reject the sacred on their debut Emetic Communion.
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.
Book Review: ‘Rusted Metal: A Guide To Heavy Metal and Hard Rock Music In the Pacific Northwest (1970 – 1995)’
November 19, 2020 Adem Tepedelen
Everything you need to know about the history of Pacific Northwest Metal in one tidy 900-page book.
Q&A: Tobias Grave (Soft Kill) Gives Portland’s Dead Kids A Voice
November 9, 2020 Chris Dick
Tobias Grave sheds welcome light on the darker recesses of Soft Kill and home city Portland with new interview for Dead Kids, R.I.P. City.
Album Premiere: Drouth – Excerpts From A Dread Liturgy
July 29, 2020 Dutch Pearce
An early full album stream of Excerpts From A Dread Liturgy, the sophomore full-length from Portland black/death collective Drouth.
Track Premiere: Luctum – “Theriomorphic Divinations of Heiress Nocturna”
May 22, 2020 Dutch Pearce
Like columns of black smoke reaching for the heavens, USBM suffocationists Luctum demonstrate their “Theriomorphic Divinations” on this latest track reveal from their forthcoming debut full length Ashes of the Titans.
Track Premiere: Disembowel – “Immolation”
February 14, 2020 Dutch Pearce
Mutant Portland death metal sewer trio Disembowel revel in filthy, ugly violence exclusively. Check out this exclusive track premiere from their forthcoming debut album on Maggot Stomp.
Track Premiere: Coffin Rot – ‘Necrotized’
September 24, 2019 Dutch Pearce
Portland-based corpse defilers Coffin Rot come smashing out of the underground with “Necrotized.”
Track Premiere: Witch Mountain – ‘Priceless Pain’
September 20, 2019 Dutch Pearce
Portland’s Witch Mountain doom cult premiere their brand new banger, “Priceless Pain.”
Track Premiere: Dark Numbers Go Off the Deep End with “Shallows”
May 9, 2019 Kevin Stewart-Panko
“All of us come from very disparate places and try to create music somewhere in between all that.” Wrap your ears around the result, “Shallows.”
Shape of Despair Announce East Coast Shows Ahead of Eternal Warfare Fest
April 29, 2019 Vince Bellino
Shape of Despair to play their first-ever live shows next month.
Full Album Stream: Troll – ‘Legend Master’
April 10, 2019 Sean Frasier
Portland doom voyagers Troll welcome you aboard their riff-engined Dragonship on their Legend Master LP.
Track Premiere: Vitriol – ‘The Parting of a Neck’
November 7, 2018 Vince Bellino
Vitriol explode with violent, high-speed death metal on new song “The Parting of a Neck.”
Interview: Uada Discuss New Album, “Cult of a Dying Sun”
May 23, 2018 Vince Bellino
Rising USBM force Uada discuss their new album, Cult of a Dying Sun and the band’s growth since their 2016 debut.
The Economics of Art and Culture and Why You Should Help Devout Rcrds
March 19, 2018 Neill Jameson
As a small Leviathan-affiliated record store and screenprinter are being forced out of Portland due to rising rent. Jef Whitehead and Stevie Floyd explain the importance of record stores in 2018.
Track Premiere: Vitriol – “Pain Will Define Their Death”
October 27, 2017 Vince Bellino
Portland death dealers unleash angular, explosive death metal.
Full Album Stream: Barrowlands – “Tyndir”
October 26, 2017 Vince Bellino
Portland’s Barrowlands deal in epic, melodic black metal on their second album, Tyndir. Listen now.
Full Album Stream: WORWS – “Truth to Power”
September 21, 2017 Vince Bellino
Stream the new full-length from Portland grind/punk outfit WORWS now.
Track Premiere: Maximum Mad – ‘Obscene Gestures’
September 8, 2017 Vince Bellino
Stream a new track from Portland noise rockers Maximum Mad now!
Track Premiere: Gaytheist’s “Let’s Get Astrophysical”
June 5, 2017 Justin Norton
Stream the new Gaytheist track “Let’s Get Astrophysical” right now!
Petrification Will Give you a permanent bangover with the old-school death of “The Headless One”
February 22, 2017 Shane Mehling
Being inspired by the classics doesn’t mean you can just follow through and pull off something worthy of your forebears. But someone in Portland has unbolted a crypt and unleashed the debut four-song EP Summon Horrendous Destruction by Petrification.
Video Premiere: Dead Conspiracy – ‘Paralyzed With Terror’
January 30, 2017 Vince Bellino
Dead Conspiracy premiere a new music video for “Paralyzed With Terror” to go with their self-titled album, which they independently released in November.
Full Album Stream: Dead Conspiracy – ‘Dead Conspiracy’
November 11, 2016 Vince Bellino
Portland death thrashers Dead Conspiracy are about to release their first full-length since their 1987 formation. Hear it now before it hits the streets.
INTERVIEW: Just Dave from Portland crust kings Nux Vomica on punks, preachers and 24/7 anxiety
April 14, 2014 Jonathan Horsley
Melodic death metal, crust, d-beat, black metal, doom, post-metal . . . It doesn’t really matter how you label Nux Vomica because it’s pretty much impossible to adequately describe their wayfaring sound in terms of genre alone. Yeah we went for crust in this headline, but that was more of a convenient adjective, headline shorthand,…
Interview: Rick Duncan of Portland bass-and-drum duo Towers talks weird sounds, perfectionism and practice room magic
March 3, 2014 Jonathan Horsley
Towers come from Portland, Oregon, and have this awesome sound that’s a strange brew concocted of low-end bass hum and psych-stoner doom, post-punk and krautrock. There is a lot more in there, too. Putatively, it’s metal all right, but with a center so dark and heavy it can pull in all manner of outré influences…
Watership Down: Stream the new RABBITS collection
December 11, 2013 Justin Norton
Like bizarre stuff? Like cool covers of hardcore classics? Then you will dig our full album stream of Singles, Other Shit from Portland’s RABBITS. Take a listen below and then read the “virtual” liner notes compiled for your friends at Decibel. You can check our RABBITS on Facebook and pick up a copy from Eolian…