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Track Premiere: Forcefed Horsehead – “The Will of the Many”
December 15, 2025 Adem Tepedelen
Forcefed Horsehead unleash a raw, hardcore-driven D-beat fest that strangles, maims, gnashes and generally causes mayhem and destruction. Hear it now.
Full Album Stream: Fanatisme –Tro, håp og kjærlighet
December 10, 2025 Adem Tepedelen
Fanatisme‘s roughly recorded (and played) new seven-song record takes a raw black metal aesthetic and vocal approach and marries it to early ’80s post punk and goth gloom.
Full Album Stream: House by the Cemetary – Disturbing the Cenotaph
December 10, 2025 Tim Mudd
Hear Horror-obsessed death metal lunatics House by the Cemetary deliver 30 filthy minutes of sharpened bone saws, sewer-stench groove, and classic Fulci-drenched death.
Track Premiere: Sacri Suoni – ‘Dissolve to Reunite in Varanasi’
December 9, 2025 Emily Bellino
Soak in some instrumental doom vibes with the latest from Sacri Suoni.
Video Premiere: Eshtadur – “Fire Above Mountain Below” (live)
December 8, 2025 Adem Tepedelen
Watch Columbian melodeath monsters Eshtadur perform “Fire Above Mountain Below” alongside a symphony orchestra.
MORBIKON Premiere New Song, “Gaping Grave Awaits,” via the Decibel Flexi Series!
December 2, 2025 Emily Bellino
Score an exclusive flexi featuring Morbikon covering Aura Noir, while supplies last!
Full Album Stream: Ghoulhouse – “Realm of Ghouls”
December 1, 2025 Emily Bellino
It’s bigger than a chapel… enter the Realm of Ghouls now.
Track Premiere: Oraculum – “Mendacious Heroism”
November 28, 2025 J. Andrew
Rejoice, ye devotees of sheer, unrelenting destruction and death — for Chile’s Oraculum has arrived on the battlefield armed with an arsenal of riffs, growls and pounding drums.
Video Premiere: Getting Tech-y With Phaeton’s “Augmented”
November 27, 2025 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Tech metal and Animusic nerds! Check out Canadian tech metal phenoms, Phaeton.
Full Album Stream: Master’s Hammer – “Maldorör Disco”
November 24, 2025 Emily Bellino
Reformed black metallers Master’s Hammer continue their radical revolution on new LP Maldorör Disco. Czech it now, if you dare.
Album Stream: Terror Corpse – Ash Eclipses Flesh
November 19, 2025 Albert Mudrian
Hear the debut LP from death metallers Terror Corpse before it’s released, and grab an exclusive vinyl variant of Ash Eclipses Flesh (and free flexi) from Decibel before it’s sells out!
Track Premiere: Sire Languish – ‘Heaven’s Night’
November 19, 2025 Tim Mudd
Sometimes a solo project lands sounding exactly like the person who made it. Sire Languish, the new project from avant-metal lifer Garett Bussanick, is one of those cases.
Full Album Stream: Speedclaw – “Stardust”
November 18, 2025 Emily Bellino
Speedclaw throw it back to the early days of heavy metal and hard rock on their new album.
Video Premiere: Colossal Rains – “Deadlights”
November 18, 2025 Addison Herron-Wheeler
Formed out of iconic Philly hardcore band Blacklisted, the much doomier Colossal Rains — we like Paradise Lost, too! — drops their new video, “Deadlights.” Check it out with us first.
Full Split Stream: Territory / Withdrawal – “Hope is Disease/Paranoia is Salvation”
November 17, 2025 Emily Bellino
Take a walk on the dark side of metallic hardcore with Withdrawal and Territory.
Full Album Stream: Destroy, Erase, Improve? With Negative Blast’s Destroy Myself For Fun
November 13, 2025 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Check out the new album by rippin’ ‘n’ tearin’ San Diego hardcore punkers Negative Blast!
Album Stream: Withering Soul – ‘Passage of the Arcane’
November 12, 2025 Tim Mudd
Chicago’s Withering Soul return with their fifth full-length, Passage of the Arcane — a blackened melodic death metal odyssey steeped in cursed lore, burning melodies, and an atmosphere as chilling as grave-silt air
Full Album Stream: Degraved – “Spectral Realm of Ruin”
November 11, 2025 J. Andrew
The new album from Degraved pulls you into the crypts of death metal despair and only gets darker from there. Hear it now.
Full Album Stream: Mourn the Light –Sorrow Feeds the Silence
November 10, 2025 Adem Tepedelen
Hear the power metal-informed doom of Connecticut’s Mourn the Light on their upcoming second full-length, Sorrow Feeds the Silence.
Video Premiere: Triskelyon – “Of Dust and Divination”
November 6, 2025 Addison Herron-Wheeler
Canada’s thrash heroes Triskelyon return with their long-awaited fourth full-length, Maelstrom of Chaos. Check out the video for “Of Dust and Divination” here.
Full Album Stream: Ptolemea –Kali
November 5, 2025 Adem Tepedelen
Hear the experimental folk-inspired doom of Luxembourg’s Ptolemea, featuring current Sinistro vocalist Priscila de Costa.
Track Premiere: COMA – “This World’s a Dahmer”
November 3, 2025 Adem Tepedelen
San Diego D-beat crust duo COMA are a small taste of the incredible collection of bands and artists on the new Three One G/Smashed Plastic comp, Cult and Culture: A Planet B Podcast.
Track By Track: Mos Generator – “Live at Roadburn Festival (2008)”
November 3, 2025 Emily Bellino
Go track-by-track through a new release of an old live performance.
Track Premiere: Primal Scourge – ‘Necromantic Plague’
November 3, 2025 Tim Mudd
Knoxville’s Primal Scourge rise from the mire with ‘Necromantic Plague,’ the second single from their apocalyptic debut full-length, End of Eden, out November 14 via Iron Fortress Records.
Video Premiere: Calcraft – “Perpetually Stabbed”
October 31, 2025 J. Andrew
Texas-based death metal outfit Calcraft is here to help us celebrate the season of perpetual stabbing with new a, um, pointed new video “Perpetually Stabbed!”
EP Stream and Tour News: Rottenness and Saintbreaker Team Up To Conquer (Part of) the World
October 30, 2025 Kevin Stewart-Panko
A new EP! Worldwide touring! UGDM perpetual motion machine Rottenness (and friends) never stop!
Album Premiere: Thron — ‘Vurias’
October 29, 2025 Tim Mudd
German black metallers Thron thrive on transformation. Join them on the path via Vurias before it arrives October 31 on Listenable Records!
Video Premiere: Finality – ‘Haunted’
October 28, 2025 Emily Bellino
Listen to “Haunted,” the new singe from American heavy metal outfit Finality.
Track Premieres: Beastwars – ‘Guardian of Fire’ & ‘The Devil’
October 27, 2025 Emily Bellino
Hear two new tunes from New Zealand stoner-doom outfit Beastwars.
Video Premiere: Dawn Fades – “Drugs”
October 24, 2025 J. Andrew
It’s the spookiest time of year, and Dawn Fades has a new video that’s tailor-made for fans of all things horror!
