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Full Album Stream: Armagh – “Exclamation Point”
March 12, 2024 Emily Bellino
Heavy metal, hard rock and first-wave black metal collide on Armagh‘s new album, Exclamation Point.
Partial Album Premiere: Septage – “Intolerant Spree of Infesting Forms (Septic Worship)”
March 11, 2024 Addison Herron-Wheeler
Hear a selection of new tracks from deviant death metal Danes Septage in advance of their forthcoming LP.
Video Premiere: Toby Knapp – “Abramelin Carousel”
March 7, 2024 Addison Herron-Wheeler
Hear some serious riffage in the form of “Abramelin Carousel” from guitar virtuoso Toby Knapp.
Album Stream: Firing up the Noise with Montreal’s Cell Press and Cages
March 7, 2024 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Listen to a stream of Cages, the new album by Montreal noise rock machine Cell Press!
Video Premiere: Sinistro – “Pontas Soltas”
March 6, 2024 Tim Mudd
Get an early taste of Portuguese doom mongers Sinistro with the debut track from Vértice—their Alma Mater Records debut—due in September.
Full Album Stream: Mutilated by Zombies – “Scenes From the Afterlife”
March 5, 2024 Emily Bellino
Mutilated by Zombies worship at the altar of gore, groove and brutality on their new album.
Full Album Stream: Shadohm – “Through Darkness Towards Enlightenment”
March 4, 2024 Emily Bellino
Polish metal collective Shadohm, featuring members of Batushka, Decapitated and Antigama, debut their first album.
Track Premiere: Idol Throne – ‘The Last Voyage’
February 29, 2024 Emily Bellino
Indiana power-thrashers Idol Throne debut the first single off of their second album.
Full Album Stream: Blazar – “Fatal Cosmic Wound”
February 29, 2024 Emily Bellino
Iberian funeral doom outfit Blazar stream their debut album, Fatal Cosmic Wound.
Track Premiere: The Gathering – “Stonegarden” (Remix)
February 28, 2024 Chris Dick
Burning World Records celebrates the 30th Anniversary Edition of The Gathering‘s critical debut album, Always…. Streaming “Stonegarden” now only at Decibel!
Album Stream: Je est un Autre – ‘Flatworm Mysticism’
February 28, 2024 Tim Mudd
Dylan Desmond’s Je est un Autre offers a sonic exploration tangential to his main doom metal squeeze, Bell Witch.
Video Premiere: Dejecter’s “Absent From The Stone” with Mike DiSalvo
February 27, 2024 Justin Norton
Hear Dejecter score a guest appearance from Mike DiSalvo of Warhorse, Coma Cluster Void,, Akurion, and formerly of Cryptopsy, on new single “Absent from the Stone.”
Full Album Stream: “New Wave Donut: A Raucous Tribute to the Birth of Post-Punk”
February 26, 2024 Emily Bellino
Dig into heavy covers of post-punk and new wave classics with Wax Donut Records’ newest release.
Album Premiere: Cuntroaches – ‘Cuntroaches’
February 22, 2024 Addison Herron-Wheeler
Hear the latest ear-infestation of noise and post-black metal from Berlin trio Cuntroaches.
Track Premiere: “El Evil” Shows that a 13 Year Layoff Hasn’t Made Sleepytime Gorilla Museum Any Less Weird
February 22, 2024 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Check out the new single by avant-garde oddballs Sleepytime Gorilla Museum!
EP Premiere: Riders of Rohan – ‘With Hope or Without’
February 21, 2024 Sarah Kitteringham
Metallum be damned! Take a trip to middle earth with Gothenburg rockers Riders of Rohan.
Video Premiere: Selbst – “Chant of Self Confrontation”
February 21, 2024 Albert Mudrian
Get ready to face the music via a brand new video from Venezuelan black metal force Selbst.
Full Album Stream: Guiltless – “Thorns”
February 20, 2024 Emily Bellino
Hear the new album from Guiltless, featuring members of Intronaut and A Storm of Light.
Full Album Stream: Karkosa – “Esoterrorcult”
February 19, 2024 J. Andrew
Delve into the vast subconscious with the new album from the blackened-death metal masters in Karkosa, out this Friday!
Video Premiere: The Dread Crew of Oddwood – ‘Leather Ship’
February 19, 2024 Emily Bellino
A pirate’s riff is the riff for me.
Video Premiere: Hibernaut – “Lantern Eyed”
February 19, 2024 Addison Herron-Wheeler
Salt Lake City crushers Hibernaut reveal an appropriately epic video from last year’s Ingress LP.
Album Premiere: Gore Machine – “Macerated & Liquified”
February 15, 2024 Addison Herron-Wheeler
Fire up this exclusive preview of Gore Machine‘s debut album, Macerated & Liquified.
Video Premiere: Castle Rat – “Cry For Me”
February 13, 2024 Adem Tepedelen
NYC psych doom cult Castle Rat take us to another realm where the Rat Queen battles the Rat Reaperess in new video for “Cry For Me.”
Video Premiere: Oak, Ash & Thorn – ‘Auras’
February 13, 2024 Emily Bellino
Oak, Ash & Thorn soar to new heights with “Auras.”
Track Premiere: Aberration – ‘Interstitial Enmity’
February 12, 2024 Emily Bellino
Death metal quartet Aberration go dark and strange places on “Interstitial Enmity.”
Video Premiere: Icosandria – “Black Hxle 1999”
February 12, 2024 José Carlos Santos
Hear Portugal four-piece Icosandria prove there is still power that there is still power in post-metal.
NOCTURNUS AD Stream Exclusive New Track, “Nocturnus Will Rise,” via the Decibel Flexi Series
February 7, 2024 Decibel Magazine
Hear and acquire this flexi disc single from Nocturnus AD featuring an exclusive new recording available as part of the Decibel Flexi Series. Hurry, quantities are extremely limited!
Video Premiere: Shock Withdrawal – ‘Built to Suffer’
February 6, 2024 Emily Bellino
Shock Withdrawal (Maruta, Turbid North, Noisear) deliver two minutes of grindcore fury on “Built to Suffer.”
Video Premiere: Suicide Season – “Harrowing Torment”
February 2, 2024 José Carlos Santos
Death/doom duo Suicide Season debut a dismal downtempo dirge.
Video Premiere: Carnal Savagery – “Into the Abysmal Void”
February 2, 2024 J. Andrew
Enter the abysmal void with the new video from the Swedish death-dealers in Carnal Savagery, from their latest album on Moribund Records.