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Video Premiere: Enslaved – “Bounded By Allegiance” (Live)
December 23, 2021 Addison Herron-Wheeler
Enslaved‘s The Otherworldly Big Band Experience delivered an epic live stream this week. If you missed it, check out their performance of “Bounded By Allegiance.” You can also watch the full livestream through December 24.
Video Premiere: Soul Remnants — “Cult Destroyer”
December 22, 2021 Shawn Macomber
Boston death thrashers Soul Remnants bring the visual violence on the new clip for “Cult Destroyer.”
Track Premiere: Tormentor Tyrant – “Tormentor Tyrant”
December 22, 2021 Sean Frasier
Finnish trio Tormentor Tyrant share their vicious self-titled track as a declaration of death metal violence.
Video Premiere: Dark Meditation – “Haunt of Fear”
December 21, 2021 Adem Tepedelen
Hear Seattle’s Dark Meditation invoke the spirits of black metal’s past with their gothic trad metal.
Demo:listen: Torsion
December 21, 2021 Dutch Pearce
Tennessean death/grind trio Torsion are here to deliver a world of gut-twisting pain on this week’s Demo:listen..
Track Premiere: Chaos Perversion – ‘Petrified Against the Emanation’
December 20, 2021 Emily Bellino
Chilean black/death cult Chaos Perversion are “Petrified Against the Emanation.”
Track Premiere: Bayht Lahm – “Valientes Sin Armas, Sociedad Sin Miedo”
December 15, 2021 Gene Meyer
Hear New Jersey blasters Bayt Lahm debut a new single addressing political unrest in Colombia.
Video Premere: Matt Pike — “Alien Slut Mum”
December 14, 2021 Shawn Macomber
Sleep/High on Fire visionary Matt Pike comes out of the pandemic with a solo debut like no other. We premiere the wild first track/video.
Video Premiere: Dæmonesq – “The Beauty of Letting Go”
December 13, 2021 J. Andrew
Check out the new haunting, atmospheric and introspective video from Germany’s newest black metal export, Dæmonesq.
Track Premiere: Contrarian “The Philosopher” (feat. Joseph Michael) (Death)
December 13, 2021 Chris Dick
Members of Contrarian, Witherfall/Sanctuary, and Flotsam and Jetsam deliver as masterclass in this cover of Death’s “The Philosopher.”
Full Album Stream: Mordom – ‘Cry Of The Dying World’
December 9, 2021 Adem Tepedelen
No sun shines on San Diego death/doom duo Mordom on their latest indictment of global corruption.
Video Premiere: Take Life – “Leper Shepherd“ (NSFW)
December 9, 2021 Michael Wohlberg
The new NSFW video from Take Life, featuring current and former members of One King Down, Most Precious Blood and Insvrgence, has more than a little blood on its hands.
Full EP Stream: Gore Brigade – “Gore Brigade”
December 8, 2021 Emily Bellino
Death metal vets celebrate blood and guts in Gore Brigade.
Track Premiere: Hemotoxin “Crystal Mountain” (Death)
December 8, 2021 Chris Dick
California-based progressive death metallers Hemotoxin
Full Album Premiere: Reveal! – ‘Doppelherz’
December 6, 2021 Chris Dick
Psyched out Swedish death metallers Reveal! stream the manic brilliance of new album Doppelherz (Sepulchral Voice Records).
Track Premiere and Q&A: Clifford Meyer (ex-ISIS) Scores New ‘Heavy Metal Horror’ Video Game The Axis Unseen
December 3, 2021 J. Bennett
Clifford Meyer (ex-ISIS the band) teams up with veteran game wizard Nathan Purkeypile to soundtrack the new soon-to-be-smash video game The Axis Unseen.
Full EP Stream: Brick by Brick / Cutthroat
December 3, 2021 Emily Bellino
East Coast meets West Coast when Brick by Brick and Cutthroat join forces for a split seven inch.
Full Album Stream: Nekromant – “Temple of Haal”
December 2, 2021 Adem Tepedelen
Swedish power trio Nekromant unveil a rambunctious third album with nods to the trad metal greats—from Thin Lizzy to Maiden to Priest.
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.
Interview: Christian Larson Talks Necrofier, Night Cobra and Hell’s Heroes IV
November 29, 2021 Emily Bellino
Houston promoter and musician Christian Larson discusses new records from Necrofier and Night Cobra, plus the fourth edition of his Hell’s Heroes festival.
Video Premiere: SpiritWorld – “Unholy Passages”
November 26, 2021 Albert Mudrian
Watch Sin City’s SpiritWorld bring their self-described “death western” to the small screen on “Unholy Passages.”
Full Album Stream: Eternal Evil – “The Warriors Awakening Brings the Unholy Slaughter”
November 24, 2021 Emily Bellino
What year is it? Swedes Eternal Evil worship first wave black metal and Teutonic thrash on their debut album.
Track Premiere: Rebreather – “It Comes in Threes”
November 23, 2021 Adem Tepedelen
Inhale the post metal sludge of Youngstown, Ohio trio Rebreather‘s new track, “It Comes in Threes.”
Listen: Stormkeep Release ‘Tales of Othertime’ Album
November 22, 2021 Emily Bellino
Hear Stormkeep‘s Tales of Othertime and transport yourself to the genre’s glory days.
Track Premiere: OAR – “Souls Lost in the Frost”
November 22, 2021 Chris Dick
Australian post-black metal quartet OAR mourn heavily on new track “Souls Lost in the Frost”. Streaming in despondent hate only at Decibel!
Video Premiere: Trench – ‘Imminent Power Looming’
November 17, 2021 Emily Bellino
Calgary heavy crew Trench sense “Imminent Power Looming.”
Full Album Stream & Interview: DREAM UNENDING Tide Turns Eternal
November 17, 2021 Cody Davis
Dream Unending, featuring members of Tomb Mold and Innumerable Forms, stream new album, Tide Turns Eternal (20 Buck Spin). Doomed to dream!
Track Premiere: Jack Endino – “Shadow World”
November 16, 2021 Adem Tepedelen
The Godfather of Grunge, Jack Endino, offers up a new track from his Seattle-centric solo album.
Track Premiere: Imperialist – ‘Majesty of the Void’
November 15, 2021 Emily Bellino
USBM quartet Imperialist pause to admire the “Majesty of the Void.”
Full Album Premiere: Cherokee – ‘Blood & Gold’
November 15, 2021 Chris Dick
Germany-based hard rockers smoke out nostalgia with their debut full-length, Blood & Gold. Streaming only at Decibel!