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Album Premiere: Erosion – ‘Invasive Species’
August 27, 2025 Tim Mudd
Seven years after their punishing debut on Hydra Head Records, Vancouver’s Erosion return with Invasive Species—a filthy, blood-boiling follow-up that finds the band operating at peak ferocity.
Track Premiere: Seilies – ‘Before We Die’
August 26, 2025 Emily Bellino
Seilies want you to see this video “Before We Die.”
Full Album Stream: Prayer Group –Strawberry
August 25, 2025 Adem Tepedelen
Hear bruising secular secular noise rockers, Prayer Group, whip out their big ten-inch… record, Strawberry.
Album Premiere: Kratornas – “God of the Tribes”
August 21, 2025 Addison Herron-Wheeler
Hear Kratornas‘s full-length album God of the Tribes (mastered by Dan Swanö, Edge of Sanity), a dramatic departure from previous works.
Video Premiere: No Apologies – “Grief”
August 18, 2025 Adem Tepedelen
Hardcore Aussies, No Apologies, cope with the pain of a devastating loss on new track “Grief.”
Track-by-Track: Fermentor – ‘Agreement’
August 14, 2025 Addison Herron-Wheeler
Instrumental metal duo Fermentor (featuring members of Atheist and Beekeeper) unveil their latest album, Agreement, tomorrow but they’re here to tell you all about it today!
Video Premiere: Tar Pit – “Jubilee”
August 13, 2025 Tim Mudd
From the smoke-choked crypts of Portland rises Tar Pit, casting long shadows with their latest doom-soaked incantation, “Jubilee.” We’re premiering the video for this haunting slab of eldritch doom—a term the band doesn’t just invoke, but embodies.
Track Premiere: Achathras – ‘The Despiser Triumphant’
August 12, 2025 Emily Bellino
Black metal vets try something new in Achathras.
Track Premiere: Death Meta – ‘Desecrated’
August 11, 2025 Emily Bellino
Death Meta take a Myspace approach to heavy music.
Track Premiere: NecroticGoreBeast – ‘Knuckle Deep Convulsions’
August 11, 2025 Emily Bellino
Slam crushers NecroticGoreBeast release the latest from their new EP, Brute.
Track Premiere: Crimson Butchery – “Lab Rat”
August 8, 2025 Tim Mudd
Crimson Butchery are back with Stalker, their third slab of surgical brutality, and we’re thrilled to slice into the premiere of its gnarly fourth track, “Lab Rat.”
Guitar Playthrough: Last Retch – “In the Polder They Reek”
August 7, 2025 Addison Herron-Wheeler
Canadian death dealers Last Retch have blessed us with a playthrough video of “In the Polder They Reek” from their forthcoming record, Abject Cruelty, due out September 26 via Time to Kill Records.
Track Premiere: Heads for the Dead Channel Cronenberg and Necrophagia on “To The Very Last”
August 6, 2025 Tim Mudd
Heads for the Dead—helmed by Jonny Pettersson (Wombbath) and Ralf Hauber (Revel in Flesh, ROTPIT)—have emerged from the fog with their fourth full-length, Never Ending Night of Terror. Get a taste now.
Video Premiere: Intercourse – ‘Another Song About the Sun’
August 5, 2025 Emily Bellino
The Red Chord’s Greg Weeks stars in a new video from Connecticut noise rockers Intercourse.
Track Premiere: Revelator – “Death Serenade”
August 4, 2025 Adem Tepedelen
Hear Canadian black death warriors Revelator growl their vicious “Death Serenade” on their new single.
Video Premiere: Cultic – ‘Nomad’
August 4, 2025 Emily Bellino
Cultic embrace the thrills of battle and high fantasy on newest offering “The Nomad.”
KONTUSION Stream New Song, “Insatiable Lust for Death,” via the Decibel Flexi Series!
July 30, 2025 Decibel Magazine
Hear and acquire this exclusive new flexi disc single from deathgrind duo Kontusion before the issue containing discs are sold out for good!
Track Premiere: Birth and Loss – “Birth and Loss”
July 30, 2025 Tim Mudd
Grind legend Takafumi Matsubara (Gridlink, Mortalized) returns with a vengeance in his latest forward-thinking project, Birth and Loss.
Full Album Stream: MOTHS – “Septem”
July 29, 2025 Emily Bellino
Progressive doom outfit MOTHS explore the seven deadly sins on their new album, Septem.
Video Premiere: Morgue Terror – ‘Cryptid Skin’
July 28, 2025 Emily Bellino
Horror-themed death dealers Morgue Terror showcase their style in a new music video.
Track Premiere: Wading Through the Shit With Deaf Club’s “Crap Circles”
July 24, 2025 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Wrap your ears around an advance listen of new material from Deaf Club!
Video Premiere: Torn From Existence – “Tempted by the Necromancer”
July 23, 2025 Tim Mudd
Decibel is proud to premiere the music video for “Tempted by the Necromancer,” a stand-out cut from the Torn From Existence‘s 2024 debut Hearken the Darkened Skies.
Full Album Stream: Red Brick – “Thrown”
July 22, 2025 Emily Bellino
Get mad as hell with sludge duo Red Brick.
Full EP Stream: Frusen Sorg – “Jag Springer Med Avbrutna Ben”
July 21, 2025 Emily Bellino
Swedish duo Frusen Sorg rip through eight minutes of blackened crust punk on their new EP.
Album Premiere: Eternal Darkness – ‘Eternal Darkness’
July 16, 2025 Tim Mudd
Swedish death/doom legends Eternal Darkness have returned from the grave only to immediately crawl back in. Hear their self-titled final bow now.
Video Premiere: Dwellers – “Headlines”
July 14, 2025 Adem Tepedelen
Members of Failure, Iota and Last converge in Salt Lake City quartet Dwellers and issue new animated video for progressive post-grunge track “Headlines.”
Track Premiere: Crypt Monarch – ‘Terror From Above’
July 14, 2025 Emily Bellino
Get crushed by Costa Rican stoner-doom trio Crypt Monarch.
EP Premiere: Opening the Curtains to Blood Brain Barrier’s Windows Drenched in Red
July 10, 2025 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Take an advance listen to the debut EP from blackened death doom duo Blood Brain Barrier!
Track Premiere: Black Magnet – “Night Tripping”
July 9, 2025 Adem Tepedelen
Oklahoma-based industrial metal outfit Black Magnet drop the latest single from forthcoming LP Megamantra out July 25 through Federal Prisoner.
Album Premiere: Glacier Expand Their Post-Metal Universe with More Distant/More Violent
July 9, 2025 Tim Mudd
Boston post-metal architects Glacier return with More Distant/More Violent—a blistering, industrial-tinged companion piece to last year’s A Distant, Violent Shudder.
