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Full Album Stream: Olde – “Pilgrimage”
March 16, 2021 Emily Bellino
Stream the moving new album from sludge purveyors Olde.
Video Premiere: Bruit – ‘The Machine is Burning’
March 15, 2021 Emily Bellino
French post-rockers Bruit get elaborate with a brass-accompanied performance of “The Machine is Burning.”
Full Album Stream: Aversed – “Impermanent”
March 15, 2021 Emily Bellino
Aversed debut their new album, Impermanent.
Track Premiere: The Drowned God – ‘Gnashing of Teeth’
March 11, 2021 Emily Bellino
You can’t hear the “Gnashing of Teeth” over this new song from The Drowned God.
Video Premiere: Horndal – “Horndal’s Blodbad”
March 11, 2021 J. Andrew
The latest from Sweden’s Horndal continues the tale of their blighted post-industrial town, with the added angle of the refugee experience.
Full Album Stream: Stortregn – “Impermanence”
March 10, 2021 J. Andrew
Experience Stortregn‘s heroic take on blackened-death metal on their new album, Impermanence, out on March 12.
Full Album Stream: Demiser – “Through the Gate Eternal”
March 9, 2021 Emily Bellino
Stream the extremely wicked and shockingly evil debut from must-hear black-thrash newcomers Demiser.
Track Premiere: Hippie Death Cult – ‘Red Meat Tricks’
March 9, 2021 Emily Bellino
Turn your speakers up to 11—it’s time to rock with Portland’s finest, Hippie Death Cult.
Video Premiere: Vreid – “The Morning Red”
March 9, 2021 J. Andrew
Vreid‘s new track, “The Morning Red,” is “a blueprint of our eternal creative duality of melancholia and primal aggression.”
Take Over and Destroy Premiere “Exit Bag” Video Starring Maxx Mayberry
March 8, 2021 J. Bennett
Phoenix black/sludge/punk killers Take Over and Destroy debut new single and video from their forthcoming Fade Out LP.
Full EP Premiere: Venomous Concept – “Deep Thinking in Deep Times”
March 5, 2021 Albert Mudrian
Punk metal vets Venomous Concept continue their incredible recording streak with new covers of Deep Wound, Davie Bowie, Black Flag and Halo of Flies.
Full Album Stream: Wolf King – “The Path of Wrath”
March 4, 2021 Emily Bellino
Wolf King take the path less traveled and embrace their extreme metal influences on their second LP.
Track Premiere: Zao – “Croatoan”
March 4, 2021 J. Andrew
“This song is a vehicle for that feeling and relates it back to dissociation and being lost in strange dimensions and dreams.”
Full Album Stream: Terror – “Trapped in a World”
March 2, 2021 Emily Bellino
LA hardcore institution Terror link with original guitarist Todd Jones (Nails) to re-record classic songs from their first two LPs, One with the Underdogs and Always the Hard Way.
Track Premiere: Icon of Sin – “Icon of Sin”
March 1, 2021 Albert Mudrian
Icon of Sin don’t want you for dead. But they’re gonna get you check out their eponymous new single of classic heavy metal from their forthcoming debut LP.
Album Stream: The Plague Can’t Stop Plague Weaver from Pushing a Satanic Agenda with Ascendant Blasphemy
February 25, 2021 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Check out Ascendant Blasphemy, the debut from Canuck black metallers, Plague Weaver
Video Premiere: EYES – Live at the Royal Danish Academy of Music
February 24, 2021 Emily Bellino
EYES debut a three-song live session at the legendary Royal Danish Academy of Music.
Track Premiere: Necropanther – ‘Benthic Storms’
February 23, 2021 Emily Bellino
This cat has claws! Stream “Benthic Storms,” the latest from Colorado’s Necropanther.
EP Premiere: Sandstorm – Desert Warrior
February 23, 2021 Dutch Pearce
Leathery and vintage heavy metal Canadians Sandstorm grant an early stream of their forthcoming far-out rocker, Desert Warrior.
Track Premiere: Les Chants du Hasard – ‘Chant III: Le Reflet’
February 22, 2021 Emily Bellino
Les Chants du Hasard marry black metal and opera.
Demo:listen: Degraved
February 19, 2021 Dutch Pearce
Introducing new twisted riffing Seattle death metal duo, Degraved, and their four-song demo, Exhumed Remnants.
Video Premiere: Domkraft – ‘Dawn of Man’
February 17, 2021 Jeff Treppel
Prepare to enter the mind-melting, hypnotic world of Domkraft via their new video for “Dawn of Man.”
Track Premiere: Kill Division – ‘Cultists’
February 16, 2021 Emily Bellino
Current and former members of Megadeth, Soilwork, Gruesome, Malevolent Creation and Venom Inc. join forces in new grind unit Kill Division.
EP Premiere: Vøidwomb – Altars of Cosmic Devotion
February 16, 2021 Dutch Pearce
Vøidwomb, a new quintet from Portugal, are here to absolutely crush your preconceived notions about what the black/death subgenre has to offer.
Full Album Stream: Paranorm- “Empyrean”
February 15, 2021 J. Andrew
Decibel is pleased to present, for the thrashing-mad among us, an exclusive stream of the debut album from Sweden’s Paranorm.
Track Premiere: Firstborne – ‘Mourning Star’
February 15, 2021 Emily Bellino
Chris Adler’s Firstborne watches the “Mourning Star.”
Video Premiere: Machinist! – ‘Bask in the White Light’
February 12, 2021 Emily Bellino
Machinist! debut the first video from their upcoming split with Dead Hand.
Track Premiere and Interview: Oryx – “Misery”
February 11, 2021 Sean Frasier
Downtuned Denver sludge trio Oryx cast shadows and break bones with their new sledgehammer of a single, “Misery.”
Track Premiere: Bridge Burner – ‘Disempath’
February 10, 2021 Emily Bellino
Bridge Burner tell us how they really feel on the title track to their new album, Disempath.
Album Premiere: Abiotic – Ikigai
February 9, 2021 Dutch Pearce
US prog death technicians Abiotic return from a five-year hiatus bearing their strongest work yet. Stream their third album Ikigai in its entirety right now.