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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.
Full Album Stream: Viogression – “Thaumaturgic Veil”
July 8, 2025 Emily Bellino
Midwest OSDM crew Viogression riff and think hard on their latest album.
Video Premiere: Azure Emote – “Bleed With the Moon”
July 8, 2025 J. Andrew
Avant-garde death metal masters in Azure Emote return after a five-year absence to present us with a new world of towering drama and darkness. Get a taste.
Track Premiere: Whitehorse – “The Wait”
July 7, 2025 Adem Tepedelen
Aussie drone demons Whitehorse offer up a new track, “The Wait,” from their sludge match split, The Dissolution of Eternity, with UBOA.
Track Premiere: Vittra – “Reign Supreme”
July 2, 2025 Adem Tepedelen
Hear Swedish death thrashers Vittra do their own meaty version of death ’n’ roll on new single “Reign Supreme.”
Track Premiere: Anchorite – “Devil on the Throne”
June 30, 2025 Adem Tepedelen
Hear Euro doom crushers Anchorite lay the lumber on new single, “Devil on the Throne,” featuring a guest solo from Michael Denner (ex-Mercyful Fate).
Exclusive Clip Premiere: Wired for Chaos – The Untamed Life of Harley Flanagan
June 26, 2025 Tim Mudd
Check out a new clip from Wired for Chaos, the new feature-length documentary on legendary Cro-Mags frontman Harley Flanagan from Emmy- and Peabody Award-winner Rex Miller.
Track Premiere: Clairvoyance – “Blood Divine”
June 25, 2025 Adem Tepedelen
Hear Polish death metal wreckers Clairvoyance foretell your destruction on new single, “Blood Divine.”
Video Premiere: In the Company of Serpents – “A Patchwork Art”
June 23, 2025 Adem Tepedelen
Hear Denver sludge trio In the Company of Serpents rip it up on new track, “A Patchwork Art.”
Track Premiere: Bright Sunshine – ‘Year End Goals’
June 23, 2025 Emily Bellino
Hit those metrics with Arizona noise rockers Bright Sunshine.
Hear MOTÖRHEAD’s Exclusive Live Single from 1987 Via the Decibel Flexi Series!
June 20, 2025 Decibel Magazine
Hear and acquire this exclusive new flexi disc single from legends Motörhead’s before the issue containing discs are sold out for good!
Video Premiere: Phantom Fire – “Sleep to Die”
June 19, 2025 J. Andrew
The rhythm punches, the vocals rip, and the riffs crunch! Check out the new song and video from Norway’s Phantom Fire!
Full Album Stream: Angel of Damnation –Ethereal Blasphemy
June 18, 2025 Adem Tepedelen
Hear German doomy occult rockers Angel of Damnation speak of the devil on new full-length Ethereal Blasphemy.
Track Premiere: Phantom Heir – ‘The Tyrants’
June 17, 2025 Emily Bellino
Philly post-metal crew Phantom Heir drop a new song.
Track Premiere: When the Deadbolt Breaks – ‘Burning Zozobra’
June 16, 2025 Emily Bellino
Avant-sludge outfit When the Deadbolt Breaks celebrate their 20th anniversary by getting weird.
Video Premiere: Harvested – “Harvested”
June 12, 2025 Addison Herron-Wheeler
Reap what Canadian death crew Harvested have sown with the new video from their forthcoming album Dysthymia, out August 1.
Video Premiere: Castle Rat – ‘Wizard’
June 10, 2025 Emily Bellino
Sink your teeth into a cinematic new video from fantasy-doom champions Castle Rat.
Full Album Stream: Bocc – “Obrint El Taüt”
June 9, 2025 Emily Bellino
Get caught up on Spanish death/doom dealers Bocc with this new compilation release.
Track Premiere: Lacabra – “Nothing”
June 5, 2025 Tim Mudd
Seattle’s Lacabra don’t pull any punches with new track and video for “Nothing”—a dizzying descent into addiction, disillusionment, and identity collapse, rendered with savage clarity.
Track Premiere: Ba’al – “Well of Sorrows”
June 4, 2025 Adem Tepedelen
Hear English post-black metal malcontents Ba’al drink deeply from the “Well of Sorrows” on their latest 11-minute single.
Album Premiere: Refusal – ‘Venomous Human Concept’
June 4, 2025 Tim Mudd
Seventeen years deep and showing no signs of mercy, Finnish death metal unit Refusal return with their third full-length, Venomous Human Concept, out June 6th via Time To Kill Records. But you can hear it NOW!
Track Premiere: Drivel – ‘Sniping Kids as a Form of Self Defense’
June 3, 2025 Emily Bellino
Play fast or die with DC punks Drivel.
Full Album Stream: Turian – “Blood Quantum Blues”
June 2, 2025 Emily Bellino
Hear Seattle metallic hardcore crushers Turian return with a tighter sense of identity and an amped-up sound on their new album, Blood Quantum Blues, out Friday on Wise Blood.
Video Premiere: Concrete – “Chains of Oppression”
May 30, 2025 J. Andrew
Check out the latest song and video from Concrete, New York’s expert-level purveyors of crossover death metal.
Track Premiere and QA: Völur/Cares: “Breathless Spirit”
May 29, 2025 Justin Norton
Decibel is delighted to premiere the title track from Völur‘s Breathless Spirit today — the band’s first new song in roughly half a decade.
