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Track Premiere: Colony Drop – ‘Stand Against the World’
July 10, 2023 Emily Bellino
“D-beat! D-beat adventure!”
Track Premiere: Viserion – “Fathers”
July 10, 2023 J. Andrew
Prepare yourself for the firestorm of riffs on “Fathers,” from the band’s upcoming split with Teloch Vonin.
Video Premiere + Interview: Adversvm – “Sinistrum”
July 7, 2023 Dillon Collins
Decibel proudly unveils the latest single from Adversvm‘s third studio album, Sinistrum, alongside an interview with Sascha Borchard (guitars/vocals) and Don Zaros (keyboards).
Video Premiere: Cell – “Incarcerated by Flesh”
July 5, 2023 Addison Herron-Wheeler
Hear beatdown crushers Cell drop their new track, “Incarcerated by Flesh,” the first offering from a soon-to-be-announced album, forthcoming through Unbeaten Records.
Track Premiere: Boozewa – “Maybe I’m a Bird”
July 4, 2023 Sean Frasier
Pennsylvanian sludge trio Boozewa take flight with their fuzzy new single, “Maybe I’m a Bird.” Featuring members of Backwoods Payback.
Full Album Stream: Lycanthrophy – “On the Verge of Apocalypse”
July 3, 2023 Emily Bellino
Czech grinders Lycanthrophy stream their first album in 13 years.
Video Premiere: Begat The Nephilim – “Ossuary”
July 3, 2023 Dillon Collins
Watch New Hampshire’s blackened melodic death metal behemoths Begat The Nephilim new Cemetery Man-inspired video.
KRIEG Stream Exclusive New Track, “Bone Whip,” via the Decibel Flexi Series!
June 29, 2023 Decibel Magazine
Hear and acquire this Krieg disc single, featuring an exclusive brand new track, available as part of the Decibel Flexi Series. Hurry, quantities are extremely limited!
Full Album Stream + Interview: Lightbreaker – ‘Annihilation of the Annealids’
June 28, 2023 Jon Rosenthal
Leon del Muerte talks about self-releasing the album from his avant garde mid-’90s-leaning project Lightbreaker album. Read on and stream Annihilation of the Annealids ahead of its release.
Video Premiere: Dead Heat – ‘Eyes of the Real’
June 28, 2023 Emily Bellino
Wake up and mosh! Dead Heat drop their video for “Eyes of the Real.”
Full Album Premiere: Big Garden – ‘To the Rind’
June 27, 2023 Jon Rosenthal
Gilead Media signees Big Garden are the latest — and perhaps greatest — entrant into the early ’90s-style shoegazing, grungy alt-rock revival.
Video Premiere: Medicine Horse – “Turning Tide”
June 26, 2023 Addison Herron-Wheeler
Hear Indigenous metallers Medicine Horse shed light on the struggles of Cherokee Nation via some of the grooviest riffs on the planet.
Track Premiere: Progenitor – “Eldritch Supremacy”
June 26, 2023 Addison Herron-Wheeler
Hear Tacoma titans Progenitor unleash a new black metal attack with the title track from their forthcoming EP, Eldritch Supremacy, a self-released record out July 14.
Track Premiere: Artanor – “Sons of the Rock”
June 22, 2023 Adem Tepedelen
Hear Aussie one-man black metal outfit Artanor spin a mystical tale of Meklarah on new single, “Sons of Rock.”
Track Premiere: Cultic – ‘Seduced’
June 22, 2023 Emily Bellino
Cultic make music that alludes to high fantasy sword-and-sorcery tales—King Arthur and Conan the Barbarian. They call it battle punk or dark dungeon metal. We call it awesome.
Track Premiere: Nathanael Larochette – “Path”
June 21, 2023 Dillon Collins
Hear a track from the multi-versed Musk Ox/The Night Watch guitarist and Agalloch collaborator, Nathanael Larochette, in advance of the release of his new LP, Old Growth.
Full EP Premiere: Rainer Landfermann – ‘Mehr Licht’
June 21, 2023 Jon Rosenthal
Legendary ex-Bethlehem/Pavor vocalist Rainer Landfermann returns with more vocal acrobatics on his latest two-track EP.
Track Premiere: Trounce – “The Wheel”
June 21, 2023 Addison Herron-Wheeler
Prepare to be trod upon by epically inclined post-black metallers Trounce via their new lyric video for the song “The Wheel.”
Full Album Premiere: Korroded – ‘Rudiment Butcher’
June 20, 2023 Gene Meyer
Hear Memphis deathgrind force Korroded deliver a visceral and vital beatdown on their full-length debut LP.
Full Album Stream: Diminishing – ‘The Unnamable’
June 15, 2023 Adem Tepedelen
Hear industrial ambient metal drone duo Diminishing clear the fug from your frontal lobe on their debut The Unnamable
Track Premiere: Radiant Knife – “Slumber”
June 15, 2023 Dillon Collins
Radiant Knife‘s latest mind-numbing single “Slumber” is a cut above any trippy progressive sludge metal you’ve previously hear.
Track Premiere: Demons – “Sweet Dreams”
June 15, 2023 Addison Herron-Wheeler
Hear Norfolk, Virginia punkers Demons expel their… well, you know on new track “Sweet Dreams”
Video Premiere: End Reign – “Chasing Divinity”
June 14, 2023 Cody Davis
Check out the video for End Reign‘s “Chasing Divinity” now ahead of the release of their debut album, The Way of All Flesh is Decay, on July 14 through Relapse Records.
Full Album Stream: She – ‘Goodpaster’
June 13, 2023 Adem Tepedelen
Hear Alaskan progressive metallic hardcore outfit She introduce their full-length debut, Goodpaster.
Track Premiere: Precious Blood – “X You Out”
June 13, 2023 Dillon Collins
Precious Blood, Eastern Canada’s ferocious experimental hardcore punk five-piece, drop their highly anticipated debut EP I No Longer Wish For Salvation on June 16, and Decibel is proud to debut their latest vicious single, “X You Out”.
Track Premiere: Nuclear Remains – “Thermobaric Asphyxiation”
June 12, 2023 Dillon Collins
Following up on their lauded 2022’s four-song Radioactive Decomposition demo, brutal and horrific death metal, Nuclear Remains uncork their next atomic bomb with “Thermobaric Asphyxiation”
Video Premiere: Stabbing – “Visions of Eternal Suffering”
June 12, 2023 Addison Herron-Wheeler
Have your eyes (and your face) peeled for the new video from Texas’ favorite slam-meats-brutal-death-metal ensemble, Stabbing.
Track Premiere: Freya (Ft. Jamey Jasta) – “Sense of Doom”
June 7, 2023 Addison Herron-Wheeler
Check out the new track from metallic hardcore crushers Freya, “Sense of Doom.” This track is the second single off of the band’s forthcoming record, Fight as One, out June 9 via Upstate Records.
Full Album Stream: The Bleeding – ‘Monokrator’
June 6, 2023 Albert Mudrian
Hear U.K. crushers The Bleeding bring their “old-school thrashing through a modern interpretation” with new LP Monokrator.
Video Premiere: Gutslit – ‘The Killing Joke’
June 5, 2023 Emily Bellino
Gutslit are the only ones laughing at “The Killing Joke” in their new video.