Profound Lore

Discounted full weekend passes – which include access to pours from the breweries all weekend – are available NOW for a limited time only. Save a few bucks and swill on command!

The second iteration of California’s heaviest and hoppiest festival returns in December with rare appearances from Possessed, Vio-lence, Nails, Cadaver, Schammasch and waaaaaaay more!

Nocturnus AD continue the vision laid out on The Key with new album Paradox.

Watch a new Evoken song performed live.

Hear a new Pallbearer song performed live.

Soft Kill premiere new track “Missing” off new album Savior.

You’d better hop to it if you want to see At the Gates, Carcass, Mayhem and more at Decibel Metal & Beer Fest. It’s only TWO WEEKS AWAY!

At the Gates, Carcass, Mayhem, Monster Magnet, Integrity, Pallbearer, Repulsion and all your beers are unleashed in just three weeks. Get your tickets before they’re gone. GO!!!

Decibel Metal & Beer Fest tickets are moving fast, and you don’t have much longer to get them before March 31 and April 1 arrive!

If you haven’t grabbed a two-day “Just Metal” pass for Metal & Beer Fest, you’re about to lose out.

Your Easter Sunday just got 100% more blasphemous.

Former Decibel Album of the Year winners Horrendous have joined what will surely be next year’s most brutal suds-soaked event. Tickets on sale NOW!

Prurient will release Rainbow Mirror, a 3-hour long record. That record is too long.

Post-punk aficionados Soft Kill feel the weight of Tom Petty’s recent passing. To cope and to honor the legendary musician, Soft Kill have covered “Insider” off Petty’s “Hard Promises” album.

Monster Magnet, Integrity, Repulsion, Spectral Voice and more are all part of the revealed full band lineup for Decibel’s two-day celebration of extreme metal and craft beer. All tickets on sale NOW!

We’ve been hitting Soft Kill‘s newest album, Choke, hard for almost six months now. When Choke smashed into winter 2016, it immediately reminded of UK legends The Chameleons (Script of the Bridge is a genuine deserted island-type record), French mopers Asylum Party (whose Borderline album is a must-hear), and Belgian treasure obscure The Names, whose single “Nightshift” went on to inspire contemporary pop-prog outfit like Mew.

Lie down on the floor, close your eyes, and come to know the “The Joy of All Who Sorrow.” Today we bring you an exclusive premiere of the opening track from Horizonless, the highly anticipated sophomore album from Nashville-based doom-death titans, Loss.

Infrared Horizon
Aye, robot
dB rating: 8/10

I sincerely hope that everybody reading this piece takes an hour out of their Friday (then several more hours out of their weekend) to soak up the majesty of Pallbearer‘s newest album, Heartless.

Heartless
The power of the urn
dB rating: 9/10

Our resident birdbrains pecks on new releases from Pallbearer, Ascended Dead and Axebreaker.

What Graceless Dawn
You had me at “rowan, ash, willow, oak”
dB rating: 8/10

Worm Ourboros is embracing a darker side on “(Was It) The Cruelest Thing.” 

The Veil of Control
Dust never sleeps
dB rating: 8/10

Auroch show no signs of slowing down on the first single from their upcoming third album. 

On July 15 New York City band Psalm Zero will release their second full-length Stranger to Violence on Profound Lore Records. If you’re not familiar already, we’re great admirers of singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Charlie Looker’s project, which beautifully blends the martial, industrial tones of Godflesh, the post-punk melancholy of Depeche Mode, and the rainy-day doom ‘n’ gloom of Katatonia.

Hear the first new SubRosa recording in three years. It’s the latest release in the Decibel Flexi Series.

If you haven’t heard a good oddball metal record recently… well, then your head’s been under a soundproofed rock and you haven’t been reading enough Decibel reviews.  Get out there and listen, man! And be sure to check out the new Pyramids record when Profound Lore releases it in the middle of next month.  It’s dark,…

For your streaming enjoyment this Monday we are pleased to bring you the debut track from Wolvhammer’s new album Clawing Into Black Sun. Listen to “Death Division” below. Clawing Into Black Sun will be released by Profound Lore on Tuesday, July 8th. Exclusive preorder packages are available here. Clawing Into Black Sun Track Listing: 1….

Indianapolis’ Coffinworm are essential listening for those who like their extreme metal to open up wide and drown any extant optimism in a genre non-specific swamp of sunken riffs and black metal noise ‘n’ hiss. 2010’s debut LP When All Became None was a loose-limbed doom record that was too anxious and fidgety to plant…