Redefining Darkness

Full Album Stream: Flesher – “Tales of Grotesque Demise”

September 11, 2023

Hear death hoosiers Flesher, featuring Paul Breece, Gus Matracia, and Dustin Boltjes, serve up hearty helpings of gore-drenched brutality on their latest sinister offering Tales of Grotesque Demise

Video Premiere: Angerot – “The Profound Recreant”

July 19, 2023

Your daily dose of epic, brooding darkness is here courtesy of the death metal demons in Angerot with their new video!

Full Album Stream: The Bleeding – ‘Monokrator’

June 6, 2023

Hear U.K. crushers The Bleeding bring their “old-school thrashing through a modern interpretation” with new LP Monokrator.

Track Premiere: Kill Division – ‘Thoughts and Prayers’

May 3, 2023

Hear the new blaster from Kill Division, the grindcore project featuring members of Megadeth, Left to Die, Gruesome and Venom Inc., to name just a few.

Full Album Stream: Critical Extravasation – “Order of Decadence”

November 14, 2022

Three years after the release of their debut EP, Russian death-thrashers Critical Extravasation are back in action with their debut long player, Order of Decadence.

Full Album Stream: Escarnium – “Dysthymia”

September 5, 2022

Brazilian death metal outfit Escarnium stream their first album in six years.

Full Album Stream: Carnal Ruin – ‘Soulless I Remain’

August 29, 2022

Old-school styled Florida death metallers Carnal Ruin wear their influences on their sleeves. And those sleeves definitely have sleeve print on them.

Full Album Stream: Katakomba – “Katakomba”

July 25, 2022

Fans of the Dismember and Entombed school of buzzsaw death metal need to tune into Katakomba‘s self-titled full-length, like, now.

Full Album Stream: Maul – “Seraphic Punishment”

July 14, 2022

Midwest death dealers Maul release their debut album, Seraphic Punishment.

Interview: Redefining Darkness Owner Thomas Haywood Hosts Inaugural Into the Darkness Fest

July 12, 2022

Decibel spoke with Redefining Darkness Records about Into the Darkness Fest, a new death metal festival in Youngstown, Ohio.

Full Album Stream: Disfuneral – “Blood Red Tentacle”

April 11, 2022

Disfuneral worship at the altar of Autopsy and Swedish death metal on Blood Red Tentacle.

Exclusive EP Premiere: Jesus Wept – ‘Psychedelic Degeneracy’

March 8, 2022

Motor City quartet Jesus Wept tune in, turn on and drop some serious Carcass-inspired death ’n’ roll on their new EP.

Full EP Premiere: Sickbay – “Brutal Existence”

February 17, 2022

Hear Hudson Valley, NY slamming death metal trio Sickbay emerge with their Redefining Darkness debut, Brutal Existence.

Demo:listen: Rotborn

January 18, 2022

This week Demo:listen premieres the massively crushing debut EP from Brazilian death metal quartet Rotborn.

Album Premiere: Holy Death – Separate Mind from Flesh

October 28, 2021

Unimaginable devastation awaits on Las Vegas-based death-doom clobberers Holy Death’s debut LP, Separate Mind from Flesh, streaming now, exclusively, right here.

Full Album Stream: Wraith – “Undo the Chains”

September 21, 2021

Thrash fans hungry for riffs will find themselves deeply satisfied by Wraith‘s latest album, streaming in full only at Decibel.

Full Album Stream: Black Mass – “Feast at the Forbidden Tree”

September 7, 2021

The latest album from Boston’s own thrash metal masters shows the band’s ability to sound both focused and spontaneous.