Seattle
Full Mini-Album Stream: Dark Meditation –Where the Darkness Bleeds
March 19, 2025 Adem Tepedelen
Hear the goth metal incantations of Seattle quintet Dark Meditation on their new Where the Darkness Bleeds mini-album.
Track Premiere: Museum of Light – “Blunt Force Drama”
January 7, 2025 Addison Herron-Wheeler
Museum of Light unveil their latest record, Diviner, on March 14 via Spartan Records. But you can check out the video for “Blunt Force Drama” to get a taste of the album now.
Q&A: Skin Yard Bassist Daniel House Talks About the Band’s Legacy and New Box Set
November 25, 2024 Adem Tepedelen
Skin Yard co-founder and bassist Daniel House shares the details of the grunge progenitors’ new deluxe singles box set.
Q&A: Photographer John Malley on Documenting the PNW Metal Scene
June 21, 2024 Justin Norton
Malley has a gift for shooting images that capture the vitality and close-knit nature of one of the country’s most active metal scenes. He talked to us about his work and chasing his passion later in life.
Album Premiere: To End It All – “Of Blood And Memory”
April 18, 2024 Addison Herron-Wheeler
Seattle-based doom lords To End It All are back with a new album, Of Blood and Memory out tomorrow (April 19), but you can hear it and get super sad with us now.
206 Blast Fest Arrives in Seattle for the First Time This Weekend
February 8, 2024 Emily Bellino
Get the scoop on 206 Blast Fest before it goes down this weekend.
Q&A: Michael Freiburger (Satanik Royalty Records) on Tribe and Transformation
September 13, 2023 Justin Norton
Michael Freiburger, pillar of the Seattle metal community and leader of Satanik Royalty Records, talks to Decibel about his story and what’s next for the family business.
Track Premiere: Rat King – “Vermin”
September 7, 2023 Addison Herron-Wheeler
Get devoured by “Vermin” as deathgrind maniacs Rat King drop a new track ahead of their full-length, Psychotic Reality, out September 29 via Satanik Royalty.
Video Premiere: Bagorah – “Secret Society”
March 23, 2023 Adem Tepedelen
Watch heavy prog quartet Bagorah’s ghostly paean to Old Scratch.
Video Premiere: Kill Me – “Bloodsluts”
February 28, 2023 Adem Tepedelen
Watch the new video from Seattle noise/sludge duo Kill Me, because it’s called “Bloodsluts.”
Track Premiere: Plague Bearer – “Antichristian Inquisition”
January 19, 2023 Adem Tepedelen
Hear members of Seattle’s Drawn and Quartered reconvene their old black death outfit Plague Bearer and disgorge some fresh bile.
Track Premiere: Vanishment – “Door to Deceit”
January 17, 2023 Adem Tepedelen
Hear the thundering new single from Seattle’s Vanishment, featuring ex members of Himsa, Heiress, Hell Promise and other bands that don’t start with “H.”
Track Premiere: Calm Collapse – “Positive Greed”
August 16, 2022 Adem Tepedelen
New Seattle post-metal sludge trio Calm Collapse are no negative creeps.
Track Premiere: Haunted Horses – “The Garden”
June 23, 2022 Adem Tepedelen
Seattle’s industrial punk trio Haunted Horses sow unease in their new single, “The Garden”
Full EP Stream: Fixtures – “Live at Robert Lang Studios”
June 21, 2022 Adem Tepedelen
Seattle post-hardcore trio Fixtures reimagine what a live album can be with their new EP Live at Robert Lang Studios, which is streaming in full right now.
Full Album Stream: Void Wraith – II
May 10, 2022 Dutch Pearce
An exclusive early stream of the incendiary second full-length from Seattle black metal manifestation Void Wraith.
Track Premiere: Jack Endino – “Shadow World”
November 16, 2021 Adem Tepedelen
The Godfather of Grunge, Jack Endino, offers up a new track from his Seattle-centric solo album.
Interview: Blaine Cook (The Accüsed AD/Toe Tag) Serves Up a New Cocktail Book
November 4, 2021 Adem Tepedelen
We’re drinkin’ and thrashin’ with Accüsed AD vocalist Blaine Cook, who’s put together a new book, Cocktails and Mixed Drinks From the Wicker Bar.
Demo:listen: Degraved
February 19, 2021 Dutch Pearce
Introducing new twisted riffing Seattle death metal duo, Degraved, and their four-song demo, Exhumed Remnants.
Book Review: ‘Rusted Metal: A Guide To Heavy Metal and Hard Rock Music In the Pacific Northwest (1970 – 1995)’
November 19, 2020 Adem Tepedelen
Everything you need to know about the history of Pacific Northwest Metal in one tidy 900-page book.
Demo:listen: Kurse Relic
July 3, 2020 Dutch Pearce
This week’s Demo:listen helps to spread the fearsome and powerful sorcery of Seattle black metal duo Kurse Relic.
Full Album Premiere: Noroth – ‘It Dwells Amongst Us’
March 30, 2020 Dutch Pearce
Check out the punishing debut from crusty and doomed Seattle death trio Noroth.
Track Premiere: Slutvomit – ‘Scythe of Mass Damnation’
August 27, 2019 Dutch Pearce
Hostile US black death group Slutvomit return more depraved than ever. Hear a track from their sophomore album Copulation of Cloven Hooves right now.
The Accüsed’s “More Fun Than an Open Casket Funeral!” Inducted into the Decibel Hall of Fame
April 8, 2019 Emily Bellino
Our latest Hall of Fame is More Fun Than an Open Casket Funeral!
Q&A: Lenny Rutledge Soldiers Sanctuary Onward
December 17, 2018 Chris Dick
Sanctuary guitarist Lenny Rutledge pledges to continue band after death of singer Warrel Dane.
Previously Sold-Out Vinyl Pressing of Tad’s ‘8-Way Santa’ Available Now
November 5, 2018 Emily Bellino
Limited copies of Tad‘s 8 Way Santa in stock now!
Watch: Zeke – “Two Lane Blacktop”
March 28, 2018 Emily Bellino
Watch a moto-charged new video from Zeke.
Brewtal Truth: This Album With That Beer
January 24, 2018 Adem Tepedelen
In which our intrepid beer hound pairs Seattle’s Holy Mountain with Seattle’s Skin Yard.
Track Premiere: Beldam – ‘Carrion Feast’
January 10, 2018 Emily Bellino
Stream a crushingly heavy new song from Seattle-based sludge practitioners Beldam now.
Video Premiere: Gruntruck – “Noise Field”
October 13, 2017 Adem Tepedelen
A killer lost Gruntruck album is unearthed and we celebrate its release with the premiere of a new Gruntruck video for the track “Noise Field.”