Seattle

206 Blast Fest Arrives in Seattle for the First Time This Weekend

February 8, 2024

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

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

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: Kill Me – “Bloodsluts”

February 28, 2023

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

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

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.”

Full EP Stream: Fixtures – “Live at Robert Lang Studios”

June 21, 2022

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

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

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

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

Introducing new twisted riffing Seattle death metal duo, Degraved, and their four-song demo, Exhumed Remnants.

Demo:listen: Kurse Relic

July 3, 2020

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

Check out the punishing debut from crusty and doomed Seattle death trio Noroth.

Track Premiere: Slutvomit – ‘Scythe of Mass Damnation’

August 27, 2019

Hostile US black death group Slutvomit return more depraved than ever. Hear a track from their sophomore album Copulation of Cloven Hooves right now.

Q&A: Lenny Rutledge Soldiers Sanctuary Onward

December 17, 2018

Sanctuary guitarist Lenny Rutledge pledges to continue band after death of singer Warrel Dane.

Track Premiere: Beldam – ‘Carrion Feast’

January 10, 2018

Stream a crushingly heavy new song from Seattle-based sludge practitioners Beldam now.

Video Premiere: Gruntruck – “Noise Field”

October 13, 2017

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.”

Retrospective: Thirty Years of Big Black’s “Songs About Fucking”

September 11, 2017

Thirty years ago, Big Black released their final opus, Songs About Fucking. We revisit what exactly made that last album so important.

Watch: Blöödhag Vocalist Throws Coffee on Alex Jones in Seattle

August 18, 2017

Right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones is confronted on the street in Seattle. Watch the full video now.

Demo:listen: Fetid

April 14, 2017

On this week’s Demo:listen we recoil and blanch in the presence of Seattle’s Fetid.

Track Premiere: Crurifragium unleash “Slaughterers of the Flocks”

January 3, 2017

Check out this exclusive premiere of the track, “Slaughterers of the Flocks,” from Seattle’s cruelest bunch of blasphemers, Crurifragium, off their debut album Beasts of the Temple of Satan.

The Deciblog Interview: Tad Doyle

March 9, 2015

Tad Doyle has preached the Gospel of heaviness for the better part of his life. His seminal band TAD was one of the first out of the gate in Seattle’s grunge movement and one of the earliest bands signed to the legendary Sub Pop label. Although they never achieved the massive crossover success of their…