Sludge Metal
Track Premiere: Fórn – ‘Soul Shadow’
September 5, 2024 Emily Bellino
Stream a new song from funeral sludge practitioners Fórn.
Track Premiere: Oryx – ‘Myopic’
August 27, 2024 Emily Bellino
Denver death-sludge trio Oryx return with the first single from new album Primordial Sky.
Track Premiere: Rot Coven – ‘Inverted Chasm’
July 18, 2024 Emily Bellino
Rot Coven push death-sludge to its extreme on this excerpt from their new album.
Track Premiere: Black Tusk – “Breath of Life”
April 8, 2024 J. Andrew
Check out Black Tusk‘s pounding new single, “Breath of Life,” from their upcoming seventh album, The Way Forward.
Video Premiere: Semuta – ‘Glacial Erratic’
March 28, 2024 Emily Bellino
Portland sludge duo Semuta party with the Portland metal scene in their new video.
Full Album Stream: Mastiff – “Deprecipice”
March 21, 2024 Emily Bellino
Stream Deprecipice, the new album from UK sludge/metallic hardcore band Mastiff and read a lengthy interview with guitarist and vocalist James Lee Ross.
Video Premiere: Clarion Void – “The Top”
January 4, 2024 Adem Tepedelen
Colorado Springs quartet Clarion Void sling some gnarly post-metal sludge in surreal new video for “The Top.”
Track Premiere: Caged – ‘The Messiah Draws Near’
August 21, 2023 Emily Bellino
“The Messiah Draws Near,” as does a new album from Philadelphia sludge purveyors Caged.
Full Album Stream: FLO – “Long Way Down”
August 14, 2023 J. Andrew
Hear former Death and Massacre guitarist Rick Rozz throw back to the early 90s sound of… grunge with FLO.
Video Premiere: Iron Altar – “Megalith”
June 30, 2023 J. Andrew
Who’s deadly, sludgy, catchy and has a new video to show the world? Iron Altar does, exclusively at Decibel!
Full Album Stream: Dirge – ‘Dirge
March 6, 2023 Emily Bellino
Mumbai’s Dirge stream their sophomore album ahead of its release.
Full Album Stream: Northless – “A Path Beyond Grief”
July 20, 2022 Emily Bellino
Northless search for A Path Beyond Grief on their new album.
Track Premiere: Pyrithe – ‘Ekphrastik I’
April 5, 2022 Emily Bellino
Sludge trio Pyrithe show off their melodic side.
Video Premiere: Montezuma’s Revenge – ‘Soyux-111 (Terrore Su Venere)’
July 26, 2021 Emily Bellino
Watch the video for “Soyux-111 (Terrore Su Venere)” from Russian stoner metal quartet Montezuma’s Revenge.
Full Album Stream: Olde – “Pilgrimage”
March 16, 2021 Emily Bellino
Stream the moving new album from sludge purveyors Olde.
Track Premiere: Black Sheep Wall – “New Measures of Failure”
January 21, 2021 Bradley Zorgdrager
Hear a new 13-minute epic from reactivated post-sludge crushers Black Sheep Wall.
Video Premiere: Witching – ‘Eschaton’
December 14, 2020 Emily Bellino
Watch an artsy new video from blackened sludge unit Witching.
Listen: Sumac Release Release Massive New Song, “Two Beasts”
December 7, 2020 Emily Bellino
Post-metal gods Sumac return with a surprise drop.
Track Premiere: Bather – “Her Black Wings” (Danzig Cover)
October 1, 2020 Bradley Zorgdrager
Ohio death dealers Bather shower you with the sweet sounds of a Danzig classic.
Track Premiere: Yatra – ‘All is Lost’
August 20, 2020 Emily Bellino
“All is Lost,” except for this new Yatra track.
Video Premiere: ZYCLOPS – “Ghost”
July 30, 2020 Bradley Zorgdrager
Watch the debut video from Texas sludgelords ZYCLOPS.
Video Premiere: Beggar – ‘Black Cloud’
January 27, 2020 Emily Bellino
Prepare your ears: Beggar are the heaviest stoner band you’ve ever heard.
Track Premiere: Immiseration – ‘Alienation of Humanity’
January 23, 2020 Emily Bellino
Stream a new song from rising Baltimore death dealers Immiseration.
Track Premiere: Fister – ‘Too Old, Too Cold’ (Darkthrone Cover)
September 19, 2019 Emily Bellino
Fister offer a bleak take on Darkthrone’s “Too Old, Too Cold.”
Full Album Stream: Leather Lung — “Lonesome, On’ry and Evil”
August 21, 2019 Shawn Macomber
Hey, Leather Lung put a little rock n’ roll swagger and outlaw country sneer in its sludge metal for you! How thoughtful!
Track Premiere: Cable – ‘Rivers of Old’
May 16, 2019 Emily Bellino
Hear the first new Cable song in a decade now.
Full EP Stream: False Gods – “The Serpent & the Ladder”
April 17, 2019 Emily Bellino
New York sludge crew False Gods stream their third EP.
Track Premiere: Lord Dying – ‘Freed From the Pressures of Time’
March 28, 2019 Emily Bellino
Lord Dying go full progressive.