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Album Stream: Je est un Autre – ‘Flatworm Mysticism’

February 28, 2024

Dylan Desmond’s Je est un Autre offers a sonic exploration tangential to his main doom metal squeeze, Bell Witch.

Track Premiere: Altar of Betelgeuze – “Conclusion”

January 31, 2024

Finnish death/doom trio Altar of Betelgeuze return with their first new track in 7 years. Their 3rd album Echoes roars to life in March.

Track Premiere: Counting Hours – “Away I Flow”

January 24, 2024

Members of Shape of Despair/ex-Rapture, Impaled Nazarene, and ex-Colosseum lean into their Finnish gloom roots with Counting Hours.

Album Premiere: GUHTS – “Regeneration”

January 24, 2024

NYC doom sect GUHTS sound darker than ever on their powerful debut LP from Seeing Red Records and New Heavy Sounds, “Regeneration.”

Track Premiere: Witnesses – “Joy (Beyond the Sound of My Voice)”

January 17, 2024

NYC project Witnesses returns with a new track of widescreen cinematic doom entitled “Joy (Beyond the Sound of My Voice).”

Album Premiere: Into the Deep – “Blackfin”

January 3, 2024

Raleigh melodeath trio Into the Deep bring the nautical nastiness with their new album Blackfin. Shark week is here early.

10 Heavy Albums to Hear Before 2024

December 27, 2023

Before the calendar flips to 2024, check out these 10 killer albums you might have missed during list season’s frenzy.

Track Premiere: Exiled Hope – “Over For You”

December 20, 2023

Blackened symphonic solo project Exiled Hope share their next chapter of dark fantasy opera with the new single “Over For You.”

Track Premiere: Cariosus – “Saturn Returns”

December 13, 2023

Chicago melodic death metal duo Cariosus confront the darkness on their (inter)stellar new single, “Saturn Returns.”

Album Premiere: Solitary Sabred – “Temple of the Serpent”

December 6, 2023

Cypriot heavy metal warlords Solitary Sabred charge into battle with an early premiere of Temple of the Serpent.

Track Premiere: At the Plates – “Punish My Waistline”

November 29, 2023

Dig into a lethal helping of food-themed melodeath with At the Plates and their pun-slinging, scale-smashing single “Punish My Waistline.”

Track by Track: Demons of Noon – “Death Machine”

November 28, 2023

Venture into Death Machine with New Zealand doom cult Demons of Noon with a track by track deep-dive of the album’s darkest themes.

Album Premiere: Mourn the Light / Ice Howl / High Priest / Archdruid

November 22, 2023

Mourn the Light, Ice Howl, High Priest and Archdruid join forces on a split gleaming with heavy metal sorcery.

David Obuchowski (Goes Cube, Publicist UK) Releases Single “Flicker” from Solo Project Bitter Cold

November 8, 2023

David Oburchowski (Goes Cube and Publicist UK) embarks on a new eclectic and emotional solo project, Bitter Cold, through his recently launched Moth Hospital Records.

Track Premiere: Shipwreck Karpathos – “SCENE XI: Life as War”

November 8, 2023

Midwestern post-rockers Shipwreck Karpathos navigate stormy seas with their new single from Being Human. Out November 17th.

Track Premiere: Acid Throne – “War Torn”

November 6, 2023

Watch the new video from UK doom / sludge trio Acid Throne taken from their debut album, Kingdom’s Death, which is due out on November 8.

Track Premiere: Young Acid – “The Crust”

October 25, 2023

Take a trip with Swedish supergroup Young Acid‘s new single “The Crust.” Featuring members of Greenleaf, Domkraft, Grand Cadaver, and more.

EP Stream: Thanamagus – “Lie In Wait”

October 23, 2023

Hear the entire Lie In Wait debut EP from Portland death metal trio Thanamagus before it’s release on Carbonized Records in the US and Seed of Doom Records in Europe on October 27.

Decibel is pleased to premiere the EP in its entirety.

Full Album Stream: Baring Teeth – “The Path Narrows”

October 18, 2023

Hear Dallas-based trio Baring Teeth‘s atonal discordance and ethereal dissonance via their fourth full-length The Path Narrows via I, Voidhanger on October 20.

Album Premiere: Cult Burial – “Reverie Of The Malignant”

October 18, 2023

London blackened doom sect Cult Burial return with a ferocious full-length testament to darkness called Reverie Of The Malignant.

Album Premiere: Aiwass – “The Falling”

October 11, 2023

Cross the veil with Phoenician psych doom project Aiwass into their shadowy new opus, The Falling. Out from King Volume Records on Friday.

Track Premiere: Scab Hag – “Reanimated”

October 4, 2023

Cincinnati death metal bog-dwellers Scab Hag raise the dead with their new single “Reanimated.” New album out on Halloween.

Track Premiere: CH’AHOM – “Chavín de Huántar”

September 27, 2023

Hallucinatory prog-infested black/death metal cohort Ch’ahom burst into the metal consciousness with their dynamic tome on sonic wizardry via debut album Knots of Abhorrence.

Album Premiere: Stepmother – “Planet Brutalicon”

September 27, 2023

Blast off with retro rockers Stepmother and crash land on their debut of fuzzed-out rowdy riffs, Planet Brutalicon.

Album Premiere: Acid Mass – “Agonizer”

September 20, 2023

Jump in a repossessed war machine and steamroll the day with Midwestern thrash ‘n’ roll solo project Acid Mass.

Track by Track: Transgressor – “Beyond Oblivion”

September 13, 2023

Japanese death metal pioneers Transgressor share thoughts and tragic news regarding their first new album in 30 years.

Album Premiere: Slomatics – “Strontium Fields”

September 6, 2023

Irish doom mainstays Slomatics build their 8th LP from crushing riffs, cosmic psych and space dust. Strontium Fields comes out September 8th from Black Bow Records.

Album Premiere: Blast No.1 – Blastbeat Tribute To Type O Negative

September 4, 2023

Blast No.1 – Blastbeat Tribute To Type O Negative features 19 fast and filthy versions of Type O classics. Get bloody kissed by a fist.

Album Premiere: Raven Banner – “Rise Up Clan”

August 30, 2023

Raid the day with Swedish melodeath merauders Raven Banner and listen to their Viking-themed debut two days early.