sweden
Demo:listen: Nembutal Sleep
May 17, 2022 Dutch Pearce
This week Demo:listen gets knocked out by Swedish sludge/hardcore punk duo Nembutal Sleep.
Q&A: Peter Tägtgren Has A New Conspiracy
May 16, 2022 Chris Dick
Hypocrisy mastermind Peter Tägtgren reveals a new conspiracy brewing below the Earth’s crust on new album, Worship.
Full Album Premiere: Armory – ‘Mercurion’
April 18, 2022 Chris Dick
Sweden’s Armory premiere new album Mercurion (Dying Victims Productions) at Decibel. Sci-fi speed metal attack!
Album Premiere: Cirkeln – A Song to Sorrow
March 21, 2022 Dutch Pearce
An exclusive early full album stream of the ambitious sophomore album from Stockholm’s rising black metal ‘stormlander’ Cirkeln.
Sebastian Ramstedt Honors L.G. Petrov On New In Aphelion Track ‘Requiem’
March 7, 2022 Chris Dick
In Aphelion guitarist Sebastian Ramstedt pays tribute to fallen death metal icon L.G. Petrov on new song “Requiem.”
Full Album Stream: Karmanjaka – “Gates of Muspel”
February 10, 2022 Adem Tepedelen
Hear the folk-inspired third album, inspired by the Poetic Edda, from progressive Swedish black metal quintet Karmanjaka.
Video Premiere: Gauntlet Rule “Dying for My Dreams” feat. Blaze Bayley
January 10, 2022 Chris Dick
Swedish heavy metal upstarts Gauntlet Rule, featuring members of Paganizer, Assassin’s Blade and Loch Vostok, stream new track “Dying for My Dreams,” featuring Blaze Bayley. Up the old-school irons!
Full Album Premiere: Reveal! – ‘Doppelherz’
December 6, 2021 Chris Dick
Psyched out Swedish death metallers Reveal! stream the manic brilliance of new album Doppelherz (Sepulchral Voice Records).
Full Album Stream: Nekromant – “Temple of Haal”
December 2, 2021 Adem Tepedelen
Swedish power trio Nekromant unveil a rambunctious third album with nods to the trad metal greats—from Thin Lizzy to Maiden to Priest.
Full Album Premiere: Netherbird ‘Arete’
July 29, 2021 Chris Dick
Long-standing Swedish melodic black/death metallers Netherbird stream new album Arete at Decibel! Only melodic death is real!
Mandatory Reissue: Necrony – Pathological Performances
June 1, 2021 Dutch Pearce
Stream the reissue of the debut and only full-length from Swedish death-grinders Necrony (whose members went on to form Nasum) and get some old-school death-grind context from Necrony’s former guitarist/vocalist Anders Jakobson.
Q&A: Dismember Celebrate 30th Anniversary of ‘Like an Ever Flowing Stream’
May 28, 2021 Chris Dick
Dismember drummer/jack of all trades Fred Estby reflects on 30 years of genre-defining album, Like an Ever Flowing Stream.
Full EP Stream: Morbid Breath – “In the Hand of the Reaper”
May 17, 2021 J. Andrew
Morbid Breath seeks to “revive that malicious, heavy, and raw 80’s thrash-metal sound” on their new EP, In the Hand of the Reaper.”
Video Premiere: Horndal – ‘Rossen’
May 10, 2021 Vince Bellino
Swedish sludge purveyors Horndal tell the sad history and present day struggles of their hometown in a new interview and video for “Rossen.”
Full Album Stream: Greenleaf – “Echoes From a Mass”
March 25, 2021 Vince Bellino
Hear long-running Swedish stoner rockers Greenleaf return with their new album, Echoes From a Mass.
Video Premiere: Horndal – “Horndal’s Blodbad”
March 11, 2021 J. Andrew
The latest from Sweden’s Horndal continues the tale of their blighted post-industrial town, with the added angle of the refugee experience.
Full Album Stream: Paranorm- “Empyrean”
February 15, 2021 J. Andrew
Decibel is pleased to present, for the thrashing-mad among us, an exclusive stream of the debut album from Sweden’s Paranorm.
Track Premiere: Reaper – “Dogs of the Crumbled Firmament”
February 2, 2021 Dutch Pearce
Swedish black metal speed freaks Reaper return with a new track from their upcoming sophomore album The Atonality of Flesh.
Track Premiere: Grand Cadaver “Blood-Filled Skies”
December 16, 2020 Chris Dick
Swedish death metal veterans relive the oldest days in Grand Cadaver. Decibel joins the bloodbath with new track “Blood-filled Skies”. Only death (metal) is real!
Track Premiere: Malakhim – “There Is A Beacon”
December 8, 2020 Dutch Pearce
Elite Swedish Satanic black metallers Malakhim will finally release their first proper full-length come January 2021. Catch a blinding glimpse of Theion now with this exclusive premiere of the album’s opener, “There Is A Beacon.”
Q&A: Björn “Speed” Strid (Soilwork) Hits On New EP, Health, & COVID-19
December 7, 2020 Chris Dick
Soilwork vocalist Björn “Speed” Strid talks new EP A Whisp of the Atlantic and predicts the effects of COVID-19 in 2021. Only at Decibel!
Demo Premiere: Avlivad – Avlivad
November 24, 2020 Dutch Pearce
The full self-titled demo from intense and relentless Gothenburg necksnappers Avlivad, out Black Friday on Invictus Productions.
Full Album Premiere: Mitochondrial Sun – ‘Sju Pulsarer’
November 11, 2020 Chris Dick
Mitochondrial Sun maestro Niklas Sundin (ex-Dark Tranquillity) pulses into the digital firmament with new album, Sju Pulsarer. Streaming only at Decibel!
Album Premiere: Sarcator – Sarcator
October 27, 2020 Dutch Pearce
Precocious Swedish scorchers Sarcator blast off and leave Earth far behind on their merciless debut self-titled full-length.
Album Premiere: Repuked – Dawn of Reintoxication
October 6, 2020 Dutch Pearce
Absolute cretins Repuked profane the sanctity of death 12 times over on their gnarly third album Dawn of Reintoxication.
Video Premiere: Repuked – “Shitfister” (NSFW)
August 27, 2020 Dutch Pearce
Morbidly perverse Swedish death metallers Repuked return with a raunchy, new and totally NSFW brutalizer from their forthcoming new full-length, Dawn of Reintoxication.
Full Album Stream: Svederna – ‘Härd’
August 20, 2020 Dutch Pearce
Swedish black metallers Svederna set the rule book ablaze on their ripping new album, Härd.
Johanna Sadonis & Nicke Andersson (Lucifer) Share Their Top 5 Vintage T-Shirt Stories
August 17, 2020 Chris Dick
Lucifer‘s Johanna Sadonis and Nicke Andersson share their top five vintage t-shirt stories. Lucifer’s new album, Lucifer III, is out now on Century Media.
Video Premiere: Puteraeon – “The Sleeping Dread”
August 12, 2020 Dutch Pearce
Eerie cinematography and Cthulhian Swedish death metal collide in the new video from Puteraeon.
Primitive Origins: November’s ‘En ny tid är här…’
June 18, 2020 Greg Pratt
Revisiting En ny tid är här…, the 1970 debut from Sweden’s November.