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This week Demo:listen gets knocked out by Swedish sludge/hardcore punk duo Nembutal Sleep.

Hypocrisy mastermind Peter Tägtgren reveals a new conspiracy brewing below the Earth’s crust on new album, Worship.

Sweden’s Armory premiere new album Mercurion (Dying Victims Productions) at Decibel. Sci-fi speed metal attack!

An exclusive early full album stream of the ambitious sophomore album from Stockholm’s rising black metal ‘stormlander’ Cirkeln.

In Aphelion guitarist Sebastian Ramstedt pays tribute to fallen death metal icon L.G. Petrov on new song “Requiem.”

Hear the folk-inspired third album, inspired by the Poetic Edda, from progressive Swedish black metal quintet Karmanjaka.

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!

Psyched out Swedish death metallers Reveal! stream the manic brilliance of new album Doppelherz (Sepulchral Voice Records).

Swedish power trio Nekromant unveil a rambunctious third album with nods to the trad metal greats—from Thin Lizzy to Maiden to Priest.

Long-standing Swedish melodic black/death metallers Netherbird stream new album Arete at Decibel! Only melodic death is real!

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.

Dismember drummer/jack of all trades Fred Estby reflects on 30 years of genre-defining album, Like an Ever Flowing Stream.

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.”

Swedish sludge purveyors Horndal tell the sad history and present day struggles of their hometown in a new interview and video for “Rossen.”

Hear long-running Swedish stoner rockers Greenleaf return with their new album, Echoes From a Mass.

The latest from Sweden’s Horndal continues the tale of their blighted post-industrial town, with the added angle of the refugee experience.

Decibel is pleased to present, for the thrashing-mad among us, an exclusive stream of the debut album from Sweden’s Paranorm.

Swedish black metal speed freaks Reaper return with a new track from their upcoming sophomore album The Atonality of Flesh.

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!

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.”

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!

The full self-titled demo from intense and relentless Gothenburg necksnappers Avlivad, out Black Friday on Invictus Productions.

Mitochondrial Sun maestro Niklas Sundin (ex-Dark Tranquillity) pulses into the digital firmament with new album, Sju Pulsarer. Streaming only at Decibel!

Precocious Swedish scorchers Sarcator blast off and leave Earth far behind on their merciless debut self-titled full-length.

Absolute cretins Repuked profane the sanctity of death 12 times over on their gnarly third album Dawn of Reintoxication.

Morbidly perverse Swedish death metallers Repuked return with a raunchy, new and totally NSFW brutalizer from their forthcoming new full-length, Dawn of Reintoxication.

Swedish black metallers Svederna set the rule book ablaze on their ripping new album, Härd.

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.

Eerie cinematography and Cthulhian Swedish death metal collide in the new video from Puteraeon.

Revisiting En ny tid är här…, the 1970 debut from Sweden’s November.