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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.

Decibel is happy to present the new video from TheNightTimeProject, featuring former members of Katatonia and current members of October Tide.

Sweden-based Zatyr blow heavy metal’s doors wide open with this trip back to 1982 on their debut EP, Ornament of Proposition. Streaming in twin-lead glory only at Decibel!

Get a heavy dose of violence and rage from this video off the debut album Sounds of a Disease, from Swedish killers Skam.

Resurrected Swedish black thrashers Curse tear from out of the shadows of obscurity with an absolute ripper. Hear their new EP in its entirety right now.

Ex-death metal Swedish heshers Tøronto throw a Scandinavian jawbreaker on “Lights Out At Bedlam” from their new EP, Under Siege.

Hällas drummer Kasper Eriksson debunks our inspiration theories but remains a righteous chap in this new interview about the Conundrum album.

Never mind potential, Sarcator have power from hell. Check out the debut from these precocious Swedish melodeath thrashers in its entirety right now.

Check out the killer debut album from Swedish blackened speed duo Reaper.

For those of you devoted to the power of the unholy riff, Sweden’s Kvaen strikes just the right balance of melody, glory and aggression.