sweden
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 Emily 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 Emily 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.
Video Premiere: TheNightTimeProject- “Embers”
June 4, 2020 J. Andrew
Decibel is happy to present the new video from TheNightTimeProject, featuring former members of Katatonia and current members of October Tide.
Album Premiere: Zatyr ‘Ornament of Proposition’
May 18, 2020 Chris Dick
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!
Video Premiere: Skam – “Prison of Skin”
April 24, 2020 Dutch Pearce
Get a heavy dose of violence and rage from this video off the debut album Sounds of a Disease, from Swedish killers Skam.
Album Premiere: Curse – ‘The Awakening… and the Old’
April 8, 2020 Dutch Pearce
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.
Track Premiere: Tøronto – “Lights Out At Bedlam”
March 20, 2020 Dutch Pearce
Ex-death metal Swedish heshers Tøronto throw a Scandinavian jawbreaker on “Lights Out At Bedlam” from their new EP, Under Siege.
Q&A: Kasper Eriksson (Hällas) Finds Himself In A Conundrum
February 24, 2020 Chris Dick
Hällas drummer Kasper Eriksson debunks our inspiration theories but remains a righteous chap in this new interview about the Conundrum album.
Full Demo Stream: Sarcator – ‘Visions of Purgatory’
February 11, 2020 Dutch Pearce
Never mind potential, Sarcator have power from hell. Check out the debut from these precocious Swedish melodeath thrashers in its entirety right now.
Full Album Stream: Reaper – ‘Unholy Nordic Noise’
January 28, 2020 Dutch Pearce
Check out the killer debut album from Swedish blackened speed duo Reaper.
Track Premiere: Kvaen – “Septem Peccata Mortalia”
January 27, 2020 J. Andrew
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.
Track Premiere: Ensnared – “The Throne of Transformation”
January 14, 2020 Dutch Pearce
Gothenburg deathbringers Ensnared return with a brand new full length of maximum occult destruction. Blast this exclusive premiere of a track from Inimicus Generis Humani right now!
Video Premiere: Mitochondrial Sun “Celestial Animal”
December 16, 2019 Chris Dick
Dark Tranquillity guitarist Niklas Sundin reinvents himself in electronic project Mitochondrial Sun. Decibel premieres new song “Celestial Animal” off Sundin’s Argonauta Records debut.
Demo:listen: Fayenne
December 6, 2019 Dutch Pearce
This week Demo:listen promotes the righteous fury of Swedish black metal duo Fayenne.