Thrash Metal

Our resident birdbrains pecks on new releases from Exit Eden, Warbeast and Damn Freaks.

New York thrash metal heroes Nuclear Assault join the ranks of the Decibel Hall of Fame this month with the induction of their landmark 1986 debut album, Game Over. You can read the extensive story about the making of the album in the September issue of Decibel (available here), which includes interviews with each member of Nuclear Assault who performed on…

Our Neill Jameson revisits Metallica’s controversial self-titled album.

Watch a new video from groove metallers Granada. 

Stream a new song from old-school thrashers Toxik. 

Stream the new record from River Black, featuring members of Municipal Waste and Revocation.

Prepare to suit up and Enter the Arena with Texas thrash heavyweights Warbeast. 

New York City-based label WYLN is reissuing lost, classic heavy metal records including albums from Cyanide, Leather Nunn, Valhalla and Death Squad. 

Stream the title track from crossover thrashers Paralysis’ first full-length record, Life Sentence.

Goatwhore frontman Ben Falgoust on new album Vengeful Ascension. 

Kick off your weekend with the silly but ferocious debut from Wolves Attack!! 

Contest alert: Win test pressings of Kreator‘s reissued first four albums plus full Q&A with guitarist/vocalist Mille Petrozza.

There’s only one Duplicate Records.

Stream EP closer “Sickle & Scythe” from thrashers Green Death.

Stream new track “The Observer” from blackened thrash force Wilderness Dream. 

Journalist Martin Popoff just released a trio of new metal books, and we picked his brain about them.

Ikillya are At War For An Idea on their third effort, which you can stream now.

Melodic thrash metal crew Dead Asylum premiere “Defiance” from new album Death Always Wins. 

The Future State of Wicked
Binge on some tasty riffs
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Satanarchist are a raging whirlwind of black metal and anarcho-punk on their new album, First Against the Wall.

Croatoan unleash potent thrash/groove metal on “Bloodgutter.”

The vile underground is alive and in good hands with Horror Pain Gore Death Productions. 

Our resident birdbrains pecks on new releases from Casket Huffer, Altar of Betelgeuze and Necrowretch. 

Their first album since the reunion of Jersey’s morbid thrash cult, Blood Feast, The Future State of Wicked boasts deadly riffs, razor-sharp vocal attacks, and explosive battery. Out this Friday on Hells Headbangers, The Future State of Wicked is here. 

Deathrash Armageddon is a Japanese label that releases a number of raw thrash and black metal bands. 

Thrash metal’s new wave of ‘bangers are obviously cuing off benchmarks and milestones set in the ’80s and ’90s. To wit, Denver-based riff-slayers Havok originally formed as a nod to their favorite bands and records, but over time (or four full-length albums) they’ve come into their own.

Slayer’s eighth LP of original material, God Hates Us All, stands as one of their most divisive. To some, it appeared to be another record in which the thrash icons failed to diversify their songwriting.

Witches Brew provide a home for underground death, thrash and heavy metal bands.

Blackened thrash trio All Hell deliver a new song from their forthcoming The Grave Alchemist. 

Kreator, Obituary, Midnight and Horrendous embark on the sixth annual Decibel Magazine Tour starting TODAY. Got tickets?