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KILL SCREEN 031: Digestor is No Fake Gamer GHOUL
February 21, 2024 Michael Wohlberg and James Lewis
The Creepsylvanian native and splatterthrash guitarist/vocalist gives us a peek under the hood to see what gaming is like in the world’s most remote region.
10 Heavy Albums to Hear Before 2024
December 27, 2023 Sean Frasier
Before the calendar flips to 2024, check out these 10 killer albums you might have missed during list season’s frenzy.
Slayer’s Debut “Show No Mercy” Turns 40
December 4, 2023 Justin Norton
There was once a metal world without Slayer, as hard as that is to imagine. That world changed forever with this album. Show No Mercy is a giant’s first loud footstep.
Video Premiere: Black Knife – “Evil Sex on Halloween”
October 19, 2023 Adem Tepedelen
Watch speedy black metal punks Black Knife offer up a totally safe for work, but still creepy, video for new single, “Evil Sex on Halloween.”
Video Premiere: Narcotic Wasteland – “Sex, Lies & DNA”
October 18, 2023 Addison Herron-Wheeler
Narcotic Wasteland, featuring ex-Nile frontman Dallas Toller-Wade, return another dark, campy gem in the form of “Sex, Lies & DNA.” We have the video for you first
Track Premiere: Kill the King – “Hate Advocacy”
October 12, 2023 Adem Tepedelen
Hear Indian thrash lords Kill the King shred the haters on new track, “Hate Advocacy.”
Track Premiere: Glacier Eater – “Homeward”
October 11, 2023 Addison Herron-Wheeler
Oakland melodic death/thrashers Glacier Eater return with their second record, Tempest on October 27. Check out a new track below here!
Album Premiere: Acid Mass – “Agonizer”
September 20, 2023 Sean Frasier
Jump in a repossessed war machine and steamroll the day with Midwestern thrash ‘n’ roll solo project Acid Mass.
Full Album Stream: Farscape – ‘Purged and Forgotten’
September 19, 2023 Adem Tepedelen
After 10 years between albums, Brazilian ragers Farscape are back and bashing out Teutonic thrash like it’s 1984.
Album Premiere: Destabalizer – ‘Violence Is The Answer!’
September 18, 2023 Addison Herron-Wheeler
Destablizer are back with a new record, Violence Is the Answer, out September 22 via Horror, Pain, Gore, Death. You can lose it to the album now!
Album Premiere: Graveripper’s “Seasons Dreaming Death”
August 24, 2023 Justin Norton
Hear Indianapolis black/speed metal merchants Graveripper rip this and all hell on their debut LP, Seasons Dreaming Death, in advance of its August 25 release.
Metallica’s “Kill ‘Em All” Turns 40
July 25, 2023 Justin Norton
Decibel looks back on Metallica‘s Kill ‘Em All, the album that helped birth thrash metal, launched a legendary career, on its 40th anniversary
Track Premieres: The Mound Builders and Lucifist tag-team split EP “A Mound of Fists”
June 21, 2023 Sean Frasier
The Mound Builders and Lucifist team up for the cassette-only split EP, A Mound of Fists. Listen to an exclusive track from each band.
Video Premiere: Vicious Blade – “Speed Leather and Hell”
May 24, 2023 Addison Herron-Wheeler
Ready for some killer crossover thrash? We got Yins covered with the new video from Pittsburgh’s best kept metallic secret Vicious Blade.
Get Crossover Crushers DEAD HEAT’s New EP on Limited Edition Colored Vinyl: Pre-Order NOW!
May 22, 2023 Decibel Magazine
We have only 125 copies of Dead Heat‘s new EP, Endless Torment, on super-limited Green inside Ultra Clear with Green & Red Splatter vinyl!
EP Premiere: Turn Cold – ‘Chew Glass’
April 26, 2023 Sean Frasier
Atlanta thrashers Turn Cold fill your pie-hole with shards and uppercut you with riffs on their upcoming EP, Chew Glass.
Video Premiere: Among These Ashes – “The Enemy In I”
April 19, 2023 Addison Herron-Wheeler
Watch a new video from Detroit-based melodic power-thrashers Among These Ashes!
Album Premiere: Wild Beyond – ‘Wild Beyond’
April 12, 2023 Sean Frasier
Wild Beyond blast from Philly to the cosmos on their unhinged black thrash debut. Features members of Daeva, ex-Woe and ex-Woods of Ypres.
Full Album Stream: Ardent Nova – ‘Ardent Nova’
March 16, 2023 Adem Tepedelen
Hear Viking metal-inspired thrashers Ardent Nova go scorched earth on their long-in-the-making debut.
Dark Angel Guitarist Jim Durkin Passes Away at 58, GoFundMe Announced
March 13, 2023 Albert Mudrian
On March 8, Jim Durkin, guitarist of thrash metal legends Dark Angel, died at the age of 58. Please consider helping cover the cost of his final arrangements and medical bills.
Video Premiere: Blind Oath – “Fascinatrix”
February 20, 2023 Addison Herron-Wheeler
Power metallers Blind Oath just dropped the video for “Fascinatrix” from their self-titled, debut to be released March 17 via Horton Records. It’s big, it’s epic and it’s definitely indicative of things to come from the band.
Video Premiere: Phantom Fire – “Mara”
January 26, 2023 Brad Sanders
Take a beer run with black/death/thrashers Phantom Fire in their new video for “Mara.”
Track Premiere: Raider – “Trial By Chaos”
December 14, 2022 Sean Frasier
Ontario melodeath thrashers Raider sow discord with the gavel-smashing title track from their upcoming album Trial By Chaos.
Album Premiere: Phantom Horde – ‘The Umbra’
October 19, 2022 Sean Frasier
Melodeath trio Phantom Horde conjure riffs from Gothenburg’s golden age on their apocalyptic EP, The Umbra.
Album Premiere: Assimilator – ‘Assimilator’
September 14, 2022 Sean Frasier
Indiana’s Assimilator create a Hell of their own design on the band’s self-titled debut of thrashing melodeath.
Q&A: Wolf Hoffmann On Accept As a Six-Piece Band and Returning To America
September 7, 2022 Justin Norton
The Accept legend talks to Decibel about returning to the United States this month with three guitarists, what he learned when he traded a guitar for a camera, and more.
Full Album Stream: Various Artists – ‘Faster Than The F*cking Devil’
August 31, 2022 Justin Norton
Hear a thrash buffet of baphometic brutality from Midwest miscreants Wraith, Black Knife and Graveripper and Russia’s Unholy Night.
Track Premiere: Critical Defiance – “Kill Them with Kindness”
June 23, 2022 Brad Sanders
Hear Chilean old-school deathrashers Critical Defiance kill with riffs and kindness.
Album Premiere: Our Dying World – ‘Hymns of Blinding Darkness’
June 22, 2022 Sean Frasier
Los Angeles symphonic melodeath eulogists Our Dying World write a vicious obituary with their new album, Hymns of Blinding Darkness.
Video Premiere: Red Rot – “Dysmorphia”
June 16, 2022 Adem Tepedelen
Italy’s Red Rot offer a 90-second (mental) breakdown, from two ex-Ephel Duath members