thrash
Introducing Green Death: Stream “Gates Of Hell”
April 15, 2015 Justin Norton
Green Hell. Septic Death. Green Death? Yes, that’s the moniker for a Des Moines thrash band looking to restore Iowa’s reputation in the extreme metal world after decades of Slipknot. We actually picked up on Green Death in our print edition, with an effusive review that said: “this Des Moines outfit plays a classy brand…
Video Premiere: Krysantemia’s “Finis Dierum”
March 6, 2015 Daniel Lake
Today we bring you an exclusive video premiere by Italian death/thrashers Krysantemia, celebrating the advent of their third album, Finis Dierum, on Memorial Records. The band’s blustery/blistering confluence of influences has seen them perform alongside Obituary, Rotting Christ and Kataklysm, and is right now crisscrossing Europe in support of warmongers Marduk. The new album was recorded…
Streaming: Byzantine’s “The Agonies”
March 4, 2015 Justin Norton
While you might hear an awful lot about society’s ills in metal you don’t hear about the plight of rural America too often. But the harsh realities of Appalachia provide much of the inspiration for Byzantine’s take on thrash, particularly on “The Agonies,” the song we’re premiering today. Frontman Chris Ojeda explains: “The Agonies” is…
STREAMING: Overcharge’s “As If There Were No Tomorrow”
September 3, 2014 Justin Norton
Globalization really has changed everything, not just for business and our sex lives but for music. How else could you explain the fact that dudes in Mumbai are playing expert technical death metal and the crop of black metal bands in Australia? Case in point: the new album from Overcharge. Now, if you listen to…
Infected Or Infectious? Exclusive Oozing Wound Premiere!
August 8, 2014 Shawn Macomber
No need to ponder the true secret of the ooze any longer: We’ve got an exclusive stream of a ultra sick new track from Chicago thrash mavens Oozing Wound. It’s entitled “Drug Reference” and will, moments from now, commence fucking with your head… “Drug Reference” is an entry in the excellent Adult Swim Singles Program…
Premiere: New Grave Digger lyric video
May 30, 2014 Justin Norton
The metal institution known as Grave Digger has been around almost as long as the genre of heavy metal. They will release their seventeenth album (yes, that’s correct) called Return Of The Reaper on July 11. Your friends at Decibel got a chance to premiere the lyric video of the track “Season Of The Witch.”…
Fatality’s Wintour Diary
February 19, 2014 Justin Norton
Last summer, the young bucks in Fatality wrote a cogent piece for the Deciblog on how you can successfully crowdfund a project without pissing off fans. As a result, we got to know bassist Adam Zed pretty well and found him to be a likeable and hilarious chap. Then, he approached the Deciblog about doing…
EXCLUSIVE: WARBRINGER “Hunter-Seeker” lyric video
September 17, 2013 Jonathan Horsley
As you may or may not know, Californian next-gen thrashers Warbringer will be dropping album number four—IV: Empires Collapse—on Oct 29th through Century Media. The band have been on the road pretty much constantly since 2011’s Worlds Torn Asunder, and in that time have augmented their lineup with guitarist Jeff Potts and bassist Ben Mottsman,…
BornBroken: The Ones They Call Dr. Hategood
June 18, 2013 Shawn Macomber
Montreal thrash-core stalwarts BornBroken unleashed its debut CD/unorthodox prescription The Healing Powers of Hate last week. The band’s mission? “Help the masses find a voice, a face, an ‘X’ that marks the spot through the sounds of beating skins, metal strings and broken chords.” Check out the pummeling rager of a title track below, along…
Stream new Lair of the Minotaur
May 14, 2013 Shawn Macomber
Superlative sludge thrashers Lair of the Minotaur recently burst back out of the infernal regions brandishing the sick (and extremely limited) new seven-inch single Godslayer. This morning guitarist/vocalist Steve Rathbone chats with Decibel about the latter while we stream the former — the band’s first new material since the excellent Evil Power full-length in 2010….
GIVEAWAY: Win a Machine Head Epiphone Guitar!
November 20, 2012 Adem Tepedelen
Before we get to all the details of this amazing giveaway—a free guitar!—from the generous folks at Roadrunner Records and Epiphone, we want to wish Machine Head mainman Robb Flynn a very speedy recovery from his recent hernia surgery. We know he’s anxious to get back out on the road and resume the tour with…
Dublin Death Patrol Deliver a Bay Area Beatdown
September 11, 2012 Adem Tepedelen
Like London, Ontario and Paris, Texas there’s a city in the California Bay Area with the same name as one of the great metropolises of the world. Yep, Dublin, CA was named after Ireland’s capital, but this East Bay suburb is probably best known in the metal world for being the hometown of some heavy…
STREAMING: Exclusive premiere of Tankard’s “A Girl Called Cerveza”
July 3, 2012 Adem Tepedelen
Since we know that a few of you may be enjoying frosty barley pops and doing your best not to blow a limb off tomorrow while celebrating Independence Day, we figured a Tankard song premiere was in order. Yeah, don’t ask us how we got from Point A to Point B on that one, but…
LIVE REVIEW: Municipal Waste Fucked Seattle Up
June 26, 2012 Adem Tepedelen
June 15, Neumos, Seattle, WA. We received the message through the usual channels, but this time the priority was urgent. “We’re coming to Seattle,” said Witte, “and I need to go to Brouwer’s.” As the local beer ambassador to the extremely extreme set, we felt compelled to honor this request, so upon Municipal Waste’s arrival…
INTERVIEW: Tankard Talk Beer, Beer & More Beer
June 5, 2012 Adem Tepedelen
Tankard were living the Brewtal Truth life, long before we ever had our first sip of beer.
STREAMING: “Toxic Waste” Split 12″
May 22, 2012 Adem Tepedelen
We already had occasion to cream our jeans a couple weeks back in anticipation of this awesome Toxic Holocaust/Municipal Waste split 12″ on Tankcrimes Records, but now we have the pleasure of tantalizing you with two(!) tracks from said four-song EP. This nut-busting coupling of two of our favorite thrashers comes in a number of…
Q&A: Municipal Waste frontman Tony Foresta on new crossover project Iron Reagan
February 6, 2012 Jonathan Horsley
The phone just kept ringing out and going to Tony Foresta’s voicemail. We tried a few times, on each occasion considering leaving a “horny message” at the beep, as requested by the Municipal Waste frontman. It feels now like an opportunity missed. Ach, no matter, it was all cool. Foresta wasn’t dogging the call, obviously,…
Streaming: Goatwhore Premiere from Blood For the Master
January 23, 2012 Adem Tepedelen
Talk about a kick-ass way to start the week. Not only did we put the Big Easy’s finest purveyors of blackened thrash, Goatwhore, on the cover of our current issue, we managed to wrangle a new tune off their upcoming Metal Blade album, Blood For the Master. “When Steel and Bone Meet” is everything we…
IRON REAGAN: Hardcore/crossover crew feat. Municipal Waste/Darkest Hour
January 20, 2012 Jonathan Horsley
All of you long-haired wastoids presently staring at the fridge, beer bong ready, weed order placed, Cheetos-in-bowl, etc… impatiently waiting for the new Municipal Waste record to drop, you might want to wrap your headbang around the new demo from Iron Reagan. Featuring Waste singer/party enabler Tony Foresta and bassist Phil “LandPhil” Hall, the line-up…
OUT NOW! Decibel’s Thrash Metal Hall of Fame Special Issue
November 4, 2011 Jonathan Horsley
That’s right, folks, our Collector’s Edition Thrash Metal Hall of Fame issue is back from the printers and available—right now—to buy from the Decibel webstore and a select few indie record stores. After hopefully violating innumerate health and safety regulations to print the third of Decibel’s gnarly Hall of Fame Collector’s Editions in Vic Rattlehead’s…
Sneak Preview of an Upcoming UK Thrash Documentary
September 27, 2011 Adem Tepedelen
Because of the stature they have attained, much of the metal-loving world puts the Big Four as the sort of holy, uh, quadrinity of thrash metal. These are the bands—all American—that we consider the originators and finest progenitors of the genre. But not so fast. If we’re to look at many of the Big Four’s…
Hey, that Angel Has an Axe!
September 27, 2011 Shawn Macomber
Looking to get off that sis river of dreams… …and onto the thrashing, squalling river of rapture? Let Death Angel be your guide! The band is partnering with Jackson Guitars to give away three signed JS32 Rhoads guitars. All you have to do is fill out this online form and then mosey on down to…