Tribulation

This week’s new releases includes the latest screams and riffs from Thron, Tribulation, Rotten Sound and more!

This week’s flurry of new releases includes strong cold fronts from Tribulation, Cult of Luna, The Ruins of Beverast and more!

We have a limited number of advance copies of the March issue of Decibel, featuring our an exclusive new flexi disc single from Swedish death/thrash kings the Crown.

Hear the first new song from Swedish gothic metallers Tribulation in three years.

Make this your most-extreme Christmas ever.

Decibel picks the best singles of 2018 thus far.

Happy Valentine’s Day from Decibel. We like you like you, so we made you a playlist of metal love songs — light on the power ballads.

Tribulation are our Best New Noise.

Our resident birdbrains pecks on new titles from Tribulation, Genocide Pact and Bind Torture Kill.

Five reasons to be stoked about 2018 (that don’t include a New Year’s resolution or gym membership).

Advance copies of the February issue of Decibel are available now! Order by December 19th at 12pm EST for delivery by Christmas!

Hear the first new Tribulation song from their upcomingDown Below!

Hurry if you want FREE Kreator, Tribulation, the Black Dahlia Murder, Panopticon and Eyehategod out-of-print flexi discs.

Decibel caught up with Tribulation guitarist Jonathan Hultén about his first solo singer-songwriter record, due out this month.

Get FIVE rare BONUS singles from the Decibel Flexi Series when you order this special Decibel subscription. For a limited time only!

Atlanta-based dark metal conspirators Cloak comb the blackest shadows of rock ‘n’ roll on the opening track off their eponymous EP.

The Decibel Magazine Tour has been in full swing for three weeks now, and for Skeletonwitch, it’s been a perfect vehicle to introduce their new frontman, Adam Clemans. We caught up with Clemans and guitarist Scott Hedrick after a blistering 40-minute set at San Francisco’s Regency Ballroom to talk tour stories, album plans, and Facebook etiquette.

The Decibel Tour starts tomorrow. But you can indulge in a new Abbath video today.

Less than seven days out! And we’ve got shirts, posters, and tickets to give away, in addition to other (very metal) recent announcements. 

Extended throughout the tour: win four Decibel Tour shirts!

Win some free dB Tour 2016 gear. 

This month, we contacted Swedish death miscreants Tribulation, whose 2009 debut, The Horror, perked up ears but whose subsequent efforts, including last year’s The Children of the Night, turned our collective heads all the way around, several times over.

Missing out on this is sort of like missing out on last call at the bar. If they gave you extra beers at the same price, that is. 

Danzig covering bands in 2016: not so cool. Other bands covering Danzig (in this case the Misfits) in 2016: still very cool.

Tribulation have psych rock elements, their drummer has a psych rock band. Coincidence?

The Children of the night
Tribulation fly, wingless into the night, redefine modern death metal
dB Rating: 9/10

“The Children of the Night takes off where The Formulas of Death ended,” says Tribulation guitarist Adam Zaars. “And if the latter was dark the former is pitch black, though the album ranges from murky forests to the brightest city lights. It is a celebration of the divine spirit and our ability to tread liminal…

I’m trying to put a finger on The Formulas of Death, but I can’t. Was the intention to make an album that’s hard to fit into one easy category?Adam Zaars: No, that wasn’t the intention, but I’m not surprised to hear the question. The intention was just to create flowing music. It would have been…