Netherlands

Burning World Records celebrates the 30th Anniversary Edition of The Gathering‘s critical debut album, Always…. Streaming “Stonegarden” now only at Decibel!

Gnaw Their Tongues mastermind Maurice de Jong falls before draconian times on new The Sombre elegy “The Mourning Gloom.” Streaming in slow motion now!

Hear the sick new track from Netherlands—the band, not the country—from their upcoming Three One G release.

Netherlands-based shoegaze black metal outfit Am Himmel unfurls new spectral track “The Patience And Silence Of A Saint’s Death.”

Check out the new video from Dutch death-dealers Bloodphemy: “Bloodborne,” from their new album, Blood Sacrifice.

Eric Daniels and Twan van Geel of Soulburn fame open the flood gates to a new era on Noa’s D’ark. Hail Dutch death metal!

Dutch black metallers Kjeld spear the light with new track “Betsjoend” off their upcoming full-length Ôfstân Darkness only at Decibel!

Dutch black metal duo Sagenland premiere new track “Bladval” from their upcoming debut album Oale Groond. Only at Decibel!

A full stream of their new album Nightmare Traversal plus an interview with The Netherlands’ two-headed horror Cryptae.

Dutch architects of atmospheric black metal Verval return with a single from their radiant, upcoming EP, Beeldenstorm.

Dutch duo Dodenbezweerder conjure ritual black ambience on their debut full length.

Check out a track from new Dutch first wave black metallers Hellehond, featuring members of Asphyx and Wederganger.

The cultural, social, and geographic impasse has fueled the music of both Kaoteon and Death Tribe, who are currently ensconced in the studio working on the follow-up to this year’s Beyond Pain and Pleasure: A Desert Experiment.

Bob Bagchus, of Hellehond, Infidel Reich, Beast Of Revelation & Siege Of Power fame, Lists His Top Five Venom Songs.

Dutch black death warmongers launch a warning missile to signal their forthcoming new album.

Check out this exclusive premiere of the Dutch black metal/noise artists’ sophomore album.

Worship crusty death with Burial Remains.

Hear a new offering from Dutch black metal horde entity Verwoed.

Stream the new album from long-running Dutch black metal unit Cirith Gorgor.

Hear Life in Disgust from Dutch grinders Suffering Quota.

Check out this exclusive track off the debut album from Dutch occult death metal band, Lucifericon.

Watch a new video from Dutch death dealers Apophys right now.

Stream a devastating new track from Netherlands-based death machine Cryptae right now.

Dutch death metallers Neocaesar invoke the old gods on new album 11:11.

Stream the full sixth album from Dutch powerhouse The Monolith Deathcult. 

Roadburn Live is Enslaved‘s first live record, recorded at Roadburn Festival in 2015.

A new Carach Angren album is on the way! Listen to first track, “Song for the Dead” now.

Next week we get Dodecahedron’s brand new exercise in high-concept dissonance via Kwintessens, due out March 17 on Season of Mist.  We conducted a little Q&A with guitarist/songwriter Michel Nienhuis and vocalist Michiel Eikenaar, much of which can be found in issue #150 (Decibel Tour cover), but you can read the remainder of the interview here.

We hope you brought your hat and gloves today…. you’ll be needing them for this Tarnkappe premiere, in which hypothermia abounds.  

Later this month, Dutch sextet Izah will release their first full-length document of sludgy aggression through the always dependable Nordvis Produktion.  It represents a major step in a very long road for the band, and its four gargantuan tracks make that point crystal clear.  But these aren’t the sprawling teases that some bands employ in…