UK

Video Premiere: Burner – “Hurt Locker”

September 7, 2023

Watch UK’s hardcore tech death crushers Burner get elbows swinging in their new performance video for “Hurt Locker.”

Track Premiere: DeathCollector – “Death’s Toll”

May 25, 2023

Hear a new track from DeathCollector, the band featuring former Bolt Thrower and Memoriam drummer Andrew Whale and Ashen Crown frontman Kieran Scott, then hear from them about it!

Q&A: Diamond Head Guitarist Brian Tatler On Previously Unheard ‘Lightning to the Nations’ Demos

October 4, 2022

Diamond Head guitarist Brian Tatler reveals the origins of the lost ‘Lightning to the Nations’ demos on the newly remastered reissue.

Demo:listen: Body Asphyxiation Science

December 28, 2021

English sci-fi brutal death force Body Asphyxiation Science invades this week’s Demo:listen.

Demo:listen: Vaticinal Rites

November 9, 2021

This week’s Demo:listen premieres the cerebral and crushing debut from UK-based next-level death rippers Vaticinal Rites.

Video Premiere: Mastiff – “Endless”

June 10, 2021

In need of a good crushing? The new song and video from the blackened sludge-core devotees in Mastiff will get that out of your system.

Album Premiere: Bosphorus – ‘Slow Burn’

September 22, 2020

Scottish post-hardcore sludgians Bosphorus slowly and carefully lower their massive, ground-shaking debut album Slow Burn.

Video Premiere: Dāmim – ‘Descendant of Amalek’

July 6, 2020

U.K. death dealers Dāmim release a new video for “Descendant of Amalek.”

Album Premiere: Fellwarden – ‘Wreathed in Mourncloud’

June 23, 2020

Trailblazing English black metal act Fellwarden present their sprawling and atmospheric sophomore album, Wreathed in Mourncloud.

Video Premiere: Telepathy – “Pariah”

February 11, 2020

UK-based atmospheric sludgewielders Telepathy set the tone of their forthcoming record, Burn Embrace, with this evocative video for “Pariah.”

Angrier and Faster: An Interview with Corrupt Moral Altar

September 21, 2017

Decibel caught up with UK grind collective Corrupt Moral Altar to talk about their destructive new album, Eunoia.

All Your Heroes Dead? Grind to the UK’s Oblivionized and Razoreater

September 12, 2014

We at Decibel Magazine wish to apologize for not doing enough to support the development and dissemination of grind.  By including occasional articles about other forms of heavy music, some of which include discernible tempos and recognizably human vocals, we have polluted the “scene” (which died 15 years ago, though our anger about it keeps…

Full Album Stream: Satanic Malfunctions

October 15, 2013

It’s been more than 22 years since the UK hardcore act Satanic Malfunctions has released any music (Disgrace To Humanity, 1990). Decibel is proud to present a full album stream of the comeback Them, released by Selfmadegod and available for purchase here. After the stream check a quick q and a with drummer Ade. It’s…

A Day In the Life of UK Crossover Kings SSS

March 20, 2012

Ever wondered what the Liverpudlian quartet SSS did when they weren’t thrashing and crossing over? We did, too. We also just wanted to use the word “Liverpudlian.” Weird word obsessions and juvenile humor aside, apparently the folks over at Vice (along with Vans) decided to document 24 hours (more or less) with with the band…

Sneak Preview of an Upcoming UK Thrash Documentary

September 27, 2011

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…