Instrumental

Video Premiere: Bassoon – “Cyclops”

October 26, 2023

No woodwinds, only mathy instrumental prog rock, in the new new Bassoon video, “Cyclops.”

Q&A: Dead Neanderthals Team Up (Again) with Skeletonwitch Guitarist Scott Hedrick on ‘Specters’

August 8, 2023

You’re not seeing things. Skeletonwitch guitarist Scott Hedrick has hooked up with Dutch noise fiends Dead Neanderthals again on their new LP, Specters.

Video Premiere: Stinking Lizaveta – “Electric Future”

May 23, 2023

Watch Philly instru-metal legends Stinking Lizaveta drop a single for “Electric Future” from their first new album in six years.

Video Premiere: Gematria – “The Elusive One”

November 22, 2022

New Jersey instrumental prog duo, Gematria, turn their new track, “The Elusive One” into a musical game piece.

Video Premiere: Sarattma – “Socotra”

November 15, 2022

Philly avant psych fanatics Sarattma offer up a brain-twisting new video for “Socotra.”

Track Premiere: Mayan Bull (ft. members of Trappist & Despise You) “Kid Cleveland”

December 29, 2021

Hear L.A. trio Mayan Bull — featuring members of Trappist, Despise You and Kevarra — take an instrumental departure.

Track Premiere: Andrew Lee – “Maybe”

October 21, 2021

If endless riffs and shredding are what you crave above all else, you can scratch that monstrous, gnawing, inner itch with Andrew Lee’s Heavy Metal Shrapnel, out via Nameless Grave Records on December 10.

Toadlickers hypnotize with Hangover songs

November 17, 2020

This is how they play dungeon synth down in Goblin City! Stream Toadlickers outlandish debut in its entirety right now.

INTRCPTR Release Video for “Dusted,” Announce Band Break-up

July 1, 2020

INTRCPTR, the instrumental duo of 5ive guitarist Ben Carr and Pelican drummer Larry Herweg, offers a parting kiss with a new video.

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.”

Video Premiere: Gore – ‘No Respect’

March 6, 2019

Listen to a reworked song from reformed instrumental trio Gore.

Track Premiere: INTRCPTR – ‘Dusted’

December 18, 2018

Hear a new song from post-metal masters INTRCPTR, featuring members of 5ive and Pelican.

Track Premiere: Bangladeafy – ‘Steam’

September 5, 2018

Stream a new song from instrumental technical metal wizards Bangladeafy right now.

STAHV, or, How To Make Good Instrumental Metal

December 11, 2017

Solomon Arye Rosenschein’s first outing as STAHV succeeds where most of its ilk fail. Unlike most instrumental one-member doom bands, his first self-titled album hold my interest from beginning to end.

Full EP Stream + Q&A: Ray Suhy (Six Feet Under, Cannabis Corpse) – ‘Fulmination’

June 15, 2017

Ray Suhy (Cannabis Corpse, Six Feet Under, ex-East of the Wall) has returned with a new solo EP. Decibel talked to the guitarist about expectations and writing an instrumental record.

Full Album Stream: NY In 64 – ‘The Gentle Indifference of the Night’

May 25, 2017

Stream the entirety of instrumental hardcore/post-metal crew NY in 64‘s sophomore LP, The Gentle Indifference of the Night. 

Video Premiere: Invoking the Abstract – ‘The Summit’

November 1, 2016

Invoking the Abstract plays instrumental technical death metal. This is a video of Invoking the Abstract playing instrumental technical death metal. 

Video Premiere: MONO – ‘Requiem for Hell’

September 27, 2016

MONO‘s video for “Requiem for Hell” is an emotional and visually beautiful companion to the song. Also included: Exclusive Q&A with MONO’s Takaakira “Taka” Goto.

Video Premiere: MoRkObOt – “Ogrog”

September 26, 2016

MoRkObOt unleash wordless doom weirdness in this new video for “Ogrog.”

Track Premiere: Pray for Sound – “I Have Seen Hell And It’s White”

September 20, 2016

“I Have Seen Hell And It’s White” is an instrumental rollercoaster, capturing excited and calm, collected energy throughout the song.