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Decibel Magazine Metal & Beer PRE-FEST Philly 2025 Tickets ON SALE NOW!

January 17, 2025

Tickets are ON SALE NOW for Decibel‘s Metal & Beer Fest official PRE-FEST featuring Incantation, Mammoth Grinder, Ripped to Shreds and Walking Wounded on April 3 in Philly.

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Track Premiere: Pentagram – “Dull Pain”

January 16, 2025

Legendary U.S. doom crew Pentagram return with the latest single from their first new studio album in a decade.

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Justify Your Shitty Taste: Danzig’s “6:66 Satan’s Child”

October 31, 2024

Celebrate the culmination of spooky season by revisiting Danzig‘s oft overlooked monster, 6:66 Satan’s Child.

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February 2025 [#244]

Includes exclusive limited edition New Skeletal Faces flexi disc

Builder of Worlds! Also: The Top 21 Most Anticipated Albums of 2025, the Decibel Hall of Fame: The Making of Fu Manchu’s The Action is Go, The Hellacopters, Yoth Iria and more

Five For Friday: January 17, 2025

January 17, 2025

This week’s new releases include the latest in heavy madness from Necrodeath, Onirophagus, Häxkapell and more!

Video Premiere: Dark Chapel – “Hollow Smile”

January 16, 2025

Hear the latest from Dark Chapel, a new fronted by Black Label Society guitarist Dario Lorina. Their debut album, Spirit in the Glass, is due out February 28 via MNRK Heavy. 

Video Premiere: Pathogenic – “Crowned in Corpses”

January 16, 2025

Progressive death metallers Pathogenic prepare to release their relentless new album, Crowned in Corpses, on February 7 via Skepsis Records. And we have the video for the title track for you today.

Video Premiere: The Curse Within – “Through Inferno”

January 15, 2025

Watch Toronto melodic DM hooligans, The Curse Within, get their Kill Screen thrills on in their new video for “Through Inferno.”

Video Premiere: Necrambulant – “Sentenced to a Gluttonous Pit”

January 15, 2025

Phoenix’s Necrambulant drop their second full-length, Upheaval of Malignant Necrambulance, via Gore House Productions in March. Check out their shattering second single from the release, “Sentenced to a Gluttonous Pit.”

Video Premiere: Pants Exploder – “Last Thing He Did Was Lose”

January 15, 2025

Brooklyn sludge titans Pants Exploder return with a bone-crushing new track and video, “Last Thing He Did Was Lose.”

Video Premiere: Embrium – ‘Eclipse’

January 14, 2025

Watch San Francisco’s Embrium go dark via post-black metal in their video for “Eclipse”

Blast Worship: Civilian Thrower

January 14, 2025

French grinders Civilian Thrower find their inner excellent via a break-neck release schedule.

Full Album Stream: Axestasy –Withering Tides

January 13, 2025

Hear German power thrashers Axetasy find that Motörhead-meets-Helloween sweet spot on new Dying Victims full-length, Withering Tides.