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ONLY 100 AVAILABLE! Pre-Order HULDER’s New Album ‘Verbolgen’ on Decibel-Exclusive Hardwood Color Vinyl!
June 12, 2026
There are a mere 100 copies of Hulder‘s new full-length LP, Verbolgen, on Decibel-exclusive Hardwood colored vinyl. Answer the call of the ancestral fires and forest spirits and pre-order now!
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Track Premiere: Irata – “Goodside”
June 22, 2026
Noisy North Carolina trio Irata show their “Goodside” on this tension-filled, fuzzed-out new single.
Editorial
An Endless Wave of American Darkness: USBM’s Hidden Underground
December 26, 2025
Neill Jameson digs deep into the best that underground U.S. black metal had to offer in 2025.
Latest Issue
Hulder
July 2026 [#261]
Includes exclusive limited edition Venom flexi disc
The Acclamation of Bonds! Also: the Decibel Hall of Fame: The Making of Acheron’s Rites of the Black Mass, an exclusive Sodom: The Official Authorized Biography excerpt, Neurosis, Panopticon and more
Acheron – Rites of the Black Mass
June 22, 2026 Dutch Pearce
How Acheron put actual Satan in Florida death on their Hall of Fame-inducted debut, Rites of the Black Mass.
Five For Friday: June 19, 2026
June 19, 2026 J. Andrew
New full-length LPs from Saidan, Mork and Inscribed headline a diverse new release Friday!
Track-by-Track: Fleshcrawl – Epitome of Carnage
June 18, 2026 Addison Herron-Wheeler
We catch up with Fleshcrawl for a track-by track breakdown of their new album in the old-school death metal crew’s own words.
Track Premiere: Agonanist – ‘Effacement’
June 18, 2026 Emily Bellino
Dissonant black metal band Agonanist wields microtonal guitars as a weapon on new single.
Full Album Stream: Gold Spire –Steps Into Shadow
June 17, 2026 Adem Tepedelen
Swedish avant-garde DM sophisticates Gold Spire dial up the sax and violence on new full-length, Steps Into Shadow.
Blast Worship: MERC
June 17, 2026 Gene Meyer
Tune into MERC‘s all-caps, no-guitars grindcore attack.
Track Premiere: Cold Blue Mountain – “The Storm”
June 17, 2026 Tim Mudd
Cold Blue Mountain are not exactly thinking small on The Healer. The Chico, California post-metal quintet’s new double album is a 74-minute concept record.
Album Premiere: HISS – A Cheapened Crown
June 17, 2026 Tim Mudd
Decibel noise-making faves Still/Form reemerge as Portland noise-sludge trio HISS.
Video Premiere: Moon Destroys – ‘Flowers’
June 17, 2026 Tim Mudd
Moon Destroys, featuring Torche co-founder Juan Montoya, and Evan Diprima of Gold Pyramid and Royal Thunder reemerge bearing “Flowers.”
Track Premiere: Dragsholm – ‘Battling Through the Stormlands’
June 16, 2026 Emily Bellino
Hail Dracula on a new Dragsholm song.
