Dutch Pearce

On this week’s Demo:listen, we sink down through pitchy leagues of creosote and dredge ourselves back up by the bootstraps to bring unto you the sounds of Germany’s Morast.

On this week’s Demo:listen we genuflect in primordial fear at the foot of the true occult doom of Virginia’s The Ritualist.

On this week’s Demo:listen, we attempt to interpret strange transmissions coming from Norway’s latest anomaly, Recitations . . .

Dissemination
Still crazy good after all these years
dB Rating: 8/10

On this week’s Demo:listen we expose you to a virulent new strain of deadly Canadian fungus known as Tomb Mold . . .

Come check out another installment of Through a Speaker Rumbly! This month we pit your brain and tongue against your ears in the battle to support three killer bands whose names are nearly impossible to say/remember.

This week on Demo:listen we savor some Massive Retaliation and then get Ceremented hard . . .

For this week’s Demo:listen we dredge up your nightmares with California’s Barren Altar and a new Canadian monster known as Amphisbaena . . .

A side-splitting interview with the insane owner of Headsplit Records, a (mostly) tape label specializing in obscenely putrid death metal and uncomfortably inappropriate grind. You’ve been warned.

Every week, Decibel will premiere new material by bands of a heavy nature.  There’s no boundaries here, either.  Death, black, doom, sludge, progressive, stoner, retro, whatever!  It’s all fair game.  What’s this section called?  DEMO:LISTEN, naturally.  This week we scream into the abyss and the abyss screams back: New Zealand’s Veneficium, Obduktio & Scumripper from Finland and Brooklyn’s Horns & Hooves.

Stream a new track from Deströyer 666’s forthcoming album Wildfire.

Best Underground Metal Tapes of the Year , pt. II, featuring Ghûllzaraën of Necromantic Worship, hidden messages, Eli W. of Spectral Voice, unpronounceable band names, Hansel of Caligari Records, quotes from the underground and so much more! 

Best Underground Metal Tapes of the Year, pt. I, featuring Jon Von Frost, Jake R. of Graceless Recordings, Jullian Rhea of Of Corpse & Cryptic Excision and much more!

To commemorate five years of Decibel Flexis we’ve asked Decibel writers to write a review-length tribute to their favorite disc. Today’s installment features Evoken’s cover of “Rotting Misery,” originally by Paradise Lost.

Relax, reader. Breathe deeply. Inhale through your nose, exhale through your mouth. Smell the corpses. Now blow out the ritual candles.

Hope Finally Died
Delivered from extortionate obscurity
dB Rating: 9/10

An exclusive TASR interview with the two CEOs of Nashville’s Graceless Recordings on their six new tape releases, plus their thoughts on some other tapes currently vying for your hard-earned dinero.

An exclusive stream of the heretofore extinct album Hope Finally Died… plus an interview with bassist/vocalist Harry Armstrong. 

Today we interrupt your busy air-guitar-wailing/eBay-foraging schedule to bring you news of a new Crepusculo Negro/Black Twilight Circle compilation featuring all new material from Volahn, Shataan, Arizmenda and Kalathon.

Four demos from four new bands to satisfy your itch for something strange. 

Omniscient
Omnifying the Obscure
dB Rating: 8/10

Four tapes essential for enduring the impending sunny weather.

We interrupt your regularly scheduled headbanging to bring you an exciting revelation. This year, on Saturday, April 18–known to the western world as “Record Store Day”–American thrash metal legends Metallica will reissue their demo, No Life ‘Til Leather. What’s more, the demo will be reissued on its original format, a limited-edition cassette! Metallica’s own label,…

“We are obsessed with death metal!” For this month’s Speaker Rumbly, I tracked down one-half of Colorado’s new and incredibly putrescent death/doom outfit, Spectral Voice, for some good ol’ Q&A. Spectral Voice’s demo, Necrotic Doom, is currently available, but is likely not long for this world. I’ve been in contact with the specter herein known…

“. . . tapes mean less risk, warm sound and affordability.” This installment of Through a Speaker Rumbly features a Q&A with Caligari Records owner, Hansel Merchor. Merchor has been running Caligari Records for about two years now and, in that short amount of time, besides having accumulated hundreds of my own hard-earned dollars, Merchor…

“Oh, watch the lightning strike Feel the powers of the hammer’s pounding on Take it to your heart and understand What must live on from father to son” -“Father to Son” by Quorthon/Bathory One thing my family always jokes about is how my dad was caught crying at the end of The Last Unicorn. It’s…