J. Andrew

Five for Friday opens the year with the latest heavy and harsh releases from Woe, Oraculum, Ectovoid and more!

As the curtain closes on 2025, join us in requiem as we celebrate some of the year’s finest black metal releases.

Check out some of the year’s best in death metal madness, including releases from Drawn and Quartered, Evoken, Ancient Death and more!

Greetings Decibel readers! It’s the last standard Five For Friday roundup of the year. One last chance to revise your personal end-of-year lists before you get distracted by the holidays and resolutions you’ll maintain for about two weeks. But trust me, you’ll want to savor the last of 2025 with the albums below, especially the second…

Rejoice, ye devotees of sheer, unrelenting destruction and death — for Chile’s Oraculum has arrived on the battlefield armed with an arsenal of riffs, growls and pounding drums.

This week, we bring you the latest in metal mastery, with new releases from VoidCeremony, Lamp of Murmuur, Strigiform and more!

The new album from Degraved pulls you into the crypts of death metal despair and only gets darker from there. Hear it now.

Jump into the pit with us as we do the toxic waltz to the latest from Drain, Waldgeflüster, Uranium and more!

Happy Halloween! We’re here to bring you the spookiest new horrors from Chained to the Dead, Despised Icon, Runemagick and more!

Texas-based death metal outfit Calcraft is here to help us celebrate the season of perpetual stabbing with new a, um, pointed new video “Perpetually Stabbed!”

It’s the spookiest time of year, and Dawn Fades has a new video that’s tailor-made for fans of all things horror!

It’s a loaded week for new metal releases with the latest from Evoken, Coroner, Internal Bleeding and more!

This week’s edition of the latest in heavy music includes new releases from Testament, Wode, Sanguisugabogg and more!

Check out the new song from Sweden’s Änterbila, you won’t be able to get it out of your head, and that’s a good thing!

Sometimes art demands seclusion without distraction, and that’s what inspired IATT to bring us their new song and video.

This week brings us the latest from some long-running legendary metal heroes like Amorphis, Revocation and more!

Stream the electrifying new album from Mors Principium Est, Finland’s long-running melodic death metal institution.

Hear III, what we assume is the third full-length LP from psychedelic post-black metal duo Gates of Dawn.

When you have new albums from Paradise Lost, Castle Rat, and Igorr dropping on the same day, you know it’s a good day.

Find new worlds to explore with this week’s new releases, including the latest from Between the Buried and Me, Infernal Thorns and more!

Classic heavy metal is alive! All doubters leave the hall or remain to be convinced by Sacred Leather‘s new video!

It’s only September, but the haunting of this year’s spooky season has already begun with Faetooth’s new doomy masterwork.

As we bid farewell to a pair of legends, let’s also celebrate the latest from Desaster, Sadistic Force and more!

“The vision and mission is discovery of great talent hidden under the surface of the various genres I love, to make it right for them.”

This week’s set of new releases cuts deep with the latest from Castrator, Grand Cadaver, Unleashed and more!

This week brings a special kind of darkness with the latest from Crypt Sermon, Blackbraid, Malthusian and more!

It’s time for another installment of dark and brutal sounds with the latest from Ancient Torment, Kontusion, Empillarist and more!

WATCH: Death dealers Undead wake up on the right side of the grave.

This week’s new releases include the latest essentials from Dephospherous, Clairvoyance, Eternal Darkness and more!

Let the gates be forever opened and let a thousand horrors unleash from Malformed’s mighty metal of death.