J. Andrew
Five For Friday: January 9, 2026
January 9, 2026 J. Andrew
Five for Friday opens the year with the latest heavy and harsh releases from Woe, Oraculum, Ectovoid and more!
Five For Friday: Black Metal 2025
December 19, 2025 J. Andrew
As the curtain closes on 2025, join us in requiem as we celebrate some of the year’s finest black metal releases.
Five For Friday: Death Metal 2025
December 12, 2025 J. Andrew
Check out some of the year’s best in death metal madness, including releases from Drawn and Quartered, Evoken, Ancient Death and more!
Five For Friday: December 5, 2025
December 5, 2025 J. Andrew
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…
Track Premiere: Oraculum – “Mendacious Heroism”
November 28, 2025 J. Andrew
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.
Five For Friday: November 14, 2025
November 14, 2025 J. Andrew
This week, we bring you the latest in metal mastery, with new releases from VoidCeremony, Lamp of Murmuur, Strigiform and more!
Full Album Stream: Degraved – “Spectral Realm of Ruin”
November 11, 2025 J. Andrew
The new album from Degraved pulls you into the crypts of death metal despair and only gets darker from there. Hear it now.
Five For Friday: November 7, 2025
November 7, 2025 J. Andrew
Jump into the pit with us as we do the toxic waltz to the latest from Drain, Waldgeflüster, Uranium and more!
Five For Friday: October 31, 2025
October 31, 2025 J. Andrew
Happy Halloween! We’re here to bring you the spookiest new horrors from Chained to the Dead, Despised Icon, Runemagick and more!
Video Premiere: Calcraft – “Perpetually Stabbed”
October 31, 2025 J. Andrew
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!”
Video Premiere: Dawn Fades – “Drugs”
October 24, 2025 J. Andrew
It’s the spookiest time of year, and Dawn Fades has a new video that’s tailor-made for fans of all things horror!
Five For Friday: October 17, 2025
October 17, 2025 J. Andrew
It’s a loaded week for new metal releases with the latest from Evoken, Coroner, Internal Bleeding and more!
Five For Friday: October 10, 2025
October 10, 2025 J. Andrew
This week’s edition of the latest in heavy music includes new releases from Testament, Wode, Sanguisugabogg and more!
Track Premiere: Änterbila – “Årsgång”
October 3, 2025 J. Andrew
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!
Video Premiere: IATT – “An Ode To Solace”
September 29, 2025 J. Andrew
Sometimes art demands seclusion without distraction, and that’s what inspired IATT to bring us their new song and video.
Five For Friday: September 26, 2025
September 26, 2025 J. Andrew
This week brings us the latest from some long-running legendary metal heroes like Amorphis, Revocation and more!
Full Album Stream: Mors Principium Est – “Darkness Invisible”
September 25, 2025 J. Andrew
Stream the electrifying new album from Mors Principium Est, Finland’s long-running melodic death metal institution.
Album Premiere: Gates of Dawn – “III”
September 23, 2025 J. Andrew
Hear III, what we assume is the third full-length LP from psychedelic post-black metal duo Gates of Dawn.
Five For Friday: September 19, 2025
September 19, 2025 J. Andrew
When you have new albums from Paradise Lost, Castle Rat, and Igorr dropping on the same day, you know it’s a good day.
Five For Friday: September 12, 2025
September 12, 2025 J. Andrew
Find new worlds to explore with this week’s new releases, including the latest from Between the Buried and Me, Infernal Thorns and more!
Video Premiere: Sacred Leather – “Spitfire at Night”
September 5, 2025 J. Andrew
Classic heavy metal is alive! All doubters leave the hall or remain to be convinced by Sacred Leather‘s new video!
Full Album Stream: Faetooth – “Labyrinthine”
September 4, 2025 J. Andrew
It’s only September, but the haunting of this year’s spooky season has already begun with Faetooth’s new doomy masterwork.
Five For Friday: August 29, 2025
August 29, 2025 J. Andrew
As we bid farewell to a pair of legends, let’s also celebrate the latest from Desaster, Sadistic Force and more!
Label Spotlight: Sentient Ruin Laboratories
August 22, 2025 J. Andrew
“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.”
Five For Friday: August 15, 2025
August 15, 2025 J. Andrew
This week’s set of new releases cuts deep with the latest from Castrator, Grand Cadaver, Unleashed and more!
Five For Friday: August 8, 2025
August 8, 2025 J. Andrew
This week brings a special kind of darkness with the latest from Crypt Sermon, Blackbraid, Malthusian and more!
Five For Friday: August 1, 2025
August 1, 2025 J. Andrew
It’s time for another installment of dark and brutal sounds with the latest from Ancient Torment, Kontusion, Empillarist and more!
Video Premiere: Undead – “This Side of the Grave”
August 1, 2025 J. Andrew
WATCH: Death dealers Undead wake up on the right side of the grave.
Five For Friday: July 18, 2025
July 18, 2025 J. Andrew
This week’s new releases include the latest essentials from Dephospherous, Clairvoyance, Eternal Darkness and more!
Track Premiere: Malformed – “Within The Flesh”
July 16, 2025 J. Andrew
Let the gates be forever opened and let a thousand horrors unleash from Malformed’s mighty metal of death.
