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Track Premiere: Bent Sea – “A Scopic Radiance”

September 2, 2025

Hear the latest single from All-star grindforce Bent Sea before their debut LP The Dormant Ruin is released this Friday via Give Praise Records.

Track Premiere: Besta – “Estrela Negra”

September 1, 2025

The beast is back. Portuguese grindcore crushers Besta re-visit their 2014 homage to John Carpenter, with a fresh mix and new vocals on “Estrela Negra.”

Album Premiere: Biolence – ‘Violent Obliteration’

August 28, 2025

Portuguese death thrash band Biolence are dropping their fifth album, Violent Obliteration, on September 1 via Doomed Records, Raging Planet and Selvajaria Records. Check it out here.

Video Premiere: Cosmic Reaper – “Bones”

August 27, 2025

Sludgy North Carolinians Cosmic Reaper fire up some “Bones” in their latest video from new album Bleed the Wicked, Drown the Damned.

Album Premiere: Erosion – ‘Invasive Species’

August 27, 2025

Seven years after their punishing debut on Hydra Head Records, Vancouver’s Erosion return with Invasive Species—a filthy, blood-boiling follow-up that finds the band operating at peak ferocity.

Full Album Stream: Prayer Group –Strawberry

August 25, 2025

Hear bruising secular secular noise rockers, Prayer Group, whip out their big ten-inch… record, Strawberry.

Album Premiere: Kratornas – “God of the Tribes”

August 21, 2025

Hear Kratornas‘s full-length album God of the Tribes (mastered by Dan Swanö, Edge of Sanity), a dramatic departure from previous works.

KILL FEED 069: James Kent of PERTURBATOR Is More Than OK, Boomer

August 20, 2025

The electronic music champion stops by the Kill Feed arcade to discuss boomer shooters, survival horror, the Hotline Miami soundtrack and what kind of game he would like to score next.

Video Premiere: No Apologies – “Grief”

August 18, 2025

Hardcore Aussies, No Apologies, cope with the pain of a devastating loss on new track “Grief.”

Track-by-Track: Fermentor – ‘Agreement’

August 14, 2025

Instrumental metal duo Fermentor (featuring members of Atheist and Beekeeper) unveil their latest album, Agreement, tomorrow but they’re here to tell you all about it today!

Video Premiere: Nuclear Dudes – “Truth Paste”

August 13, 2025

Sandrider’s Jon Weisnewski delivers some grindcore insanity via his latest Nuclear Dudes track, “Truth Paste,” featuring vocalist Brandon Nakamura (ex-Teen Chtulu).

Video Premiere: Tar Pit – “Jubilee”

August 13, 2025

From the smoke-choked crypts of Portland rises Tar Pit, casting long shadows with their latest doom-soaked incantation, “Jubilee.” We’re premiering the video for this haunting slab of eldritch doom—a term the band doesn’t just invoke, but embodies.

Track by Track: Incite –Savage New Times

August 11, 2025

Phoenix groovecore brutalizers Incite take us track-by-track through their thrashtastic seventh full-length, Savage New Times.

Track Premiere: Crimson Butchery – “Lab Rat”

August 8, 2025

Crimson Butchery are back with Stalker, their third slab of surgical brutality, and we’re thrilled to slice into the premiere of its gnarly fourth track, “Lab Rat.”

Guitar Playthrough: Last Retch – “In the Polder They Reek”

August 7, 2025

Canadian death dealers Last Retch have blessed us with a playthrough video of “In the Polder They Reek” from their forthcoming record, Abject Cruelty, due out September 26 via Time to Kill Records.

A Brief Reading Round-Up from the Heavy Metal Book Club

August 7, 2025

On the eve of a massive Decibel Books announcement, Kevin Stewart-Panko wants you to know what’s on his summer reading list.

KILL FEED 068: Mike McKenzie and Greg Weeks of THE RED CHORD Are Our People

August 6, 2025

One of our earliest player characters returns with a friend to talk about ditching class to play Atari, terrible games and amazing OSTs.

Track Premiere: Heads for the Dead Channel Cronenberg and Necrophagia on “To The Very Last”

August 6, 2025

Heads for the Dead—helmed by Jonny Pettersson (Wombbath) and Ralf Hauber (Revel in Flesh, ROTPIT)—have emerged from the fog with their fourth full-length, Never Ending Night of Terror. Get a taste now.

Track Premiere: Revelator – “Death Serenade”

August 4, 2025

Hear Canadian black death warriors Revelator growl their vicious “Death Serenade” on their new single.

Video Premiere: Corridoré – “Like Moths”

July 30, 2025

No bull, the new video, “Like Moths,” from post-black metal maestros Corridoré is a helluva ride.

Track Premiere: Birth and Loss – “Birth and Loss”

July 30, 2025

Grind legend Takafumi Matsubara (Gridlink, Mortalized) returns with a vengeance in his latest forward-thinking project, Birth and Loss.

Full Album Stream: Lommi –667788

July 28, 2025

Hear Swedish riff-lords Lommi buzz through eight groove-laden tracks on new full-length, 667788.

Inhuman Condition to Release New Song, “Burial State,” via the Decibel Flexi Series!

July 28, 2025

You’ve got until Thursday July 31 to secure an active deluxe Decibel subscription to ensure that a copy of Inhuman Condition‘s new ripper “Burial State” becomes part of your vinyl collection.

Track Premiere: Aleister Cowboy – “Liquefied Bodies Scraped From A Tub”

July 24, 2025

Denver weirdo beatdown band Aleister Cowboy are back with their third EP, Neolithic Blood Rites, out August 22 You can hear the debut track from the EP, “Liquefied Bodies Scarped From a Tub,” with us first.