Exclusive

Chew on this new noise. 

Swedish grindcore vets Gadget bring in hints of doom, sludge and death metal on appropriately titled new album The Great Destroyer.

Italian tech-death wizards Duality are gearing up to release new full-length Elektron on PRC Music.

Get the first new track from Horrendous since Anareta — available only from Decibel. 

It takes two to terrify!

The regional openers for the Portland date of the dB Tour mean business.

Hooded Greek death metal brutalists Murder Made God are primed to eff your ess up April 15 with the release of their sophomore slab Enslaved.

Every so often, we take a little time on Mondays to pay tribute to the Muthas! That is, reprinting the adorable metal/maternal Q&As that run in the magazine. Today, enjoy Justin Norton’s chat with Janet McGachy, mother of Matt McGachy (Cryptopsy).

Absolutely atrocious, abnormally fabulous death metal

It’s a beautiful thing when a curse is finally broken. Um, most of the time.

Mastodon/Baroness-esque prog-metallers Moon Tooth just dropped dizzying full-length Chromaparagon, and axeman extraordinaire Nick Lee (also of ’80s metallers Riot) breaks down 10 riffs that tempt him to do just what the headline promises. Take it away, Nick!

Philly-based crossover heroes Incisor just released six-song EP  Imminent Destruction this weekend, and we’re psyched to bring you the title track below. 

Blast beat, please…

The album is called Bloated Pig Carcass in a Shallow Wake. Not sure how you don’t press play on this one.

Feel the progressive TDM burn!

How awesome was 1991? It took your intrepid Decibel staff more than a couple hours on the chopping block to hack this list down to 30. 

Madison stoner trio Droids Attack have been power-riffin’ since 2001, and fourth album Sci-Fi or Die is their most effective strand of heaviosity yet.

L.A. sludge quintet Seven Sisters of Sleep are poised to drop their third opus, Ezekiel’s Hags, February 5 on Relapse.

The plague keeps spreading.

Swedish blackened thrashers Gehennah have given a fuck about one thing and one thing only since 1992: not posing.

Sometimes you read one of these playlists by a band and, while their choices may be good, you wonder how in the world people with such varied tastes could make such one-dimensional music. This is clearly not true for Bloodiest (ex and current members of Russian Circles, Yakuza and Corrections House), who are so expansive and unorthodox it only makes sense they would be spinning music this eclectic. 

Zhrine is an Icelandic black/death metal band that melds the disgusting atonality of Deathspell Omega with the oppressively frigid atmosphere of Svartidauði (guitarist Nökkvi Gylfason is a member), complete with a fetid dusting of sludge as a sickening after-dinner mint. Check out the exclusive premiere of their song “Spewing Gloom,” off their upcoming LP, Unortheta.

Keep your lighters in your pockets; get those candles out!

Getting caught in a mosh is one thing… 

Fearsome Pasadena foursome Anger as Art have been churning out thrash ragers at a steady one-every-three-years clip since 2006.

The world goes to hell, Draconian fiddles like Nero

Japanese death/doom dealers Coffins make their eight zillionth release count on this split with crusty D.C. counterparts Ilsa. 

In honor of bandleader Trondr Nefas (who passed away in 2012), the new Urgehal album, Aeons in Sodom, features guest vocals from an all-star squad of black metal luminaries.

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

War-fueled OSDM courtesy of Canadian crushers.