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Album Stream: Volubilis Ride a Tech Rocket Into Space With Theasterion
July 9, 2026 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Check out the debut album by Montreal tech-death maestros, Volubilis!
“I Thought I Was Going To Ride Out the Apocalypse:” GWAR Co-Founder Chuck Varga On His Terminal Cancer Battle
July 9, 2026 Justin Norton
GWAR co-founder Chuck Varga talks candidly about his fight against metastatic prostate cancer.
Video Premiere: SWAMPFOOT – “AIM LOW”
July 8, 2026 Adem Tepedelen
All-caps enthusiasts SWAMPFOOT aren’t yelling at you, they’re just really excited about their new video for “AIM LOW.”
Full Album Stream: Wailin Storms — The Arsonist
July 8, 2026 Tim Mudd
Durham Southern gothic rockers Wailin Storms return July 10 with The Arsonist. But because waiting until Friday is for people with better impulse control than us,Decibel is streaming the full album two days early.
Full Album Stream: Spread the Disease –The Darkness, the Dread, the Suffering
July 6, 2026 Adem Tepedelen
Quarter century hiatus is over for Canadian blackened metalcore maulers Spread the Disease with new album The Darkness, the Dread, the Suffering.
Video Premiere: Lommi – “Rather”
July 1, 2026 Adem Tepedelen
Swedish stoner metal trio Lommi pay homage to a favorite vampire movie in a video for “Rather” that doesn’t suck.
Track Premiere: Crud – “Demiurge Blues”
July 1, 2026 Tim Mudd
Florida sludge miscreants Crud emerge from the swap with “Demiurge Blues,” the first single from their forthcoming sophomore album Human Decency.
Video Premiere: Yeti on Horseback – “Drug Addict”
June 29, 2026 Adem Tepedelen
Bestial Canadian doom slayers Yeti on Horseback delve into the mind of a “Drug Addict” on crushing new track.
Album Premiere: Crazy Does it With Agarwaen’s The Murder Trend
June 25, 2026 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Check out the latest album by Finnish “asylum metal” outfit, Agarwaen.
Track Premiere: Svjetlost – “Above the Mountain”
June 24, 2026 Adem Tepedelen
With “Above the Mountain,” one-man doom slayer Svjetlost offers a “peak” at his sludgy debut, The Forever Silent.
Track Premiere: Bacht’n de Vulle Moane – ‘Verdwazing Der Dwazen (Min Erte Bloedt)’
June 24, 2026 Tim Mudd
Bacht’n de Vulle Moane exists somewhere between black metal violence, electronic pulse, scabbed-over despair and the kind of sarcasm that only really works when everything else has failed.
Track Premiere: Irata – “Goodside”
June 22, 2026 Adem Tepedelen
Noisy North Carolina trio Irata show their “Goodside” on this tension-filled, fuzzed-out new single.
Full Album Stream: Gold Spire –Steps Into Shadow
June 17, 2026 Adem Tepedelen
Swedish avant-garde DM sophisticates Gold Spire dial up the sax and violence on new full-length, Steps Into Shadow.
Track Premiere: Cold Blue Mountain – “The Storm”
June 17, 2026 Tim Mudd
Cold Blue Mountain are not exactly thinking small on The Healer. The Chico, California post-metal quintet’s new double album is a 74-minute concept record.
Album Premiere: HISS – A Cheapened Crown
June 17, 2026 Tim Mudd
Decibel noise-making faves Still/Form reemerge as Portland noise-sludge trio HISS.
Video Premiere: Moon Destroys – ‘Flowers’
June 17, 2026 Tim Mudd
Moon Destroys, featuring Torche co-founder Juan Montoya, and Evan Diprima of Gold Pyramid and Royal Thunder reemerge bearing “Flowers.”
Track-by-Track: Bloodhunter –Sons of the Abandoned
June 15, 2026 Adem Tepedelen
We let Spanish melodic DM vets, Bloodhunter, take us track-by-track through their fourth full-length, Sons of the Abandoned.
Video Premiere: Without Mercy Turn the Lens on Themselves on “Glass”
June 11, 2026 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Check out the latest video/single from Canadian voyagers, Without Mercy!
Full Album Stream: King Potenaz –Arcane Desert Rituals Vol. 2
June 10, 2026 Adem Tepedelen
Italian stoner doom trio King Potenaz go for a second round of heavy desert riffs on new full-length, Arcane Desert Rituals Vol. 2.
Album Premiere: Nuclear Tomb – Epoch Inhumane
June 10, 2026 Tim Mudd
Baltimore weirdos Nuclear Tomb have never been interested in coloring inside the lines. On new full-length Epoch Inhumane, the Maryland thrash unit continue to mutate their sound into something sharper, stranger and more hostile
Comparing & Killing: Converge versus Converge
June 9, 2026 Emily Bellino
Comparing Converge‘s two 2026 full-length releases.
Video Premiere: Kallohonka – “Psychic Surgery”
June 8, 2026 Adem Tepedelen
Texas psych-noise terrorists Kallohonka perform “Psychic Surgery” in art-damaged new video.
Album Stream: Primitive Broadcast Service –Monsters
June 3, 2026 Adem Tepedelen
Not your parents’ PBS. Milwaukee noise rock trio Primitive Broadcast Service do noise rock damage on third full-length, Monsters.
“The Only Reason We Are Still Standing:” Neill Jameson On His Wife’s Cancer Battle and the Metal Community
June 3, 2026 Justin Norton
Neill Jameson (Krieg) on his family’s struggles in the past year, which are darker and more challenging than anything hinted at on a black metal recording, and the support from the heavy metal community they inspired.
Track Premiere: Green Desert Water – “Woodcutter”
June 1, 2026 Adem Tepedelen
Grungy Spanish stoner rock trio, Green Desert Water, are flying the flannel on new track “Woodcutter.”
Fest Preview: Great Lakes Dungeon Siege Returns to Detroit October 24-25
June 1, 2026 Emily Bellino
Previewing the third edition of Great Lakes Dungeon Siege, set for October 24 and 25 near Detroit, MI.
“It Was Like Being Blind Reaching Into A Dark Room:” Tom Gabriel Fischer On 20 Years of Celtic Frost’s ‘Monotheist’
May 28, 2026 Justin Norton
Tom Gabriel Fischer unpacks Celtic Frost‘s comeback album, Monotheist, released 20 years ago this week.
Q&A With Charlie Speicher of the Firekeeper Alliance
May 28, 2026 Kevin Stewart-Panko
An interview with Firekeeper Alliance founder/director, Charlie Speicher.
Full Album Stream: Callous Faulter – Callous Faulter
May 27, 2026 Adem Tepedelen
Aussie J. Angus’s cinematic etxreme metal solo project, Callous Faulter, is a monolithic display of heaviness in two movements.
Video Premiere: Mama Doom – “Woven Linen” (NSFW)
May 25, 2026 Adem Tepedelen
New York retro occult rockers Mama Doom have a bloody good time in new NSFW “Woven Linen” video.
