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Prog Metallers The Reticent Have a Lot to Say About Mental Health/Illness
December 11, 2025 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Read and listen as prog-metallers the Reticent take an extensive, and personal, look at mental health and illness with their new album.
Full Album Stream: Fanatisme –Tro, håp og kjærlighet
December 10, 2025 Adem Tepedelen
Fanatisme‘s roughly recorded (and played) new seven-song record takes a raw black metal aesthetic and vocal approach and marries it to early ’80s post punk and goth gloom.
Video Premiere: Morbikon – ‘Flames That Blind and Shadows Cast’
December 10, 2025 Tim Mudd
Blackened death thrash conjurors Morbikon return with the third chapter of their animated medieval-fantasy saga taken from their new full-length Lost Within the Astral Crypts, out now on Tankcrimes.
Full Album Stream: House by the Cemetary – Disturbing the Cenotaph
December 10, 2025 Tim Mudd
Hear Horror-obsessed death metal lunatics House by the Cemetary deliver 30 filthy minutes of sharpened bone saws, sewer-stench groove, and classic Fulci-drenched death.
Video Premiere: Eshtadur – “Fire Above Mountain Below” (live)
December 8, 2025 Adem Tepedelen
Watch Columbian melodeath monsters Eshtadur perform “Fire Above Mountain Below” alongside a symphony orchestra.
1914 Break Down Their New Album, Viribus Unitis
December 8, 2025 Emily Bellino
Learn the story of a Ukrainian solider in World War I via a breakdown of the new 1914 album.
Video Premiere: Unburier – “Survive the Vermin”
December 3, 2025 Adem Tepedelen
UK’s proggy death thrashers Unburier dig up some serious foulness on new single “Survive the Vermin.”
Full Stream: It Haunts – No Light to Save Me
December 3, 2025 Tim Mudd
Melodic metallers It Haunts arrive with the kind of debut EP that doesn’t feel like a beginning so much as an overdue emergence.
Full EP Stream: Kakihara –Love Songs Part 2
December 1, 2025 Adem Tepedelen
Hear Scottish metallic hardcore outfit Kakihara cudgel with impunity on vicious new EP Love Songs Part 2.
Video Premiere: Getting Tech-y With Phaeton’s “Augmented”
November 27, 2025 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Tech metal and Animusic nerds! Check out Canadian tech metal phenoms, Phaeton.
Full Album Stream: Hexjakt –Blessing of the Damned
November 26, 2025 Adem Tepedelen
Hear Swedish trio Hexjakt rumble through a dank, depressive doomscape on their new full-length, Blessing of the Damned.
Full Album Stream: Carnal Savagery –Crypt of Decay
November 24, 2025 Adem Tepedelen
Hear Swedish DM duo Carnal Savagery go deep into the Crypt of Decay on their gnashing seventh full-length.
WORLD PREMIERE: Decibel GWAR Mini-Documentary “Behind the Gore”
November 20, 2025 Justin Norton
Decibel’s intrepid journalist Justin M. Norton went behind the scenes at a GWAR show in San Francisco for the new documentary GWAR: Behind the Gore.
Full Album Stream: Winds of Neptune –Winds of Neptune
November 19, 2025 Adem Tepedelen
Hear the Detroit thunder of these Motown heavy rock vets’ Covid-era-formed outfit, Winds of Neptune on their self-titled debut.
Track Premiere: Sire Languish – ‘Heaven’s Night’
November 19, 2025 Tim Mudd
Sometimes a solo project lands sounding exactly like the person who made it. Sire Languish, the new project from avant-metal lifer Garett Bussanick, is one of those cases.
Video Premiere: Kariti – “Nothing”
November 17, 2025 Adem Tepedelen
Cold, grim and shot in Finland? Must be black metal. Nope, it’s the latest video, “Nothing,” from atmospheric, ambient artist Kariti.
Full Album Stream: Destroy, Erase, Improve? With Negative Blast’s Destroy Myself For Fun
November 13, 2025 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Check out the new album by rippin’ ‘n’ tearin’ San Diego hardcore punkers Negative Blast!
Full Album Stream: Monograf –Occultation
November 12, 2025 Adem Tepedelen
Hear Norwegian folk-inspired post-metal outfit Monograf dive deep into Occultation, their sprawling second full-length.
Album Stream: Withering Soul – ‘Passage of the Arcane’
November 12, 2025 Tim Mudd
Chicago’s Withering Soul return with their fifth full-length, Passage of the Arcane — a blackened melodic death metal odyssey steeped in cursed lore, burning melodies, and an atmosphere as chilling as grave-silt air
Full Album Stream: Mourn the Light –Sorrow Feeds the Silence
November 10, 2025 Adem Tepedelen
Hear the power metal-informed doom of Connecticut’s Mourn the Light on their upcoming second full-length, Sorrow Feeds the Silence.
Interview: Cro-Mags’ Harley Flanagan: Wired for Chaos, Built for Survival
November 10, 2025 Tim Mudd
Legendary Cro-Mags frontman Harley Flanagan talks Wired for Chaos, the new documentary about his incomparable life and career, available November 11.
Full Album Stream: Ptolemea –Kali
November 5, 2025 Adem Tepedelen
Hear the experimental folk-inspired doom of Luxembourg’s Ptolemea, featuring current Sinistro vocalist Priscila de Costa.
Track Premiere: COMA – “This World’s a Dahmer”
November 3, 2025 Adem Tepedelen
San Diego D-beat crust duo COMA are a small taste of the incredible collection of bands and artists on the new Three One G/Smashed Plastic comp, Cult and Culture: A Planet B Podcast.
Track By Track: Mos Generator – “Live at Roadburn Festival (2008)”
November 3, 2025 Emily Bellino
Go track-by-track through a new release of an old live performance.
Track Premiere: Primal Scourge – ‘Necromantic Plague’
November 3, 2025 Tim Mudd
Knoxville’s Primal Scourge rise from the mire with ‘Necromantic Plague,’ the second single from their apocalyptic debut full-length, End of Eden, out November 14 via Iron Fortress Records.
EP Stream and Tour News: Rottenness and Saintbreaker Team Up To Conquer (Part of) the World
October 30, 2025 Kevin Stewart-Panko
A new EP! Worldwide touring! UGDM perpetual motion machine Rottenness (and friends) never stop!
Full Album Stream: Various Artists –Spaceship Landing: A Tribute to Kyuss
October 29, 2025 Adem Tepedelen
Fuzz-drenched underground bands from around the world pay tribute to the mighty Kyuss on ‘Spaceship Landing – A Tribute to Kyuss’,coming soon on Witching Buzz Records.
Album Premiere: Burned in Effigy – Tyrannus Aeternum
October 29, 2025 Tim Mudd
Hear Chicago’s Burned in Effigy return with a full-length inferno that marries neoclassical precision to melodic death metal mayhem.
Album Premiere: Thron — ‘Vurias’
October 29, 2025 Tim Mudd
German black metallers Thron thrive on transformation. Join them on the path via Vurias before it arrives October 31 on Listenable Records!
Full Album Stream: Vandampire –Hope Scars
October 27, 2025 Adem Tepedelen
UK post-metal doom crafters Vandampire don’t suck (blood or otherwise) on debut full-length, Hope Scars.
