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After 15 years of carving a singular, emotionally lacerating path through underground metal, Sidian returns with new music—and, as it turns out, a definitive farewell.

Thundering power trio N.Y.C., led by ex-Warlock guitarist Tommy Bolan, wrecks necks on new album, Built to Destroy.

No Kenny G for extreme metal weirdos Nuclear Dudes, as they are strictly “Antisax” in their latest video.

Relapse invites you to the apply the wild catalog of Japanese noisemongers Lip Cream via a new set of stunning reissues.

Bay Area old school thrash supergroup Nefarious introduce vocalist, Sean Rivera, with a new video for “Day After.”

Forcefed Horsehead unleash a raw, hardcore-driven D-beat fest that strangles, maims, gnashes and generally causes mayhem and destruction. Hear it now.

Read and listen as prog-metallers the Reticent take an extensive, and personal, look at mental health and illness with their new album.

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.

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.

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.

Watch Columbian melodeath monsters Eshtadur perform “Fire Above Mountain Below” alongside a symphony orchestra.

Learn the story of a Ukrainian solider in World War I via a breakdown of the new 1914 album.

UK’s proggy death thrashers Unburier dig up some serious foulness on new single “Survive the Vermin.”

Melodic metallers It Haunts arrive with the kind of debut EP that doesn’t feel like a beginning so much as an overdue emergence.

Hear Scottish metallic hardcore outfit Kakihara cudgel with impunity on vicious new EP Love Songs Part 2.

Tech metal and Animusic nerds! Check out Canadian tech metal phenoms, Phaeton.

Hear Swedish trio Hexjakt rumble through a dank, depressive doomscape on their new full-length, Blessing of the Damned.

Hear Swedish DM duo Carnal Savagery go deep into the Crypt of Decay on their gnashing seventh full-length.

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.

Hear the Detroit thunder of these Motown heavy rock vets’ Covid-era-formed outfit, Winds of Neptune on their self-titled debut.

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.

Cold, grim and shot in Finland? Must be black metal. Nope, it’s the latest video, “Nothing,” from atmospheric, ambient artist Kariti.

Check out the new album by rippin’ ‘n’ tearin’ San Diego hardcore punkers Negative Blast!

Hear Norwegian folk-inspired post-metal outfit Monograf dive deep into Occultation, their sprawling second full-length.

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

Hear the power metal-informed doom of Connecticut’s Mourn the Light on their upcoming second full-length, Sorrow Feeds the Silence.

Legendary Cro-Mags frontman Harley Flanagan talks Wired for Chaos, the new documentary about his incomparable life and career, available November 11.

Hear the experimental folk-inspired doom of Luxembourg’s Ptolemea, featuring current Sinistro vocalist Priscila de Costa.

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.

Go track-by-track through a new release of an old live performance.