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Check out the latest video by French death groovers Akiavel!

Looking to sharpen your corpse pose game? Cop Problem/Painbody front woman Deb Cohen has got you covered.

Portland goth-flavored metallers Unto Others—formerly Idle Hands—return with a new name, a new label and new music.

Vancouver post-metal project Empress raise a chalice to lost loved ones on their evocative doom single, “Libations.”

Get in now on Trinity’s Bière de Garde-style Mad Ear while it’s still kvlt.

Are Ptomatopsiaa your new favorite hypergoreblast band? Of course they are!

Legendary hardcore vocalist Chaka Malik talks transcendence, time, and the long, impactful tailwind of 1990s NYC hardcore and post-hardcore.

Brazilian stoner sludge degenerates Void Tripper lure doom devotees with promises of Satan and drugs on their debut LP, Dopefiend.

Love may bite, but Tokyo shredders LOVEBITES are here to prove old school heavy metal most certainly does not.

Choke‘s It’s Hard To Talk Shit, With No Fucking Teeth is the antifacist grindcore antidote to a lifetime of bullshit.

Some 15 years after its recording, the Decibel Flexi Series releases an unearthed, never-before-heard Nachtmystium song “Chemical Catharsis” from the Instinct: Decay sessions.

Check out an advance track from the debut full-length by NJ black metallers Putrascension!

Burning Tongue offers up a blackened crust soundtrack to suburban madness on new track “Cult-De-Sac.”

Indianapolis blasphemers Hatesong release their LP of blackened pestilence, Chapel Rats. Rest in power, DV Karloff.

A hearty bottoms up to Bleachdrinker‘s voracious whirlwind of blast beats and D-beats.

Love City Brewing joins the brewery lineup of this year’s Decibel Magazine Metal & Beer Philly at the Fillmore Philly on September 25-26, 2021.

While you listen, read our Q&A with band co-founder/drummer Robert Garven about handling pandemic setbacks, how the EP came together, and what’s next for this legendary band. 

Russian hardcore/sludge outfit Vorvaň rise from slumber to release their bruising sophomore record, Awakened.

Hear Finnish groove grinders Kuvotus make the genre somewhat accessible in their split with fellow blasters Tunkio.

Metallic hardcore legends Deadguy will reunite at Metal & Beer Fest: Philly on September 25-26. Municipal Waste, Immolation, Blood Incantation, Eternal Champion, Imperial Triumphant and more also join the party.

Hear Slovenian progressive death metal travelers Teleport remerge as Siderean.

Check out the otherworldly video from the otherworldly North Carolina sci-fi obsessed freaks Xael.

Get ready for some 8-bit black metal dimension hopping courtesy Gonemage.

Belgian death-dealers Slithering Decay unleash a verminous flood of buzzsaw riffs on their debut album, Aeons Untold.

Dallas blasters’ split release with Cryptic Void is a definite grind album of the year candidate.

Death Angel drummer Will Carroll speaks with us about his journey and what he’s learned during the pandemic. Death Angel will stream a concert on May 29 focusing on rarities from their catalog.

Xasthur and Casket of Dreams join forces below ground and emerge with dungeon funeral synth split The Hallucination Tunnels

The latest soot-encased blast from Our Place of Worship is Silence is anything but tranquil or hushed.

Japanese death/doom hope-crushers Anatomia unveil their fourth LP Corporeal Torment over a week early exclusively at Decibel Magazine.

Hear the Jersey punks in Ides and Sunrot team up for a heavily Black Flag-inspired split.