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Album Premiere: Evoke – ‘Seeds of Death’
September 9, 2020 Sean Frasier
Bullet-belted deathrashers Evoke race the devil on their debut LP, Seeds of Death. Out September 18 on Pulverized Records.
Track Premiere: DeathEpoch – “Genocide V”
September 8, 2020 Dutch Pearce
Polish black/death duo DeathEpoch provide a little demonstration of the sonic warfare that is their debut album Abysmal Invocation.
Blast Worship: Pyosisified
September 8, 2020 Gene Meyer
Texas one-woman grindcore project Pyosisified is, of course, rotten to the gore.
Listen: Shut It Down Comp Features New Music from Primitive Man, Thou, Modern Life is War, More
September 7, 2020 Emily Bellino
New compilation features new music from 40+ new bands and benefits Movement for Black Lives.
Track and Video Premiere: Finntroll – “Mask”
September 3, 2020 Sean Frasier
Blackened folk metal rogues Finntroll are back from studio hibernation. Welcome them back by watching the hallucinatory video for “Mask.”
Track Premiere: Axeslasher — “Intro/The Axeslasher (Live)”
September 2, 2020 Shawn Macomber
Killer Denver, Colorado horror metal outfit Axeslasher reemerges from the shadows with a wild and nasty new live album.
Track Premiere: Sadistic Embodiment – “Phantom Tormentor”
September 2, 2020 Sean Frasier
Canadian death metal executioners Sadistic Embodiment unleash unseen terror with their new single “Phantom Tormentor.”
Blast Worship: Audiotrauma
September 1, 2020 Gene Meyer
Peruvians blasters Audiotrauma ride the crushing wave of South American grindcore dominance
Celebrating Riley Gale With Decibel’s Power Trip Cover Story From 2019
August 28, 2020 Shawn Macomber
We pay tribute to Power Trip’s Riley Gale with our cover story to the sold-out February 2019 issue of Decibel.
Album Premiere and Interview: Hinayana – ‘Death of the Cosmic’
August 27, 2020 Sean Frasier
Austin-based melodic death/doom dawnbringers Hinayana seek enlightenment in a brutalist hellscape on their Death of the Cosmic EP.
Take a Rocket Ride to the Extremely Extreme Side of “Planet Wax”
August 26, 2020 Shawn Macomber
Blood on Black Wax authors Aaron Lupton and Jeff Szpirglas are back with another tome on vinyl soundtrack mayhem, Planet Wax — and we’ve got your heavy metal pairings for it.
Album Premiere: Frostvore – ‘Drowned by Blood’
August 26, 2020 Sean Frasier
Japanese reapers Frostvore flood your lungs with Swedeath gore on their debut LP Drowned by Blood.
Blast Worship: Human Obliteration
August 25, 2020 Gene Meyer
Sactown duo Human Obliteration are an ode to early ’90s skate-punk, a la Suicidal Tendencies, except with, you know, blast beats.
No Corporate Beer Reviews: Through the Brambles
August 21, 2020 Nick Green
Through the Brambles – the inaugural release from SweetWater’s the Woodlands Project—is a stunning blackberry sour aged in oak barrels for 12 years.
Track and Video Premiere: En Minor – “Mausoleums”
August 20, 2020 Sean Frasier
Philip H. Anselmo’s crestfallen Southern Gothic collective En Minor unveil the video for haunting album opener “Mausoleums.”
Catching Up With Rob Fusco
August 19, 2020 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Amongst many other things, former One King Down and Most Precious Blood frontman Rob Fusco discusses his new project, Take Life
Demonic Roadies & Killer Riffs: How Punk Rock Horror Comedy “Uncle Peckerhead” Got Its Jams
August 19, 2020 Shawn Macomber
Philadelphia riff-slinger extraordinaire Jeff Riddle and writer/director Matthew John Lawrence talk their extremely extreme rock n’ roll gore-fest Uncle Peckerhead.
Track Premiere: Darkened – “1000 Years”
August 19, 2020 Sean Frasier
Eagerly anticipated death metal collective Darkened drag you through a perilous nightmare in their new single “1000 Years.”
Blast Worship: Snarler
August 18, 2020 Gene Meyer
Nova Scotia trio Snarler deliver a bit of the ol’ ultra grindviolence.
Ontario doom-duo Vile Creature host interactive record-release concert tonight!
August 14, 2020 Aaron Salsbury
Glory, Glory! The Vile Creature interactive live stream adventure/performance goes TONIGHT!
Darker Than Darker Than Black: U.S. Black Metal Artist Galdr Rages Against Fascism
August 13, 2020 Decibel Magazine
Draugr, the multi-instrumentalist of the U.S. black metal bands Galdr, Ancalagon and Obscurum, pens an op-ed on his anti-racist political awakening in underground black metal.
Track Premiere: Vulnere — “And They Fall”
August 12, 2020 Shawn Macomber
Rising Portland, Oregon death metallers Vulnere mine some of the greatest extremely extreme ore of yore for killer track “And They Fall.”
Track Premiere: The Infernal Sea – “Befallen Order”
August 12, 2020 Sean Frasier
Black metal plaguewielders The Infernal Sea continue their unholy crusade with the ripping new single “Befallen Order.”
Blast Worship: Ixias
August 11, 2020 Gene Meyer
Find out why D.C. grind duo Ixias are the first double-dip in Blast Worship history.
Video Premiere: Intoxicated – ‘Walled’
August 10, 2020 Albert Mudrian
When it’s time crossover death/thrash, Florida’s Intoxicated will crossover death/thrash hard.
Miss ’90s Alt-Metal? Then Get to Know Narrow Head
August 10, 2020 Andrew Bonazelli
’90s fans, Narrow Head are here so you no longer need to pretend that any of the Helmet, Quicksand or Smashing Pumpkins reunion material is actually good.
Decibel Is Looking for an Extremely Extreme App Developer
August 10, 2020 Decibel Magazine
Do you develop apps/type code with one hand while putting up the horns with the other? Get in touch right away!
Podcast “Y’all Can Stay At My Place” Keeps Tour Life Real
August 7, 2020 Michael Wohlberg
The new podcast hosted by members of Rosetta and Constants hears from members of Oxbow, Intronaut and several others about wonderful, horrible, mundane life of a touring musician.
The Primal Heart of Humanity: Metallic Hardcore Supergroup Tooth and Claw Tap Transcendent Heaviness on “Kiss of Night”
August 5, 2020 Shawn Macomber
Members of Earth Crisis, Catharsis, and Die Young bare both Tooth and Claw on this exclusive premiere.
Album Premiere and Interview: Vassafor – ‘To the Death’
August 5, 2020 Sean Frasier
New Zealand black metal duo Vassafor conjure demons and new plagues on their new uncompromising masterpiece To the Death.
