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Track Premiere: Subzero — “House of Grief”
September 23, 2020 Shawn Macomber
Don’t be left out in the cold — stream the first new music in fourteen years from NYHC legends Subzero right now!
Track Premiere: Vyrion – “Avalanche”
September 22, 2020 Dutch Pearce
Australian black metal quartet Vyrion merge abominable power and unstoppable force on “Avalanche,” from their impending new album, Nil.
Album Premiere: Infesticide – ‘Envenoming Wounds’
September 22, 2020 Dutch Pearce
Finally, Mexico City deathbangers Infesticide unleash their sophomore full-length. Vintage Morrisound death metal bloodshed awaits on Envenoming Wounds.
Album Premiere: Bosphorus – ‘Slow Burn’
September 22, 2020 Dutch Pearce
Scottish post-hardcore sludgians Bosphorus slowly and carefully lower their massive, ground-shaking debut album Slow Burn.
Blast Worship: Skullsmasher
September 22, 2020 Gene Meyer
The ever-prolific Andrew Lee returns with some new “emotional grindcore” from his Skullsmasher project.
Album Review: Svalbard – ‘When I Die, Will I Get Better?’
September 21, 2020 Shawn Macomber
Bristol, U.K. trio Svalbard didn’t merely make a better record than 2018’s solid It’s Hard to Have Hope, but delivered the first truly great album of their career.
Album Premiere: Transcendence LA ‘Towards Obscurities Beyond’
September 21, 2020 Chris Dick
California-based Transcendence LA thrash ’til (melodic) death on new album, Towards Obscurities Beyond. Streaming only at Decibel!
Track Premiere: Corrupt Moral Altar – “You Smell Expensive”
September 17, 2020 Bradley Zorgdrager
Trust the crust of Napalm Death live guitarist John Cooke’s Corrupt Moral Altar.
Track Premiere: Strangelight — “Digressions from Sierra Leone”
September 17, 2020 Shawn Macomber
Members of Transistor Transistor and Kowloon Walled City unite in killer post-hardcore outfit Strangelight.
Blast Worship: GRID
September 17, 2020 Gene Meyer
Swedish grindcore trio GRID continue Umeå, Sweden’s proud tradition of fantastic outsider art.
Party On, Dude: Mastodon’s Bill Kelliher on the ‘Bill and Ted 3’ Soundtrack & Mastodon Rarities
September 16, 2020 Justin Norton
Mastodon‘s Bill Kelliher talks, Bill & Ted 3, Brent Hinds’ “Wild Stallyns Bill and Ted Forever” tattoo and the band’s new comp.
Album Premiere and Interview: Laser Dracul – ‘Hagridden’
September 16, 2020 Sean Frasier
Swedish doom trio Laser Dracul lure fans of scuzz and fuzz into the haunted forests of their debut LP, Hagridden.
Track Premiere: Chamber — “Visions of Hostility”
September 15, 2020 Shawn Macomber
The latest sonic haymaker from rising metallic hardcore revitalizer Chamber is an eye-opening “Vision of Hostility.”
Heavy Metal Short Film “Landgraves” is a Blizzard of Suspense
September 15, 2020 Sean Frasier
Heavy metal short film Landgraves conjures suspense from snowstorms and blackened doom. Watch this festival standout now.
Most Triumphant: Lamb of God’s Willie Adler on the ‘Bill & Ted 3’ Soundtrack, Coffee and Streaming Shows
September 15, 2020 Justin Norton
Guitarist Willie Adler talks about Lamb of God‘s involvement in the Bill & Ted Face the Music soundtrack.
Spirit Adrift Grace the Cover of the November Issue of Decibel
September 15, 2020 Albert Mudrian
We have a limited number of advance copies of the November issue of Decibel, featuring an exclusive Hyperdontia flexi disc, available now. Don’t blow it.
Comes Like the Flood: Anthrax’s “Persistence of Time” Turns 30
September 10, 2020 Shawn Macomber
Thirty years ago Anthrax released the thrash metal apotheosis Persistence of Time, a timeless record which remains as beguiling and potent as ever.
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.
