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Grind Machinists Robocop Reassemble for East Coast Tour

June 15, 2016

Beloved noise-grind three-piece will only be playing a handful of days for their “Make America Dead Again” tour. 

Premiere: Step up to BAT with the Full-Album Stream of “Wings of Chains”

June 10, 2016

Friday is for flying rodents. Or NWOBHM supergroups featuring members of Municipal Waste, Volture, and D.R.I. — your choice. 

Sleep of Monsters Video Premiere: “adult occult rock, or easy listening for the deranged”

June 3, 2016

Say you love Satan. We love Babylon Whores. And Sleep of Monsters have won our dark hearts. 

HALL OF FAME COUNTDOWN: MASTODON’S LEVIATHAN

June 2, 2016

Here are the songs on Mastodon‘s Hall of Fame nominated album Leviathan ranked from least-rad to fully-rad.

ROBERT WILLIAMS OF SIEGE & CHRIS DODGE OF INFEST TALK REUNITING TO KICK OUT THE POWERVIOLENCE JAMS

June 1, 2016

Talking SIEGE and Infest reunion shows with Robert Williams and Chris Dodge.

Decibel Needs Marketing, Design and Editorial Interns!

May 26, 2016

Spend your summer interning at Decibel? Beats a real job, right?

Mithridatic drummer breaks world record for double-kick drumming

May 26, 2016

Mithridatic’s Kevin Paradis unofficially broke the world record for fastest double-kick drumming. And he says he can do it again.

MIGRATION FEST GIVES DISCERNING EXTREME MUSIC FANS A REASON TO TREK, ROVE & VOYAGE

May 25, 2016

Two of the most respected labels in underground music today — 20 Buck Spin and Gilead Media — have combined their considerable heavy metal firepower to found and curate Migration Fest, a three day celebration of aural boundary-pushers and face-melters set to go down at the historic Capitol Theater in downtown Olympia, Washington this August. The stacked lineup includes Krallice, Christian Mistress, a The Body & Krieg collaborative performance, Thou, Vastum, Mutilation Rights, Kowloon Walled City, Pale Chalice, Vhol, Auroch, and a slew of others. 

Video Premiere: Thrash Trio Nervosa aren’t Negotiating in “Hostages”

May 24, 2016

Brazilian trio takes thrash beyond their country’s (bloody) roots on “Hostages.”

The Big Pay Off: Without Mercy Interview and EP Stream

May 19, 2016

Vancouver’s Without Mercy is a prime example of how putting in a little bit of elbow grease can result in advantageous outcomes.

Meek is Murder Tease The Shit Out Of You With Trailer for New Album ‘Was’

May 11, 2016

Brooklyn noisecore trio replace their instruments with being hilarious. 

 

Bonus Baseball: Richard Christy on the 2016 Kansas City Royals

May 4, 2016

Our own Richard Christy looks toward a third consecutive AL pennant for his beloved Royals.

Book to Film to Crushing Death Metal Song to Intense Video: Hideous Divinity Premiere

May 3, 2016

Yes, that’s a music video of the title track of an album with the same name as a full-length film rendition of a novel. And Hideous Divinity‘s is no less complex in practice, so go ahead and press play for some brain food (/and bludgeoning).

NSFW: Mortiis premieres “Geisteskrank” video

May 3, 2016

Mortiis reveals part one of a three-part short film.

Lyric Video Premiere of Heading-Crushing Heaviness from Australia’s Sanzu

April 29, 2016

A Gojira-like sledgehammer for your skull. That’s what Fridays call for, right?

The Rise of an Evil Sun: True Black Dawn Premiere

April 28, 2016

Finnish black metallers True Black Dawn have preached the good and blasphemous word since 1992. Check out the premiere for the title track on Come the Colorless Dawn, the band’s second full-length, and first album in 15 years.

Ghoul to release new track “Wall of Death” via Decibel Flexi Series!

April 28, 2016

It’s been over two years since Creepsylvania miscreants Ghoul have released any new material. Though Decibel enjoyed the beach/surf-themed Hang 10 EP, if you’re like us, we’re guessing you’ve been eager to hear Digestor and Cremator get back to dealing the death/thrash that’s responsible for the majority of Romania’s GDP.  Thanks to Decibel, now you…

Necrot

April 27, 2016

The Labyrinth

RIFYL your demos and your steaks rare

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Spotlights Exclusive Stream: Husband/Wife Duo Marry Psych With Sludge

April 27, 2016

With the song “Hover” the Brooklyn couple show that they’re louder than love. 

Make Your Day a Bit Uglier with this Musket Hawk Premiere

April 26, 2016

Equal parts bluesy sludge and trudging grind, Musket Hawk bring the slow despondency necessary on the most hungover of afternoons. 

Miss Lava Premiere the Exceptionally Unsilent Video for “The Silent Ghost of Doom”

April 26, 2016

Tune in. Fuzz out. Rock out. Free yourself from the tedium (of boring music). 

Krieg’s Neill Jameson on The Music Industry’s Morbid Erection

April 22, 2016

You might wanna double-check the price on that Purple Rain deluxe reissue.  

Premiere: Head of the Demon Will Inspire Dread in Your Wednesday Afternoon

April 20, 2016

A sneak peek heads-up for the upcoming full-length of hypnotic, unhinging blackened doom from Head of the Demon. 

Get Diagnosed with the Avant-garde in this Virus Premiere

April 19, 2016

Virus doesn’t have any circus music or kazoos, just brooding, skin-crawling metal/rock from ex-members of Ved Buens Ende and other similarly weird entities. 

Eleven of the best St. Vitus Bar Shows, as picked by David Castillo of Primitive Weapons

April 13, 2016

To celebrate the 5th anniversary of Saint Vitus Bar, as well as the release date of Primitive Weapons’ new album The Future of Death, David Castillo looks back at some of the club’s best shows so far.

Get Filthy: Coffin Dust Song Premiere

April 11, 2016

Coffin Dust‘s Facebook Page info lists the genre as “Depraved Cemetery Metal” and includes a a short description of “Crush the skull, snort the dust.” We think that’s about all that needs to be said here.

Tommaso Riccardi (Fleshgod Apocalypse) interviewed

April 11, 2016

** Italian symphonic death metallers Fleshgod Apocalypse have taken things to a whole new level on new album, King. Musically, the Italians are more intense, more bombastic, more sophisticated. Song to song, King ravages the tenets of symphonic death metal, establishing a new hierarchy of awesome. Artistically, King has one of the best album covers of the decade. It looks positively old, but Eliran Kantor’s work is undoubtedly modern (and killer). Decibel was summoned to Tommaso Riccardi’s throne room to talk King.

Start the Week Weird: Schammasch Video Premiere from 3-Disc “Triangle”

April 11, 2016

Triangle by the numbers: 100+ minutes, third album, three parts, two visual artists, one video premiere. 

new trailer for “DEATH by MetaL” documentary & Interview with director Felipe Belalcazar

April 8, 2016

We’ve got an exclusive new clip, and the inside story, behind the upcoming documentary on that one death metal band. Yeah, that one.