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Track Premiere: Mondo Generator – “Death March”
July 19, 2023 Addison Herron-Wheeler
Heavy desert rockers Mondo Generator unveil a new track, “Death March,” from their forthcoming album We Stand Against You, out October 13 via Heavy Psych Sounds.
Track Premiere: Satanic Tea Co. – “Dissection of Christ”
July 19, 2023 Sean Frasier
Death grind blasphemers by night. Canadian artisanal tea purveyors by day. Listen to the sacrilegious new Satanic Tea Co single today.
Video Premiere: Nuclear Dudes – “Lasers in the Jungle” (ft. Dave Verellen of Botch)
July 18, 2023 Adem Tepedelen
Watch Nuclear Dudes — featuring exactly one dude, Jon Weisnewski, guitarist/vocalist of Seattle bruisers Sandrider — team up with Botch’s Dave Verellen in an insane new video.
Track Premiere: Dissonant Seepage – “Caffeine Eyeball Injection”
July 18, 2023 Dillon Collins
Hear Rochester slamming death metal practitioners Dissonant Seepage return from the muck and bile to with the latest single from pulverizing debut album The Darkness Will Swallow You Whole.
Track Premiere: Dripping Decay – “Abundant Cadaveric Waste”
July 17, 2023 Jon Rosenthal
Maniac Neil’s latest death metal gusher Dripping Decay is gruesome to the last drop.
Track Premiere: Barbaros – “The Great Jester”
July 17, 2023 Dillon Collins
Hear Barbaros, a brand new quintet composed of underground legends Irving Lopez (Cognizant, Trucido), Dan Ford (Commit Suicide, Vicious Blade), Erik Burke (Sulaco, Brutal Truth) and Lee Fisher (Commit Suicide, Fawn Limbs) melt faces.
Hear Shane Embury’s Dark Sky Burial Project Lighten Up on “Pulvis Et Umbra Sumus”
July 14, 2023 Albert Mudrian
Napalm Death’s Shane Embury’s solo venture of electric music and deep textures, Dark Sky Burial, returns with its seventh full-length in just three years. And it rules.
Track Premiere: Imperial Crystalline Entombment – “Of Blizzards and Banshees”
July 13, 2023 Jon Rosenthal
Hear frozen black metal outfit Imperial Crystalline Entombment return with a new track from their first LP in two decades.
Track Premiere: Blight House – ‘Too Ugly to Live, Too Dumb to Die’
July 12, 2023 Emily Bellino
“Too Ugly to Live, Too Dumb to Die,” just unhinged enough to make deathgrind.
Album Premiere: Auralayer – ‘Thousand Petals’
July 12, 2023 Sean Frasier
Summon thousands of petals from the cracked sky and jam the new full-length LP from South Carolina power trio Auralayer now.
Track Premiere: Woe – “Scavenger Prophets”
July 11, 2023 Emily Bellino
Listen to “Scavenger Prophets,” the first new Woe song since 2019.
Track Premiere: Colony Drop – ‘Stand Against the World’
July 10, 2023 Emily Bellino
“D-beat! D-beat adventure!”
Track Premiere: Viserion – “Fathers”
July 10, 2023 J. Andrew
Prepare yourself for the firestorm of riffs on “Fathers,” from the band’s upcoming split with Teloch Vonin.
Video Premiere + Interview: Adversvm – “Sinistrum”
July 7, 2023 Dillon Collins
Decibel proudly unveils the latest single from Adversvm‘s third studio album, Sinistrum, alongside an interview with Sascha Borchard (guitars/vocals) and Don Zaros (keyboards).
Video Premiere: Cell – “Incarcerated by Flesh”
July 5, 2023 Addison Herron-Wheeler
Hear beatdown crushers Cell drop their new track, “Incarcerated by Flesh,” the first offering from a soon-to-be-announced album, forthcoming through Unbeaten Records.
Track Premiere: Boozewa – “Maybe I’m a Bird”
July 4, 2023 Sean Frasier
Pennsylvanian sludge trio Boozewa take flight with their fuzzy new single, “Maybe I’m a Bird.” Featuring members of Backwoods Payback.
Full Album Stream: Lycanthrophy – “On the Verge of Apocalypse”
July 3, 2023 Emily Bellino
Czech grinders Lycanthrophy stream their first album in 13 years.
Track Premiere: Transilience – “Seven Samurai”
June 29, 2023 José Carlos Santos
Watch Virginia progressive thrash unsung heroes Transilience return with the first Kurosawa-inspired single from their new EP Nervesaw.
KRIEG Stream Exclusive New Track, “Bone Whip,” via the Decibel Flexi Series!
June 29, 2023 Decibel Magazine
Hear and acquire this Krieg disc single, featuring an exclusive brand new track, available as part of the Decibel Flexi Series. Hurry, quantities are extremely limited!
Full Album Stream + Interview: Lightbreaker – ‘Annihilation of the Annealids’
June 28, 2023 Jon Rosenthal
Leon del Muerte talks about self-releasing the album from his avant garde mid-’90s-leaning project Lightbreaker album. Read on and stream Annihilation of the Annealids ahead of its release.
Video Premiere: Dead Heat – ‘Eyes of the Real’
June 28, 2023 Emily Bellino
Wake up and mosh! Dead Heat drop their video for “Eyes of the Real.”
Album Premiere: Somniate – ‘We Have Proved Death’
June 28, 2023 Sean Frasier
Czech black metal cult Somniate raid the library’s vaults for their new concept album inspired by magical realism, We Have Proved Death.
Full Album Premiere: Big Garden – ‘To the Rind’
June 27, 2023 Jon Rosenthal
Gilead Media signees Big Garden are the latest — and perhaps greatest — entrant into the early ’90s-style shoegazing, grungy alt-rock revival.
Blast Worship: She
June 27, 2023 Gene Meyer
Hear Alaska blasters She melt down ears faster than the Mets’ bullpen.
Video Premiere: Medicine Horse – “Turning Tide”
June 26, 2023 Addison Herron-Wheeler
Hear Indigenous metallers Medicine Horse shed light on the struggles of Cherokee Nation via some of the grooviest riffs on the planet.
Track Premiere: Progenitor – “Eldritch Supremacy”
June 26, 2023 Addison Herron-Wheeler
Hear Tacoma titans Progenitor unleash a new black metal attack with the title track from their forthcoming EP, Eldritch Supremacy, a self-released record out July 14.
Track Premiere: Cultic – ‘Seduced’
June 22, 2023 Emily Bellino
Cultic make music that alludes to high fantasy sword-and-sorcery tales—King Arthur and Conan the Barbarian. They call it battle punk or dark dungeon metal. We call it awesome.
Track Premiere: Nathanael Larochette – “Path”
June 21, 2023 Dillon Collins
Hear a track from the multi-versed Musk Ox/The Night Watch guitarist and Agalloch collaborator, Nathanael Larochette, in advance of the release of his new LP, Old Growth.
Full EP Premiere: Rainer Landfermann – ‘Mehr Licht’
June 21, 2023 Jon Rosenthal
Legendary ex-Bethlehem/Pavor vocalist Rainer Landfermann returns with more vocal acrobatics on his latest two-track EP.
Track Premiere: Trounce – “The Wheel”
June 21, 2023 Addison Herron-Wheeler
Prepare to be trod upon by epically inclined post-black metallers Trounce via their new lyric video for the song “The Wheel.”
