Streaming
Track Premiere: Moros – ‘Drowned in Decomposed Remains’
January 13, 2026 Emily Bellino
Philly filth overlords Moros return with a new slab of death/doom.
Blast Worship: Smearing
January 13, 2026 Gene Meyer
Hear Seattle crushers Smearing deliver D-beats and death blasts in equal measure on the freshly released Acts of Service.
Full Album Stream: Sad Whisperings – “The Hermit”
January 12, 2026 Emily Bellino
Death/doom OGs Sad Whisperings return with their first album in 33 years.
EP Premiere: Salt Divination – The Boiled Sorceress
January 12, 2026 Albert Mudrian
Hear the debut EP from blackened hardcore whirlwind Salt Divination, featuring Converge’s Ben Koller on session drums.
Split Album Premiere: Creaturess and Sungrave – ‘Sepulchral Echoes’
January 8, 2026 Addison Herron-Wheeler
Just a year after their debut release, Idyll, Denver post-metal band Sungrave return with a collaborative new EP with Creaturess. Stream Cold Flesh and No One now.
CRO-MAGS Premiere Exclusive New Recording of “Hard Times” via the Decibel Flexi Series!
January 8, 2026 Decibel Magazine
Score an exclusive flexi featuring hardcore legends Cro-Mags new re-recording of the classic “Hard Times,” while supplies last!
Video Premiere: Ramtha – ‘Infinite Energy’
January 6, 2026 Emily Bellino
Unlock the cheat code for “Infinite Energy” when you watch this new vid from Florida party-thrashers Ramtha.
Blast Worship: Lay Waste
January 6, 2026 Gene Meyer
Hear Virginia grinders Lay Waste do just that on their self-titled LP.
Track Premiere: Infinite Misery – ‘Altar of Extracted Teeth’ (Feat. Undeath’s Alex Sason)
January 5, 2026 Emily Bellino
Get hip to Infinite Misery‘s Cannibal Corpse worship.
Blast Worship’s Top 10 Grindcore/Powerviolence Albums of 2025
January 5, 2026 Gene Meyer
2025 might finally be over, but that doesn’t mean you don’t want one final mirco list in your life, right? So here are the Top 10 Grindcore/Powervioelnce Albums of the last 12 months.
Full Album Stream: Noise Rockers Feel Worse Get Brusque and Bitter With This Will Weigh Heavily On Your Annual Performance Appraisal
December 25, 2025 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Check out the debut album from Feel Worse (ft. members of Sulaco, Sully and Burn Everything)!
Blast Worship: Sulfuric Cautery
December 23, 2025 Gene Meyer
Ring in the holidays with the latest from Los Angeles goregrinders Sulfuric Cautery.
Video Premiere: Sidian – “Pendular | Amidst the Hysterics of Gloom”
December 23, 2025 Tim Mudd
After 15 years of carving a singular, emotionally lacerating path through underground metal, Sidian returns with new music—and, as it turns out, a definitive farewell.
Video Premiere: Malthusian – ‘Delirium’
December 22, 2025 Emily Bellino
Worship at the altar of nothing with Malthusian.
Blast Worship: Rotten Sound
December 18, 2025 Gene Meyer
BREAKING: The new Rotten Sound EP Mass Extinction sounds like Rotten Sound.
Track Premiere: NightWraith – “The Candlelight”
December 18, 2025 Addison Herron-Wheeler
Denver’s NightWraith are back with a new single, “The Candlelight,” a slice of black ‘n’ roll goodness just in time for the holidays. Hear it here.
Catalog Reissue Alert: Lip Cream
December 17, 2025 Tim Mudd
Relapse invites you to the apply the wild catalog of Japanese noisemongers Lip Cream via a new set of stunning reissues.
Track Premiere: Anthrodynia – ‘A Rotten Sun’
December 16, 2025 Emily Bellino
Canadian death/doom purveyors Anthrodynia predict a dystopian future in their new video.
Full Album Stream: Blood of the Wolf – “V. Indomitable”
December 15, 2025 Emily Bellino
Blood of the Wolf stream their latest full-length album.
Prog Metallers The Reticent Have a Lot to Say About Mental Health/Illness
December 11, 2025 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Read and listen as prog-metallers the Reticent take an extensive, and personal, look at mental health and illness with their new album.
Full Album Stream: House by the Cemetary – Disturbing the Cenotaph
December 10, 2025 Tim Mudd
Hear Horror-obsessed death metal lunatics House by the Cemetary deliver 30 filthy minutes of sharpened bone saws, sewer-stench groove, and classic Fulci-drenched death.
Track Premiere: Sacri Suoni – ‘Dissolve to Reunite in Varanasi’
December 9, 2025 Emily Bellino
Soak in some instrumental doom vibes with the latest from Sacri Suoni.
Blast Worship: Carthage Must Be Destroyed
December 9, 2025 Gene Meyer
London grinders Carthage Must Be Destroyed will blast you back to the stone age.
EP Premiere: Discovery Through Torment – “Telesynthetic Rebirth”
December 4, 2025 Addison Herron-Wheeler
Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, QC, Canada-based band Discovery Through Torment are dropping their new EP, Telesynthetic Rebirth. Check it out now ahead of its official December 5 release date.
Full Stream: It Haunts – No Light to Save Me
December 3, 2025 Tim Mudd
Melodic metallers It Haunts arrive with the kind of debut EP that doesn’t feel like a beginning so much as an overdue emergence.
Full Album Stream: Indigosaur – “Cosmic Censor”
December 2, 2025 Emily Bellino
Go on a retro stoner heavy metal trip with the new album from Indigosaur.
MORBIKON Premiere New Song, “Gaping Grave Awaits,” via the Decibel Flexi Series!
December 2, 2025 Emily Bellino
Score an exclusive flexi featuring Morbikon covering Aura Noir, while supplies last!
Blast Worship: HWA
December 2, 2025 Gene Meyer
In Seoul, they spell grindcore HWA. Hear the band’s ripping Demo 2025 now.
Full Album Stream: Ghoulhouse – “Realm of Ghouls”
December 1, 2025 Emily Bellino
It’s bigger than a chapel… enter the Realm of Ghouls now.
Track Premiere: Oraculum – “Mendacious Heroism”
November 28, 2025 J. Andrew
Rejoice, ye devotees of sheer, unrelenting destruction and death — for Chile’s Oraculum has arrived on the battlefield armed with an arsenal of riffs, growls and pounding drums.
