avant-garde

Skeletonwitch guitarist Scott Hedrick’s left-hand path is more meditational than metal on his new debut solo album, Devotional Drift Vol. 1.

Brass-kicking Italian trio Ottone Pessante return with a new full-length of horn-heavy metal on Scrolls of War.

The über-talented multi-instrumentalist happily screen shares his lifelong passion of gaming.

Check out the new video by Portuguese deathrockers Louvado Abismo!

There’s a new video from weirdo avant-garde metal band Frogg. Hop to it!

Check out the new single by avant-garde oddballs Sleepytime Gorilla Museum!

No woodwinds, only mathy instrumental prog rock, in the new new Bassoon video, “Cyclops.”

Nine years in the making, we have only 100 copies of Thantifaxath‘s long-awaited second album, Hive Mind Narcosis, on exclusive gold vinyl!

New Jersey instrumental prog duo, Gematria, turn their new track, “The Elusive One” into a musical game piece.

Watch bodies take out slabs of drywall in Dumb Waiter‘s new video!

Check out the new video from SYK, Italian practitioners of avant-garde extreme metal, a blend of clean vocals and deathy grooves.

NYC black metal outfit Krallice blaze a new path on Demonic Wealth.

On the new song, “Loss,” Azure Emote is quite simply experimental tech-death at its best: the ol’ razzle dazzle with a brain-scrambling twist!

Dark Tranquillity guitarist Niklas Sundin reinvents himself in electronic project Mitochondrial Sun. Decibel premieres new song “Celestial Animal” off Sundin’s Argonauta Records debut.

Brain Tentacles stay weird.

Underground Philadelphia progressive metal kings Dysrhythmia are launching a new mind-bending blitz and we’ve got the exclusive first salvo streaming now.

Former Bethlehem vocalist Rainer Landfermann on his legendary Dictius te Necare vocals and his incendiary performance on his new solo LP, Mein Wort in Deiner Dunkelheit

Underground heavy metal heroes return with their first new LP in five years. Hear the title track now.

Sleep tight with a new track from avant-garde within black metal’s infinite realm.

The members of Blut Aus Nord convene as Yerûśelem to give the world The Sublime.

Norwegian prog nuts discuss their most consistent album ever.

Prophecy Productions announce Alcest, Xasthur, Kayo Dot, Crowhurst and more for inaugural Prophecy Fest on November 2 and 3.

Members of Kayo Dot and Time of Orchids make bizarre “pop” in Stern.

Revisiting Master’s Hammer‘s much-maligned Slagry.

Nightmarer’s Simon Hawemann speaks to Decibel about new album, Cacophony of Terror.

Stream an unreleased song from Imperial Triumphant.

Bow down for the return of Cleric.

Listen to a new song from Horizon Ablaze (ex-Nidingr, ex-1349) now.

Watch a new video from The Soundbyte, featuring former The Third and the Mortal guitarist Trond Engum.

Experience catharsis with sludge experimentalists God Root.