blackened sludge
Full Album Stream: Resin Tomb – ‘Cerebral Purgatory’
January 16, 2024 Adem Tepedelen
Hear Australian dissonant DM/grind mongers Resin Tomb destroy your self-esteem on their relentlessly vicious debut, Cerebral Purgatory.
Full Album Premiere: Wolok ‘The Bilious Hues Of Gloom’
December 5, 2022 Chris Dick
France-based blackened doom industrialists Wolok punish all in their wake with new album, The Bilious Hues Of Gloom. Streaming now!
Track Premiere: Yatra – “Death Cantation”
April 26, 2022 Adem Tepedelen
Hear Maryland trio Yatra revisit their OSDM roots on their fourth long-player out June 10 on Prosthetic.
Full EP Steam & Interview: Mesa – “Glow”
October 21, 2020 Emily Bellino
Mesa reflect on the calm before the end with dreamy new EP Glow.
Track Premiere: Bather – “Her Black Wings” (Danzig Cover)
October 1, 2020 Bradley Zorgdrager
Ohio death dealers Bather shower you with the sweet sounds of a Danzig classic.
Track Premiere: Casket Huffer — “Genocide Thralls”
September 4, 2019 Shawn Macomber
Blackened death doom sludge outfit Casket Huffer invites you to breathe in the nihilism of an exclusive new track.
Deafheaven Grace the Cover of the January Decibel
November 19, 2018 Albert Mudrian
We have a limited number of advance copies of the January issue of Decibel, featuring an ultra-rare Withered PICTURE FLEXI DISC – available now. Don’t blow it.
Track Premiere: Glacial Tomb – ‘Drowned’
October 9, 2018 Emily Bellino
Stream “Drowned,” the latest offering from Denver sludge trio Glacial Tomb.
Full Album Stream: Praise the Plague – “Antagonist”
September 11, 2018 Emily Bellino
Stream the new album from blackened sludge upstarts Praise the Plague.
Video Premiere: Sixes — “Fogbreather”
May 23, 2018 Shawn Macomber
Want to take a multimedia walk on the really dark side? The new video from L.A.-based sludge metallers Sixes will take you there.
Track Premiere: Scientist – ‘Magick Mirror’
March 6, 2018 Emily Bellino
Stream a new song from experimental sludge group Scientist.
Track Premiere: Wolvhammer – ‘Eternal Rotting Misery’
February 27, 2018 Emily Bellino
Stream the first song from Wolvhammer‘s The Monuments of Ash & Bone.
INTERVIEW: Carl Byers from Coffinworm on collaborative catharsis and hating humanity on some level
April 7, 2014 Jonathan Horsley
Indianapolis’ Coffinworm are essential listening for those who like their extreme metal to open up wide and drown any extant optimism in a genre non-specific swamp of sunken riffs and black metal noise ‘n’ hiss. 2010’s debut LP When All Became None was a loose-limbed doom record that was too anxious and fidgety to plant…