blackened sludge

Full Album Stream: Resin Tomb – ‘Cerebral Purgatory’

January 16, 2024

Hear Australian dissonant DM/grind mongers Resin Tomb destroy your self-esteem on their relentlessly vicious debut, Cerebral Purgatory.

Track Premiere: Yatra – “Death Cantation”

April 26, 2022

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

Mesa reflect on the calm before the end with dreamy new EP Glow.

Track Premiere: Casket Huffer — “Genocide Thralls”

September 4, 2019

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

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.

Video Premiere: Sixes — “Fogbreather”

May 23, 2018

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.

INTERVIEW: Carl Byers from Coffinworm on collaborative catharsis and hating humanity on some level

April 7, 2014

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…