classic metal

Streaming: Eaglewing’s Self Titled EP

August 5, 2024

Tune into two new tunes from Denver “heavy progressive classic rock revivalists Eaglewing.

Video Premiere: Icarus Witch – “Shadowchaser”

November 2, 2023

The new Icarus Witch track is a “pure riff-driven melodic rocker in the vein of Dio-era Rainbow, Deep Purple, or vintage Whitesnake.”

Album Premiere: Blood Lightning – ‘Blood Lightning’

October 19, 2023

Hear members of GOZU, Sam Black Church, Worshipper and We’re All Gonna Die rip it old school as Blood Lightning!

Track Premiere: DeathCollector – “Death’s Toll”

May 25, 2023

Hear a new track from DeathCollector, the band featuring former Bolt Thrower and Memoriam drummer Andrew Whale and Ashen Crown frontman Kieran Scott, then hear from them about it!

Video Premiere: Haunt – “Chimera”

April 7, 2023

Watch a band new video California trad metal heroes Haunt in advance of the new album, Golden Arm, out May 5.

Q&A: Sean Rivera of Coffin Hunters on the Lost Art of Clean Metal Vocals

March 27, 2023

Decibel tracked down Sean Rivera of Coffin Hunters to talk about the art of clean singing and how he learned to sing in his car. Check out the band’s The Fire Knight and Wake the Dead on Bandcamp.

Full Album Stream: Bottomless – Bottomless

July 14, 2021

Hear Italy’s Bottomless dive deep for low-end on their self-titled debut album.

Brewtal Truth: This Judas Priest Album With That Beer

March 12, 2018

A new Judas Priest album, a new Sierra Nevada Double IPA and an unfortunate use of the term “loaded.”

Video Gold From Metal’s Early Years

October 23, 2012

Metallica were wise to wait several years before making their first promotional music video. Having experienced it first hand—waiting patiently for a metal video to pop up so we could capture it on our VHS recorder—we can attest to the fact that the dawn of music videos in the early ’80s was the worst. Especially…

Y & T App: Classic Metal Gets a 21st Century Upgrade

July 10, 2012

We knew there would be some Decibel dissenters when we bagged on 10 albums that we wouldn’t be celebrating the 30th anniversary of in 2012.

Exclusive Premiere: New Bible of the Devil track!

May 8, 2012

Unlike some of our previous “premieres,” this one is timed just perfectly. Chicago trad-metal quartet, Bible of the Devil, will be releasing their sixth full-length album, For The Love Of Thugs And Fools, today, May, 8 via Cruz Del Sur Music. It’s their first full-length, since 2008’s Freedom Metal and it’s just the kind of…