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Video Premiere: Union Black – “Walking In My Shoes”

July 29, 2021

Watch Gruesome drummer Gus Rios step out from behind the kit and front tribute/cover band Union Black with an arresting Depeche Mode cover.

Full EP Premiere: Venomous Concept – “Deep Thinking in Deep Times”

March 5, 2021

Punk metal vets Venomous Concept continue their incredible recording streak with new covers of Deep Wound, Davie Bowie, Black Flag and Halo of Flies.

Streaming: Kyle Ball (Wake) Covers Earth A.D. Black Metal Style

January 18, 2021

Wake vocalist Kyle Ball and friends reimagine A.D: Earth from a blackened punk aesthetic.

Leon del Muerte & Members of Exhumed, Spirit Adrift, Ghoul, Intronaut and More Release ‘Fu*k the Virus’ Classic Rock Covers Album for Charity

May 26, 2020

“Recorded a buncha covers with a some friends of mine, some of whom are out of work due to the COVID-19 situation,” says Leon del Muerte. “100% of proceeds goes directly to them. Think of it as Graveyard Classics with 100% less Chris Barnes.”

Watch Bleach Everything’s Quarantine Video for Cover of Rocket from the Crypt’s “Middle”

April 28, 2020

Spend 90-coronavirus-free seconds with the new Bleach Everything video before the President of the United States tells you to eat Tide Pods.

Full (Covers) EP Stream: Nekrofilth – ‘Love Me Like A Reptile’

July 11, 2019

Total scumlords Nekrofilth will soon release a 7” of covers. Stream it in full here.

Hear The Absence Cover Bad Religion’s “Do What You Want”

May 16, 2019

Don’t sit on your ass all goddamn day – check out the Absence‘s crushing cover of a Cali-punk classic.

Akasha Releases Vampyric Black Metal Cover of “Last Caress”

May 3, 2019

Sweet, lovely vampyric death! Check out Akasha’s hilariously in-your-face black metal cover of the Misfits’ classic track.

Episode DB004 – The Best Covers of the Decibel Flexi Series

September 27, 2013

Your intrepid hosts sit down with perpetual good sport/extreme music tastemaker Gordon Conrad (Season of Mist) and divulge the stories behind the best covers in the Decibel Flexi Series. Featuring:Revocation “Pull the Plug” (Death) Anaal Nathrakh “Man at C & A” (The Specials)Evoken “Rotting Misery” (Paradise Lost)Watain “Fuck Off, We Murder” (GG Allin)In Solitude “Mother of…

Living In The Eighties: Metal Covers The Decade Of Pop

January 2, 2013

Since the New Year is the time of self-reimagination (or big promises that aren’t kept) it’s a good day to look back into the storied skeleton closet. While metal took over the planet in the 1980s via Metallica and Iron Maiden (after Black Sabbath set the stage for a decade) pop ruled the charts. You…