death metal

Full EP Stream: Dejecter – “Oblation Husk”

January 30, 2025

Regardless of how you classify Dejecter, the band plays a fascinating mix of straightforward brutality and risk-taking creativity.

Video Premiere: Industrial Puke – “Hoax-Mongers”

January 29, 2025

Hear Swedish D-beat crusters Industrial Puke hurl their vitriol at “Hoax-Mongers” on their brand new single for Suicide Records.

Album Premiere: Maceration – ‘Serpent Devourment’

January 29, 2025

For fans of Entombed, Bloodbath, and Invocator, hear Maceration deliver the crushing sound of Danish death metal Serpent Devourment

EP Premiere: Spesimin – ‘Skull Worship’

January 28, 2025

Philadelphia’s own old-school death/thrashers Spesimin are back with a brand spankin’ new EP full of ghoulish twists and turns sure to make any scuz rocker happy.

KILL FEED 055: Wim Coppers of LIVING GATE Chooses to Thrive as One

January 22, 2025

The prolific drummer and self-described “hardcore casual gamer” overcomes, overthrows his need for competitive online gaming.

Video Premiere: Pathogenic – “Crowned in Corpses”

January 16, 2025

Progressive death metallers Pathogenic prepare to release their relentless new album, Crowned in Corpses, on February 7 via Skepsis Records. And we have the video for the title track for you today.

Video Premiere: Necrambulant – “Sentenced to a Gluttonous Pit”

January 15, 2025

Phoenix’s Necrambulant drop their second full-length, Upheaval of Malignant Necrambulance, via Gore House Productions in March. Check out their shattering second single from the release, “Sentenced to a Gluttonous Pit.”

Track Premiere: Tormentor Tyrant – “Torture Divine”

January 2, 2025

Hear Finnish death metal trio Tormentor Tyrant kick off 2025 with a boot to face via “Torture Divine”

‘Glorious Times’ Co-author Alan Moses (1968-2024)

December 16, 2024

Remembering underground death metal scene legend and Glorious Times co-author Alan Moses

Five For Friday: Death Metal 2024

December 13, 2024

It’s been a glorious year for death metal, with crushing releases from bands like Witch Vomit, Spectral Voice, Defeated Sanity and more!

Track Premiere: Tombs of Disgust – ‘Shadow of War’

December 10, 2024

Canadian brutal death metallers Tombs of Disgust release their latest single, “Shadow of War.”

Album Premiere: Sarcophagum – ‘The Grand Arc of Madness’

December 4, 2024

Decibel is proud to present Sarcophagum‘s full-length debut, The Grand Arc of Madness, streaming in its entirety ahead of its December 6 release via Nuclear Winter.

Survival Sickness: The Making of Autopsy’s Landmark “Severed Survival”

December 1, 2024

Get hyped for Autopsy‘s December 6 performance of Severed Survival at Decibel Magazine Metal & Beer Fest: Denver with this Hall of Fame induction from 2015 of the death metal classic.

Track Premiere: Horse Butcher – ‘Penduncular Hallucinosis’

November 21, 2024

Horse Butcher tear through gory, crusty deathgrind on their new song, “Penduncular Hallucinosis.”

Full Album Stream: Rvkkvs –Antithesis of Prosperity

November 20, 2024

Hear Kiwi death grinders Rvkkvs kick up a vicious maelstrom on new nine-song debut, Antithesis of Prosperity.

Interview: Thunraz’s Madis Jalakas Brings the Baltic Gloom via ‘Incineration Day’

November 19, 2024

The sole proprietor of Estonia’s Thunraz discusses the sepulchral, avante-sludge gauntlet of his latest, Incineration Day.

Q&A: Leila Abdul-Rauf on Her New Solo Album: “I Was Making Order Out Of Chaos”

November 8, 2024

Vastum axewoman Leila Abdul-Rauf on her fifth solo album, Calls From A Seething Edge, and the non-linear process of writing experimental music as opposed to death metal.

Unholy Metal: Empty Throne Unleashes Their Debut Album’s Title Track

November 6, 2024

Prepare for darkness incarnate—Empty Throne is about to descend with a powerful new video for “Unholy,” the title track of their upcoming debut full-length album, set for release on November 27.

Full Album Stream: Eldingar –Lysistrata

October 30, 2024

Greek pagan black metalers Eldingar want World Peace Now! on new long player Lysistrata.

Video Premiere: Toxaemia – “Rejected Souls Of Kerberus”

October 30, 2024

Check out the new video from old-school Swedish export in death metal excellence, Toxaemia off the band’s upcoming album, Rejected Souls Of Kerberus.

Live Review: Blood Incantation with Steve Roach

October 23, 2024

Decibel hit our second second favorite state, Colorado, to chronicle a rare hometown-ish performance of death metal space cadets Blood Incantation with support from synth legend Steve Roach.

Full Album Stream: Chained to the Dead – “Only Hunger Remains”

October 22, 2024

Celebrate gore and horror with Only Hunger Remains, the new EP from Jersey deathgrind menaces Chained to the Dead.

Full Album Stream: Perfidious – “Savouring His Flesh”

October 21, 2024

Italian death dealers Perfidious strive for death metal nirvana on their second album.