death metal

Enjoy a full stream of Chaosborne, the new album from USBM up-and-comers Empyrean Throne now!

Our latest That Tour Was Awesome looks back on when Pestilence , Autopsy , and Bolt Thrower terrorized Europe in 1990.

Go behind the scenes with prolific Russian label Satanath Records.

From musical influences like Mercyful Fate, Slayer, and Possessed to filmic influences like Hammer Horror, Sweden’s Vampire are taking death metal into the abyss. Formed in 2011 in Gothenburg, the Swedes — helmed by drummer (now vocalist) Hand of Doom and guitarist Black String — quickly impressed, with the group’s 2012 self-titled demo garnering heavy…

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Stream the entirety of the brutalizing split between From the Hellmouth and Mutilatred now.

Dyscarnate strike ‘With All Their Might’ with a new song and video.

Irish death dealers Overoth reveal information (and new video!) about their first record since their 2010 debut.

The new Gravesite doesn’t drop for another week, but today we bring you an exclusive stream of these Italian death-slingers’ brand new sophomore album, Neverending Trail of Skulls.

Dark Tranquility were recently interviewed about touring and the business of extreme metal on Anchors to Asphalt, presented by Decibel. 

Stream a new video from secretive blackened death dealers Altarage. 

Decibel caught up with Thy Art Is Murder frontman CJ McMahon to discuss the band’s new album, upcoming tour with Decapitated and why he feels the deathcore label doesn’t fit Thy Art. 

Stream a new track from Afterbirth featuring Artificial Brain vocalist Will Smith.

The death metal speed round: 5 labels to check out in one!

After 20 years later in the grave, Chile’s Death Yell has reformed. Not only to exact revenge on the time away from the molten metal spotlight but to issue the band’s first album, Descent into Hell. Now signed to Hells Headbangers, the Chileans are using their time wisely, focusing on reality instead of fantasy. Hell is real, and Death Yell have returned to remind us.

Listen to “The World is Yours,” the first piece of original music from Arch Enemy in 3 years. 

Stream the new track from brutal death metal outfit Beneath. 

Stream the new record from River Black, featuring members of Municipal Waste and Revocation.

Stream the video for “Perpetrator Emasculation” from ferocious death metal machine Venom Prison.

Stream a new track from progressive death metal group Neck of the Woods now.

Immolation vocalist/bassist Ross Dolan discusses the past, present, and future of death metal in an extended interview from the August 2017 genre-exploring cover story.

Stream a brutal new track from Colombian death dealers Mouldered. 

Cormorant stream new song “Preserved in Ash.” 

Mutilated and Assimilated
Too fast, too furious
dB rating: 8/10

Goatwhore frontman Ben Falgoust on new album Vengeful Ascension. 

Suffocation, Incantation, Broken Hope, Bolt Thrower/Memoriam, Immolation, Obituary, Origin, Expulsion/Repulsion, Dying Fetus and Decrepit Birth keep death alive in 2017.

Stream the awesome new Father Befouled record in full!

Broken Hope founder Jeremy Wagner dishes the dirt on Mutilated and Assimilated, the best horror film of all-time, and the current state of death metal.

Explore one of Greece’s more extreme labels, Celtic Fog Productions.

Ascending Into Shimmering Darkness
A tiny light prevails in the darkness
dB rating: 8/10