Finnish death metal
Album Premiere: Wolfheart’s Draconian Darkness Dissected Track-By-Track
September 5, 2024 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Wolfheart mastermind Tuomas Saukkonen gives a play-by-play as we premiere his band’s latest and seventh album!
EXCLUSIVE: Read How AMORPHIS Sent a Failed Video Into Hiding In a Book Excerpt from ‘Amorphis: The Official Story of Finland’s Greatest Metal Band’
January 23, 2023 Decibel Magazine
Take an exclusive sneak peek of Amorphis: The Official Story of Finland’s Greatest Metal Band, now shipping via Decibel Books.
‘AMORPHIS: The Official Story of Finland’s Greatest Metal Band’ Book Now In Stock!
January 20, 2023 Decibel Magazine
Amorphis: The Official Story of Finland’s Greatest Metal Band has been completely redesigned and edited for a North American release through Decibel Books and is finally in stock and shipping now.
Pre-Order Now! ‘AMORPHIS: The Official Story of Finland’s Greatest Metal Band’ Now Available in English via Decibel Books!
October 26, 2022 Decibel Magazine
Pre-order a copy of Amorphis: The Official Story of Finland’s Greatest Metal Band, the new 376-page hardcover book available from Decibel Books!
Justify Your Shitty Taste: Xysma’s “Lotto”
May 20, 2022 Neill Jameson
In which we revisit the oft misunderstood 1996 release from Finnish death/grind-turned rock heroes Xysma.
The U.S. Version of ‘Rotting Ways to Misery: The History of Finnish Death Metal’ NOW In Stock!
April 28, 2021 Decibel Magazine
Rotting Ways to Misery: The History of Finnish Death Metal has been completely redesigned and edited for a North American release through Decibel Books and is finally in stock and shipping now.
Writing Ways to Misery: Authors Markus Makkonen and Kim Strömsholm Discuss Finnish Death Metal Book
April 1, 2021 Greg Pratt
Talking Finnish death metal with Markus Makkonen and Kim Strömsholm, authors of Decibel Books’ Rotting Ways to Misery.
Pre-Order the U.S. Edition of ‘ROTTING WAYS TO MISERY: The History of Finnish Death Metal’ Now!
March 5, 2021 Decibel Magazine
Rotting Ways to Misery: The History of Finnish Death Metal has been completely redesigned and edited for a North American release through Decibel Books. Pre-order your copy today!
‘Rotting Ways: The History of Finnish Death Metal’ Book On the Way from Cult Never Dies
November 20, 2020 Albert Mudrian
This new 300-page hardcover on Cult Never Dies offers an deep dive into the legendary Finnish death metal underground of the early 1990s.
Album Premiere: Cynabare Urne ‘Obsidian Daggers and Cinnabar Skulls’
October 26, 2020 Chris Dick
Finnish death metal thugs Cynabare Urne stream new album, Obsidian Daggers and Cinnabar Skulls at Decibel. Only death is real!
Finnish Death Gods Lantern Premiere “Beings,” Illuminate Us With New Interview
June 19, 2020 Dean Brown
Dark Descent’s death metal hit parade continues with the latest from Finns Lantern. Hear the latest track from their forthcoming LP Dimensions.
Track Premiere: Abhorrence ‘Anthem for the Anthropocene’
June 18, 2018 Chris Dick
Reformed Finnish death metallers Abhorrence premiere new bruiser “Anthem for the Anthropocene.”
Studio Report: Abhorrence
May 11, 2018 Dutch Pearce
Get the details on the forthcoming new material from obscure Finnish death metal gods Abhorrence.
Album Review: Ghastly – “Death Velour”
April 10, 2018 Sean Frasier
Ghastly‘s Death Velour is our Best New Noise.
Track Premiere: Obscure Burial – ‘Necrophagous Ritual’
November 14, 2017 Dutch Pearce
How about a little Finnish death metal? Check out this exclusive track premiere from the debut self-titled full length by Obscure Burial.
Track Premiere: Desecresy unleash “Percussive Necromancy”
July 11, 2017 Dutch Pearce
We’ve got an exclusive premiere of a new Desecresy song off their massively anticipated fifth full length, The Mortal Horizon. The hell are you waiting for?
Demo:listen: Sickness
June 30, 2017 Dutch Pearce
On this week’s Demo:listen we fall victim to Finland’s Sickness.
Full Album Stream: Gorephilia – ‘Severed Monolith’
February 24, 2017 Emily Bellino
Return to deep space with Gorephilia on their sophomore LP, the (inter)stellar Severed Monolith.
Demo:listen: Scourge Lair
January 20, 2017 Dutch Pearce
On this week’s Demo:listen, we fall through a dripping vortex to rise upon the very nadir where dwells Finland’s Scourge Lair.
Full Album Stream: Krypts – ‘Remnants of Expansion’
October 21, 2016 Emily Bellino
Krypts‘ second album is another impressive piece of death-doom. Stream it in full before it hits the streets next week.
INTERVIEW: Lantern on debut LP “Below”, Finnish DM, and the new northern darkness
June 3, 2013 Jonathan Horsley
Lantern are a two-man death metal band from Kuopio, Finland, whose debut LP, Below, is the sort of warped and twisted 40-minute head-trip that should be mother’s milk to all those Decibangers who were weaned on the impenetrable darkness of bands such as Demilich and Demigod. Formed by a surprisingly mellow dude with a a…
INTERVIEW: Finland’s Gorephilia on playing death metal Sunshine State-style
August 20, 2012 Jonathan Horsley
Seeing as Florida’s output of death metal has slowed to a trickle as scene veterans spend more time on the road, less time in the studio, or just sweat it out in semi-retirement, you could do worse than check in on Finland’s Gorephilia. Gorephilia’s long-awaited debut LP Embodiment of Death is old-school all right, and…