Heavy Metal

Scottish heavy metal outfit Midnight Force carry the flag of tradition on their third album.

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Dig into the throwback sounds of Vexing Hex‘s Solve Et Coagula.

Lucifer’s Hammer play heavy metal with style on their new album.

Whether with her fans on Discord or right at home with her daughter, the vocalist tells tale of her powerful love of nerd culture.

Accept guitarist Wolf Hoffmann talks technology, recording with producer Andy Sneap and why he still feels like a teenager.

Heavy metal, hard rock and first-wave black metal collide on Armagh‘s new album, Exclamation Point.

Metallum be damned! Take a trip to middle earth with Gothenburg rockers Riders of Rohan.

Holy harmonies, Batman! Bay Area trad metal trio Hands of Goro unleash a flurry of axe acrobatics on new single “Uncanny.”

Hear Indiana father-son trad metal duo Wizard Death slay some dragons with help from Witch Mountain members Kayla Dixon and Rob Wrong on their new Wise Blood EP, I Am the Night.

Canadian trad metal weirdos Kontact pay homage to cult legends Sacred Blade with their sci-fi insanity on new album, Full Contact.

Hear the ever-prolific Erech Leleth return with his latest heavy black metal creation, the debut full-length LP from Narzissus.

Before the calendar flips to 2024, check out these 10 killer albums you might have missed during list season’s frenzy.

“I am always open and on the lookout for new bands who are hungry … I’ve got to believe they feel the fire.”

Cypriot heavy metal warlords Solitary Sabred charge into battle with an early premiere of Temple of the Serpent.

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

Hear Slovakian evil metal masters Malokarpatan return with their first new material in three years from the forthcoming Vertumnus Caesar.

Check out Terromania‘s love letter to heavy metal aesthetics with their new video for “Disturbingly Beautiful.”

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Check out the video for End Reign‘s “Chasing Divinity” now ahead of the release of their debut album, The Way of All Flesh is Decay, on July 14 through Relapse Records.

Swiss heavy metallers Burning Witches discuss their new album.

Indiana doom druids Faerie Ring are riffologists not mycologists.

Hear a brand new track from epic heavy metal heroes Smoulder taken from their forthcoming Violent Creed of Vengeance LP.

Mapuche nation metalheads Mawiza share how their music strengthens ancestral bonds in this inspiring short documentary.

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Melissa Moore, the architect of Decibel‘s #3 album of 2022, on her long road from goregrind and black metal to heavy metal nirvana.

Swedish psych metal quintet Spiral Skies close out the ridiculous season with a ‘Boogie Nights’-meets-‘Eyes Wide Shut’ video for “Into the Night”

Italian new wave heavy metallers Witchunter stream new album Metal Dream (Dying Victims) via Decibel. Power and the Glory!