Industrial Metal

Video Premiere: Realize – “Nature Bot”

August 2, 2023

Hear the disaffected and soulless industrial sludge of Tucson quartet Realize on their new single, “Nature Bot.”

Video Premiere: Fearsore – “Cloudfall”

August 2, 2022

The new video from Chicago industrial metal unit Fearsore is no eyesore.

Full Album Stream: Dark Worship – ‘Flesh of a Saint’

February 22, 2022

Hear Axioma guitarist J. Meyers’ electronic project, Dark Worship, do some serious digital damage on their latest full-length.

Video Premiere: Black Magnet — “Divination Equipment”

December 16, 2020

Black Magnet resurrects classic industrial metal madness via the punishing clip for “Divination Equipment.”

Video Premiere: Blood From the Soul – ‘Calcified Youth’

October 27, 2020

Shane Embury’s Blood From the Soul is back with a new lineup, including Jacob Bannon and members of Nasum, Soilwork, Megadeth and more.

Live/Film Review: ‘Industrial Accident: The Story of Wax Trax! Records’

April 25, 2019

The “Experience” run of dates will have wrapped up two days before the time you read this, but if you come across Industrial Accident, it’s very worthy of your viewing time.

Track Premiere: Anima Nostra – ‘Composition For The Shadow Self’

June 5, 2017

Anima Nostra conjure brooding, suffocating industrial doom on “Composition For The Shadow Self.”

Track Premiere: Mortiis – ‘The Great Leap (Godflesh Remix)’

February 27, 2017

Industrial outfits Mortiis and Godflesh collide on this remixed track from Mortiis’ 2016 release, The Great Deceiver. 

Satan’s Little Helpers: An Oral History of The Electric Hellfire Club

October 31, 2016

Happy Halloween! Get in the spirit with an exhaustive Decibel oral history of The Electric Hellfire Club, the innovative 90s band that blended metal, industrial music, and Satanism. Burn, baby, burn!  

Fear Factory – “Demanufacture”

May 28, 2015

Even the title of the album suggests an act of grand defiance. Demanufacture. Breaking everything down to the component level, stripping away the inessential elements, salvaging the best parts for recycling and reuse.

Video Premiere: Mysticum Track-By-Track

November 12, 2014

Ah, Mysticum, how you’ve been missed. There was so much talk for so long about the comeback album Planet Satan that we were convinced the record was either a myth or an elaborate troll. But no: Planet Satan was released this fall after decades of speculation, marking the return of a band audacious enough in…

Contest Time: Our Last Enemy “Pariah” Swag

February 6, 2014

We’re teaming up with Australian industrial metallers Our Last Enemy this morning to give away a few prize packs featuring an autographed poster and copy of the band’s latest CD Pariah. (U.S. residents only — sorry!) All you have to do is write a line or two in the comments section below explaining why you’d…

Tales From the Metalnomicon: Cross the Border Into Satanic Hell

January 18, 2013

Welcome to Tales From the Metalnomicon, a new twice-monthly column delving into the surprisingly vast world of heavy metal-tinged/inspired literature and metalhead authors…

Justin Broadrick interview: Godflesh, growing up and anarcho-punk

October 7, 2011

If Godflesh’s supremo of beats ‘n’ riffs, Justin K. Broadrick, is having trouble getting an unbroken night’s sleep, it’s not the attendant stress of having resurrected the industrial metal project for near-monthly live excursions after a near-ten-year hiatus. It’s not their forthcoming appearance at UK metal-fest Damnation that’s worrying him either, because he and Ben…