Industrial Metal
Video Premiere: Realize – “Nature Bot”
August 2, 2023 Adem Tepedelen
Hear the disaffected and soulless industrial sludge of Tucson quartet Realize on their new single, “Nature Bot.”
Video Premiere: Fearsore – “Cloudfall”
August 2, 2022 Adem Tepedelen
The new video from Chicago industrial metal unit Fearsore is no eyesore.
Full Album Stream: Dark Worship – ‘Flesh of a Saint’
February 22, 2022 Adem Tepedelen
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 Shawn Macomber
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 Emily Bellino
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 Kevin Stewart-Panko
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: P.H.O.B.O.S. – ‘Aljannashid’
September 5, 2018 Emily Bellino
Hear a new song from industrial trio P.H.O.B.O.S.
Godflesh Premiere New Song “Post Self”
October 31, 2017 Emily Bellino
Godflesh premiere the title track to their new album, Post Self.
Track Premiere: Samael – ‘Black Supremacy’
September 15, 2017 Emily Bellino
Stream a new song and read an interview with Samael.
Track Premiere: Anima Nostra – ‘Composition For The Shadow Self’
June 5, 2017 Emily Bellino
Anima Nostra conjure brooding, suffocating industrial doom on “Composition For The Shadow Self.”
Track Premiere: Khost – ‘Redacted Repressed Recalcitrant’
May 18, 2017 Emily Bellino
Experience a genre-smashing industrial assault from Birmingham duo khost.
Track Premiere: Drug Honkey – ‘Pool Of Failure (Justin Broadrick Remix)’
April 26, 2017 Emily Bellino
Drug Honkey delve even further into experimental and industrial metal with a Justin Broadrick remix of “Pool of Lies.”
Video Premiere: Sollertia – ‘Praying at the Chapel Perilous’
March 13, 2017 Emily Bellino
“Praying at the Chapel Perilous” is the promising debut song and video from dark metal band Sollertia (In The Woods, ex-Ad Inferna).
Track Premiere: Mortiis – ‘The Great Leap (Godflesh Remix)’
February 27, 2017 Emily Bellino
Industrial outfits Mortiis and Godflesh collide on this remixed track from Mortiis’ 2016 release, The Great Deceiver.
Track Premiere: Syk – ‘The White Sun’
November 21, 2016 Emily Bellino
Syk takes on ideas of society and conformity with groovy riffs.
Satan’s Little Helpers: An Oral History of The Electric Hellfire Club
October 31, 2016 Justin Norton
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 Nick Green
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 Justin Norton
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 Shawn Macomber
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 Shawn Macomber
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 Jonathan Horsley
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…