Metalcore

Video Premiere: Matriarchs – “The Day You Slipped Away”

September 10, 2024

California metalcore crushers Matriarchs process grief in new lyric video for “The Day You Slipped Away.”

Mouth For War Drop New Video “Captivated,” Breakdown Album Bleed Yourself With Decibel’s Q&A

October 26, 2023

Vicious Colorado-based quintet Mouth for War unleash new video “Captivated,” while frontman Trae Roberts talks brutal therapy via music and the Colorado metal scene.

EXCLUSIVE Excerpt Part 2 from ‘Swing of the Blade’ – “You Win Some, You Lose Some”

April 11, 2023

Read an exclusive excerpt, featuring Killswitch Engage, from Metal Blade founder Brian Slagel’s upcoming book, Swing of the Blade: More Stories from Metal Blade Records.

For Those About Squawk: Waldo Pecks on Sanguisugabogg and All Out War

January 20, 2023

After flying south for the holidays, our bird is back with new releases from slam newjacks and underground metal/hardocre vets.

Hear New ALL OUT WAR Track “Glorious Devastation” & Pre-Order New LP ‘Celestial Rot’ on Decibel-Exclusive Vinyl!

October 13, 2022

We’ve got 100 copies of metallic hardcore heroes All Our War‘ new LP, Celestial Rot, on Decibel-exclusive Bone White vinyl. Pre-order now!

The Lazarus Pit: Drowningman’s ‘Busy Signal at the Suicide Hotline’

September 29, 2022

Revisiting when Drowningman got metalcore very right on 1999’s Busy Signal at the Suicide Hotline.

Video Premiere: Out of Nowhere – “Dying Sun”

July 26, 2022

Iranian metalcore quintet Out of Nowhere burnt brightly in new “Dying Sun” video

Video Premiere: Black Matter Device – “Blood Splatter Ink Blot”

June 14, 2022

Like any good American mathcore act, Richmond, Virginia’s Black Matter Device pass the Rorschach test in latest video.

Video Premiere: Disquiet (ft. Vicky Psarakis) – “Wrecked”

April 14, 2022

Dutch melodic death metal quintet Disquiet turn the vocal mike over to the Agonist vocalist Vicky Psarakis on this emotional rager.

Video Premiere: Model Prisoner – “Dirt Merchant”

April 1, 2022

Check out the new song and video from the hardcore crushers in Model Prisoner, off their new EP, Compulsion Analysis.

Video Premiere: Foreign Hands – “Separation Souvenir”

January 28, 2022

Hear metalcore crushers Foreign Hands take the genre back to its halcyon days of 20 years ago on “Separation Souvenir.”

Track Premiere: Super Structure – “Despair“

August 25, 2021

We are calculating the process of Super Structure‘s late ’90s-inspired metallic hardcore/mathcore by just listening.

Video Premiere: Ovtlier – “Bulletproof”

July 22, 2021

The new song and video from Ovtlier is here for those of you who miss the vibe of the late 90s and early 2000s.

Video Premiere: Hatefulmurder – ‘Santificado Seja o Meu Ódio’

June 23, 2021

Brazilian death thrashers Hatefulmurder release the video for their only Portuguese-language single, “Santificado Seja o Meu Ódio.”

Video Premiere: Mastiff – “Endless”

June 10, 2021

In need of a good crushing? The new song and video from the blackened sludge-core devotees in Mastiff will get that out of your system.

Full Album Stream: Orphan Donor – “Unraveled”

June 8, 2021

According to Orphan Donor, the new album “is an authentic expression and account of some of the hardest and scariest times in my life.”

Video Premiere: Eastern High – “Emperor”

May 14, 2021

Watch the new video for “Emperor,” from Swedish prog-metal heroes Eastern High, off their upcoming new album, Halo.

Video Premiere: Carnivora – “Hypnogenic”

April 14, 2021

Massachusetts metal quintet Carnivora recruit guest performances from two Shadows Fall members for their new single, “Hypnogenic.”

Video Premiere: There Were Wires – ‘His Talk, Her Teeth’

March 30, 2021

Underappreciated early-aughts metalcore unit There Were Wires rear their heads with a remastered version of 2003 banger “His Talk, Her Teeth.”

Track Premiere: Zao – “Croatoan”

March 4, 2021

“This song is a vehicle for that feeling and relates it back to dissociation and being lost in strange dimensions and dreams.”

Video Premiere: Purity – “Serpentine”

February 18, 2021

The Las Vegas collective Purity offer anything but in their hybrid of late ’90s sounds.

Video Premiere: Mind Power- “Mess”

January 29, 2021

The new video from Mind Power features singer Robert Meadows telling you just how furious he is with all of us.

Video Premiere: Left to Vanish – “Pity”

December 30, 2020

Venture into the darkness to watch the music video from metalcore throne-smashers Left to Vanish. Stream their new single “Pity” now.

Video Premiere: Matriarchs – ‘Slave City’

December 10, 2020

Los Angeles metalcore bruisers Matriarchs refuse to go to “Slave City.”

Full EP Stream: Ten Ton Hammer – ‘New Failures’

December 3, 2020

Philadelphia-based bashers Ten Ton Hammer drop five new tracks of ’90s-fueled metal and hardcore squarely on your cranium with the New Failures EP.