Old School Death Metal

The ever-prolific Rogga Johansson returns with — wait for it — more death metal, this time in the form of a new EP from To Descend. Hear it here.

Danish death metal derelicts, Deiquisitor deliver the deliciously destructive “Humanoid,” from their Extremely Rotten debut LP Apotheosis. 

Hear Maryland trio Yatra revisit their OSDM roots on their fourth long-player out June 10 on Prosthetic.

Danish death metal quintet, Thorium, chum the water with their bloody, shark-infested new single.

Demo:listen returns with some quality Midwestern old school death metal from Indianapolis trio Cadaverous.

We are stoked to bring you some old-school death metal goodness on the new video from the Danes in Thorium.

Wretched Inferno deliver beefy old-school death metal that belies their high school age on the Fester EP. From caveman to monkey riff.

One-time Mercyful Fate and King Diamond drummer Snowy Shaw contributes guest vocals to a new track from U.S. death dealers Angerot.

SoCal deathcrushers Xibalba are ready to leave this forsaken world in the dark with the first track from their long-awaited new LP.

Decibel is all too happy to let the old-school death metal Plague to rage on.

Hear NWOSDM crushers Sentient Horror stomp their HM-2s into oblivion on latest full-length Morbid Realms.

UK old-school death metallers Memoriam release their third album, Requiem for Mankind. Decibel tracks down vocalist Karl Willetts to see what life is like on the frontlines.

Thanatos celebrate 35 YEARS with a big anniversary show, new label, new album in the works, and the Thanatology: Terror from the Vault 2 CD demo/rarities compilation.

Teleport continue to find their voice on The Expansion.

Give up your flesh to Mexican death metal and check out a new track from Morbid Messiah off their debut album Demoniac Paroxysm.

Decide‘s Overtures of Blasphemy is our Best New Noise.

Stream a gloomy new slab of death from Australia’s Descent.

Stream a new song from OSDM outfit Wombbath.

Cist has taken the science of scorching vocals, gritty guitars ripping out excellent riffs, and a brutal yet precise rhythm section, and turned it into an art.

OSDM revivalists Supreme Carnage rip you to shreds with new song “The Fire Prevails.”

Decibel talks to Gods Forsaken about the present and future for the old school supergroup.

Ursinne (ex-Benediction, ex-Bolt Thrower) are on the internet in 360 degrees.

Stream the title track from Father Befouled‘s first album in five years!

Gods Forsaken go for the throat with crusty, old-school Swedish death metal.

Death metal supergroup Hideous are ready to bulldoze you with their old school Florida death metal sound. 

Necrot unleash sickening, aggressive death metal from they prepare to give Blood Offerings. 

Being inspired by the classics doesn’t mean you can just follow through and pull off something worthy of your forebears. But someone in Portland has unbolted a crypt and unleashed the debut four-song EP Summon Horrendous Destruction by Petrification. 

Pestifer‘s debut album, Execration Diatribes, rips, shreds and thrashes in all the right places. 

You want the truth about “Lies,” the track we’re exclusively premiering this morning from upcoming extreme metal opus Soul Demise courtesy  Italian quartet Maze of Sothoth? It’s dark, nasty, gloriously old school death metal that will gutpunch fans of early Morbid Angel, Vader, and Nile right in their deviant feels. 

Wake up and smell the incinerating human remains with this exclusive stream of the debut EP from California’s Crematory Stench.