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Track Premiere: New Skeletal Faces “Until the Night”
September 18, 2024 Chris Dick
California fangers New Skeletal Faces premiere their shimmering, sanguine new track, “Until the Night,” at Decibel. Out November on Peaceville Records.
Track Premiere: Daughter Chaos “Noble Rot”
July 1, 2024 Chris Dick
Death metal artists Daughter Chaos, featuring ex-members of Armageddon and The Obsessed, launch crushing new single, “Noble Rot,” off their forthcoming album, Noble Rot, via Abrams Records.
Album Stream: Je est un Autre – ‘Flatworm Mysticism’
February 28, 2024 Tim Mudd
Dylan Desmond’s Je est un Autre offers a sonic exploration tangential to his main doom metal squeeze, Bell Witch.
Track Premiere: Altar of Betelgeuze – “Conclusion”
January 31, 2024 Sean Frasier
Finnish death/doom trio Altar of Betelgeuze return with their first new track in 7 years. Their 3rd album Echoes roars to life in March.
Track Premiere: Counting Hours – “Away I Flow”
January 24, 2024 Chris Dick
Members of Shape of Despair/ex-Rapture, Impaled Nazarene, and ex-Colosseum lean into their Finnish gloom roots with Counting Hours.
Album Premiere: GUHTS – “Regeneration”
January 24, 2024 Sean Frasier
NYC doom sect GUHTS sound darker than ever on their powerful debut LP from Seeing Red Records and New Heavy Sounds, “Regeneration.”
Full EP Stream: Dripping Decay – “Ripping Remains”
January 22, 2024 Dillon Collins
Don’t delay, hear the new Dripping Decay!
Track Premiere: Witnesses – “Joy (Beyond the Sound of My Voice)”
January 17, 2024 Sean Frasier
NYC project Witnesses returns with a new track of widescreen cinematic doom entitled “Joy (Beyond the Sound of My Voice).”
Album Premiere: Into the Deep – “Blackfin”
January 3, 2024 Sean Frasier
Raleigh melodeath trio Into the Deep bring the nautical nastiness with their new album Blackfin. Shark week is here early.
10 Heavy Albums to Hear Before 2024
December 27, 2023 Sean Frasier
Before the calendar flips to 2024, check out these 10 killer albums you might have missed during list season’s frenzy.
Track Premiere: Exiled Hope – “Over For You”
December 20, 2023 Sean Frasier
Blackened symphonic solo project Exiled Hope share their next chapter of dark fantasy opera with the new single “Over For You.”
Track Premiere: Cariosus – “Saturn Returns”
December 13, 2023 Sean Frasier
Chicago melodic death metal duo Cariosus confront the darkness on their (inter)stellar new single, “Saturn Returns.”
Album Premiere: Solitary Sabred – “Temple of the Serpent”
December 6, 2023 Sean Frasier
Cypriot heavy metal warlords Solitary Sabred charge into battle with an early premiere of Temple of the Serpent.
Track Premiere: At the Plates – “Punish My Waistline”
November 29, 2023 Sean Frasier
Dig into a lethal helping of food-themed melodeath with At the Plates and their pun-slinging, scale-smashing single “Punish My Waistline.”
Track by Track: Demons of Noon – “Death Machine”
November 28, 2023 Sean Frasier
Venture into Death Machine with New Zealand doom cult Demons of Noon with a track by track deep-dive of the album’s darkest themes.
Album Premiere: Mourn the Light / Ice Howl / High Priest / Archdruid
November 22, 2023 Sean Frasier
Mourn the Light, Ice Howl, High Priest and Archdruid join forces on a split gleaming with heavy metal sorcery.
David Obuchowski (Goes Cube, Publicist UK) Releases Single “Flicker” from Solo Project Bitter Cold
November 8, 2023 Dillon Collins
David Oburchowski (Goes Cube and Publicist UK) embarks on a new eclectic and emotional solo project, Bitter Cold, through his recently launched Moth Hospital Records.
Track Premiere: Shipwreck Karpathos – “SCENE XI: Life as War”
November 8, 2023 Sean Frasier
Midwestern post-rockers Shipwreck Karpathos navigate stormy seas with their new single from Being Human. Out November 17th.
Track Premiere: Acid Throne – “War Torn”
November 6, 2023 Dillon Collins
Watch the new video from UK doom / sludge trio Acid Throne taken from their debut album, Kingdom’s Death, which is due out on November 8.
Track Premiere: Young Acid – “The Crust”
October 25, 2023 Sean Frasier
Take a trip with Swedish supergroup Young Acid‘s new single “The Crust.” Featuring members of Greenleaf, Domkraft, Grand Cadaver, and more.
EP Stream: Thanamagus – “Lie In Wait”
October 23, 2023 Dillon Collins
Hear the entire Lie In Wait debut EP from Portland death metal trio Thanamagus before it’s release on Carbonized Records in the US and Seed of Doom Records in Europe on October 27.
Decibel is pleased to premiere the EP in its entirety.
Full Album Stream: Baring Teeth – “The Path Narrows”
October 18, 2023 Dillon Collins
Hear Dallas-based trio Baring Teeth‘s atonal discordance and ethereal dissonance via their fourth full-length The Path Narrows via I, Voidhanger on October 20.
Album Premiere: Cult Burial – “Reverie Of The Malignant”
October 18, 2023 Sean Frasier
London blackened doom sect Cult Burial return with a ferocious full-length testament to darkness called Reverie Of The Malignant.
Album Premiere: Aiwass – “The Falling”
October 11, 2023 Sean Frasier
Cross the veil with Phoenician psych doom project Aiwass into their shadowy new opus, The Falling. Out from King Volume Records on Friday.
Track Premiere: Scab Hag – “Reanimated”
October 4, 2023 Sean Frasier
Cincinnati death metal bog-dwellers Scab Hag raise the dead with their new single “Reanimated.” New album out on Halloween.
Track Premiere: CH’AHOM – “Chavín de Huántar”
September 27, 2023 Dillon Collins
Hallucinatory prog-infested black/death metal cohort Ch’ahom burst into the metal consciousness with their dynamic tome on sonic wizardry via debut album Knots of Abhorrence.
Album Premiere: Stepmother – “Planet Brutalicon”
September 27, 2023 Sean Frasier
Blast off with retro rockers Stepmother and crash land on their debut of fuzzed-out rowdy riffs, Planet Brutalicon.
Album Premiere: Acid Mass – “Agonizer”
September 20, 2023 Sean Frasier
Jump in a repossessed war machine and steamroll the day with Midwestern thrash ‘n’ roll solo project Acid Mass.
Track by Track: Transgressor – “Beyond Oblivion”
September 13, 2023 Sean Frasier
Japanese death metal pioneers Transgressor share thoughts and tragic news regarding their first new album in 30 years.
Album Premiere: Slomatics – “Strontium Fields”
September 6, 2023 Sean Frasier
Irish doom mainstays Slomatics build their 8th LP from crushing riffs, cosmic psych and space dust. Strontium Fields comes out September 8th from Black Bow Records.