Metal

Photo by Vanessa Valadez Chicago progressive instrumental metal trio Coyote Manshowcase a broad musical palette on their upcoming second full-length,Prosthetic Memories, but on new single, “Zealotry,” they abandon subtlety for sheer force. This is a four-minute-plus roiling bulldozer of a track that uses melody sparingly and mostly just rides a couple of relentless circular riffs.

“SYSTEM OF A DOWN’s DARON MALAKIAN Leads Entire Stadium in OASIS Diss.” Maybe it’s the rise of veganism, or the fact that nowadays ordering red meat from nearly anywhere can give you explosive diarrhoea, but it’s been too long since the music industry has had a good BEEF! Enter System of a Down, comparing Oasis

There’s almost no point in even writing an introduction for this one –regardless of what is written, prog fans will already have a four-paragraph rebuttal ready and waiting before I’ve even sent this to my editor. Because somehow, prog fans always know. They just do. Hence, why this introduction feels pointless. Prog-heads already either know

Greetings,Decibel readers! This week brings a variety of heavy music, with two particularly horrifying releases from long-running experimental acts. But there’s also some classic revival albums as well and some catchy melodeath if you just want some riffs! — Coffin Hunters – Cosmic Dawn The California-based classic heavy metal outfit has returned with its third

Local shows always suck because they want to pay you in drink tickets and exposure while you waste several billable hours at the venue waiting to drill through your 25-minute set. You know the story. Load-in is at 3:00 p.m. You get screamed at by management for showing up five minutes late because there’s nowhere

Today we are premiering the monstrous, 14-minute track “Ichor” from Altarage. The song is from their forthcoming album, Cogwheel,out July 31 via Sentient Ruin and Doomentia. “Wound discharge reveals the divine fluid,” the band say about the single. “Ichor of benevolence and corruption leaking from the beast that marched with a decaying stride. The conscious

Strap in for an epic journey with the premier of the nearly 14-minute new track (we hesitate to call it a “single”), “Paired Sentinels,” from Chicago post-punk doomsters Anatomy of a Habit. The lengthy piece is the title track—and one of four songs—on the veteran quintet’s fifth long-player. These gentlemen—Alex Latus (guitar), Isidro Reyes (metal

Eaten by Sharks Canadian extreme metal crew Eaten By Sharks go deep on new full-length The Undertow of Hate, a crushing, composition-focused plunge into nautical horror, psychological collapse and total oceanic ruin. If 2022’s Eradication established the band’s appetite for progressive death metal precision, deathcore violence and groove-heavy punishment, The Undertow of Hate expands the

Rise and shine, suckers! Smokey Goretooth is back again with a new “Do I Suck?,” MetalSucks’ version of “Am I The Asshole?” where we take real life horror stories and bring them to our readers to decide if the OP sucks for some bullshit they may or may not have done. This week, we have

Photo: Gene Smirnov After nearly a decade of traversing the underground metal scene in the United States and Europe, Philadelphia metal act Witching are poised to enter a new era of the band. Following the departure of founding guitarist and main songwriter Nate Zagrimanis, Witching welcomed new guitarist Andre Pickens. Pickens, who lives in Georgia,

Where they from? Arizona. We are at the MLB All-Star break, which means it’s officially the slowest sports week of the year. Even the World Cup doesn’t have any games until Wednesday. All this means I have to dive deep introspectively and find a personality outside of sports, which for those who like to disassociate

OK, I just got back from the MetalSucks office, and some words were exchanged regarding my displeasure over the albums they’ve been having me cover as of late. Things got a little heated, and I’ll fully admit that some of the language I employed was a bit crass. I normally don’t lose my head like

pic: Tim Hubbard Decibel is extremely saddened to announce the death of drummer/vocalist Mike Browning, who passed away on July 13, 2026, at the age of 62. A legend of the Florida extreme metal scene, Browning was a co-founder of Morbid Angel with Trey Azgathoth in early ’80s (as well as pre-Morbid Angel acts Ice

Introduce your kid to metal, thinking they’d grow up liking Death Angel, Black Sabbath, or Iron Maiden, but instead, they grew up to like the shit-for-brains sceney-bopper music that has no right passing itself off as metal? Damn, that’s a rough one. Sorry you still have to go to your Metallica gigs alone, and in

Greetings,Decibelreaders! We’ve got a lot of great music for you this week, as all five albums below represent a different take on dark extremity. From punk-rock bluster to brutal death detonations, you’ll have no shortage of sonic energy to fuel your weekend. — Cranial Osteotomy – Vortex of the Dark Knowledge Alright, let’s just blow

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Photo courtesy of What Lies Below Metalcore crew What Lies Below drop new full-length, I Let It Consume Me,via Theoria Records. Check out their single “Bloom” ahead of the record drop. The East Coast band keep it close to their melodic roots, but also branch out a bit on this new release. “‘Bloom’ is about

Trying to get a leg up as a touring musician? Are you tired of paying a 25% merch fee to venues so you could set up a beer pong table and sling your t-shirts and stickers? Has the door guy once again walked away with more cash in his pocket than your band because he’s

It’s a story as old as, well, the six years since the pandemic: one-man project is given birth during the days of lockdowns and isolation. Eventually, once the lockdowns are lifted, that one-man project slowly gets fleshed and filled out to the existence of a full band where one person had previously spent their forced

Grungy hardcore duoSWAMPFOOT keep the Caps Lock on in their new video for the track “AIM LOW.” In fact, the emphatic New Yorkers are an all-caps, all-the-time kind of band and that spirit carries through in their new video. The pair—Cliff Hodson (vocals/bass) and Jordan Greene (drums)—are shot performing live via an ever-turning fisheye lens,