Metal

Dödsrit really is a special band. No one really sounds quite like them. Oh sure, plenty of bands combine various elements of black metal, doom metal and heroic guitar melodies, but not quite like this. Few bands weave melancholy and triumph so seamlessly as these guys. And that particular form of musical alchemy is especially
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Andorran extreme metal unit Persefone have been hacking it out for over two decades in the underground, developing a musical identity somewhere between progressive and melodic death metal. They recently welcomed vocalist Daniel R. Flys into the mix, one of the only lineup changes in the band’s long history, for new EP Lingua Ignota: Part I. Decibel caught up with
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Time to pull your old JNCO Jeans out of the closet because ‘90s alt-metal group Orange 9mm announced their long-overdue reunion this week. The reunion comes with a new lineup that includes original vocalist Chaka Malik—the band’s only consistent member—and guitarist Taylor McLam alongside new members drummer Chris Enriquez and bassist Drew Kasal. The band
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In the world of death metal, we’ve become accustomed to the word “darkness” as a standard adjective. But there’s some music that evokes it more apparently than others, and that’s definitely true of Chapel of Samhain. For rabid fans of bands like Incantation, Profanatica, Imprecation, and Ritual Necromancy, the band’s new album Black Onyx Cave
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The members of VLTIMAS are all legends in their own right. David Vincent blessed the sick for Morbid Angel. Rune Eriksen made grand declarations of war as Mayhem’s blasphemous axe man. No one is more vile than Flo Mounier, who’s been drumming for Cryptopsy since their earliest exhumations of the underground. But on their second
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Photo: Heath Metzger Amblare, the self-titled album from the band of the same name, contains the final recordings of Hum drummer Bryan St. Pere, who played with the band in their original run and on Hum’s excellent reunion record, Inlet. Amblare operate in a similar territory of heavy, fuzzed-out rock that borders on shoegaze, building a moody
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Little Rock’s big riff machine Terminal Nation return with their incendiary new album Echoes of the Devil’s Den, and Decibel has an exclusive vinyl variant on Easter Yellow Inside Orange Crush limited to a scant 100 copies! This crushing death metal and hardcore amalgam arrives in a standard jacket with an insert on the eve of the band’s debut Decibel Magazine
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Earlier this year, a new festival popped up on my radar: a new death metal festival in Austin, Texas! This year marks the first-ever Austin Death Fest, being held on April 27 and 28 at Mohawk, and features basically the top-tier of modern, contemporary death metal. For real, nearly all the big names that emerged
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With Decibel Magazine Metal & Beer Fest: Philly 2024 now less than one month away, we are honored to reveal the exclusive beer collaboration between Florida death metal legends Deicide and Indiana craft beer institution (and presenting brewery) 3 Floyds! Presenting: The Light Defeated—named after the closing track from Deicide’s forthcoming new album, Banished by
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Photo courtesy of Matt Viel – Windows Down Zine Omega Glory are back with a new single, “Cut Adrift,” from their upcoming full-length Offerings which you can stream below. Playing hard, ripping, grindy metal in the vain of Nails or Black Breath, this track is about someone desperate and unable to connect with their surroundings,
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Post-metal powerhouse O ZORN! will release its profoundly introspective album Vermillion Haze on March 15 via Hard Drugs/Seeing Red Records. Beyond the glitz of Los Angeles, the band delves into the city’s darker, chaotic underbelly, magnified by the pandemic’s aftermath. Fronted by the charismatic Bill Kielty and backed by a formidable lineup, O ZORN! crafts a sound that captures
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Plenty of artists ape the stylings of ’70s and ’80s but Armagh do it with a level of authenticity that’s hard to do. Drawing inspiration from ’70s hard rock, classic ’80s heavy metal and first-wave black metal, their new album Exclamation Point is a melodic, alluring album that is both subdued and energizing. An eight-song ripper, Exclamation Point is produced
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Where they from?Kaiserslautern, Germany. Normally I chat about sports or other bullshit in this intro section but this weekend Blake Harrison of Pig Destroyer passed away and I just want to pay him a little tribute. Blake was one of the first people I met in the entire grindcore scene, bumping into him at the
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Photo: Paisley Mena Los Angeles death dealers Swampbeast put everyone on notice in 2021, when they crawled out of their marshy hiding place and delivered their debut album, Seven Evils Spawned of Seven Heads, on the world. Musically, they’ve been quiet since then—until now. Their second LP, Offering of Chaos, Lamenting In The Blood of Man, is due for a
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