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If you’ve been worried about Alice Cooper stepping back from the stage, don’t be. He has reiterated multiple times that he will not be calling it quits anytime soon. When he appeared on The Power Hour via AXS TV, Cooper responded when asked about retiring: “Well, it’s not in my vocabulary, the word ‘retire.’ People

Ghost covered the recently deceased Tina Turner on their latest album, and Ghost’s Tobias Forge opened up about the singer in a recent interview. Ghost covered the song “We Don’t Need Another Hero” on their most recent EP, Phantomime. Te frontman enthusiastically spoke of his love for the late singer in a recent interview with Metal

It’s always a reason to celebrate when there’s new music from Bongzilla, and this particular song is about everyone’s favorite subtle cannabis consumption method “C.A.R.T.S.” Just because this song is an ode to a less heady style of smoking doesn’t mean it doesn’t pack the same punch as a giant bong hit. The track is

Folks might wonder if Dave Lombardo regrets not being able to join Slayer on their final tour. Apparently, the answer is a resounding “no.” In a recent interview with Revolver, Lombardo opened up about why not being a part of Slayer’s final 2018 and 2019 shows didn’t bother him: “I was already doing so much… I’d known

It’s a long ass weekend and as such, it’s the perfect time to kick back, crack open a cold one, and take it easy. Here in the U.S., we’re celebrating Memorial Day, when we remember the brave men, women, and non-binary individuals that served in the armed forces. Specifically, the holiday is to honor those

Photo courtesy of Damian John New UK death meta force DeathCollector are dropping their debut album, Death’s Toll, June 23 via Prosthetic Records. The band, featuring former Bolt Thrower and Memoriam drummer Andrew Whale and Ashen Crown frontman Kieran Scott have graced us with the track “Death’s Toll” from that album for your listening pleasure.

Illustration: Mike Wohlberg For this third and final liaison with Liam Wilson we’re going to veer a few clicks off the old access road, past the abandoned general store and on into a narrow, nigh-forgotten dale. We’ll wander deep along its mosquito-freckled gulley until we broach the cottonwood grove’s lavish canopy where there’ll be hootin’,

Greetings, Decibel readers! It’s an exciting week for black metal fans. We’ve got a new Immortal album to show you, along with the latest from their fellow dark practitioners in Cloak and Nattverd. Plus, for those of you in the path of this year’s Decibel Magazine Tour, you have chance to see Dark Funeral! Having

What’s up? It’s your old boy Waldo here to inform you about some new and upcoming releases — good, bad or otherwise. Remember, I’m not an elitist, you just have terrible taste. Canada’s Thantifaxath is releasing Hive Mind Narcosis on Dark Descent. This is not your average black metal record. There are aspects of black,

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London-based black metal outfit Deitus are slated to release their new album, Irreversible, in July. Their first release in five years, Irreversible takes an epic approach to black metal, placing a strong emphasis on melody and doom metal. In fact, on new song “Voyeur,” the doom takes front and center for a dramatic tune that features the vocal talents of

In 1983 vocalist Ronnie James Dio wasn’t long removed from his inaugural stint with Black Sabbath. With Iommi and Co., he helped reinvent a band that was losing steam and recorded two Decibel Hall of Fame-certified albums (Heaven and Hell and Mob Rules). Sabbath fell apart while making their first approved live album Live Evil

Germany’s Speedwhore are not quite ready to join the 21st century. Other than the obvious concession of releasing their second full-length, Visions of a Parallel World, digitally, these dudes are pretty happy to dwell in the dawn of thrash and black metal, circa 1985. Everything from the tuneage–imagine Dark Angel circa We Have Arrived via the dirtiest parts of

Photo courtesy of Black Rainbows Doomy psych heroes Black Rainbows return with their eighth album, Superskull, out June 9 via Heavy Psych Sounds. Get a taste of it with the single “Apocalypse March,” streaming below. As you can hear for yourself, the track is stony and heavy as their stuff ever has been, but with

Photo by Gray Muncy Violence. War. Death. Insanity. RuneScape. Video games. These are the lyrical themes listed on the Metal Archives page for Creeping Death, the best ever death metal band in Denton, Texas. The now quintet are part of a growing elite class of bands from the Lone Star State—joining the likes of Power

Before there was Sunn O))), there was Thorr’s Hammer. Now, the word “legendary” gets tossed around a lot, but few bands can actually bear such a hefty description. A band like Thorr’s Hammer—Seattle’s female-fronted death-doom quintet, which lasted for less than two months and then disbanded—are more than legendary. Thorr’s Hammer are mythological. The band

Pittsburgh-based thrash-crossover band Vicious Blade (fronted by Castrator vocalist Clarissa Badini) are debuting a new video, “Speed Leather and Hell,” from their Siege of Cruelty EP. Check it out here: Siege of Cruelty was released last year via the label Our Ancient Future. The video was directed by Steve Turselli and Solano Pictures. “Unchained, satanic, lycanthropy. This

If you head north from New York’s Big Apple, you can travel along the Hudson River until the city is a distant memory. The Hudson Valley is rich with wildlife and trees. Every year the foliage blooms with color, then withers as winter approaches. But even when the days are cold and at their shortest,

A couple of years ago, we learned that ex-Megadeth bassist David Ellefson was co-producing a documentary on the late drummer Nick Menza. Menza, who passed away in 2016 of heart disease while on stage with his band, Ohm, had played in Megadeth from 1989 to 1998. It’s now 2023 and we’ve learned that Ellefson’s now

Where they from?Miami, Florida. My parents moved to Orlando last year and, man, what a shithole! I mean the weather is great but unless you are one of those creepy Disney Adult fuckheads, there ain’t shit to do! Well, I did go mini-golfing with alligators, so there’s that I guess, but still, everything else just