Sam Mooradian, the renowned guitarist of Fallujah, dropped his first album as a solo act, Bad Brain, yesterday. Mooradian says about the album: “Bad Brain feels like a musical companion to emotionally difficult times. It’s the result of years of trying to hone my own sound and style of prog metal while also navigating significant
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Man, what a week, eh? Lots of new music came out, lots of wild shit happened, it got insanely fucking hot out here in the states… We’re in the real dog days of summer now, so it’s all about trying to stay cool while listening to some of the most blistering hot metal tracks out
Angra announced last week that their new album, Cycles Of Pain, out November 3 via Atomic Records, is now available for preorder. Guitarist Rafael Bittencourt says: “This is a very special record for us for several reasons: First, much has happened since our last release in 2018. During the last five years, we experienced a
EVILDEAD are back with a new track and visualizer for “Bathe in Fire,” a song from their upcoming album. Details of the forthcoming album from the thrash band are yet to be shared, but it will be their first record after 2020’s United States of Anarchy. Themes of “Bathe in Fire” are depression and suicide,
Holy crappola! Sometimes some of us — mostly me — will casually throw around the phrase “friends of Decibel” in reference to those bands/artists/supporters/benefactors/swell human beings who are indeed friends of Decibel. Recently, after being approach by our old friends in death-grinders Rottenness about whether there was website real estate available to the tell the
Colorado USBM outlaws Wayfarer saddle up with their new LP American Gothic, and we’ve managed to commandeer our own exclusive variant from Profound Lore on Marble Gunsmoke vinyl, limited to a mere 90 copies! After a decade spent reconnoitering the dark soul of America, the black clad bandoleros tapped noted audio-desperado Arthur Rizk to forge their signature blend of
Greetings, Decibel readers! Interesting, all of this chat going around lately about nu-metal making a comeback. I remain skeptical for a number of reasons, not the least that people already went around saying this in 2014 when Issues came around, and then no revival happened. Sure, some people erroneously put the label on Code Orange,
KEN MODE’s New Album ‘VOID’ on Decibel-Exclusive Vinyl Is Available for Pre-Order RIGHT NOW! June 2, 2023 We have only 100 copies available of KEN Mode new album, VOID, on exclusive blue vinyl, perfectly complementing the sadness within. Originally Posted Here
New Jersey’s grindcore berserkers Organ Dealer bring barbwire laced riffs and blast beat fever to their long-awaited sophomore album The Weight of Being. The foursome of Eric Schnee (drums), Jeff Knoblauch (guitar), Trevor Graham (bass, vocals) and Scot Moriarty (vocals on the record, later replaced in the line-up by Chris Ward) took to the studio
Photo by Anna Haas Nashville heavy duo Friendship Commanders present a new video for “Vampire” from their upcoming album Mass, out September 29. Guitarist/vocalist Buick Audra says about the track: “There was a season at the end of my time in Boston where I was being turned into The Problem by someone who wanted to control
Decoherence, the enigmatic U.K. black metal innovators, release their haunting third full-length album, Order, this week. This mechanized odyssey draws listeners into a realm of absolute darkness and existential emptiness, exploring humanity’s insignificance within the vast expanse of reality. The album envisions a future where advanced technology bridges cosmic distances, forcing mankind to confront its
What began four years ago as a solo project by an anonymous masked fiend who goes by the moniker No One has been transformed on The Sun’s Journey Through the Night’s fourth full-length release, Wordless. On this newest effort No One is joined by three collaborators—Lune (guitar), Deimos (drums), Corvus (bass)—in crafting a dynamic, modern black metal album
Someone better check the temperature down in Hell, because it’s late July 2023 and I’m writing a MetalSucks post about Vince Neil actually sounding half decent during a recent show. While the rest of Mötley Crüe are ostensibly working on new material or trying to find new ways to drag Mick Mars through the mud,
Last year, a product called The Real Thing cropped up on Kickstarter that could only be described as a weird little tabletop roleplaying game that was loosely based on — and endorsed by — Faith No More and their releases. Earlier this week, the company behind the RPG came back to fans with their hat
Earlier this month, Philadelphia sludge eulogists Quiet Man released their debut LP. The Starving Lesson is a churning collision of harsh distortion, art-house doom, and Neurosis post-metal. The promo text initially grabbed me with the promise that Quiet Man are “bringing the darkness back to psychedelia.” Then I quickly realized that the band was a
Where they from?Czech Republic. If your baseball team sucks this year (God knows mine does) then you, along with millions of other Americans, have entered the dead zone of the sports calendar. I know I should probably be at the beach or vomiting on a Six Flags roller coaster somewhere in New Jersey, but goddamn,
Metallica has been a cultural commodity for so long that it’s difficult to imagine their lives before global fame. Fortunately, there is a time capsule: the band’s life-altering debut Kill ‘Em All, which hit shelves four decades ago today. The album came out when the band members were in their early 20s. It is Metallica
Prepare to widen your mind’s eye and take an acid-tinged journey through the cosmos with Sweden’s Domkraft. Formed in 2014 with an aim to craft heavy music with a psych-filled twinge, the outfit have released three albums, two EPs and one split record ahead of their latest opus, Sonic Moons, available September 8 through Magnetic Eye
Boy meets girl. Boy falls in love with girl, but when boy meets girl’s family and friends, they definitely don’t love him. So, boy and girl try to run away, hijinks ensue, yadda yadda yadda, people wind up dead. It’s a tale as old as time, one that’s been interpolated by storytelling masters like William
With this new release from Norwegian retro trio Flight, we’re turning the way-back machine to a time before the term “heavy metal” really existed. Yep, that era when metal was being forged, but in the parlance of the day, it was just heavy rock or hard rock. And it should be noted that even though