Hail Gwar, our lords and masters, for promising to emerge from their Antarctican stronghold and provide us with the ocular pleasure that is three online screenings of a previously filmed live recording next month. Dubbed the Scumdogs XXX Live event, this special screening will apparently feature not just the current ranks of Gwar, but some
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When it comes to Wolves in the Throne Room, there are generally two schools of thought: those who think the band are overhyped hipsters who make black metal look goofy, and those who think they are one of the best things to happen to black metal. I’m probably one of the few folks who finds
Aglo is a (mostly) one-man Australian doom project launched in 2022 by Aaron Osborne (I Exist, Mental Cavity). Previous releases include a couple of EPs—Collector (2022) and Into the Maze (2023)—offered up to introduce the world to Aglo’s death-burnished doom sludge. The track we’re premiering today, “Shame as a Weapon,” sounds like Wolverine Blues-era Entombed played through a
Where they from?Their Bandcamp says Stockholm, Sweden but all their song titles are in Spanish, so I’m not sure what’s going on there exactly. Did I mention that I had to watch my NFL team lose to Taylor Swift’s boyfriend last night? Because I did, and it was as horrible as you can imagine. Why
Earlier this year there were reports and videos showing Kings of Thrash, the Megadeth cover band featuring ex-Megadeth members Jeff Young, David Ellefson and (sometimes) Chris Poland, had new music in the works. We wrote about it and called it a diss track against Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine. Well, it turns out that we were
Heavy metal burger joint and Christian-angering establishment Kuma’s Corner is back on their bullshit, only this time they’ve got mathcore act Botch on the brain. With the band’s upcoming shows in Chicago later this month, the eatery announced it’s releasing a special burger to mark the occasion and depending on your appetite and penchant for
Tommy Victor has earned his status as one of metal’s most tireless ironmen. Founder, vocalist, and guitarist for groove metal luminaries Prong and guitarist for the legendary Danzig, Victor has the battle scars from decades of pounding the pavement and navigating trip-wires of the ever-turbulent music landscape. He returns with Prong’s thirteenth studio effort, and
Forever Below, the first long player from New Jersey-based blackened death dealers Putrascension, is the way that the genre should be played. Sharing members with Tombs, Replicant, Windfaerer, Hammer Fight and more than another dozen regional acts, Putrascension execute the songs on Forever Below with an equal combination of aggression and style. The songwriting on Forever Below doesn’t go
After spending three months in a hospital following a scary motor vehicle accident, Year of the Knife vocalist Madi Watkins has finally recovered enough to be discharged. In a video posted to Twitter by her husband Brandon Watkins, you can see Madi being wheeled out the front door as medical staff stand and applaud her
Blue Ridge Rock Festival are back in the headlines already, and somehow, it’s worse than expected. They are now being investigated by the Virginia Department of Health because of gastrointestinal issues that are being reported by concert goers. This gross-out twist to the horror film that has been Blue Ridge Rock Fest comes after the
Dave Mustaine loves to grandstand for what he believes in, but this time, it was concert security and not aliens or government conspiracies that had him up in arms. Mustaine stopped Megadeth‘s concert last week when he saw multiple security personnel jumping on one person. The show was stopped in the middle of “Symphony Of
They’ve been radio silent since 2019, but finally we’ve been blessed—or cursed—with new music from Vastum. The band’s new record, Inward To Gethsemane, is out November 10 via 20 Buck Spin. They’ve released the first single from this album, “Indwelling Archon.” Of the single, Vastum vocalist Daniel Butler says: “‘Indwelling Archon’. It’s a song about birth and loneliness in
Moshing at a hardcore show really shouldn’t be surprising, but security was caught off guard during a Drain set at Riot Fest earlier this month. During their iconic song “California Cursed,” vocalist Sammy Ciaramitaro told the crowd to storm the band. “Your job is to jump this barricade and to get on this stage.” Like
Following the firing of their problematic previous singer and the hiring of a new one, Thy Art Is Murder drop a music video in support of their latest album, Godlike. The video is for “Destroyer of Dreams,” and it proudly boasts the vocals of new singer Tyler Miller from Aversions Crown. Those vocals were, of
Everyone staying dry today? It’s damn near impossible to in our neck of the woods, where entire New York City boroughs have ended up submerged in rain water because who needs a proper infrastructure that will serve the public when you can spend all your money on other shit? Right? Right. There were a good
Off-kilter grind masters Jarhead Fertilizer are hittig the road this fall with Phobophilic and, on certain dates, Backslider and Crownovhornz. The Divine Punishment Over North America Tour, which is definitely one of the best tour names of all times, will hit up 23 different spots. Check out the dates below: 11/28 Tue Philadelphia, PA @
In extremely cute and wholesome news, Rob Halford, Slash, and other big names have donated rare items to the LA-based cat charity Kitten Rescue’s Fur Ball gala. Slash has donated a signed Use Your Illusion I record, a major score for any fans of the classic, 1991 Guns n’ Roses album. He will be returning
It’s been a pretty long time since UK death dealers Malediction released new music but things are looking good for the quintet these days. Originally forming in 1989 and active until 1996, then again briefly from 2000 to 2001, Malediction fully reunited with multiple original members. In 2016, Malediction—who feature former members of Godthrymm, Gorerotted and Monstrance—released
Ranking 20 Buck Spin alumni and Bay Area old-school nasties Vastum have returned with Inward To Gethsemane and Decibel has landed a mere 100 copies for you to lust over on murky Gray & Black Marbled Vinyl! This highly limited and mercurialy mixed vinyl variant perfectly complements the unsettling sonic horror within. Set to release November 10, this atrocity of an album will
Greetings, Decibel readers! Well, at this late date in 2023 it’s looking to be a banner year for American black metal, with new releases from Profanatica, Krieg, Woe, Wolves in the Throne Room and so many more. Daniel Lake must be furiously taking notes out there for when it comes time to write the preface