Metal

Allegedly, Tony Iommi was offered the chance to join Black Sabbath on the upcoming Power Trip festival, but he turned it down. Iommi revealed this fact in an interview with Trunk Nation With Eddie Trunk that he turned it down because Ozzy Osbourne was having health issues, even though Ozzy is planning on being the

Filth is Eternal announced specifics this week about their upcoming record, Find Out, and shared the first single from the album, “Crawlspace.” The Seattle band are dropping the forthcoming record on September 29 via MNRK Heavy. “It’s about that small window of time when everything feels like it’s working—the band, relationships, work, mental health, the

Man, death metal showed up this past week, didn’t it? From the 30th anniversaries of both Morbid Angel’s Covenant and Death’s Individual Thought Patterns to the unexpected announcements and singles from Cannibal Corpse and Deathklok, you have enough tunes to thoroughly piss off your neighbors. Other than those things, though, we didn’t get a whole

A trifecta of a black metal tour was just announced in the form of Cloak, Uada, and Ghost Bath. The 30-plus-date tour kicks off at the end of August in Denver and crosses the U.S. and Canada. Check out the dates here: 08/30 Denver, CO @ Roxy Theater [TICKETS]08/31 Salt Lake City, UT @ Urban Lounge [TICKETS]09/01

You’d think this had already gone down, but nu-metal outfit Korn have apparently entered into an agreement with apparel company Adidas to put out a line of branded shoes and apparel. The news comes after Complex received internal documents highlighting the new line featuring the band’s logo coming this October. According to the documents, the

In what appears to be a thinly veiled hint at a secret club show next Friday, Mötley Crüe took to Twitter earlier today to promote some unknown band called Dögs Of War and their upcoming gig at London’s The Underworld. Of course, we only know that because even though the band’s blocked us on Twitter,

Looking back at the absolutely fucking insane career that The Dillinger Escape Plan forged for itself as a unit, it’s wild to think they even became as huge as they did. Given the fact that even guitarist Ben Weinman describes their sound as “garbage cans falling down stairs,” it’s probably unbelievable to the average layperson

Greetings, Decibel readers! Hope you’ve gotten your copy of Decibel #226, as it contains lots of goodies from the Mizmor cover story to a proper story about Anvil‘s Metal on Metal. Everyone knows about the Anvil documentary and the band’s place in the history of metal, but it’s long-past due for a proper journalistic outlet

Back in April, two of the hardest party bands in Indiana tag-teamed a split EP available exclusively on cassette. The Mound Builders play an infectious blend of sludge and hardcore punk with big energy and even bigger riffs. We discussed their ten year anniversary a few years ago, so our excitement about this split is

Hailing from the backwoods of Pennsylvania, Cultic make music that alludes to high fantasy sword-and-sorcery tales—King Arthur, Conan the Barbarian and Red Sonja. They call it battle punk or dark dungeon metal, both of which seem to be alternate ways to describe funeral doom without the length. Their new single “Seduced” runs under five minutes in length

Ah, the freedom of completely unfettered creative expression. Nothing like it. And when it’s just you, your instruments and some recording gear, dealing with other human’s and their opinions isn’t a concern. So, if you want to craft a devilishly old-school black album around a fantasy novel you wrote (The Rise of Meklarah), such as

Looking for a new thrash metal jam? Do you wish said jam sort of sounded like Vader if they became a thrash band? Then you’re in luck with the latest ripper on display with the new video from Denmark’s Terminalist. The band is set to unleash their second album on the world on September 8

Photo by Roberto Romano Trounce have shared with us a lyric video and song from their upcoming album The Seven Crowns, titled “The Wheel.” The record will be out October 20 via Hummus Records on triple vinyl, double CD, and digitally. The record is made up of both studio recordings and live songs from their set at

Rainer Landfermann‘s reputation precedes him. Whether it’s his performance on Bethlehem’s Dictius te Necare, his incredible bass playing in technical death metal band Pavor, or his even more ridiculous material as a solo artist, Landfermann’s penchant or the extreme—the over the top—defines his artistic oeuvre. On his new two-track EP Mehr Licht, Landfermann approaches over-the-top-ness

Jonathan Lorang Photo Virtuoso Canadian guitarist/composer/producer Nathanael Larochette will release his first album in seven years this summer, Old Growth, a haunting collection of solo acoustic compositions recorded in a woodland cabin on the shores of White Lake, Ontario. From the multi-versed Musk Ox/The Night Watch guitarist and Agalloch collaborator, Old Growth saw its maker

Photo by Shimon Karmel A biased opinion, I know, but I can’t stress this enough: Go read Jonathan Horsley’s cover feature on this month’s player character A.L.N. and his phenomenal one-man band Mizmor. A contemporary of the Pacific Northwest’s ever-growing extreme metal scene, Mizmor’s unique blend of funeral doom, drone and black metal is one

Hailing from Greenville, South Carolina, doomy psychedelic trio Auralayer are primed to become your next favorite band. Armed with big riffs and a love for bands like Sleep, Mastodon and Torche, their debut album, Thousand Petals, is a jammer that will definitely appeal to fans of the aforementioned bands, or just stoner rock and doom

Rising from the bowels of this nation’s most vile and loathsome state, Tennessee’s Korroded have exploded onto the scene with a debut full-length of only the most kick-ass grindage this side of the Mississippi. Featuring former members of the equally vicious Reserving Dirtnaps, Korroded’s brand of grind is both visceral and vital, pummeling the listener

It hurts a little to admit, but we remember the actual day when “Video Killed the Radio Star.” The launch of MTV was supposedly going to revolutionize music. It sort of did, but those first few years of the channel we were subject to music videos, like this new one from Pittsburgh grungy noise mongers

Gather ’round the fire, friends. You’re in for a fiery and epic black metal performance. Teloch Vovin is a ferocious collective of dark disciples hailing from New York City and Long Island. On July 28, the band will issue a split with their Queens-based brethren in Viserion called The Iron Age of Kali Yuga. To