Canadian noise rockers KEN mode have returned with VOID—the companion piece to last year’s NULL—and Decibel has successfully secured 100 copies on truly Blue vinyl to complement the sadness within. Recorded and mixed by Andrew Schneider and featuring artwork and layout by Randy Ortiz, this special Decibel edition comes courtesy of our friends at Arttofact records. Set to release September 22, you
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In the pantheon of rock stars that are no longer with us, there are few more unadulterated, few more real and genuine, than the late Lemmy Kilmister. Whenever Motörhead rolled into town, you knew you were going to get raw and unfiltered badassery in the form of insanely loud rock and roll. Having been fortunate
Photo by Katrina Vella It kind of feels like Hemplifier have done all the heavy lifting for me as far as introducing the band and their debut full-length album, The Stoner Side of the Doom. Having read this far, is there any question as to what this Maltese (as in, from the tiny island country of
Forming a few scant months before the world shut down in 2020 has meant that the totality of Cavern Deep’s discography has been impacted by the confinement and desolation foisted upon humanity by COVID’s human eating charm. Then again, hailing from Umeå, Sweden as these lovers of doom metal, velour smoking jackets and image filters
Josh Homme and the guys in Queens of the Stone Age are no strangers to the dark. Their music has always had a tinge of the macabre, the melancholy, the strange, that can be traced back all the way to their debut release back in 1998. Yet their most recent releases, …Like Clockwork and Villains
Isua bring the thunder from the land down under on Abandon, the group’s first full-length album. Describing the album’s style as “grinding doom,” Isua often find themselves in a post-metal sonic territory that takes the framework laid out by bands like Neurosis and The Ocean and drops it on its head. Songs like “Spiral & Dissolve”
Vile Ritual have debuted a new song, “Aimless,” from their forthcoming album Caverns of Occultic Hatred, out June 16 via Sentient Ruin. You can stream the track with us first: The East Coast, psychedelic, one-man death metal force have laid out a complex and brutal slab of violence with this release. They bring all the weirdness
Back in 2018, Norwegian trio Saint Karloff released their first album All Heed the Black God. It was an energetic and impactful intro, embracing the heavy blues grooves of early Sabbath and the dopesmokin’ psych fuzz of Electric Wizard. The debut sparked a flurry of activity, including a split with Devil’s Witches and a 40
There was a time back in the early 80s when Metallica weren’t a household name like they are now. In fact, there was a time they were a small band, covering new wave of British heavy metal tunes and writing/playing their own music. Eventually, they ended up putting out a demo called No Life Til’
Italian cinema redefined horror in the 1970s and 80s, with auteurs with names like Bava, Argento and the incomparable Lucio Fulci becoming masters of the dark art on the silver screen to a new generation of cringe-loving voyeurs. Fabio Frizzi was Fulci’s right hand man, providing the sonic backdrop throughout some of his biggest genre accomplishments,
Old-school death metal troopers To Descend are releasing a new EP, Mindless Birth, out June 2 via Horror Pain Gore Death, and we have the sneak peek. This is the band’s first release for Horror Pain Gore Death. The Swedish band features Jens Johansson of Mega Slaghter on vocals and Rogga Johansson of Ribspreader, Ghoulhouse, Paganizer…
Under Attack, the blasting hardcore punk squad out of Richmond, VA is your new favorite band you don’t even know about yet. With a line-up that has spent time in the likes of Municipal Waste, Human Remains, Discordance Axis, Limp Wrist, Suppression and many, many, many more, this new three-song EP, Bastards Fucking Bastards, is
Death metal titans Obituary and Immolation proved why they’re two of the most unstoppable forces in death metal over the last four decades with a lengthy United States tour. It goes without saying that we needed to document this meeting of the minds, so photographer Alison Webster captured all the action for MetalSucks. Obituary Immolation
Glam (or glam-adjacent, as singer Michael Monroe might prefer) rockers Hanoi Rocks have often been surrounded by controversy and drama, especially following the death of drummer Nicholas “Razzle” Dingley, who was killed in a 1984 drunk driving accident with Vince Neil behind the wheel. In a new interview with Ultimate Guitar, Monroe discussed the band’s
Photo: Maciej Pieloch Since his firing from Megadeth, bassist David Ellefson has kept busy, hitting the road with also-former Megadeth member Jeff Young in Kings of Thrash and by starting death-thrashers Dieth with guitarist/vocalist Guilherme Miranda (ex-Entombed A.D.) and drummer Michał Łysejko (ex-Decapitated). Ellefson spoke to Decibel about the new band, turning over a new leaf and what his
Guitarist Josh Middleton, who joined Architects in 2016 as a touring member following the death of late guitarist Tom Searle and became a full-time member in 2017, has gone his separate ways with the band. In a statement posted to Instagram, the band made the split seem amicable and encouraged fans to listen to Middleton’s
Cult of Luna just released a live film called Full Moon and announced a tour of Europe and the U.K. The film features footage from their past European tour in March, both on stage and behind the scenes. Mathieu Ezan directed the movie, and it can be streamed for free. The band will also be
Nita Strauss, who got famous playing guitar for Alice Cooper, just released a video of her collaboration with Anrdes Fridén of In Flames. The track is called “The Golden Trail,” and it appears on her upcoming sophomore solo album The Call Of The Void, out July 7 via Sumerian Records. This is the fourth song
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