Metal

The thrash metal world was dealt a heavy blow back in March when we all learned that founding member and Dark Angel guitarist Jim Durkin had passed away at 58 years old. The news came as a particular shock, since it was announced that the band was working on new material and had special gigs

photo: Bobby Cochran Dark lords of the frayed riff, Yob have become the stuff of legend across 20-plus years in the metal space.  Now, after two decades, the band is set to reissue their debut full length Elaborations of Carbon, a melting pot of influences and genre melding that foreshadowed their epic dominance to come.

Since emerging from the darkest crevices of Lexington, Kentucky back in 2008, Tombstalker have served as one of the South’s foremost purveyors of stomping death metal terror. Despite having just a single long-player under their belts – 2015’s vicious Black Crusades – the band have stayed busy, releasing a half dozen splits, demos, and EPs.

Back at the turn of the century, guitarist Drank Hetzel formed Beltfed Weapon in the Seattle metro area. Along with a rotating cast of collaborators, Hetzel’s project fused west coast thrash with old school death metal. After 2009’s Peacekeeper EP, Beltfed Weapon started introducing more elements of ’80s speed and power metal with the band’s

It’s been six long years since the release of the last LP by legendary U.K. industrial metal duo Godflesh. Luckily for the extreme metal world, that didn’t signal the start of the post-Godflesh era as their latest full-length offering, Purge, is due to be released on June 9 worldwide. Justin Broadrick and Ben Green return

dai-ichi‘s second eponymous album, following an eponymous debut and a split with black metal darling Lamp of Murmuur, explores uncharted waters for this mysterious raw black metal duo. Though ii‘s majority paints their raw passions in shades of minimal, riffy black metal, it’s vocalist Yūrei and multi-instrumentalist Han Kirisuto’s fearlessness which takes dai-ichi to the

When I met first met author Jason Schreurs, through my fellow Decibel scribe, Greg Pratt, I knew him as a writer, an editor/instructor at a Victoria, BC college and a family man. He was part of a friend group in town who would get together occasionally and nerd out playing heavy metal trivia. He, and everyone else

Where they from?Queens, New York by way of Nepal. One of my favorite yearly traditions of the sports calendar is celebrating when all the Canadian teams have been eliminated from the Stanley Cup Playoffs. This year it came a few weeks later than anticipated due to the Oilers and somehow miraculously the Maple Leafs surviving

Legal proceedings and a lack of official representation in the music industry be damned, Marilyn Manson is teasing something on his Instagram page. Just a few hours ago, the disgraced shock rocker whose last musical output was a guest spot on a Kanye West track, told his fans and followers that he had “something for

Sludge crushers Come to Grief formed out of the ashes of the legendary Grief, picking up where the influential band started. Though they formed in 2014, it took Come to Grief a few years to release any studio output and almost 10 years for their first proper album, When the World Dies.  Because EPs, splits and demos are

Northern Michigan quartet, The Glorious Dead, announces their return today with the release of their lead single, “Horizons of Ash.” The group spent the entirety of the global pandemic working on their newest material–honing their craft and galvanizing their core sound. As a result, their punishing, second full-length record entitled Cemetery Paths exudes a more dynamic progression

There’s a lot of dark, cavernous death metal out there today. The system of caves and tunnels are seemingly endless, providing listeners with ever more ways to plumb the subterranean depths of brutality. Scotland’s Order of Decay occupies there own corner of this complex, and are ready to smash out to the surface wit their

Thrashcore up-and-comers Tortured Demon are already making their mark on the heavy music scene, and they are younger than your average death metal band. The band just dropped a new song, “Global Threat,” from their upcoming album Rise Of The Lifeless, out June 2. They are going on tour in support of the record this

Ufomammut have released their song from the Superunknown Redux Soundgarden cover album. The track they covered is “Let Me Drown,” and it adds even more sludge and drone elements to a song that already paved the way for those genres. “Something was happening to underground music at the end of the eighties,” says Ufomammut’s guitarist Poia, according

We’re already pumped about Rockstar, Dolly Parton‘s forthcoming rock album, and now, she has released the first song from that record, “World On Fire.” It’s no secret that Dolly has been making headlines lately with her bold opposition to the anti-trans and anti-drag laws in her home state of Tennessee, no doubt pissing off the

It’s been almost a month Metallica‘s 72 Seasons dropped and it’s been two weeks since their massive M72 world tour kicked off, but the excitement around the biggest metal band in the world remains white hot. Over the last few days, Metallica’s camp has been slow dripping some high-def, pro-shot footage from their April 29

So, what’s everyone listening to this weekend? Some awesome shit came out the last few days, from the weird new Avenged Sevenfold single, to the Nita Strauss album announcement (and single), to the absolute apocalyptic scorcher that’s Cattle Decapitation’s Terrasite. We really are spoiled rotten as metal fans, aren’t we? As you get into this

Nu metal band Sicksense just released a new song, “Feed Them To The Wolves” alongside a new video for the track. This is of note because the band features Vicky “Killer V” Psarakis formerly of The Agonist, who recently broke up. Rob The Ripper of Stuck Mojo is also in the band. This is the

Texas death metal band Severance had a creative idea and played a show in front of their local GameStop during the drop of the new The Legend of Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom drop. This took place on May 11, the night fans lined up outside GameStops across the U.S. to wait for their copy

What’s up? It’s your old boy Waldo to inform you about some new and upcoming releases—good, bad or otherwise. Remember, I’m not an elitist, you just have terrible taste. Sleep Token is releasing Take Me Back To Eden. I had never heard of these guys until the infamous “somebody ripping a big one during a