From teaching us about a boy from a town called “Kickapoo” to the efficiency of “Cock Pushups,” Jack Black and Kyle Gass know what’s goin’ on. That’s why when they released a music video titled “Video Games,” this nerdy metalhead was stoked as hell. And thankfully the song and accompanying music video met my expectations.
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Yesterday, desert rock mainstays Queens of the Stone Age announced their next studio release In Times New Roman…, along with its first single “Emotion Sickness.” At the time, all we got was an audio visualizer of the song but earlier today, the band dropped the song’s official music video and boy, is it weird. Serving
If you like death metal that’s willing to explore its own boundaries while still remaining brutal and raw as hell, then Denver’s Astral Tomb is the band for you. Their debut album Soulgazer proved this last year, and the band shows no sign of slowing the pace, with their second album due this July: Total
Happy Friday! God is dead and all we got is a new Avenged Sevenfold song. Ascended Dead Evenfall of the Apocalypse (20 Buck Spin) California death dealers Ascended Dead are here to chew bubblegum and play ripping death metal and they’re all out of bubblegum. Evenfall of the Apocalypse is one of the nastiest and
photo by Andrew Sanyshyn A lot of bands just kind of do their thing—no label, no PR push, no pay-to-play on websites of dubious ethical character for a single goddamn song premiere. It’s often unclear if these bands want more for themselves or their only option is DIY or and die. We try our best
It’s been nine long years, but U.S. extreme metal titans Inferion are back with their diverse and crushing new album Inequity, which Decibel proudly streams ahead of its May 19 release through Horror Pain Gore Death Productions. “After nine years of writing, shifting gears, battling a pandemic and other life happenings, we are proud to
Photo by Mathias Coulouri Despite the, ahem, distinct lack of “dis” in their name, Industrial Puke are just as crusty and D-beat lovin’ as any of their fellow Discharge-worshipping Swedes. The new quintet—Linus Jägerskog (vocals), Mattias Rasmusson (drums), Marko Partanen (guitar), Erik Harald (bass), Jens Ekelin (guitar/vocals)—was formed by members of Burst, Obstruktion, Blessings, Gust
Some of the best, most engaging European extreme metal of the early ’90s was made by artists who didn’t quite know what they were making. These young reprobates were meddling with the primal forces of nature, to quote a red-faced Ned Beatty in Network, and they stumbled into something ineffable and transcendent. Think Mortuary Drape
Of all the places you’d expect to hear a real discussion of mental health issues, a freakin’ Disturbed concert wouldn’t be one that came to mind. Yet that’s what happened during the band’s May 4 appearance at Hog Fest, as vocalist David Draiman took a moment out of the show to open up about his
Thunderflix, the world’s first on-demand video streaming app dedicated to heavy metal, recently launched for iPhone. Granting metalheads access to documentaries, films, interviews, live concerts, and behind-the-scenes footage, the service is already available via AppleTV, Android, Roku and Amazon Fire TV. To celebrate, app founder and director Samuel Douek to put together a list of
Black metal has moved in countless directions since its impetus, but it’s nice to see bands like Naturvidrig holding down the fort with a solid effort of no-frills, zero-bullshit material like on their self-titled full-length debut. Hailing from Sweden, Naturvidrig’s 2016 demo Sönderfall proved to be a promising collection of riffy, grooving black metal hatred,
Decibel Magazine illuminates upcoming releases by premiering new music pretty much every day. But our mission also includes honoring extreme metal’s past. Today we dive into the moon anthems of Floridian death metal dusk-dwellers Equinox. Formed by Pete Slate (ex-Acheron), Equinox released two LPs that survived obscurity with dedicated underground support. Now Gurgling Gore do
Earlier this year, we learned separately that Nikki Sixx and John 5 were going to be featured in the upcoming rock album from the indomitable Dolly Parton. She’s been working with various figures in rock for a while now, ever since she was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in what will
Metal and hardcore shows can sometimes get fucking crazy, as people mosh, crowd surf, and otherwise cause a ruckus to show their support of the band on stage. It’s just a fact of life at this point and you’d think security personnel would know that fact and either have policies implemented to stop that sort
Formed in the dawn of the new millennium, the Rio De Janeiro-based blasphemers in Grave Desecrator—Butcherazor (vocals/guitars/bass), Mkult (drums), Black Sin and Damnation (guitars/bass)—have been assaulting ears and sensibilities for a couple decades now. Their black/death metal fury clearly hasn’t diminished in that time, as evidenced by the outfit’s fourth full-length we’re offering up, Immundissime
If you’re like me, your favorite part of any major festival lineup is that last row towards the bottom where they shove all the scrawled out names of every obscure goregrind band they have opening up for the bigger guns. Well, let me ask you, what if they had a festival that was all of
This month marks 30 years since Sound of White Noise introduced us all to Anthrax‘s departure from their tried-and-true thrash mold. Though records like Among the Living and Persistence of Time allowed the band to carve themselves a clear space in the upper echelon of the genre, the 90’s came around and the masses started
Somehow, some way, Mötley Crüe vocalist Vince Neil is going to take enough time out from being mediocre (if we’re being generous) behind a mic to be a guest judge on an ongoing music competition TV series, Banded: The Musician Competition. The show, which will air on AXS TV starting Saturday, May 13, features 25
It’s been five years since Philadelphia duo Drones for Queens released anything—a split with Abacus—and seven since their only other full-length, Unwavering Servant, but they’re back in peak form on new album Scraps of Mercy. Recorded from July 2022 to March 2023, the album features drummer Evan Madden (Wild Beyond, ex-Woe, ex-Woods of Ypres) and brother Shane on guitar,
French death metallurgists, Liquid Flesh, make their return later this month in a follow-up to their 2020 effort, Chair Liquide. The trio’s newest album, Dolores, follows a conceptual story of the titular character on hallucinogens and what unfolds is a trippy and tumultuous story laden with putrid, plodding death metal. The track, as the band later describes,