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
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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,
There have been many rumors circulating about the upcoming new Queens of the Stone Age album, none of which have officially been confirmed by the band. The album is reportedly titled In Times New Roman and is said to feature contributions from ZZ Top legend Billy Gibbons and Foo Fighters drummer Dave Grohl. In Times
California death metal band Spinebreaker just dropped their latest EP, Cavern Of Inoculated Cognition, last week via Creator-Destructor Records. The crossover, thrashy, and hardcore tinged death metal band are influenced by the roots of old school death metal, but go beyond that with their own unique blend of sounds. The record delivers six killer tracks,
Pyrexia dropped a lyric video for the song “Purging the Nemesis” from their upcoming rerelease of classic album System of The Animal. The album initially came out in 1997, and this lyric video will give new listeners a taste of the album, in case they aren’t already familiar: Band cofounder and guitarist Chris Basile says
Allegedly, an anonymous venue that recently hosted a One Step Closer show was handing out “No Moshing” slips at the concert. What we don’t know for sure is if everyone headed the warning. One Step Closer posted the offending slip on Twitter. In addition to the words “No Moshing” on the front, the back reads:
Boy, some people had some pretty bad days this past week, huh? From Between The Buried and Me having to make a switch at guitar following Dustie Waring’s rape allegations to a random Sleep Token vacating their bowels during a show, a whole lot of bad shit happened. That’s not to say some good didn’t
Rammstein fans, get ready—Vocalist Till Lindemann announced a one-off show right here in the U.S. There’s not too much info out right now about this news, but we do know that his solo project, known simply as Lindemann, will be performing at the Blue Ridge Rock Fest in Alton, VA. The project was originally a
Cartoon/NFT/virtual metal band The Shredderz have been teasing their existence as a multi-dimensional heavy metal entity, and now they’ve officially released a track, the self-titled “Shredderz.” The song features Alex Skolnick of Testament fame. The band’s official statement reads: “The Shredderz have officially been released from Hell. Five musical misfits—Raz, Vincent, Weasel, Donny, Nigel, and
The lineup for this year’s Armstrong Metal Fest has just been announced, featuring headliners Fallujah and Warbringer. The fest will take place July 14 and 15 at Hassen Arena in Armstrong, BC, Also recently announced are Enterprise Earth, The Zenith Passage, Vale of Pnath, and Striker. The fest’s website describes the history of the event:
Today’s release of Unhearth’s The Wretched; The Ruinous is the first new studio album from the band since 2018 and to celebrate their return to the fore, they released the single and music video for “Dawn of the Militant.” Speaking on the new track, vocalist Trevor Phillips described “Dawn of the Militant” as “thrash metal