Just one week ahead of their appearance at this year’s Metal & Beer Fest at the Fillmore Philly, metallic hardcore anti-heroes Drowningman are reissuing their sardonic debut Busy Signal at the Suicide Hotline, and Decibel has made the call to pick up an exclusive edition on Neon Orange vinyl, limited to just 100 copies! This special 25th anniversary edition of
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There’s a curious movement brewing in the mid-Atlantic over the last 5 years or so: completely over-the-top fruited sours with a cult-like following so fervent that fans buy cases on drop days. It may have started with Berlin, MD’s Burley Oak and its J.R.E.A.M. series; this certainly set the tone for dessert-themed fruited sours on
Greetings, Decibel readers! This week brings us a new release from Tribulation. I know lots of you are into them, so that should be enough to get you excited. But you’ll have to scroll down to the bottom to see that. So be sure to give the other bands a chance along the way. Enjoy! — Asystole
We’re still a few months away from Furnace Fest in Birmingham, Alabama, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t deserve our attention right now. And that’s mostly thanks to the bands that are being added to the lineup as we get closer and closer to showtime. Earlier today, organizers took to social media to announce that
As the brainchild of Montréal-based multi-instrumentalist, Frédéric Bergeron, Maudiir is what one would expect and hope for from a one-man band. We originally introduced the project a couple years ago on the back of then-new EP, La Part du Diable here At that time, we classified the release “as a mix of early Metallica and
One person’s noise is another’s symphony. We’re partial to noise, noise rock, improvised noise, noise for noise’s sake. etc. Thus new Baltimore outfit Mast Year scratches a bunch of those itches for us. The quartet (vets of numerous Charm City bands)—Darin Tambascio (bass), Noel Mueller (guitarist), Ben Price (drums), Eric Rhodes (vocals)—bonded over a love
Photo Credit – Jim Wertman Close out the week in this post-apocalyptic hellscape with a fittingly on-point lyric video from U.S. death metal legends Pyrexia for the track “Unscathed.” The song is from the forthcoming reissue of their slamming classic 1997 album, System of the Animal, which will be fully remastered and available on June
Decibel Magazine Metal & Beer Fest: Philly kicks off NEXT WEEK, which means it’s time to finalize travel plans and get your tickets if you haven’t already. To aid in your planning, Friday and Saturday set times are now available. Phobophilic will kick things off on Saturday at 4:30 pm, with doors opening and pours from breweries becoming
Today we highlight an extremely extreme charity compilation from cult New York label Fiadh Productions. Back in 2011, Fiadh label-runner Bariann conceived of a music compilation originally created to benefit animal rescue. Over a decade later, From Dreams to Living Things unites some of the most exciting bands in the metal underground for a great
Photo: John Malley Tithe‘s blistering second album Inverse Rapture is many things but is not easy listening. It’s an angry and relentless record with a palpable touch of grief. Learn a bit more about this album’s creation and the reasons for this are apparent: guitarist/vocalist Matt Eiseman wrote the bulk of Inverse Rapture during and
Photo by Hillarie Jason War. If video games are to be believed, war has simultaneously changed (Metal Gear Solid 4) and never changes (Fallout). No matter to which pop philosophy you subscribe, there’s one thing of which we can be sure: War is a constant in human nature. It is this precise topic that War
An already killer tour just got even better, as Vomit Forth has been announced as the latest edition to Ingested‘s upcoming North American tour, though their time on the bill will be short lived. According to a post on Ingested’s Instagram page, the Connecticut-based death metal band will hop onto the bill during its final
Where they from?Finland. Normally here is the space where I talk about whatever bullshit is going on in the sports world but, holy shit, they arrested Trump! Well, not really arrested ‘per se,’ but they indicted his ass! And as soon as I find out what that means, I’m gonna celebrate the shit out of
Photo by Gene Ambo Photo by Stephanie Cabral It goes without saying that Metal Blade Records founder Brian Slagel’s influence on the metal scene has been profound since he launched the label in the early ’80s, with the first Metal Massacre compilation. He and his label are responsible for bringing some of the greatest metal
Photo: Carmen Monoxide When Euronymous said “No mosh, no core, no trends, no fun,” he’d clearly never gone on a coke-fueled adventure with Romanian black metal luminary Vlad the Inhaler, the masked frontman of Los Angeles-based black ‘n’ rollers Persekutor. Like many of the frosty band’s best tracks, “Night Job” is a mid-paced tune that
Last month, we were insanely stoked to share the news with all of you that industrial metal badasses Godflesh were putting out a new album titled Purge this June. It’s going to be their first new studio release since 2017’s Post Self and a welcome return for fans everywhere. Well it turns out they’re ready
Roughly a month after their tour with Eyehategod comes to an end, extreme metal giants Goatwhore announced they’ll be taking a slate of headlining shows out on the road. The dates come as a continuation of their support for last year’s Angels Hung From The Arches of Heaven. Included in the new list of dates
Maybe the most important thing that can be said about Michael Dimmitt’s A Wandering Path: The Story of Gilead Media is that it makes me want to listen to all of the music. When riffs by Louisiana bruisers Thou burst briefly through the speakers, I want nothing more than the hours it would require to sink into
Anthony: Writing it was definitely more pressure. Writing a cohesive record instead of a cohesive EP was definitely a little harder and then there’s the pressure of we have been touring so much, so there is a lot more attention on it, for the most part it still feels the same. Sami: The process I’d
The new 3 Headed Snake single, Dead Bound From Bedlam,” channels classic power metal stylings but with a modern, updated sound. The LA-based band are headed up by vocalist Johnny Ray, as well as guitarist Sin Quirin, known as well for playing in Ministry for a while. The band released their initial EP, Wisdom Screams,