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We first introduced you to Alberta’s Culled back in 2018 on the eve of the release of their debut Thin the Herd, Fail to Learn here. Featuring ex-and-current members of Disciples of Power and Wake getting in touch with both sides of the velocity continuum via the grit and grime of Napalm Death, Pig Destroyer

Acido y Puto (English: “Acid and Fucking”) by Madrid fuzz rockers Free Ride is a pretty simple album, distilling psychedelic, distorted rock down to its purest form. The upbeat, guitar-driven rock makes you feel good as you nod along to the track, like their latest single, “Vice.” Pulled from Acido y Puto, Free Ride take the opportunity to dive

You’ll be in the grip of winter ale when Decibel—North America’s only monthly metal magazine—returns with the third edition of the west’s loudest, heaviest, most extreme craft beer festival! Decibel has once again tapped Denver, CO’s Summit to host Decibel Magazine Metal & Beer Fest: Denver on Friday and Saturday, December 6-7, 2024. Death metal legends Autopsy

Dig Mercyful Fate? If you are here, the chances are almost certainly yes. If that is the case, check out Demon Spell‘s new EP, Evil Nights. The band features several Italian metal veterans, among them Dario Casabona, who played with Italy’s legendary Schizo for 20 years, and guitarist Francesco Bauso, who was a founding member

Where they from?Vaasa, Finland. In the past 10 days we have seen an assassination attempt on a presidential candidate, the Republican National Convention and the current President of the United States step down from the race for his re-election, but I’m here to talk about what really matters: the MLB all star game. Does anyone

Without a single word yet said, the co-nerds of Kill Screen burst out in a hearty laugh when connecting over Zoom with Zeal & Ardor mastermind Manuel Gagneux. Expecting to see the multi-instrumentalist sat in front of a standard blank wall or a workspace filled with instruments and ephemera of his band’s many accomplishments, what

(Editor’s note: In a bid to get more U.S. festival coverage on the site, we’ve got Sean Matthews out and about taking photos and documenting his experience at various shows. This go around, he spent the past weekend at this year’s Inkcarceration. This is day one, complete with photo galleries.) In rural Ohio, Mansfield is

New Jersey noise rockers Atom Driver are having fun and getting loud about it on their latest EP, Occupants. Originally formed as a trio in 2016 and releasing music shortly after, the band added Deadguy guitarist/backing vocalist Chris “Crispy” Corvino as Atom Driver’s lead vocalist. With a final form established, Occupants is the second EP with their current lineup and

It’s been a minute, but the MetalSucks Playlist is back with a fresh new update for you guys. Roughly half of the playlist is fresh new stuff while we rotate some of the older tracks out, so there should be plenty of variation while still keeping some familiarity in the mix as well. This time

Unsurprisingly, John 5 of Mötley Crüe thinks we should be forgiving of bands that continue on without their original members. Considering John 5 took over for Crüe founding member Mick Mars in 2022 in what is proving to be one of the most controversial and drama-filled band member replacements in metal history, he would naturally

Ex-Great White vocalist Jack Russell shocked the music world recently—or, at the very least, the five people who associated Great White with anything other than the Station Nightclub Fire—by announcing his retirement from touring due to his recent diagnosis of Lewy body dementia. Russell exited Great White proper back in 2011 after he was unable

Mausoleum, the infernal purveyors of zombiecult death metal, rise once again from the depths of the macabre. Allied in a pact with renowned label Moribund Records, they are preparing to release their first full-length since 2011. Defiling the Decay is out this Friday, and you can check out the video for “Curse of the Tomb” from

The definitive behind-the-scenes histories of 50 of the greatest miracles of metal creation now immortalized in two exclusive hardcover tomes, courtesy of Decibel Books! The Decibel Hall of Fame Anthology: Volume IV, our latest limited edition, webstore exclusive title, features 25 more Hall of Fame stories from our landmark monthly series of artist interviews discussing

Photo courtesy of OxE The wait is over for fans of Quebec City brutal slam band Onchocerciasis Esophagogastroduodenoscopy (OxE), as the band are set to unleash their fourth record The Fallen Lament digitally on July 19 and CD on August 9 via Stillbirth Records / Gore House Productions (SBR is a GHP sublabel). “This record

Have you ever wished Earth, Primitive Man, Portal and Swans had a very ugly baby? I hope so, because that’s what you get in Rot Coven, a duo pushing death industrial to an extreme end. Formed in 2020, Rot Coven initially had plans to fuse dark ambient synths with doom-style drumming; that plan quickly went

Mekigah Australian aural insanity demons Mekigah are back with “Broken Rhythm Pressure” – a haunting preview of their upcoming album, To Hold Onto A Heartless Heart, set for release in August 2024 via Aesthetic Death. Originating from a collaboration that took an unexpected and deeply personal turn, founding member Vis Ortis explains, “Its origin lies

Some of us dream of pleasant things like puppies or wealth or a new Necrophagist record. Others of us, like Los Angeles grind weirdos Squid Pisser, prefer to dream of puke. Dreams of Puke came out last month and we’re still trying to wrap our collective head around its high-speed blasts, shrieking guitars and screamed vocals. To make

Next month Autopsy will celebrate their first-ever Philadelphia appearance as part of Decibel’s 20th Anniversary Show, but you don’t have to wait that long to read death metal legends’ first-ever Decibel cover story, because it’s available now! Our special 20th Anniversary Show preview issue also includes a Hall of Fame induction of Deathevokation’s cult classic

The Aurochs, the debut album from already-prolific New Zealand post-metal outfit Thousand Limbs, is a big undertaking. Inspired by Kakuan Shien’s Ten Ox-herding Pictures, each of the 10 songs is based on a woodcutting from the aforementioned work. Told strictly through music and without lyrics or vocals, The Aurochs is sonically huge, inspired in equal parts by Earth,