Metal

Oregon thrash/punk crew Stress Test come from a few bands you’ve probably heard of—namely gothic heavy metallers Unto Others and black/death outfit Drouth—but their sound is something new and aggressive. Rooted as much in Aus-Rotten style D-beat and Napalm Death style grind as they are in energetic crossover thrash, Stress Test will soon release their debut EP.

photo: Jason Christopher Watkins The world of one-man / one-woman / one-person black metal bands is a smelly, unhygienic and highly opinionated microcosm filled with shut-ins, incels and trolls. But, as Hunter S. famously pointed out, there’s also a downside: Tons of shitty music. Luckily, there’s a handful of solo black-metallurgists making the whole enterprise

The Beatles aren’t a controversial topic amongst hard rock music fans, right? That never goes wrong when we bring that up. Nobody thinks the Beatles were overrated. Nobody is going to bring up that John Lennon was a wife beater. That’s definitely not all going to happen in the comments section, I’m sure of it.

Going to a concert is one thing, but you want to be one of the fans who gets to interact with the band. You want an autograph, you want to shake hands, you want a few minutes to gawk at them like they’re animals in the zoo. As much as you want that, it can

Former Slayer guitarist, newly solo artist, and all-around grumpy dude Kerry King has made a number of guest appearances on other people’s albums over the years. Usually they were guest spots that made perfect sense like on Pantera’s track “Goddamn Electric” in 2000 and Hatebreed’s “Final Prayer” in 2001. But the two strangest appearances might

Vancouver’s Thirteen Goats have no hesitation in referring to Capricorn Rising, their second full-length and first for Exitus Stratagem Records, as “an extreme metal rock opera.” According to the band – who we first featured here almost exactly two years ago – the album’s nine songs tell the story of their mascot, Shepherd: a goat-skull-wearing

Video Premiere: Absorb – “Smog” July 10, 2024 Hamilton, Ontario-based punishing death/doom outfit Absorb reveal the title track from their forthcoming Smog EP. Originally Posted Here

Greetings, Decibel readers! Hope you enjoyed the fourth of July holiday as I did — partying with friends and eating unwise quantities of unhealthy food. Because America. But now, back to business. Because metal. — Cranial Disorder – Congenital Depravity Insanely brutal death metal from Indonesia on an Italian record label. That should tell you

Diuretic deliver some ferocious Philly goregrind with their new 7-inch, the appropriately titled Zero Days Without Incident. It releases tomorrow via Strange Mono, and you can stream it with us first.   The band, which includes vocalist Alyssa, guitarist Alex, drummer Pete, and bassist Rose, each have unique musical histories that coalesce to create their unique sound. 

Steve Von Till needs no introduction—his career has been spent pushing boundaries and exploring sounds, from Neurosis and Tribes of Neurot to his various solo explorations including Harvestman, his solo psych/ambient effort. He’s currently in the midst of a three-part album series called Triptych, with each release date selected to align with a full moon. Triptych: Part Two is

It’s so fucking great that we’re living in a time where new music from the Jesus Lizard is right around the corner. After more than two decades away, the band is returning with a new studio album RACK and we’ve already had the first single “Hide & Seek” for a month now. Earlier today, the

Absorb | Photo by Brittany Vaughan Driving deeper into a summer that promises to be one of the hottest on record, we thought a video that showcases the aging infrastructure of our capitalist overlords wreaking environmental devastation would be just the thing to make us all feel warmer sweatier and cozier more terrified. For that,

Though they’ve got an European tour kicking off this Thursday, Behemoth were forced to make a sudden lineup change, as their drummer Inferno was forced to stay home due to health concerns. With just days before the band hits the road, they’ve announced that ex-Job for a Cowboy and current Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats

Craving some post-black metal? Look no further than “Dominion,” the new offering from Kalamazoo, Michigan-based band One With the Riverbed. The first tune from their new album Succumb, “Dominion” sees One With the Riverbed marry ambient black metal and post-metal, tying them together with ambience and clean, reflective sections. Speaking of the track, One With the Riverbed

Later this summer, Ministry will be touring with shock rockers Alice Cooper and Rob Zombie, as well as Filter, for the latest leg of the ‘Freaks on Parade’ Tour. Yet if you plan on catching that show, you very likely won’t see Roy Mayorga behind the kit during Ministry’s set, as he announced earlier today that he was

Hailing from Bangor, Maine, weirdo trio Manic Abraxas took their disparate influences, tossed them in a blender and came out with a sound that resembles all of those things… and none of them at the same time. Citing High on Fire, Doomriders, Voivod, Corrosion of Conformity and even Venom as influences, the band’s new album Skinformation is a gnarly

Suicidal Tendencies have been talking for a little while about possibly releasing new music with the band’s current lineup which includes the band’s frontman Mike Muir, Dean Pleasants on guitar, Dillenger Escape Plan guitarist Ben Weinman on second guitar, Robert Trujillo’s son Tye Trujillo, and recent outcast from the Slipknot camp Jay Weinberg. Winman, Trujillo,

Hardcore music festival Flyover Fest, celebrating their second year under their current moniker (it used to be known as Act Like You Know Fest, which was admittedly a bit more of an awkward name), announced the lineup for the 2024 edition of their festival and boy is it one hell of a lineup. Some of

Cranial Disorder Any gatherings you’re not looking forward to this July 4th? We’ve got you covered. Rising death metal force Cranial Disorder unleashes its brutal death debut, Congenital Depravity, via Lethal Scissor Records this Friday, July 10th. But, we’ve got the whole shebang right here, right now.  Bursting onto the scene in 2019 and quickly

Almost three years ago I wrote a piece about what I considered to be the “New Wave of American Darkness,” which outlined a thesis that we were hitting a sort of renaissance for American black metal. This, of course, opened my inbox to a deluge of people’s significant others or friends firing off friend requests