Metal

There comes a point in every metalhead’s life—well, every metalhead with facial hair’s life—where that person takes a long, hard look in the mirror and thinks… “Oh, I wash this thing?” At least that’s what happened with me recently when I realized I’ve really been neglecting the ol’ facial fuzz. My journeys online took me

The official Decibel Magazine Metal & Beer PRE-FEST—presented by Prosthetic Records and Kill Screen—on Thursday, April 11 at the Foundry (located directly upstairs at the Fillmore) has your pre-game (and pre-gaming) covered! Death metal corpse-crushers Undeath headline a special evening with support from Philly’s own aural annihilators Outer Heaven, Richmond black metal party people Morbikon and the one-man blast fest of California’s Houkago Grind Time!

Greetings, Decibel readers! I’m especially excited to tell you about the new Lucifer album today. I talk a lot about how metal is basically the art of nostalgia nowadays. A photocopy endlessly reproducing itself in the hope that someone will still find it as interesting as the original print. However, here is a band that takes

A relatively new entry to the world of music — and by default, the world as a whole — Satyasena came to life just last year. With mainman Peijman “Pej Mon” Kouretchian at the helm, Satyasena’s original existence came at the behest of two definitive goals he set for himself: the Ghoul, Girth and Secret

Photo by Oscar Rodriguez (@bloomxphoto) Hardcore powerhouse ‘92 are back at it with a new song and video for “Above the Law.” The band’s debut, self-titled EP, out February 23 via Rude Records, draws inspiration from the 1992 riots, calling in themes of social justice and inclusion as a compliment to their hip hop-influenced hardcore

Photo by Jehn Mickalacki With a pedigree that includes members of Spirit Adrift, Slough Feg and Nite, it should come as no surprise that Bay Area-based trio Hands of Goro are spinning powerful trad metal a little on the quirky side on their new single “Uncanny.” The frisky, NWOBHM-inspired track finds the outfit—Tom Draper (guitars/backing

Photo courtesy of Horror Pain Gore Death You’re in for a treat—today, we have for you the new full-length album from Corpsevore, Feed the Plague, out February 2 via Horror Pain Gore Death, but you can stream it right here. The French band formed in 2022 and produce an especially heavy, goregrind-tinged brand of death metal

Unsouling describes itself as “incorporating death metal and darkwave, as well as some goth tinged influences, creating a cohesive yet engaging and enveloping experience.” Indeed, the project’s new album, Vampiric Spiritual Drain has a lot going on, including some black metal and death-doom elements — bringing it all together for a supremely dark and ominous listen. There’s

The biggest metal party of 2024 is now kicking off a day early. That’s right, it’s time to make a long weekend out of your Decibel Magazine Metal & Beer Fest: Philly adventure! The official Decibel Magazine Metal & Beer PRE-FEST—presented by Prosthetic Records and Kill Screen—on Thursday, April 11 at the Foundry (located directly upstairs at the Fillmore)

Counting Hours are back! Not that the Finns were ever missing, but the glacial pace at which the Vantaa-based quintet — featuring members of Shape of Despair/ex-Rapture, Impaled Nazarene, and ex-Colosseum — move, they might as well be always gone. Debut album, The Will, appeared out of nowhere in 2020 on Spanish indie The Vinyl

Photo by Scott Kinkade Anyone who was around during the console wars of the early ’90s certainly remembers one of its most oft repeated slogans: “Genesis does what Nintendon’t.” A sleek black console with more power than its NES competitor and a library catering to a “mature” audience (i.e. those that favored a heavy dose

Where they from?Slovenia. Ah, playoff football, remember that shit? My team hasn’t been to the playoffs in 13 years. Obama was president the last time my team played a postseason game. 2010! FOR FUCK’S SAKE. Why the hype?Stop me if you’ve heard this one before but this band plays…fast. But not only that, they do

It’s exhilarating when you get to hear a band execute a style perfectly. Hand of Kalliach delivers folk-infused melodic death metal in the absolute best way possible. The band brings heavy and rich guitar tones and weaves them with a mix of harsh and melodic vocals, topped off with infectious rhythms and traditional instrumentation. It’s

Photo by David Jaggar Indiana trad metal outfit Wizard Death may have one of the more unique origin stories in the metal realm. They are a father son duo of guitarist Tim Kenefic (who shreds in Assimilator and Throne) and his young son, Alex. Alex provides the fantasy-inspired lyrics and song concepts and dad brings

Transcendent Unveiling of Dimensions, the demo from Tennessee newcomers Purulency, is pure fucking death metal. Out this Friday, January 26 on Caligari Records, Transcendent Unveiling contains four songs of pure death metal worship inspired by the likes of Demilich, Grave, Abhorrence, Autopsy and Convulse. Thematically, the songs on Transcendent Unveiling explore Lovecraftian themes and alien worlds. The songs have

Metal’s full of fucking awesome men and women who make killer and share their passion for the music we all know and love. Yet in every scene there’s always that turd nugget that keeps showing their annoying face from time to time. Whether it’s a stupid fucking tweet or some insanely bad take on current

We’ve all kinda seen this coming for a while now, but it’s looking like it’s official. Ozzy Osbourne, the iconic heavy metal vocalist of Black Sabbath and solo fame, will tie a big black bow on his career after a pair of goodbye shows in his hometown of Birmingham, England. The news came out of

Eager to continue the momentum built from their fearsome debut album Festering Grotesqueries, Portland deathgrind quartet Dripping Decay holds nothing back on their vicious six-song EP Ripping Remains EP. Vocalist Eric Stucke, guitarist “Maniac” Neil Smith, bassist Jackson Jordan, and drummer Jason “The Machine” Borton spent the Summer of 2023 crafting Ripping Remains as they waited for

All hail the Fuzztronaut, the main character in the new music video for Craneium‘s “One Thousand Sighs,” the latest single from their upcoming fourth album, Point of No Return. As the name Fuzztronaut suggests, Craneium deal in fuzzy stoner rock and hefty doom metal, with their new single finding a solid middle ground between the two genres.

Legendary band Meanstreak, the “Real Housewives of Heavy Metal,” reunited in 2022 and were the supporting act for John Petrucci’s recent solo tour. Now, the reunited Meanstreak have announced their first reunion album, a new EP due out February 2nd called Blood Moon, which in no way sounds like it should actually be the title