Metal

Childbirth is said to be the most painful experience that a human can experience, and it’s a pain that nobody assigned male at birth can ever really understand. Except for Disturbed guitarist Dan Donegan, apparently, as he thinks that his gout is worse. In a recent interview with Instagram Live on a drive back from

New Jersey thrash metal legends Overkill just finished scorching Latin America, so now it’s time to scorch Europe. According to Blabbermouth, after wrapping up their Latin American tour to support their 2023 album Scorched in São Paulo, Brazil at Summer Breeze Open Air Brasil, the band announced a string of European tour dates for August

Kenneth “K.K.” Downing is not technically a founding member of Judas Priest, but only because none of the true founding members of the band still remain. Downing was, however, part of one of the earliest incarnations of the band, the first to record an album with the band, and he appeared on every Judas Priest

Nostalgia is a hell of a drug. Years after the best times for nu-metal are long behind us, it seems people just can’t get enough of the bands that were dominating teenagers’ lockers and Walkmans in the late 90s/early 2000s. Slipknot’s donning the old 1999 red jumpsuits on a 25th anniversary tour, Korn’s still a

We all may be gearing up for a weekend of barbecues and hangout seshes, but for a few of us here at the MetalSucks compound, we’re still stuck back at last weekend’s Milwaukee Metalfest. Can you blame us?! So many kick ass bands, so many drinks consumed, so many fun conversations with fans… It was

Photo: Alex Solca When classic thrash outfit EvilDead released United States of Anarchy in 2020, it had been 29 years since the band’s last proper LP, 1991’s The Underworld. Picking up where they left off four years ago, EvilDead are primed to release new album Toxic Grace tomorrow, so Decibel caught up with guitarist Juan “Juan of the Dead” Garcia to talk

Photo courtesy of Feldspar Italian rock/post-hardcore band Feldspar are preparing to release their debut album later this year via TTK Records. To get us pumped, here’s the single and video for “Cobblestones.” The track is also the debut of their collaboration with Nick Terry, the London-based producer who worked on their full-length album. It showcases that

Bleakheart (L-R: Garrett B. Jones, Kelly Schilling, JP Damron, Kiki GaNun, Mark Chronister) Photo by Vanessa Cantu Expanding beyond the mourning of their 2020 release, Dream Griever, chamber doom provocateurs Bleakheart are back with Silver Pulse—a lush, melancholic suite that supports a lyrical journey into a personal journey of cellular decay and the struggle to

Photo by Shimon Karmel The kinship between power metal and nerd culture is undoubtedly a short, straight line. For a subgenre lyrically rooted in a love of high fantasy and science fiction, it should come as no surprise to anyone that its devotees would be attracted to the fantastical worlds of movies, comic books, tabletop

Formed in 2015, death dealers Moral Putreaction have been grinding it out across the Indian and international music scenes for nearly a decade now. Releasing their first (and only) demo, Scum of the Earth, in 2019, Moral Putrefaction locally supported bands like Suffocation, Psycroptic and Immolation before going on to perform at Wacken in 2022. Those years of

Where they from?Dallas, TX. Last Thursday the New York Rangers advanced to the Eastern Conference Finals and for the first time in my adult life it dawned on me that one of my favorite sports teams has a very realistic chance of winning a championship. This is an incredibly foreign feeling for me and, to

The war of words between legendary drummer Carmine Appice and Mötley Crüe bassist Nikki Sixx may have cooled off in recent months, but a previous challenge to a ‘jam-off’ to see who was really “washed up” has largely been left unanswered. And Appice hasn’t forgotten that fact. During an interview with The Logan Show (as

Danish death metal entity Morbid Grave formed in 2021, the brainchild of prolific musician Michael Huhle. Playing a primitive style of death metal concerned mostly with death, slime and bodily fluids, they released debut EP Pandemic Mutations in 2021. After launching those six songs into the world, Huhle began working on The Slime Crawlers, Morbid Grave’s debut album, which was

German thrash metal heroes Kreator recently revealed that, if you’re waiting for the follow up to their 2022 album Hate Über Alles, you shouldn’t hold your breath because it’s going to be a while. Back in December, frontman Millie Petrozza revealed in an Instagram post that the band would be focused on touring for 2024

Founding drummer of Massachusetts-based post-grunge, nü-metal band Staind, Jon Wysocki, sadly died on Saturday, May 18 at 53 years old. According to Blabbermouth.net, Wysocki had been struggling with liver issues and had been seeking treatment for it for some time. We extend our deepest condolences to Wysocki’s friends, family, fans, and former bandmates. According to

We’ve made mention of Carolina’s cinematic sci-fi proggy death metal aliens Voraath in this space before. See here. Well, they’re back with yet another Shudder/SyFy worthy, seemingly budget-busting work of dystopian video art. “The Leviathan’s Keep” is about…well…you can read the band’s statement on the topic of the song and video below, but most significantly

In 2002, Massachusetts crushers The Red Chord changed the death metal landscape forever with the release of their debut album Fused Together in Revolving Doors. Now, 22 years later, the recently reactivated Black Market Activities is pressing this landmark album to vinyl for the very first time ever in extremely limited quantities, and Decibel has secured our own Lava-colored vinyl variant (translucent

Atmospheric metal authority Agalloch has given their mood piece masterclass The Mantle the deluxe reissue treatment, and Decibel is once again honored to have our own exclusive edition on Opulent Translucent Orange Double LP, limited to just 200 copies courtesy of the dark artists at Eisenwald Records. Once more featuring the deluxe triple gatefold packaging

Greetings, Decibel readers! Those of you who’ve been with us for awhile know it’s a big week: there’s a new Gatecreeper album out! But along with those masters of modern death metal, we’ve got new ones from lesser-known acts, including one at the end of the list I’m especially stoked for. It’s mostly death metal

Philly-area punks L.M.I. have been thrashing around the underground since 2010, mixing punk, hardcore, sludge and stoner metal on numerous releases over the years. Their new album, Failed to Feel It, is the heaviest and most chaotic L.M.I. have ever sounded, the Lansdale trio, reveling in bursts of noisy punk, gnarly sludge and Converge-esque hardcore, like you can