Metal

Barcelona’s Emissary are almost ready to give the world their debut album, Eldritch, early next year. Led by The Evil Dead guitarist Michel Regueiro, Emissary play sharp-edged black-thrash tinged with old-school heavy metal. Though it’ll be a few months before Eldritch sees the light of day, they’ve revealed “At the Throne of Chaos,” the first song from the record. True

Photo by Michael Dimmit Brooklyn, NY power duo The Triceratops’ music definitely does not resemble the lumbering, three horned dinos their moniker invokes. In fact, the tune featured in this video premiere, “Can’t Take You,” is more grunge-era than Mesozoic-era. It’s an early ’90s uppercut of punk pummel and earnest angst from the outfit’s debut

It’s pretty much an unimpeachable statement to say that the first four Danzig records are completely flawless and by the time they made Danzig: 4 that they were possibly the greatest quartet in rock. And, like all good things, that was that. The “classic” lineup that held together the last part of (pre-Danzig band) Samhain’s

Back in the celebrated and white-washed era known as ‘back in the day,’ I played my fair share of house shows. In fact, even though I barely have my ear to the ground about anything anymore, when my old ears connect with bits of obscure information, I’m still apt to show up at the home

Adrien Begrand has been a staple at Decibel since he contributed his first piece to the magazine in January 2005, two decades ago. His work has appeared in virtually every other notable music publication and website throughout his writing career. Begrand is a sharp and insightful writer whose work is blissfully free of music writer

Photo courtesy of Selvans Italian horrorist Selvans unveils “ll Mio Maleficio V’incalzerà!,” the second single off Saturnalia, his new album due for release in 2025 via Avantgarde Music. You can stream it with us early and just in time for Halloween, and there are serious Halloween vibes. The aesthetic and song are reminiscent of King

We’ll all be bonded by suds on April 4-5, 2025, when Decibel Magazine Metal & Beer Fest: Philly—the world’s loudest, heaviest, headbangingest, two-day craft beer event—returns to fill the Fillmore with an ever-flowing stream of beer for its eighth year! Swedish death metal legends Dismember will headline the first night with an exclusive performance of their 1991 landmark

Greetings, Decibel readers! Happy Halloween! Well, it’s Halloween as I’m writing this. But as you read this, I hope you had a solid spooky season. If you still have the itch for something dark and menacing, remember that metal records and horror movies are good all-year round. And with that in mind, please enjoy the selections below.

Canadian sludge/grind/hardcore outfit Anthesis have always found ways to stay busy, constantly releasing a new stream of music throughout the 2010s and into 2020, but their new album, Tension Between Rot and Genesis, represents a change in pace for the band. As opposed to firing off new releases every year, Anthesis took three years to craft their

Ah, a “scene.” That vague concept when our pattern-searching brains detect connectable musical activities happening within a short distance of each other. Sometimes it’s more of a perception bias than anything else, but there are undeniable movements over the course of our increasingly rich history of heavy metal and rock. From Bay Area thrash to

An Autumn After 15 years and 10 albums, Dutch post-black metal band An Autumn is embracing a new chapter, and their latest single, “Dreaming,” from Ethereal, captures that transformation in all its intensity. Formerly known as An Autumn for Crippled Children, the band has shed the name that first brought them attention, opting for a

Greek outfit Eldingar may profess to play black metal, but the message conveyed on their second full-length, Lysistrata, is less church-burny and more why-can’t-we-all-get-along. That doesn’t mean that the music is soft or lacking in intensity, though. Lysistrata is laced with pagan folk metal influences, but there’s plenty of typical melodic BM extremism, as well, on the many

Photo by Nick Perry We haven’t heard much from lefty guitarist Scott Hedrick since the last Skeletonwitch album, Devouring Radiant Light, in 2018. Hedrick’s played on a couple of avant metal releases (Ghosts in 2019 and Spectres in 2023) by improvisational Dutch duo Dead Neanderthals, but there’s been a definite lack of progressive black thrash riffage. With his

We’ve talked about Los Angeles sludge outfit QAALM on the Decibel site a few times and we’re back again with a full stream of Grave Impressions of an Unbroken Arc, the band’s second album. Weighing in at 45 minutes over the course of four hefty tracks, QAALM cross the boundaries of sludge, assorted variants of doom—stoner and funeral, largely—,

We’ll all be bonded by suds on April 4-5, 2025, when Decibel Magazine Metal & Beer Fest: Philly—the world’s loudest, heaviest, headbangingest, two-day craft beer event—returns to fill the Fillmore with an ever-flowing stream of beer for its eighth year! Swedish death metal legends Dismember will headline the first night with an exclusive performance of their 1991 landmark

Photo by Stevie The latest video, “Candy Apple Baseball,” from Austin, TX hardcore quartet, Mugger, has everything we want in a minute-plus package: old baseball highlights, dessert, luchador masks and, uh, punk rock, all in a brightly colored package. Mugger—Anna Troxell (vocals), Daniel Fried (guitar), Lisa Alley (bass), Patrick Troxell (drums)—skirt the line between noise rock

Hopeless Records was the shit growing up. If you were even slightly emo or screamo or metal-ly they had something for you, and now they’re giving back even more by launching the Hopeless Music Academy, set to fully start early in 2025. The Academy comes in partnership with the label’s nonprofit sector The Hopeless Foundation

Blood Incantation, Steve RoachBoulder Theater, Boulder, COOctober 4, 2024  The story goes that Decibel‘s Kevin Stewart-Panko, while slinging merch for Blood Incantation on tour, visits a record store in Arizona. The owner knows the management of Steve Roach. Blood Incantation are big fans of Roach. One thing leads to another, Roach becomes a BI fan,

Satanic speed sorcerers Bewitcher continue to ride their broomsticks throughout the underground (see tour dates below), but somehow still find time to record essential new material! Hot off their Century Media debut Spell Shock, the Portland power trio has cast a new spell upon The Decibel Flexi Series. Finally, you can stream the exclusive track

Get ready for some truly dark and menacing metal. Decibel is stoked to present the new music video from Yoth Iria. “In the Tongue of Birds” comes to us from the band’s new album, Blazing Inferno, out on November 8 via Edged Circle Productions. The song itself resembles the modern sound of Greek black metal,