Metal

Greetings, Decibel readers! Hope everyone had a great time at this year’s installment of Decibel Metal and Beer Fest, and that you’ve begun your journey to recover and prepare for the Denver edition this December. In the meantime, here’s some black metal. And a new death metal album from Dark Descent. — Diabolizer – Murderous Revelations

Where they from?Canberra, Australia. I’m no economist but I do have one little question: Destroying the global economy, that’s a bad thing, correct? Just wondering. You see, this is the kind of shit I’m forced to write about now that my hockey team isn’t making the playoffs. Why the hype?Australian grindcore, let’s talk about it.

Photo Credit – Giuseppe Calvinisti Rimouski, Quebec space-themed, orchestral metal band Vortex are dropping their concept EP Alien Realms tomorrow. Before it gets released everywhere, you can stream it here. Alien Realms by Vortex The cosmic horror-themed album features a lot of melody and orchestral elements paired with aggressive riffing and straightforward metal. Like their previous

Photo by Hillarie Jason It’s good to know your neighbors. Sometimes you luck out and have a friendly smile willing to keep an eye out for your deliveries; other times you end up living next to a makeshift meth lab that considers a cough after 6 p.m. a noise violation. Either way, it’s helpful to

Photo by Felix Vesker You’re definitely getting your money’s worth with this track premiere from Canadian atmospheric black metal trio, A Flock Named Murder. They’re offering up the 17-plus-minute “To Drown in Obsidian Tides” from their upcoming second second full-length, Incendiary Sanctum. The epic track finds the band—Mike Wandy (bass/vocals), Cam Mueller (drums), Ryan Mueller (guitar/vocals)—traveling

Prepare yourselves. Get your affairs in order. Brace for impact. Canada’s Prophetic Suffering is ready to unleash its debut full-length album on an unsuspecting world. According to the band, the album is: “Pure Hell materializing from the ether. Rivalry of Thyself is our first major offering, and is a violent manifestation of personal struggle. This release

Obliterated Life, the new album from French death dealers Putrid Offal, is an exercise in gory, primitive death metal and it’s one you can take in right now. Coming five years after their debut, Sicknesses Obsessions, they’ve honed their songwriting chops and given their grindcore-infused death metal a boost. There’s a lot of variety across the 14

Philly trio Family Garden—featuring ex-members of YDI, Eat The Turnbuckle, Crackhouse, Woods of Ypres and Woe—return in thunderously loud fashion with their second LP, Dreams Beyond Control. Coming three years after their debut, Born From the Heavens, Family Garden arrive surrounded in chaos and debauchery, doling out a combination of black metal, crust, thrash and hardcore. Their

Jack Black is one funny son of a bitch. We all know that. We also all (should) know how talented he is musically. Sir Black hosted Saturday Night Live last night and was part of this skit called “Goth Kid on Vacation.” In it, he ever so handsomely impersonates My Chemical Romance‘s Gerard Way, poking

Last summer, good news came out of the Grave camp. The Swedish death metal legends, who for the latter half of the band’s career were led by founding member Ola Lindgren, decided to return in their most original form. There’s something sweet about the original members coming back together, though, and they did just that

Loathe really knows how to tease. That naughty, naughty band. The last we heard from the British nu-metal was one 2022 single, “Dimorphous Display,” following an incredibly well-received sophomore album, I Let It In And It Took Everything, in 2020. Loathe have been talking about a new record for some time now while managing to

Okay so hear me out—if you knew you had beef with some b-words over some bullshit, how far would you let a situation like this go? I feel like the answer would not be very far, but I also know that planning a tour and putting together bills is no easy feat, so I’ll hush

IT‘S FINALLY HERE! Metal & Beer Fest: Philly 2025 kicks off tonight (April 3) at the Foundry with our our special Relapse 35th anniversary Pre-Fest (a Pre-lapse if you), followed by Friday (April 4) and Saturday’s (April 5) main event at the Fillmore. Catch special sets from Exodus, Dismember, Darkest Hour and Incantation plus rare appearances

Greetings, Decibel readers! This week’s crop of new releases leans heavily on the well-produced, epic and theatrical side of the ledger today. So if that’s your bag, you should get really pumped for the new albums from Allegaeon, Eonian and Tómarúm. I feel like each of those entries could be the soundtrack to their own sci-fi

Here at Decibel, we’ve been keeping you abreast of the rotting breast of Rottenness for well over a decade — do a site search and you’ll find stuff going back to 2012 — and just as we don’t seem to be stopping, neither do these Mexican-American death metallers. This time the news is all about

Photo courtesy of Brilliant Emperor Records Australian old-school death metallers Anoxia are dropping their first full-length, Revel in Sin, on April 17 via Brilliant Emperor Records and Gutter Prince Cabal Records. Check out the video for “Rule By Cold Steel” from the album ahead of the release.  The record follows their EP Languish in Suffering, and

Photo by Drew Barry The mark of a good metal band name is its origin, the backstory. In-joke? Biblical reference? Satanic bible reference? Lord of the Rings reference? Dungeons & Dragons character? Count New Jersey prog death outfit Chronepsis in the latter category. And their debut, six-track mini-album, Weight of Eternity, is basically a D&D session in

San Diego sludge-slingers -(16)- are still riding high on the immaculate power of  2025’s career standout Guides for the Misguided, a record that led our esteemed reviewer Justin M. Norton to proclaim “These guys should keep playing forever,” but the extreme lifers aren’t content to coast. With that Decibel has secured an exclusive song, “Idol

There once was a group of Philly noise rockers called Plaque Marks. Their tenure was relatively short lived, with the band releasing only one EP—2017’s Anxiety Driven Nervous Worship—and touring a bit. Plaque Marks are gone but PLQ MRX have risen to take their place, pushing the band’s raucous noise rock in new, Funkadelic-inspired directions. PLQ MRX are

Where they from?Northern France. This past Friday was the 13th anniversary of when Dave Mustaine posted on Facebook about spilling a breakfast smoothie on his jeans. This is undoubtedly one of the greatest internet posts of all time and will be studied by future generations as a sort of fisheye-lens into the soul of our