Metal

If we’re being honest, history is a huge bitch. We clearly have no respect for it, and we clearly learn nothing from it. BUT, when it’s done right and worthy of praise, we’ll give it. Like Morrisound Recording. The legendary Tampa, Florida-based recording studio has seen and helped many death metal acts make their presence

It’s been about eight months since guitarist Dave Navarro and vocalist Perry Farrell had an onstage altercation in Boston that led to Jane’s Addiction cancelling the rest of their U.S. tour. It seems like the whole thing has been quite rough on the band, which has led Navarro to give a less than inspiring update

I guess this really isn’t that surprising, considering the trajectory Sleep Token have been on since their debut full-length Sundowning came out in 2019. We’re here to speak on another one of their albums, though—their latest Even In Arcadia. It’s only been out for about a week, and it’s already doing better than others of

With the summer just around the corner, U.S. metalheads have an abundance of options when it comes to upcoming concerts and where they spend their hard-earned cash. This morning, massively successful Massachusetts-based band Ice Nine Kills announced a headlining U.S. tour that’ll be sure to be insanely popular. Set to kick off on August 10

Back in February,Hatebreed founding member and bassist Chris Beattie was unceremoniously let go by the band. As fans and people that have followed the band for decades now, it seemingly came out of left field — especially how matter of fact and quickly worded the band’s official statement on the matter had been on social

Forget pyro on stage, System Of A Down fans have you covered. At least that’s what the band experienced during a recent show of theirs in São Paulo, Brazil. In a couple almost unbelievable Instagram posts, the band shared some insane video footage from that gig and let me tell you… it’s absolutely wild. As

We may not be getting any Alice In Chains dates at this time due to Sean Kinney’s health issues, but that doesn’t mean the show has to be over for guitarist Jerry Cantrell. With his fourth solo effort I Want Blood now roughly seven months old, Cantrell’s planning to still get out there and support

Concertgoers out in Europe will be able to bear witness to a killer death metal show later this summer, as Suffocation spends part of this summer to tear shit up in that continent. With various supporting acts like Warbringer, Psycroptic, and Skeletal Remains offering their own brands of brutality, this particular run of dates will

In about a month’s time, fans of Metallica‘s wrongly-maligned album Load will be able to get their hands on what could be the absolute definitive version of the 1996 album. With the band’s already legendary pre-Black Album releases already getting the reissued and remastered, it was only a matter of time before Load got that

What do you get when you combinePuscifer,Primus, andA Perfect Circleunder one roof and a singular bill where at different points those three bands will kind of mind meld together to create something cool as hell? You get Sessanta. For a while now, Sessanta 2.0 has been making its way through North America and knowing they’d

Undecayed Swedish death metal horde Undecayed have returned with a vengeance, premiering their devastating new single, “The Descendants of Death.” The track rips straight from the band’s long-awaited debut album, In Death’s Image, set for release on May 21 through Lethal Scissor Records. Rooted in the savage tradition of ’90s American death metal, Undecayed channel

The welcome rebirth of progressive, psychedelic post-sludge metal heroes Kylesa continues with this gorgeous vinyl reissue of their 2009 landmark album, Static Tensions, and Decibel’s got an exclusive Mint Green Vinyl variant strictly limited to 150 copies! Out of print on vinyl since 2011, you can grab this new pressing—featuring iconic John Baizley cover art—on the band’s own Tension Spiral label imprint

Photo by Cameron Gile Want in on a dirty little secret? In the Kill Screen arcade, our guests are often asked whether they encounter fellow nerds among the bands with which they tour. That’s not just a layup of a question—we’re earnestly digging for names. It’s not always obvious who in our community is glued

Photo by Wallace Boesch Florida noise combo Meatwound are not here to make friends, they are here to clobber you. And on album number four, Macho, they do that effectively and repeatedly over ten new tracks. These dudes—Ari Barros (guitar), Mariano Iglesias (bass/programming), Dimitri Stoyanov (drums), Daniel Wallace (vocals)—sound like Killing Joke fed through a meat grinder.

Greetings, Decibel readers! It’s raining as I write this article. In fact, it’s basically been raining here all week, making the music in this week’s edition particularly fitting. A lot of the albums here will be very pleasing to listeners looking for heavy, dark, atmospheric metal of one kind or another. And there’s a new Candlemass release

Several weeks ago, my good friend and extreme metal maniac, Andrew Scott Thomas, was diagnosed with Stage 3 lung cancer. After complaining about shortness of breath, doctors discovered a large, 15 x 10 x 14 cm heterogeneously enhancing mass in his left lung, as well as another suspected pleural-based mass measuring approximately 8 cm. This type

Louisiana- and Texas-based black metal shoegaze band vide just dropped their new EP, Decorated in spiderweb, on May 2. Check out their track-by track rundown of the record below. Walk Like A Ghost This song is about feeling dead inside and the idea of walking around like a ghost. I’m here but I’m not here.

Chicago’s self-proclaimed “neo-barbarians,” Ready for Death, are ready to smash your face in (metaphorically) with new album Pay With Your Face. Coming just a handful of years after their eponymous debut, Pay With Your Face is a certified assbeater, like you’ll hear on the title track, streaming below. “Pay With Your Face” sees Ready for Death lean further

Indianapolis doom institution The Gates of Slumber have been a presence in the doom scene since the late ’90s, pushing their band of true doom around the world. Their latest album, The Gates of Slumber, came out last year and ended a 13-year gap between albums. It was the band’s first album after reforming in 2019

You’re kind of a getting a two-fer here with this track premiere, “Downfall,” from Swedish HM-2 stompers, For the Pyre, as we’re also throwing in the accompanying video, whereby vocalist Oannes Hagby gets buried alive by some faceless black-cloaked fiend. The track is a skin-shredding, scab-ripping dose of gnarly, thrashy Swedish DM from the band’s