Metal

Thrash metal icons and band that thought Warheads On Foreheads didn’t sound like a dumb name for their fifth greatest hits album Megadeth just announced a second 2024 show in Buenos Aires due to popular demand. The show will take place on April 14, 2024 at the 15,000-capacity Movistar Arena in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Megadeth’s

This time of year ain’t only for red and green ribbon strewn amongst cheap looking tinsel. No, in fact the Pagans did the whole holiday thing way before Christians did, so this really is mostly their time to celebrate the Winter Solstice. To that end, blackened death metal outfit Noctem dropped their music video for

Drone metal outfit Sunn O))) are planning to hit the open European road next year and bring their Shoshin (初心) Duo tour out that way. Coming along for the ride will be Jesse Sykes with Phil Wandscher & Bill Herzog at every show except for two in April. The tour will run from March 25

Season’s greetings, Decibel readers! It’s the most wonderful time of the year! And no, I’m not talking about Christmas! It’s that magical time where I get to exploit a glaring loophole in being the new-releases columnist at Decibel by mouthing off about my personal choices for the best albums of the year. This week’s edition

For roughly four decades, Dave Mustaine has been part of a major touring thrash metal band, so the dude’s put some significant miles down over the years. To say he knows a thing or two about how touring used to be versus how it is today would be an understatement. So given today’s rising costs

Our European friends across the pond are going to get a taste of the south of the border when Mexican death grind act Brujeria make their way over there for a string of European shows next spring. These newly announced dates will be in support of their latest release Esto Es Brujeria and will run

Photo by Stephanie Sintra Maine atmospheric black metal duo Obsidian Tongue—Raymond Capizzo (drums/synths), Brendan Hayter (guitar/bass/vocals)—are preparing for the release of their upcoming EP, The Stone Heart, with a brand new video of the title track. “The Stone Heart” is a moody, slow burn that builds from clean, strummed minor chords to a full-on melodic and

Photo by Ashley Melton You have to see Dry Socket live. The Portland hardcore four-piece are a jaw-dropping whirlwind and their west coast tour that starts next week should already be enough news. But you lucky ducks get a bonus with an exclusive track from the band’s upcoming full-length Sorry For Your Loss. At barely

The latest in Bruce Dickinson news (and you never know quite what is coming with that intro), the iconic musician is collaborating with Z2 comics to make a comic for his upcoming solo album The Mandrake Project. The comic, a storyboarding of the concepts on the album, will be 12 issues, and the series will

By day, Sofia Frasz is a film composer and music/entertainment attorney in training. After nightfall, Sofia is the multi-instrumentalist founder of Exiled Hope. Formed in 2019, Exiled Hope is a solo project set in a fictional world of dark fantasy. Pulling inspiration from symphonic metal and power metal, the result is operatic and rife with

The late 1970s and early 80s produced a wealth of bands that we associate with classic heavy metal, and brought us a lot of the big names that stand as the giants of our musical world. Any metalhead can effortlessly rattle off the names Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Mercyful Fate, and so on. But as

It’s likely impossible to think of an underground band that has been hitting the road harder than blaster masters Escuela Grind. Though New England is regarded as their home base, their touring schedule in 2023 has vastly eclipsed their downtime as evidenced by setlist.fm which, at time of writing this intro, has them listed on

Having just recently heard the new Escuela Grind track “Meat Magnet” featuring Napalm Death frontman Barney Greenway, you’d be safe to assume that my excitement for their EP Ddeeaatthhmmeettaall was already pretty high. But that level of hype doesn’t compare to the idea of a new full-length album from the Massachusetts hardcore assbeaters. Yes, while

This goes without saying, but metal and weed is one of the greatest pairings on this planet (unless you’re not of legal age, at which point you should stay in school, kids). So it should be no surprise that as state laws allow for the adult use and regulation of cannabis, more and more bands

Photo by Bobby Kirwan One thing you’ve gotta know about Oakland’s Iron Front is that these dudes are young. The band was formed in 2020 when they were all teens—like young teens—and I don’t think there’s anyone currently of drinking age in the band. That said, these five—Max Mahmood (drums),  Cruz Garcia (guitars/vocals), Jesse Dicruttalo (guitars),

Where they from?New Haven, Connecticut. Happy Holidays, everyone. I really love how every year people make such a big fucking deal about the holidays and then two weeks go by and it’s just January, the absolute worst fucking month of the year. Like, all that hullabaloo and then bam, just brown snow sticking to the

The holidays can be an exceptionally challenging time for hateful black metal souls, who prefer to bask in their misanthropy and listen to the great Xasthur. Of course, the more degenerate portion of black metallers crave music about murder, sexual perversion, narcotics, and self-destruction — exactly the topics that do not belong around the Christmas

When it comes to accolades in the rock and metal world, there really are few more prestigious things than getting inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Now, that’s not to say the people behind the hall know their asses from a pothole on the New Jersey Turnpike, but getting your name enshrined

As the year winds down and we all get ready to spend time with our loved ones, it’s only natural that we’re all likely going to reflect on the year that was 2023. For some of us it was a year of progress and prosperity, for others it was 12 months filled with problems and

Escuela Grind just released their latest single, “Meat Magnet,” and not only is it brutal, it features one of the greats, vocalist Mark “Barney” Greenway of Napalm Death. The song is from the band’s forthcoming EP, Ddeeaatthhmmeettaall, which will be out January 12 via MNRK Heavy. They were just working on it at GodCity Studio