Metal

Industrial rock titans Ministry have unleashed a sensual, psychedelic music video for their latest remake of “Every Day Is Halloween.” Originally issued in 1984, the band recently took a shot at a remake of this song, titled the Squirely Version. Today sees them share a brand-new music video to accompany it. Directed by Vicente Cordero

Kiritsis formed in Indianapolis in 2024 and got straight to work, writing and recording their debut, self-titled album, which you can listen to below. Kiritsis is lean, mean and focused, bashing through eight songs in half an hour, taking the band’s doom, sludge and hardcore influences and rolling them together into one heavy wrecking ball. “When we formed,

Anthrax gave us the pleasure of announcing they’re actually working on a new record, and that it’s allegedly supposed to come out sometime at the end of the year. But all that talk was months ago, and it seems they’ve been shooting the shit or doing some goddamn nonsense that caused them to put the

Anarchy in the USA, hopefully. We’re getting a good dose of the raucous punk energy we need, thanks to some good news coming from the Sex Pistols. They’ve just announced a North American tour—seeing them return to the U.S. for the first time since 2003—with Frank Carter at the vocal helm. Along with Carter, the

Now that the Gel dust is starting to settle, bookers and promoters have probably been working overtime trying to fill the various holes the band left around touring bills and other nonsense. One of those empty slots had to do with the European and UK tour that Volbeat and their main supporting act Bush are

No Celebration: The Official Story of Paradise Lost is back as a deluxe expanded edition! The original Decibel Books edition (out of print since 2021) returns with expanded content in the form of additional chapters, a 16-page photo section of rare and some never-before-seen shots, and a gorgeous fully debossed gold-printed cover wrap! Paradise Lost

Who’s thirsty?! We’re a mere ONE WEEK AWAY from Philly’s truest of beer fests and “Metal & Beer” tickets are quickly running dry. To help whet your palate, we’ve decided to release the entire beer menu that will be on hand at this year’s festivities. If your beer goggles are getting the better of you,

Greetings, Decibel readers! Hope those of you out west are able to catch this year’s installment of The Decibel Magazine Tour. It was a real trip seeing Mortiis perform for the first time, and yell out in excitement when he started to play “En mørk horisont.” Makes me wish I could attend Northeast Dungeon Siege this weekend.

Meet legendary death metal engineer Scott Burns at Decibel Magazine Metal & Beer Fest: Philly on April 4 to sign copies of the book,  The Scott Burns Sessions: A Life in Death Metal 1987 – 1997, at the Decibel merch table! Scott Burns book signing times:Friday: 7:00pm to 8:00pm Copies of The Scott Burns Sessions:

Portland, OR band These Cursed Hands just dropped a video for “Perihelion” from their latest EP, Intelligent (RE)Design, released November of last year. Check it out below. The band fuse black, progressive, core, death, and thrash metal elements, and, on their latest album, tell the story of “divine beings who, weary of humanity’s existence, engineer a cybernetic fungal evolution

Our AI overlords tell me that the title of the Övervåld track we’re premiering here today, “Förruttnelse,” translates into “putrefactive.” That wasn’t super helpful, so first I scolded AI because it was “a needlessly complex word for a simple idea ,” and then I insisted that AI “apologize for the word.” It came up with

Cogas London-based Sardinian black-death metal force COGAS is set to unleash their second full-length album, Among the Dead: How to Become a Ghost, on April 24, 2025—a harrowing and deeply personal meditation on loss, generational trauma, and the stark realities of their homeland. Today, Decibel is proud to premiere “The Noble Rot”, a bold and

Where they from?Binghamton, New York. It is the first week of the NCAA college basketball tournament here in the United States and, to be honest, I have mixed feelings about it. Obviously, I am a huge fan of disassociating out of awkward social situations using sports and the tournament is rather ideal for that but

‘NO CELEBRATION: THE OFFICIAL STORY OF PARADISE LOST’ Returns as an Exclusive Expanded Edition! PRE-ORDER NOW! March 25, 2025 Out of print since 2021, No Celebration: The Official Story of Paradise Lost returns with expanded content including additional chapters, a 16-page photo section of rare and some never-before-seen shots, and a gorgeous fully debossed gold-printed

Sweden is definitely the place to shop for all your metallic hardcore needs. There’s just something in the water that produces a whole different level of crushage. Witness Swedish quintet Obstruktion doing maximum damage in just three brief minutes on new track, “Sow Fear.” The track comes from their upcoming second full-length, The End Takes Form, and

Photo: Maaike Ronhaar Dutch progressive/technical thrash outfit Cryptosis are looking toward the future, both in terms of technology and of the genre, on their new album, Celestial Death. Released earlier this month by Century Media, Celestial Death dwells at the intersection of multiple genres while tackling some big ideas. Decibel caught up with bassist Frank te Riet to get a better insight

Stormo (Photo Credit: Marco Vivaldi & Eugen Bonta) Long-running Italian post-hardcore and noise punk force STORMO return with Tagli/Talee, their fifth full-length and most volatile work yet—set for release on March 21 via Prosthetic Records. Today, Decibel is proud to present an exclusive premiere of the entire album. Tagli/Talee (translated as Cuttings/Grafts) was forged entirely

Where they from?Houston, TX. I am writing this on St. Patrick’s Day 2025. Personally, I hate all holidays but I happen to hate this day the most. It’s nothing against the Irish, really. I just hate when people are happy for any reason, but I do have to pay respect to alcoholic drinking on a

After three can-crushing years at Summit, Decibel Magazine Metal & Beer Fest: Denver is now tapping the Fillmore Auditorium as this year’s home of the world’s loudest, heaviest, most extreme craft beer festival on Friday and Saturday, December 5-6, 2025. Freshly reunited sludge/doom legends Acid Bath make their first Denver appearance in over 30 years to headline

I’ve been a fan of Norway’s Barren Womb since their 2014 debut, The Sun’s Not Yellow, It’s Chicken. The duo of Timo Silvola (drums) and Tony Gonzahl (guitar/vocals) have since delivered regular offerings of angular and pulsating “electronic rock/noise/hardcore” that land somewhere between the Refused, Daughters and NoMeansNo on one end, and the “Bigs” (Business