Metal

Greetings, Decibel readers! You get new Darkthrone and Deicide albums in the same week, so stop complaining. Cheers! — Baron – Beneath The Blazing Abyss An absolutely crushing blend of Bolt Thrower, Incantation, and Vader that will leave you feeling like the dude on the front cover by the end of it all. But in

Philly outfit Cathari have taken on various forms in their existence and new EP It Will Hurt the Entire Time You Are Alive sees them transition again, shifting from doom metal to a searing combination of sludge, noisecore and metallic hardcore. They’re delivering the first taste of the four-track EP in the form of “Weight,” its third song. Starting

Photo courtesy of PR Extrema have unleashed a video for “Paralyzed,” which you can stream below. They released it alongside the celebration of the 30th anniversary of their debut album, Tension at the Seams. In addition to the video, they are doing a series of live performances to celebrate the milestone that this Italian metal album

You would be correct if you thought you’d been seeing a lot about Exhumed lately. First, the band is celebrating the 25th anniversary of their debut Gore Metal with a national spring tour. Second, Gore Metal was just inducted into Decibel‘s vaunted Hall of Fame. Finally, the band just finished work on a three-part documentary

In 1998, there was some thrilling, forward-thinking game-changing happening in extreme underground metal. The Dillinger Escape Plan were storming the scene, making us rethink what was humanly possible on instruments, Nile were animating death metal’s mummified corpse and Nasum were blasting excitement back into grindcore. Then there was Exhumed. The California-based goregrind/death metal outfit was

With a band name like Tombstoner, one would normally expect to hear sluggish Sabbath or Sleep worship. Fortunately, Tombstoner are the exact opposite of that. The New York death metal unit hail from Staten Island are straight-up killers, blending their riff-centric death metal with strains of grindcore and thrash for a groovy, fast-paced time. Their second album, Rot

Where they from?Pilsen, Czechia. The NHL playoffs are here and my team is in it. What this means is that for the next few weeks I will have to explain to various people in my life that I can’t hang out on a random Tuesday night in May because I have to watch a bunch

Ever since last December, Slipknot fans have been patiently waiting to find out when and where the band’s 25th anniversary tour would make its way to this side of the globe. Slipknot had already announced the European and U.K. tour celebrating the band’s self-titled debut album, but there was nary a mention of anything even

Here at Decibel, we’re down with pretty much anything drummer Dirk Verbeuren (Megadeth, Cadaver, ex-Soilwork) is down with. That goes double for Savage Lands, his eco-friendly band with guitarist Sylvain Demercastel. Functioning as a 501(c)3 nonprofit, Savage Lands uses money from music royalties, as well as donations and other fundraising sources, to build sanctuaries and support preservation

The arpeggios in Soundgarden’s “Black Hole Sun” are some of the most recognizable notes in the history of grunge, and apparently those were recorded by the rhythm guitarist stepping into the lead guitarist’s shoes for a moment. In a recent interview from a print issue of Guitar Player magazine (as reported on by Metal Injection),

The New York Hardcore scene will never be the same again, as vocalist and frontman Eddie Sutton of legendary crossover thrash group Leeway has died following his battle with cancer. Sutton’s fighting spirit remained, even after his transfer to hospice care at the end of last month following the completion of a clinical trial he

Chilean Doom/Death Metal Band Uttertomb Prepare for a harrowing descent into the death metal abyss with Uttertomb as Pulverised Records proudly unveils their debut full-length Nebulas Of Self-Desecration. With a sound as murky as it is menacing, strap in for eight tracks of defilement that beckon vile resonance. Formed in 2009, Uttertomb has coined their style

Anyone who knows me knows that I fucking love Oslo’s “True Norwegian Melodic Grindcore” kings Beaten to Death. This is mostly because their grindcore is the most non-grindcore grindcore that’s ever been thrown at the public the same way monkeys throw their shit at gawking zoo patrons; you don’t really know if they’re being playful,

Seattle-based doom lords To End It All are back with a new album, Of Blood and Memory out tomorrow (April 19), but you can hear it and get super sad with us first. About the new record, the band say: “Here we illuminate sorrow, grief, loss, and how losing one integral to our sense of

Greetings, Decibel readers! There’s something beautiful about how upsetting extreme metal is. You’re not going to make people cheery with the albums below. You can’t put any of the song titles on a pillow at TJ Maxx. Well, maybe you could. And I’d buy that pillow. But I’m not most people. And neither are you,

London death dealers Vaticinal Rites got together in 2020 and wasted no time in hitting the ground running, blasting out their self-titled EP a year later. Keeping the momentum going, the band quickly got to work on their debut LP, Cascading Memories of Immortality. The first track, “Plead for Termination,” gave listeners the first taste of the new

LanzerRath have a killer split with Shroud of Despondency coming out May 10 via Northern Spire Productions. You can stream LanzerRath’s weird and epic contribution “Nuclear Collapse: The Dissolution of Order and Meaning” below. Shroud of Despondency/LanzerRath Split by LanzerRath “LanzerRath have spent the last year coalescing with the raging cosmos,” the band say. “These

Brooklyn-based queer and femme folk metalers Zelenaya are announcing their new album, Folk Songs, out April 26, and are beyond stoked to unleash the third single from that record, “Spod Tego Jawora,” with us. Folk Songs is the band’s debut album. When listening to Zelenya, expect haunting Eastern European influence, sludge, doom, even death metal.

Nuclear Tomb – Weirdo Death Thrash from Baltimore With a decade of sharpening their unique musical attack, Nuclear Tomb is ready to riot with riffs and explode like a Molotov, proving that the spirit of metal thrives underground. After two self-released EPs and a series of electrifying East Coast tours, the Baltimore quartet is poised to ascend

Photo: Christoph Vohler Guitarist Wolf Hoffmann has been playing with German heavy metal institution Accept since he was a teenager in 1976. It’s been a long road for the band, who have endured lineup changes, hiatuses and the various tribulations that come with a nearly 50-year career but, especially since reuniting in 2009, you can’t stop