Metal

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

Greetings, Decibel readers! I was sick this week, so I didn’t have a lot of headspace to focus on music, but the show must go on. Because you’re not sick. Well, maybe you are and the only cure is black metal. If that’s the case, take some of the below. Don’t bother calling though, I’m

It’s been four years since the metal scene at large last heard from midwest blackened death metal outfit Throne (peep their last album, Pestilent Dawn, here) but the Jackson, Michigan horde are officially back. That Who Sat Upon Him, Was Death continues in the same vein as its predecessor, combining a love for acts like early Behemoth with the straightforward

Photo courtesy of Calyces Athenian progressive metalers Calyces are sharing their new album Fleshy Waves of Probability, which is out on March 21. It’s a mix of ’00s sludge prog metal with ’70s progressive rock influences, and you can hear it below. Fleshy Waves of Probability by Calyces “Our debut album, Impulse to Soar, depicted

Photo by Sarah Hammel Seattle death rock/goth metal mavens, Dark Meditation, have returned with a brand new six-song EP, Where the Darkness Bleeds, which we’re previewing in its entirety here. The gloomy quintet—Adam Vick (vocals), Ryan Fitch (guitars), Ian E. (guitars), Will Klintberg (drums), Rachel Robillard (bass)—are following up 2022’s Polluted Temples with another potent dose of blackened

Time And The Hunter, an experimental electronica group formed by ex-Dark Tranquillity guitarist Niklas Sundin and The Moor main-brain Enrico Longhin, debut three tracks from their forthcoming Inertia Music debut, Weapon Pt. I. While most fans have come to recognize Sundin’s post-NWOSDM (also the much-missed Laethora) work as a visual artist for Dark Tranquillity, Arch

UK black metal/punk hybrid Final Dose are gearing up to release their next full-length album, Under the Eternal Shadow, and the first track from the release is live now. “Dark Paradise” follows in the path of bands like Midnight and Too Old Too Cold-era Darkthrone, It alternates between a hair-whipping groove and energetic blast beats, complemented by its accompanying

Photo by Alex Morgan Surrounded by flame, adorned in black robes and growling in blood-soaked tongues, Whitechapel frontman Phil Bozeman roars via their lead single and title track that the band’s latest offering, Hymns in Dissonance, is the stuff of nightmares. This most recent album is touted as a lyrical sequel to 2008’s deathcore pillar

Extreme in its extremities. the new five-track EP from Pyramid Mass, Gargling Rot, drills into your brainpan with some potent, industrial-strength sludge before launching into a death metal barrage and seamlessly finding some ambient soundscapes to float in. It’s all presented surprisingly cohesively with contrasting sounds well integrated within songs and the EP as a whole.

You can’t beat the classic sounds, but you can definitely present them in exciting ways, which is exactly what Amammoth do on their new album, Distant Skies and the Ocean Flies. Steeped in doom, stoner and sludge influences from Sleep, Electric Wizard, Melvins and Black Sabbath, the Aussie trudge through seven tracks of amp worship. Amammoth’s biggest strength

Fans of the rap-metal band Fire From The Gods got a surprise last night (March 15). The band joined Traitors during their Austin, TX date of their “Phobias 2025 Tour,” where they revealed a new vocalist without warning. Welcome to the FFTB club, Myke Terry. It’s nice to have you here. Terry’s in the Los

We love it when a good band makes a return. Double time if it also includes the return of a good member. That’s what Connecticut metalcore/hardcore band 100 Demons is doing. Not only have they welcomed back their old bassist, Sean Martin (ex-Hatebreed), but it’s also said that they’re working on new music for the

Gary Holt Book Signing Announced at Metal & Beer Fest: Philly! February 20, 2025 Legendary thrash guitarist Gary Holt will be on hand at Decibel Magazine Metal & Beer Fest: Philly on April 5 to sign copies of his new book, A Fabulous Disaster: From the Garage to Madison Square Garden, the Hard Way. Originally

We’re just a few weeks away from Swedish death metal legends Dismember headlining the opening night of Decibel Magazine Metal & Beer Fest: Philly with an exclusive performance of their 1991 landmark album, Like an Ever Flowing Stream (plus other choice cuts), so what better way to celebrate than with a full track-by-track breakdown of the

Greetings, Decibel readers! Have lots of great death and heavy metal in store for you this week. Hopefully these tunes prepare you to endure having to hear “Shipping out to Boston” over and over again when you go out on Monday. Hope you have a Happy St. Patrick’s Day regardless! (They should be playing this song

Photo: Hunter Astrid @shottbyhunter Southern California hardcore band Feed the Beast have dropped their latest album, Mercy, the band’s first for Futureless. Check out the video for “Tombs Underneath the Tombs” with us today. Feed the Beast’s started out as high school friends who connected over music. “It was a very small school, which was even funnier how we were all into the same music,” says Nicholas Garcia, guitar.

To put it as plainly as possible, if you consider yourself a fan of heavy tunes and Persekutor isn’t already on your radar, your are absolutely fucking up. Their frigid riffage and barebones blackened heavy-metal-rock-and-roll is fit for any brand of metalhead, and their tongue-in-cheek sleaze is a reminder that we’re all here to have

Photo courtesy of Enemy Inside Enemy Inside are bringing their latest record, Venom, to the masses on February 28 via Reigning Phoenix music. The metalcore/industrial/weirdo band shared a track-by-track breakdown of the forthcoming album with us. 1. Venom is the title track of the album and definitely one of the heavier songs, packed with intense screams and powerful

Denver hardcore/metalcore outfit Hellgrammites—Bill Jenkins (drums), Erik Petersen (vocals/synths/samples), Lehi Petersen (guitar), Troy Ten Eyck (bass)—are unleashing a brand new video for the track, “Bayonet,” from their upcoming Ethos EP. It’s a performance video set in some sort of dystopian laboratory and finds the band playing unorthodox instruments. “Bayonet” is a lurching, swirling, stuttering crusher filled with noisy,

Where they from? Tennessee. So I just looked it up and the MLB season starts next week with the Tokyo Series between the Cubs and the Dodgers, so I guess it’s time to make my World Series prediction. I have the New York Mets beating the Detroit Tigers in seven games. I base this off