Metal

Photo by Hillarie Jason At the time of writing this intro, Baltimore die-hards Dying Fetus are busy preparing for quite the year. Following their special “old-school” set at Metal & Beer Fest: Philly on April 13, the trio sets out yet again throughout North America for a month before heading over to Europe to bludgeon

The best clue in deducing what a band sounds like before you actually hear them is to check out what shirts they decided to pick off the pile on promo picture day. One of the next best ways of prejudging a band is to take a look at who they’ve shared the stage with. In

In exactly one week, the Decibel Magazine Metal & Beer Pre-Fest: Philly 2024 will be loading into the Foundry at the Fillmore on April 11 for all those eager to pregame this year’s main festivities. Featuring an already stacked lineup including death metal new bloods Undeath, horrifying hometown heroes Outer Heaven and pitch-black thrashers Morbikon,

Greetings, Decibel listeners! Well, time to shake things up a bit, and no I’m not referring to the minor earthquake that just make my house rattle for like 15 seconds. No! I’m talking about the five new releases below! Below you’ll find earth-shattering death metal, torrential waves of black metal, and other styles fit for puns

Japanese multi-instrumentalist Kosuke Hashida has been around for a long time, playing guitar with Nihilist Workshop and The Cauterized in the early 2000s. In the time since, he’s played live guitar with American death metal outfit Abysmal Dawn and now riffs with Osaka-based death metal/hardcore group World End Man. With that firm understanding of extreme metal

Photo courtesy of the band Known for their blend of raw violence and classic death metal themes, Chunked are unveiling their debut album, Inhaling the Infestation, on May 3 via Gore House Productions. Check out the lyric video for the title track ahead of that release. “’Inhaling the Infestation’ is a power ballad about a swarm of

Photo: Dirk Draeger Hillsborough County, a municipality in Florida that contains the city of Tampa, has awarded a historical marker to Morrisound Recording, the legendary studio where your favorite death metal albums were recorded. According to the official post made by Morrisound’s Facebook account, the marker will be placed at the “site of our earlier

Philadelphia doom lords Crypt Sermon have returned with their new album The Stygian Rose, and Decibel has summoned our own exclusive edition on Ochre-streaked Orange vinyl courtesy of Dark Descent Records, limited to a mere 100 copies! Recorded, mixed and mastered by the infernal Arthur Rizk, this expansive third LP from the mystical sextet comes

Austin doom crew Destroyer of Light have been one of the most consistent and reliable doom bands over the last twelve years, releasing six albums, three EPs and more, but all things have an expiration date and Destroyer of Light have reached theirs. Degradation Years, the band’s new full-length, shows a considerable growth for the long-running band. It’s

Where they from?England, U.K. Baseball started this past week. My World Series prediction is Yankees/Dodgers. I don’t know how accurate that is, I just know it would piss everybody off the most, which would be great. No one deserves to be happy! Especially us Mets fans! Why the hype?OY A BIT OF THE OL’ MASH

Any self-respecting sludge fan knows that Iron Monkey created some of the best music in the genre during their initial run. With a self-titled debut (1997) and a worthy follow-up Our Problem (1998), the Nottingham marauders made some of the decade’s most infectiously violent and hateful music. With an impossibly groovy rhythm section, riffs both

On its second album, Litanies of the Unceasing Agonies, one-man black/death metal outfit Altar of Gore strips death metal back to its rawest, purest form and revels in it. Following the project’s last release, 2022’s Infinite Visions of Violence, Litanies of the Unceasing Agonies comes from a similar place, with creator The Acolyte of the Foul Ones eschewing

Do you want a piece of the late, great Lemmy Kilmister of Motörhead fame? Well, if you aren’t lucky enough to be one of the few friends that were given his ashes, you can have the next best thing with the new book that Z2 has put together as a tribute to the late frontman.

Jack Owen has been a legend in death metal since the late ‘80s when he became one of the founding members of Cannibal Corpse. He stayed with them until 2004 when he left and joined Deicide, staying with them for 12 years before leaving them in 2016, before he eventually ended up reuniting with fellow

Though they originally rose to underground fame in the ’80s, death metal band Morta Skuld are a great example of a band who didn’t get their due until later in their career. While they may have flown under the radar a little bit when they first burst onto the scene, they are slowly realizing what

Since first crawling out of Hell via Tony Iommi’s hand of doom, metal has largely remained a male-dominated scene. Notable exceptions have made their presence known, but have mostly been that—exceptions. After over five decades of existence, extreme music is starting to see noticeable shifts in its demographic, both off- and on-stage. As Women’s History

Richmond post-hardcore heroes City of Caterpillar return with their first new song since 2022’s stunning comeback album, Mystic Sisters, via the Decibel Flexi Series! “In the Tall Grass” is an exclusive new banger and the 162nd entry in our nonstop floppy serialization. Want to make sure you don’t miss out on this necessary flexi? Be

Death/doom ritualists Tzompantli return with their unearthly new album Beating the Drums of Ancestral Force, and Decibel has an exclusive variant on Blood Red Stain vinyl limited to a mere 100 copies courtesy of 20 Buck Spin! The brainchild of Brian Ortiz of California legends Xibalba, Tzompantl’s latest work builds up on an already unshakable

Photo: James Rexroad Portland, Oregon-based outfit Semuta have a new album, Glacial Erratic, coming out on May 24 and Decibel is more than happy to spread the word by way of the band’s new music video for the title track. A duo comprised of vocalist/guitarist Benjamin Caragol (Burials) and drummer Ben Stoller (Prize Hog), Semuta play a form of progressive,

It’s been interesting to watch Julia Gaeta‘s musical evolution. Gaeta has always been a card-carrying metalhead, but like the most interesting artists and people, she couldn’t be contained by one genre or approach. She’s a bit of a chameleon. Gaeta has landed in an interesting place: she’s become a first-rate dark wave/post-punk/trip-hop chanteuse with a