Metal

Philly trio Family Garden—featuring ex-members of YDI, Eat The Turnbuckle, Crackhouse, Woods of Ypres and Woe—return in thunderously loud fashion with their second LP, Dreams Beyond Control. Coming three years after their debut, Born From the Heavens, Family Garden arrive surrounded in chaos and debauchery, doling out a combination of black metal, crust, thrash and hardcore. Their

Jack Black is one funny son of a bitch. We all know that. We also all (should) know how talented he is musically. Sir Black hosted Saturday Night Live last night and was part of this skit called “Goth Kid on Vacation.” In it, he ever so handsomely impersonates My Chemical Romance‘s Gerard Way, poking

Last summer, good news came out of the Grave camp. The Swedish death metal legends, who for the latter half of the band’s career were led by founding member Ola Lindgren, decided to return in their most original form. There’s something sweet about the original members coming back together, though, and they did just that

Loathe really knows how to tease. That naughty, naughty band. The last we heard from the British nu-metal was one 2022 single, “Dimorphous Display,” following an incredibly well-received sophomore album, I Let It In And It Took Everything, in 2020. Loathe have been talking about a new record for some time now while managing to

Okay so hear me out—if you knew you had beef with some b-words over some bullshit, how far would you let a situation like this go? I feel like the answer would not be very far, but I also know that planning a tour and putting together bills is no easy feat, so I’ll hush

IT‘S FINALLY HERE! Metal & Beer Fest: Philly 2025 kicks off tonight (April 3) at the Foundry with our our special Relapse 35th anniversary Pre-Fest (a Pre-lapse if you), followed by Friday (April 4) and Saturday’s (April 5) main event at the Fillmore. Catch special sets from Exodus, Dismember, Darkest Hour and Incantation plus rare appearances

Greetings, Decibel readers! This week’s crop of new releases leans heavily on the well-produced, epic and theatrical side of the ledger today. So if that’s your bag, you should get really pumped for the new albums from Allegaeon, Eonian and Tómarúm. I feel like each of those entries could be the soundtrack to their own sci-fi

Here at Decibel, we’ve been keeping you abreast of the rotting breast of Rottenness for well over a decade — do a site search and you’ll find stuff going back to 2012 — and just as we don’t seem to be stopping, neither do these Mexican-American death metallers. This time the news is all about

Photo courtesy of Brilliant Emperor Records Australian old-school death metallers Anoxia are dropping their first full-length, Revel in Sin, on April 17 via Brilliant Emperor Records and Gutter Prince Cabal Records. Check out the video for “Rule By Cold Steel” from the album ahead of the release.  The record follows their EP Languish in Suffering, and

Photo by Drew Barry The mark of a good metal band name is its origin, the backstory. In-joke? Biblical reference? Satanic bible reference? Lord of the Rings reference? Dungeons & Dragons character? Count New Jersey prog death outfit Chronepsis in the latter category. And their debut, six-track mini-album, Weight of Eternity, is basically a D&D session in

San Diego sludge-slingers -(16)- are still riding high on the immaculate power of  2025’s career standout Guides for the Misguided, a record that led our esteemed reviewer Justin M. Norton to proclaim “These guys should keep playing forever,” but the extreme lifers aren’t content to coast. With that Decibel has secured an exclusive song, “Idol

There once was a group of Philly noise rockers called Plaque Marks. Their tenure was relatively short lived, with the band releasing only one EP—2017’s Anxiety Driven Nervous Worship—and touring a bit. Plaque Marks are gone but PLQ MRX have risen to take their place, pushing the band’s raucous noise rock in new, Funkadelic-inspired directions. PLQ MRX are

Where they from?Northern France. This past Friday was the 13th anniversary of when Dave Mustaine posted on Facebook about spilling a breakfast smoothie on his jeans. This is undoubtedly one of the greatest internet posts of all time and will be studied by future generations as a sort of fisheye-lens into the soul of our

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,