Metal

Time to pull your old JNCO Jeans out of the closet because ‘90s alt-metal group Orange 9mm announced their long-overdue reunion this week. The reunion comes with a new lineup that includes original vocalist Chaka Malik—the band’s only consistent member—and guitarist Taylor McLam alongside new members drummer Chris Enriquez and bassist Drew Kasal. The band

In the world of death metal, we’ve become accustomed to the word “darkness” as a standard adjective. But there’s some music that evokes it more apparently than others, and that’s definitely true of Chapel of Samhain. For rabid fans of bands like Incantation, Profanatica, Imprecation, and Ritual Necromancy, the band’s new album Black Onyx Cave

The members of VLTIMAS are all legends in their own right. David Vincent blessed the sick for Morbid Angel. Rune Eriksen made grand declarations of war as Mayhem’s blasphemous axe man. No one is more vile than Flo Mounier, who’s been drumming for Cryptopsy since their earliest exhumations of the underground. But on their second

Photo: Heath Metzger Amblare, the self-titled album from the band of the same name, contains the final recordings of Hum drummer Bryan St. Pere, who played with the band in their original run and on Hum’s excellent reunion record, Inlet. Amblare operate in a similar territory of heavy, fuzzed-out rock that borders on shoegaze, building a moody

Little Rock’s big riff machine Terminal Nation return with their incendiary new album Echoes of the Devil’s Den, and Decibel has an exclusive vinyl variant on Easter Yellow Inside Orange Crush limited to a scant 100 copies! This crushing death metal and hardcore amalgam arrives in a standard jacket with an insert on the eve of the band’s debut Decibel Magazine

Earlier this year, a new festival popped up on my radar: a new death metal festival in Austin, Texas! This year marks the first-ever Austin Death Fest, being held on April 27 and 28 at Mohawk, and features basically the top-tier of modern, contemporary death metal. For real, nearly all the big names that emerged

With Decibel Magazine Metal & Beer Fest: Philly 2024 now less than one month away, we are honored to reveal the exclusive beer collaboration between Florida death metal legends Deicide and Indiana craft beer institution (and presenting brewery) 3 Floyds! Presenting: The Light Defeated—named after the closing track from Deicide’s forthcoming new album, Banished by

Photo courtesy of Matt Viel – Windows Down Zine Omega Glory are back with a new single, “Cut Adrift,” from their upcoming full-length Offerings which you can stream below. Playing hard, ripping, grindy metal in the vain of Nails or Black Breath, this track is about someone desperate and unable to connect with their surroundings,

Photo courtesy of Weston Super Maim Weston Super Maim are unveiling their debut LP, See You Tomorrow, Baby, in all its weird and technical glory for you to stream. The U.K./U.S. based band popped up in the mid-2000s as a solo project from Tom Stevens of All Of Space an Brown Stratos, and then fully came

Post-metal powerhouse O ZORN! will release its profoundly introspective album Vermillion Haze on March 15 via Hard Drugs/Seeing Red Records. Beyond the glitz of Los Angeles, the band delves into the city’s darker, chaotic underbelly, magnified by the pandemic’s aftermath. Fronted by the charismatic Bill Kielty and backed by a formidable lineup, O ZORN! crafts a sound that captures

Plenty of artists ape the stylings of ’70s and ’80s but Armagh do it with a level of authenticity that’s hard to do. Drawing inspiration from ’70s hard rock, classic ’80s heavy metal and first-wave black metal, their new album Exclamation Point is a melodic, alluring album that is both subdued and energizing. An eight-song ripper, Exclamation Point is produced

Where they from?Kaiserslautern, Germany. Normally I chat about sports or other bullshit in this intro section but this weekend Blake Harrison of Pig Destroyer passed away and I just want to pay him a little tribute. Blake was one of the first people I met in the entire grindcore scene, bumping into him at the

If weirdo, esoteric death metal is your thing, check out a few tracks from the Septage album Intolerant Spree of Infesting Forms (Septic Worship), out March 29 via Me Saco Un Ojo Records and Dark Descent Records. In keeping with their random, chaotic nature, they’ve unveiled two songs alongside an instrumental bass track. You can

Photo: Paisley Mena Los Angeles death dealers Swampbeast put everyone on notice in 2021, when they crawled out of their marshy hiding place and delivered their debut album, Seven Evils Spawned of Seven Heads, on the world. Musically, they’ve been quiet since then—until now. Their second LP, Offering of Chaos, Lamenting In The Blood of Man, is due for a

Man, fuck Daylight Savings Time. You guys that live outside the U.S. have it pretty fucking good for a number of reasons, but arbitrarily changing the time because of some farmer bullshit is definitely high up on the list. This week’s update to the playlist sees new tracks from The Native Howl, Full Of Hell,

California-based progressive, extreme metal band Ænimus released a new single on Friday before announcing the band’s indefinite hiatus. The new single is called “Phoenix Rise,” which would probably be a more appropriate title for a single if it was released to announce a reunion rather than a hiatus. Instead, this phoenix is combusting in a

Nothing gives your massive, corporate music festival more punk cred than partnering with the U.S. military. Hardcore bands Scowl and Gel have both pulled out of all events at the popular South by Southwest music festival because the fest is being sponsored by the U.S. Army and several defense contractors. What exactly did SXSW think

British heavy metal legends Judas Priest just released their 19th studio album, Invincible Shield, this past week and, in doing so, they supposedly set a new record in heavy metal history. According to Loudwire, the new release makes Judas Priest the first heavy metal band to release two albums 50 years apart, namely the band’s

Greetings, Decibel readers! It’s funny to type out the name Judas Priest in 2024 like it’s just another name on the list. It’s an incredible testament to the band’s longevity as a vital creative outfit that they’re still making such great music today. 2018’s Firepower was fantastic already, and that was SIX years ago already!

Photo courtesy of the Toby Knapp We have some serious riffage for you in the form of “Abramelin Carousel” from Toby Knapp. The guitar virtuoso is pushing things eve further on this track, which he claims is an ode to his guitar heroes. “I like to make music that reflects what I’m a fan of