Metal

Get ready to “roll initiative” everyone! San Jose’s Dungeon Crawl is back with a new song from their upcoming album, Maze Controller. The track, “+1 Mace,” showcases the band’s various influences from across the heavy metal player’s handbook, from thrash metal, death metal, power metal, and orchestral metal — all converging into an impressive homebrew

Post-rock stalwarts God Is An Astronaut will soon release their eleventh album, Embers, via Napalm Records. Coming not long after the band celebrated their 20th anniversary, it is an emotive record that draws from their past and looks to their future in familiar and fresh ways. Ahead of Embers‘ release, Decibel spoke with guitarist and keyboardist Torsten Kinsella

Usually metal doesn’t get the credit it should when it comes to mainstream attention. Since metalheads are just a bunch of cool guys I doubt it’s really bothered us at all, but that doesn’t mean we won’t bask in the recognition whenever we receive it. Our latest triumph comes from one AC/DC and their iconic

It seems like no one can catch a break lately. Everyone is either getting sick, hurting themselves, splitting up or insert any other shitty thing that can happen to a band. Hard rock oldies Scorpions are the latest to deal with some bullshit, unfortunately having to cancel five shows they were supposed to do in

Could it be? No, it’s not possible, but, what if it is? What does it all mean? For now, these are the life questions that need to be answered if you’re a Linkin Park fan, because the mystery and intrigue around a post the band made on Saturday is palpable. Seemingly out of fucking nowhere,

If you know me, you’ll know that if you give me a sliver of conversational space in which to bring up tennis, you’d better buckle the fuck up. Or walk away for the sake of your sanity. But while my sports-related pedantic nerdery may focus on the true beautiful game, know that it branches out

Greetings, Decibel readers! I don’t know about you, but I feel like this year has been a little slow to deliver knock-out releases. Don’t get me wrong, there’s plenty of bands doing cool stuff, but I feel like the end-of-year lists will be pretty easy to stack up as the weather cools down. However, this

If you’ve had any passing interest in the filthier side of punk coming out of the U.K. for the last, I dunno, 30 or so years, chances are you’re familiar with a gentleman named Michael “Scoot” Gladok. He’s been a part of some of the most influential and important punk bands and records ever released,

Photo courtesy of the band Quebec death metallers Insurrection just dropped a video for “The Gathering,” the first banger from their upcoming album Obsolescence, out September 13.  “The first time we played this song, we knew we had to play it live in front of people,” the band say. “In fact, we felt so strongly about

Photo: Akis Zaralis International thrash sensation Nervosa have been on an upward trajectory for the last decade, honing their craft and attempting to reach new musical and career heights—including a Decibel cover!—in the process. They’re about to head out on their first headlining tour of the United States, so Decibel caught up with frontwoman Prika Amaral to talk about Nervosa’s

Where they from?Switzerland. Every time this part of the year rolls around I find myself asking a simple yet profound question that I’m sure millions of people ask themselves every year: Who exactly is the Little League World Series for? Have you ever met anyone who was like “Bro, let’s get a couple of six

Herakleion (L-R: Speed Wilson, Apollo Xydias, Christian Woerner) From the shadowy depths of New Orleans emerges Herakleion, a death thrash trio determined to drag the genre back to its roots while exploring the morbid curiosity that haunts us all. Fresh off a tour with Goatwhore, Vitriol, and Thantifaxath, Herakleion is poised to unleash their upcoming

Where’s Mortiis?: Our author feels the weight of his playlist On the eve of his September U.S. headlining tour where he’ll perform his groundbreaking 1993 album, Født Til Å Herske, in its entirety, dungeon synth progenitor Mortiis took time to serenade Decibel with 40—that’s right, 40—albums that shaped his musical trajectory. From Rick Wakeman to Witchfinder

Despite—or perhaps because of—its status as a Mormon stronghold, Salt Lake City has produced numerous notable heavy bands, among them revered doom institution SubRosa and their offshoot band The Otolith, who formed in the wake of Subrosa’s breakup. After releasing their first album, Folium Limina, in 2022, the quintet are back with a new split. Entitled Legends

Lamb of God (L-R: Art Cruz, Mark Morton, Randy Blythe, Willie Adler, John Campbell) Photo by Jimmy Hubbard As Lamb of God celebrates the 20th anniversary of their groundbreaking album Ashes of the Wake (out August 30th on Epic, pre-order here), fans are treated to an expanded deluxe edition that not only revisits the powerful

Some of the coolest music you will ever encounter is made by artists whose perspective is so removed from what constitutes “normal” that it sounds made by extraterrestrial beings that are trying to replicate human music, and are not quite getting it right. The musical landscape is littered with such outsiders, many of whom are

A surprise announcement was made last night during an alleged Cowboys From Hell show at First Avenue in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The announcement? That it wasn’t actually going to be some band called Cowboys From Hell playing. Instead, it was going to be Pantera performing, and it was going to be a special night. According to

We all know who Vended is by now. Led by Corey Taylor’s son Griffin, the band, which also has other Slipknot spawn Simon Crahan (Clown’s kid) teeters on a similar balance of heavy hits and melodic notes, and you can certainly hear it (and see it) in the band’s video for their new song “Serenity,”

I very unironically love Creed, and I very unironically love this. Even though the band has been on the receiving end of meme-ery and tomfoolery throughout the years, they’ve got quite a few wins under their belt that deserve some flowers. Creed want to make sure we put some mutherfuckin respect on their name, and

Sadly, Coal Chamber have to reschedule their “Fiend For The Fans” tour due to health issues with lead singer Dez Fafara. It was supposed to start Friday, August 23 with tour mates Twiztid, Fear Factory, Black Satellite, and Wednesday 13, but now won’t happen until 2025. Fafara has been dealing with health issues on and