Metal

The best part of waking up is blood in your cup! According to Metal Injection, Concepts Café, the company that brought us Cannibal Corpse’s Cranial Extraction Cold Brew has brought us another metal-themed offering. This time they’re teaming up with former Sepultura and current Cavalera Conspiracy members Max and Iggor Cavalera. Their new venture is

Photo Credit: Ryan Piorkowski and Alex Joo Brace yourself for L.A.’s Stygian Crown‘s explosive return with their much-anticipated sophomore album, “Funeral for a King,” releasing on February 23, 2024, via Cruz Del Sur Music in CD, vinyl, and digital formats. A colossal offering of doom metal enriched with nods to legends like Candlemass and Iron

Venezuelan black metal force Selbst will release its new album (and third overall), Despondency Chord Progressions, on April 19 via the always excellent Debemur Morti Productions. And since neither we nor you can wait that long to get a taste of the project’s Enslaved- and Mgła-inspired progressive madness, we’re stoked to premiere the first track

Since 1999 Oakland’s Rock Against Rock provocateurs Sleepytime Gorilla Museum have been rewriting the heavy side of avant-garde with just about every twist in the vine. Their perpetual use of the kitchen sink has rightly or wrongly earned them comparisons to Mr. Bungle, Estradasphere and Secret Chiefs 3 and after 13 years of inactivity the

Greetings, Decibel readers and honored guests! As you enter the building, you’ll see various exhibits on display today. From the latest masterworks from Borknagar and Morta Skuld, to the return of long-dormant composers like Job For A Cowboy. So please, enjoy your time here, but please, don’t touch the artwork. Happy musing: — Borknagar –

Cuntroaches are dropping a delightfully self-titled album tomorrow via Skin Graft Records, but you can get ahead of the curve and stream it with us here first. “Cuntroaches is inspired by witches who do not know how to summon stuff (unable to take care of themselves), stretched out labyrinthine toilets with knotted septic pipes (conducting bigger

Photo: Chris Klumpp Job For a Cowboy are back this Friday with their much-anticipated new record Moon Healer, out via Metal Blade Records. Their first album in a decade, the pressure was on, and they do not disappoint. While JFAC have flirted with a variety of sounds in their career, they seem to have simplified things with

Photo by Hillarie Jason Since its inception, the video game industry has been largely dominated by Japan, the United States and the United Kingdom with names like Super Mario Bros., Minecraft and Grand Theft Auto having reached a level of ubiquity such that even our technologically impaired editor-in-chief has some idea of what we’re talking

Riders of Rohan do not fit neatly into metal, and they are better for it. The idiosyncratic Swedish rock trio is themed around the Tolkien universe, feature multiple lead singers, and are sonically so proto-metal oriented that they were blacklisted and removed from Metallum. Following their release of their self-titled 2022 debut, Riders are ready

Though they’re a new band, Guiltless are no strangers to the worlds of post metal and artsy rock. A collaboration between A Storm of Light members Billy Graves, Dan Hawkins and Josh Graham plus Intronaut’s Sacha Dunable, the band members draw upon their shared love for noise rock, sludge and heavy experimental music on their debut

We don’t realistically know if the “Savage Dawn” referenced here by Spanish speed metal outfit, Iron Curtain, is a really aggressive ex-girlfriend or, like, an especially unpleasant morning with a bad hangover. Could be both. Boy, that would suck. But, look, what we do know is that these Spanish thrashers—Mike Leprosy (vocals/guitars), Joserra (bass), Moroco

Pirate metal is no laughing matter but this new song from The Dread Crew of Oddwood might be. Calling their music “heavy mahogany,” the group of ruffians play acoustic folk metal-influenced tunes about life on the high seas. With new album Rust & Glory on the way, The Dread Crew of Oddwood are singing tunes of their travels

You ever hear an album and immediately think, “Now that’s fire”? That’s what I thought the very moment I hit play on “Encorcelled Spirits” by Indiana-based black metal outfit Karkosa. And the name of that song is fitting, seeing as the band’s music strikes me as a blend of Anthems-era Emperor and various technical death

Getting your show shutdown by the cops should be considered a badge of honor if you’re any sort of rock band. Getting your show shutdown by the Department of Buildings for some bureaucratic red tape is, admittedly, much less badass. But that’s exactly what happened to crossover thrash juggernaut Mindforce at a show on Friday

Guitarist Wacław “Vogg” Kiełtyka announced recently that he’s no longer a member of legendary groove metal band Machine Head. Vogg said that his focus, first and foremost, is on his other band Decapitated. Besides, it’s more fun to call yourself a “Decapitated guitarist” because it sounds like you’re playing guitar without a head. Which, now

California-based political activist rapcore group Fever 333 released a new single called “Ready Rock.” “Ready Rock” is certainly also something that Dwayne Johnson says to himself in the bathroom mirror every morning. The new single is the first taste of Fever 333’s upcoming and yet-to-be-titled second studio album due out later this year from 333Wreckcords

New Jersey metalcore band Fracture went viral after playing a show at a New Jersey Devils game on Thursday night. As if hockey wasn’t violent enough, someone had to go and add metalcore. Video of the show ended up in a few places on social media, most notably being shared on Twitter by popular sports

Surprise! We’ve got 200 copies—the most limited variant—of the deluxe LP reissue of legendary metallic hardcore crew Deadguy’s landmark sole full length, Fixation on a Coworker, on Atom-smashed Orange with Black Splatter! No pre-orders because it’s available right now! Out of print on vinyl for over a decade, Deadguy scoured the galaxy in search of Fixation’s original recording only to

Greetings, Decibel readers! Have you gotten your tickets yet for the Decibel Magazine Tour? If you haven’t, just know you’ll be missing the finest display of the burning darkness on offer, with performances from Hulder, Devil Master, Worm, and Necrofier. Consistent readers of this column will know how much I appreciate Hulder, so there’s no mystery there. And with that amazing