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We’ve known Ozzy Osbourne has been struggling with his health over the last few years. He hasn’t played a full show since 2018, but is going to be hitting the stage with the reunited full original lineup of Black Sabbath for their “Back to the Beginning” charity concert later this year. While we knew we

Tool stay up to mysterious shit. Sometimes they let us know what’s going on, but they do love to be elusive about some shit. They spend years in between albums just diddling around or doing whatever they do, but their bassist Justin Chancellor gave us a lil update on what they’ve been up to musically.

I don’t know why this is something that has literally never crossed my mind or something I even thought was possible. I know Post Malone is a fan of a lot of great shit, with Nirvana definitely falling into that, but of all the Saturday Night Live hoopla lately, this wasn’t on my bingo card

Rising ticket prices are a problem we’ve all been dealing with for a while now. Inflation, rising travel budgets for bands, costly travel visas… all those costs have to get made up somewhere, so naturally ticket prices can increase as the band’s profile and size of the tour get bigger. It’s sadly a fact of

Toronto sludge crew Pyres have taken a long journey to get to their second album, Yun. The follow-up to their last release, first album Year of Sleep in 2013, Yun is a testament to Pyres’ resilience, the band overcoming grief, lineup changes and a years long hibernation to get to this point. Yun will officially be released on March 7 via Hypaethral Records but

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Photo courtesy of All Against All Against are releasing their new album, Straight Down To Hell, on March 14 via Raging Planet. Before it officially drops, you can check out the video for “Out Of The Box” to get a preview. The album was recorded and mastered at Nox Messor Sound Studios, and promises to

On a gray, overcast winter Friday in Austin – Super Bowl weekend and still 70 degrees easy – trucks encircle the Crow’s Nest like Stephen King filming Maximum Overdrive. Scorpion Child himself, frontman Aryn Jonathan Black, pulls up near 10 a.m. in a flurry of hair, tattoos, and a bar owner’s exhaustion and anxiety. I

And the gnarliest song title this week goes to Philly death metal grunt mob Moros, whose new track, “Pulling Off Leeches,” we’re, uh, bloody thrilled to premiere. The trio of Jason Dost (guitar/vocals), John Hauser (bass/vocals) and Mike Howard (drums) pair their revolting song title with equally gut-churning sludgy DM and ranting-lunatic vocals that sound like

New York City mathgrind trio Thin are back with their latest release, The Overlapping Nature of Things. A fast and brutal EP, Thin use the six songs to traverse new sonic territory with the same frantic energy. In addition to the core of technical grind, the trio pull from death metal, screamo and sharp noise

Japanese multi-instrumentalist Kosuke Hashida, best known for his work with death metal/hardcore outfit World End Man, is back with his second album in two years. Following up 2024’s Justifiable Homicide, new album Outrage picks up on a similar page, dishing out 11 tracks of grindcore and death metal. There aren’t many frills to be found on Outrage; Hashida

Where they from?Belgium. Due to travel plans, I am writing this entry exactly two hour before the Chiefs and Eagles play in the Super Bowl. Because of this I have to guess what will happen in the big game. OK, so here it goes: Wow! I can’t believe the Kansas City Chiefs are the first

Progressive death metal lunatics Pyrrhic Salvation—a multi-state collab—are back with a new 20-minute EP, When Society Crumbles, which includes the title track divided into three expansive parts and an additional track, “Every Last Soul Unmade.” The EP is a rush of terse and atonal death metal peppered with quieter melodic moments. It’s performed by a trio of

This week on The MetalSucks Podcast, Lacuna Coil vocalist Cristina Scabbia joins the show! She’s here to discuss the band’s latest album Sleepless Empire coming out this Friday, Feb. 14! We discuss if there was any plans for releasing the album on Valentine’s Day, the challenge of creating after the experience they had with previous

Now this is the type of parrot I’m down to hear continuously squawking. Australian grindcore band King Parrot has been relatively quiet the last few years, but they’re back baby! Yay! They’re releasing their first full-length album since 2017’s Ugly Produce and 2020’s Holed Up in the Lair EP. They’re calling it A Young Person’s

Coltsblood (Photo by Adam Clarkson) Few bands summon the abyss like Coltsblood. Their sound is less music than it is an immovable force, a seismic shift beneath the surface of doom metal. With Obscured Into Nebulous Dusk, their upcoming LP on Translation Loss Records, the UK trio honors their roots while carving out a path

The day after Christmas 2024, the co-nerds of Kill Screen received a text message from Decibel editor-in-chief and notable not nerd Albert Mudrian: “Contents of my Out of Season package”. Attached was a photo of his haul, made up of a copy of Mortiis’ Født til å herske on vinyl, a black-on-foil sticker branded with

Copenhagen’s Phrenelith has been among the finest purveyors of death metal in recent years. They, among many Danish counterparts, have garnered acclaim and notoriety for their fierce and festering styles of extreme metal. The band is over three years removed from their last full-length album, Chimaera–plenty of time to flesh out how their third full-length, Ashen Womb, would

Greetings, Decibel readers! At the beginning of every year, I create a new playlist called “[Current Year] Essentials.” This serves two purposes: in the short term, it helps me keep track of favorites to suggest for Decibel‘s end of year list; and in the long term, it makes it easy for me to revisit those

Visceral have dropped a new track, “Where the Wretches Are,” from their new album Eyes Teeth and Bones, out April 4 via Raging Planet Records. Check out the very heavy debut single from the album below. “With Eyes, Teeth and Bones, we wanted to push everything further—faster, heavier, and more intense. We made sure every riff, every