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Blackened sludge slingers Mantar first crashed the Decibel Flexi Series back in 2018, and Decibel is is all too happy to welcome the deadly duo with a new track, “Bitter Cum Symphony.” Can’t wait to “stream” that one. ANYWAY,  recorded during sessions of their forthcoming Post Apocalyptic Depression LP (out via Metal Blade on February

How about a little Texas-style retro doom to dampen those holiday spirits? Houston rumblers Warlung are offering up the second single, “White Light Seeker,” from their upcoming fifth album, The Poison Touch.  This experienced outfit—George Baba (guitar/keys/vocals), Philip Bennett (guitar/vocals). Chris Tamez (bass), Ethan Tamez (drums)—ride a Sabbath-circa-Sabotage riff to doom metal glory with a few nods to

The longest-running heavy metal tour in North America returns with its boldest lineup ever in 2025! The Decibel Magazine Tour resumes this spring with Norwegian black metal godfathers Mayhem headlining Decibel’s 12th continental expedition of the extreme. Tour support comes from countrymate and dungeon synth progenitor Mortiis, New York City cinematic death metal chaos wielders Imperial Triumphant and San Diego death rock night-bringers New

Greetings, Decibel readers! The big story, stylistically, in black metal in 2024 was seeing the wave of bands that emerged in the late 2010s diverge between the enduring and inspiring leaders — and those that fall into the vast sandy beaches of “raw” or “vampiric” blandness. To be sure, I’m very easily swayed by raw, vampiric

Photo courtesy of the band Montreal sci-fi prog-metalers Mad Parish unveil their new album, The Dust of Forever, on January 31 as a self-release, but you can preview the video for their song “Bishop’s Tomb” below. The album is an original story written by Mad Parish that is told through a soundtrack and follows the story of

Yesterday, Gorguts guitarist Kevin Hufnagel posted on Instagram that there had been a fire at his residence on Sunday, December 15. He clarified that everyone was safe and that it was believed the fire started from an e-bike his neighbor kept in the basement. Despite Hufnagel, his wife and their two cats being safe, they still

The longest-running heavy metal tour in North America returns with its boldest lineup ever in 2025! The Decibel Magazine Tour resumes this spring with Norwegian black metal godfathers Mayhem headlining Decibel’s 12th continental expedition of the extreme. Tour support comes from countrymate and dungeon synth progenitor Mortiis, New York City cinematic death metal chaos wielders Imperial Triumphant and

If you like your death metal grunts with a touch of cold, mechanical industrial poundage, let us introduce you to Brazilian trio, Necrotech, and their new single, “Deadly Industries.” This track arrives on the outfit’s upcoming debut EP, Necrotechnology, a five-song onslaught of mechanical death punishment. “Deadly Industries” is a crusty, Godflesh-inspired mechacrusher, with a relentless

Photo by Stephanie Cabral Ever since the first installment of Kill Screen, Decibel’s co-nerds have sought a consensus among our player characters on the parameters of what makes a game or console “retro”—and have failed miserably. Some have proclaimed that the demarcation for gaming’s modern era started as early as 1989 and as late as

Swedish melodic black metal group Fatal Embrace made their first run as a band from 1992 to 1998, releasing a couple demos and their debut album, Shadowsouls’ Garden, released on Candlelight in 1997. According to the band, they still had plenty of ideas and went into the studio to record their second album, Hail Down Deep. Fatal Embrace

Industrial institution Godflesh made their return to recorded music a decade ago this year, releasing seventh album A World Lit Only By Fire in October 2014. Not only was it regarded as an instant-classic, it heralded a new age for the duo of Justin Broadrick and Ben Green; since its release, Godflesh added three more albums to their discography:

German duo Hexenbrett, consisting of Josto Feratu and Scarlettina Bolétt (who both play “everything”), are back with their second full-length, Dritte Beschwörung: Dem Teufel eine Tochter, which Google tells us translates into “Third Incantation: A Daughter to the Devil.” Make of that what you will, but what’s certain is this pair makes some haltingly unique

Ugh, I wish I was there to see this happen in real-time. Last night (December 14), the surviving members of Seattle grunge icons Soundgarden reunited at the Showbox to contribute an encore performance at the 13th annual SMooCH concert to support the care fund of the Seattle Children’s Hospital. Watch a fan-filmed video of the

Yay, some good news! I mean that nonsarcastically, I swear. After what feels like fucking forever, New York hardcore band Biohazard has reunited its original lineup to get in the studio. Early on Sunday, December 15, the band’s frontman Billy Graziadei posted a pic of him and the rest of the dudes at New Jersey’s

In Decibel’s never-ending quest to expose our gentle readership to as many corners of the extreme music universe as possible, today we bring you Dehumanizing Itatrain Worship. Hailing from China, D.I.W. are leaders, and possibly sole purveyors of, the sub-genre known as Anime Slam. A quote nabbed from their Metal Archives page describes the sometimes

Photo courtesy of Beneath A Steel Sky Beneath a Steel Sky are dropping their debut record, Cleave, on January 24 via Ripcord Records. You can hear “Cyclical Dunt“ from the record here as a little preview before the full LP is released. Cleave by Beneath a Steel Sky “The idea for ‘Cyclical Dunt’ stemmed from the

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Greetings, Decibel readers! At this point, every year is a good year for death metal. There’s so much of it coming out every month, across every permutation, that fans of this music have everything they could ask for in terms of musical quantity. But that does, of course, introduce questions of quality. The sheer amount of

After producing over a dozen self-releases since the start of 2020, Shane Embury’s Dark Sky Burial atmospheric ambient project has signed with Consouling Sounds to deliver the first compilation from the prodigious project. The V.I.T.R.I.O.L. comp is out today (December 13). “I am very excited to be joining Consouling Sounds,” says the legendary musician who

Photo courtesy of Tumbleweed Dealer Hailing from Montreal, cannabis-friendly band Tumbleweed Dealer just announced preorders for their fourth record, Dark Green, out February 7. You can check out the title track with us first. The epic song is a good indication of what the rest of the record holds, which is plenty of blues, psychedelia, and prog