Metal

The Texas masters of all things cold-school Frozen Soul have made giant strides in a relatively short amount of time. After signing with metal pillar Century Media Records, not only did their sophomore release Glacial Domination land a respectable No. 8 on your favorite bathroom reader’s Top 40 Albums of 2023 list, they’ve rightfully earned

Photo by A.J. Kinney Back in 2022—before Kill Screen was even in alpha—Decibel’s nerdiest full-time staffers found themselves shirking their Metal & Beer Fest duties (sorry, Albert) in favor of an extended and animated talk with an equally procrastinating Dylan Walker, vocalist for grindcore heroes of legend Full of Hell. The topic? You know what

Black Mare, also known as the solo project of Ides of Gemini vocalist Sera Timms, followers might remember the project’s 2013 album, Field of the Host. The album, a combination of doom-esque songwriting, dark singer-songwriter and shoegaze, is still a moving record. While collecting rarities and out-of-print singles for new compilation Outsiders, Timms also decided to revisit

Where they from?Ocean City, MD. The NHL playoffs are in full swing and you know what that means: disappointed Toronto fans. I watched the cam footage of their outdoor rally for Game 7 against Boston over the weekend even I, as hardened and cynical as a sports fan can get, felt some meager pity for

When legendary Necrophagia vocalist Frank “Killjoy” Pucci passed in 2018, it spelled an end to the long-running death metal band, whose first demo came out in 1984. Though the band was finished, they were midway through completing an album that Killjoy had partially recorded his vocals for. Fortunately, Incantation vocalist John McEntee stepped in to help complete

It’s been 10 years since Kentucky hardcore crushers Knocked Loose first showed up on the scene, pushing an emotional and heavy-as-hell sound on first EP Pop Culture. A few releases and years of hard touring later, Knocked Loose are pretty much the biggest thing in current-day hardcore and, as demonstrated on new album You Won’t

Swedish death metal supergroup Grand Cadaver released the second half of their 7” double A-side single following the release of the first single, “Terminal Exit,” last month. The new track is called “Skinless Gods,” which is so named because skinless is the healthiest way to eat your gods. All of the fat is in the

Where do these months keep going?! I mean, it’s already May? Damn. Pretty soon we’re all gonna be sweating our nethers off in the dead heat of summer, wondering when shit’s gonna cool down. Before we get ahead of ourselves though, we’ve got a newly updated MetalSucks Playlist on your favorite digital streaming platform (as

Doom sludge bands Yashira, Autolith, and Drag Pattern dropped a surprise three-way digital split EP yesterday that was posted to Autolith’s Bandcamp page. The new release contains one song from each band, and Yashira’s contribution, “Blindfolded in Holly,” seems like it will mark the final song for the band as they announced an indefinite hiatus

Knocked Loose drummer Kevin Kaine responded to allegations made by an anonymous and now-deleted account on Reddit from someone claiming to have had a sexual encounter with Kaine and contracted multiple STIs. Here’s the original post that appeared on Reddit: “Warning for other women I don’t know what’s going on with Reddit or why my

Finland’s Unearthly Rites – Photo by Lassi Kojola As we turn the calendar page from April to May, Earth Month may have ended yesterday, but that doesn’t render the care and feeding of this spinning hellscape we mosh upon any less important. Especially not in the eyes, minds, and riffs of Unearthly Rites. With their

On Memorial Day weekend last year, when Maryland Deathfest took the year off, Northwest Terrorfest, the Milwaukee Metalfest and the Hell in the Harbor Fest all seemingly tried to take advantage of the absence and fill in the gap by airing their own festi-tacular wares that particular weekend. Almost lost in the shuffle of extreme

Denver has produced a veritable fuckton of of great metal over the last couple decades but few artists are as prolific as melodic death metal outfit Necropanther. The highly prolific band has put out at least one release every year since 2016—excluding 2017—and are still finding new ways to push themselves. On their latest EP, Oblivion Jones,

Photo courtesy of the band Weirdo avant-garde metal band Frogg have jut shared a video for “Double Vision Roll,” and boy is it quirky. Check it out below. The band say about the song: “’Double Vision Roll’ is a simple song. It’s about having a mental breakdown, a midlife crisis of sorts. Experiencing a shitstorm

Photo courtesy of the band They’ve been at it since ’92, and they aren’t slowing down any time soon. Suppression are back with a new album, Spiritual Sepsis, which features 24 songs clocking in at 17 minutes. The record is out May 10 via To Live A Lie. The two-piece grind band features Jason Hodges on bass

Richmond post-hardcore heroes City of Caterpillar’s return in 2016 was one of the most welcome unexpected events in a year largely full of unwelcome unexpected events. Eight years later, the latest surprise is their first new song since 2022’s stunning comeback album, Mystic Sisters, via the Decibel Flexi Series! “In the Tall Grass” is an exclusive new

You might know artist Chuck BB from his work with Decibel or his graphic novel Nosk of the Void. If not, you can know him for Adjure, his new one-man black metal project inspired by the likes of Gehenna and Sigh. Adjure’s debut album, Live Like You Know You’re Going to Die, is slated for a May 31

Where they from?Los Angeles, CA. The NFL draft was this past weekend. Is there any greater non-event in the universe? I mean, it literally could be summed up as an e-mail instead of the brash decadence the NFL trots out every April. I guess Goodell just can’t handle not having his professional brain trauma operation

Stop me if you’ve heard this before, but Slipknot‘s celebrating the 25th anniversary of their self-titled debut album and as such, they’re planning a buncha special shows celebrating that fact. You may also know they do this little festival all over the world called Knotfest where they get a buncha bands to play with them.

If you’re a fan of records that are actually just one long song, then this premiere is for you. Hailing from Albany, New York, sludge/drone quartet Carnwennan have crafted such an album with Lush, the proper follow up to their demo last year. Divided into four parts titled simply with roman numerals, it’s an album that slowly builds