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2023 was a year, this is true. Some grindcore and powerviolence albums came out this year that quite tickled our fancy and in the spirit of true grind we decided to make a top list of our favorite songs off those albums. Feel free to trash this list on Twitter. 20.Cave Moth“Paralytic Love” from Paralytic

This coming spring, Marduk will headline a tour across Europe, so local black metal fans, get stoked for the Memento Mori European Tour. The month-long trek will be supported by Origin and Doodswens and will start April 2 and end May 5. 2024 European tour dates: 02.04.2024 POL, Warszawa / Proxima03.04.2024 POL, Kraków / Kwadrat04.04.2024

Metal purists, get ready to stay mad. Kirk Hammett just spilled some unlikely history lessons in a recent interview, including how much the band UFO influenced Kill ‘Em All. In an interview with Metal Mayhem ROC, which you can watch below, Hammett reflected back on the iconic Metallica album on it’s 40th anniversary and talked

New Jersey Death metallers Replicant just announced European tour dates for their Infinite Meanders run alongside support from Swedish band Anachronism. The tour, named for records from Replicant and Anachronism, will run from March 29 in Yverdon, CH to April 13, a date that is still TBA, hitting 15 different spots across Europe, with a

New year, new me? Nah, I still love death metal and God, which is convenient because Decibel has an exclusive stream of the new Cancer Christ album God is Violence to blast away your hangover. A tongue-in-cheek band with a live show that emphasizes spectacle as much as death metal, Cancer Christ quickly carved out a name for themselves in the

Feel old yet? Black Flag have announced tour dates for 2024 in support of their seminal 1984 album My War, which will be celebrating its 40th anniversary. The famous California punk band will perform two sets at every tour shop, starting with the entire tracklist of My War and ending with a variety of other

Yep, there’s more drama in Camp Slipknot, just in time for new years. The estate of Joey Jordison is suing Slipknot for allegedly profiting from his death and apparently not returning Jordison’s equipment. The lawsuit was filed in June by Steamroller, LLC but is now public knowledge, and claims the band never gave back about

Cryo Chamber just released the ninth installment in their Cryo Chamber Collaboration series, a series that has been going on since 2014. Based in Oregon, the dark ambient label puts out this annual tribute n the theme of H.P. Lovecraft’s universe, calling this record Rhan-Tegoth. The record features a ton of collaborations and guest features

Having already released my personal favorite album of 2023 via his work on Venomous Concept’s The Good Ship Lollipop, it’s only right for extreme music legend Shane Embury (Napalm Death, Brujeria, don’t make me type the rest) to put a bow on this year with a surprise release from his prolific Dark Sky Burial project. The dark

Sick Of It All just shared their European and U.K. tour dates for 2024. This summer, the New York hardcore giants will kick off a trek across the pond. The tour kicks off in Frankfurt, DE on May 3 and ends in Dresden, DE on June 1. On social media, the band say: “Hot off

This past fall, we reported on how Blue Ridge Rock Festival had a ton of things go wrong, the had to cancel a day early. Now, attendees want their refunds, but the festival says they will have to keep waiting. The fest was cut short due to bad weather, but there were also a lot

Arch Enemy just parted ways with guitarist Jeff Loomis, who has been in the band from 2014 to 2023. Loomis will be replaced by Joey Concepcion, formerly of Sanctuary and The Absence. Loomis claims that the switch-up is because he is “ready to enter a new chapter in my life.” “It’s been a joy having Jeff play

Whether you’re sipping coffee and blasting music first thing in the morning or hitting the gym for an afternoon workout, coffee and death metal go hand in hand, and Cannibal Corpse just proved it with their new cold brew collaboration. The band have joined forces with Concepts Cafe to bring you a new special cold

Next year will mark a solid decade since the dudes in the “don’t call it a supergroup” supergroup Down put out new music. It’s probably safe to assume they’re not going to complete those four EPs they set out to do back in 2012 and who knows what the story is on a covers album,

As we finally put 2023 to bed for good, we at MetalSucks have been talking about what’s coming down the pipe in terms of new albums from some of our favorite artists. There’s already so much talk about X band heading into the studio to commit their new tunes to vinyl, cassettes, and digital streaming

Heavy crossover icons Midnight will tour Europe next year with Cyclone and High Command starting in April. The tour will kick off April 4 in Essen, Germany and will wrap up April 30 in Athens, Greece, traversing a good part of the continent all within the span of one month. According to Midnight, these will

Greetings, Decibel readers! And now for my favorite post of the year, a chance to impose my glaring editorial bias for raw, straightforward black metal (and Esoctriliuhum, which is kind of its own [totally insane] thing). 2023 brought us another abundant crop of black metal, much of it mediocre and middling as all things are,

German thrash metal outfit Kreator aren’t going to be recording their follow up to 2022’s Hate Über Alles any time soon, as the band apparently won’t hit the studio until early 2025. Frontman Mille Petrozza revealed the band’s recording timetable as he took a retrospective look at 2023 in a recent post on his Instagram

If you’re in the vicinity of Hollywood tomorrow and want to get a Verotik comic signed by New Jersey’s weirdest heavy metal gnome Glenn Danzig, you’re in luck. From 5 to 7 p.m. at Golden Apple on Melrose, the Misfits frontman and terrible horror flick director will be on hand to sign your shit. It’s

If there’s anyone in the world probably doing alright for themselves, it’s Metallica frontman James Hetfield. As the head of the biggest metal band on the planet, he and his family are financially set for at least one or two generations after he’s gone. The dude’s regarded as one of — if not the —