Metal

Leila Abdul-Rauf is one of the most formidable living death metal musicians and a brilliant experimental composer who, for years, has built a musical identity outside of the heavy with her solo work. Her fifth solo album, Calls From A Seething Edge, is her best solo work. It was written during a time of global

Photo courtesy of Tungsten Tungsten are back with their fourth record, The Grand Inferno, out tomorrow via Reigning Phoenix Music (RMP). The Swedish symphonic metallers keep things melodic and soaring on this record, and they also broke down what each track means to them. Check out their explanations and stream the full record below. Anger “Anger” is

Swedish death dealers Carnal Savagery are having a big year. After releasing fifth full-length Into the Abysmal Void earlier this year, they’re locked and loaded on their sixth album, Graveworms, Cadavers, Coffins and Bones, which is slated for release later this month. The quality of the music remains high, as you’ll hear below on the newly-released title track. “Graveworms, Cadavers,

Photo by Corey Soria • Edited by Stephanie Cabral Across extreme music and video games, no two words command such an immediate reaction or inherent respect like “old school.” After witnessing light-speed progress in the blink of an eye, large swaths of the video game community are increasingly interested in older approaches, whether they be

Pic by Camden Cruz Going back to 2007, Florida power metal quartet Seven Kingdoms have released five full-lengths through an assortment of labels. For their latest five-song EP, The Square, they’ve found a home with Reigning Phoenix Music, which has put out recent releases from Opeth, Kerry King, Deicide and many others. On The Square,

Dustin Boltjes is best known to Decibel readers as the drummer of the OSDM primitivists Flesher. In 2023, Decibel said their debut Tales Of Grotesque Demise would appeal to the “discerning group who like music that lands like a dominatrix’s kick to the nads.” In our cover story on Glen Benton earlier this year, Boltjes

Welsh rockers The Death of Money have been making noise for two decades and their new album, Error After Era, reflects the latest evolution of their sound. The songs on the trio’s new album are heavy but melodic, taking the ground-shaking riffs of Neurosis or Isis and merging it with hypnotizing shoegaze. The end result is songs like

Barcelona’s Emissary are almost ready to give the world their debut album, Eldritch, early next year. Led by The Evil Dead guitarist Michel Regueiro, Emissary play sharp-edged black-thrash tinged with old-school heavy metal. Though it’ll be a few months before Eldritch sees the light of day, they’ve revealed “At the Throne of Chaos,” the first song from the record. True

Photo by Michael Dimmit Brooklyn, NY power duo The Triceratops’ music definitely does not resemble the lumbering, three horned dinos their moniker invokes. In fact, the tune featured in this video premiere, “Can’t Take You,” is more grunge-era than Mesozoic-era. It’s an early ’90s uppercut of punk pummel and earnest angst from the outfit’s debut

It’s pretty much an unimpeachable statement to say that the first four Danzig records are completely flawless and by the time they made Danzig: 4 that they were possibly the greatest quartet in rock. And, like all good things, that was that. The “classic” lineup that held together the last part of (pre-Danzig band) Samhain’s

Back in the celebrated and white-washed era known as ‘back in the day,’ I played my fair share of house shows. In fact, even though I barely have my ear to the ground about anything anymore, when my old ears connect with bits of obscure information, I’m still apt to show up at the home

Adrien Begrand has been a staple at Decibel since he contributed his first piece to the magazine in January 2005, two decades ago. His work has appeared in virtually every other notable music publication and website throughout his writing career. Begrand is a sharp and insightful writer whose work is blissfully free of music writer

Photo courtesy of Selvans Italian horrorist Selvans unveils “ll Mio Maleficio V’incalzerà!,” the second single off Saturnalia, his new album due for release in 2025 via Avantgarde Music. You can stream it with us early and just in time for Halloween, and there are serious Halloween vibes. The aesthetic and song are reminiscent of King

We’ll all be bonded by suds on April 4-5, 2025, when Decibel Magazine Metal & Beer Fest: Philly—the world’s loudest, heaviest, headbangingest, two-day craft beer event—returns to fill the Fillmore with an ever-flowing stream of beer for its eighth year! Swedish death metal legends Dismember will headline the first night with an exclusive performance of their 1991 landmark

Greetings, Decibel readers! Happy Halloween! Well, it’s Halloween as I’m writing this. But as you read this, I hope you had a solid spooky season. If you still have the itch for something dark and menacing, remember that metal records and horror movies are good all-year round. And with that in mind, please enjoy the selections below.

Canadian sludge/grind/hardcore outfit Anthesis have always found ways to stay busy, constantly releasing a new stream of music throughout the 2010s and into 2020, but their new album, Tension Between Rot and Genesis, represents a change in pace for the band. As opposed to firing off new releases every year, Anthesis took three years to craft their

Ah, a “scene.” That vague concept when our pattern-searching brains detect connectable musical activities happening within a short distance of each other. Sometimes it’s more of a perception bias than anything else, but there are undeniable movements over the course of our increasingly rich history of heavy metal and rock. From Bay Area thrash to

An Autumn After 15 years and 10 albums, Dutch post-black metal band An Autumn is embracing a new chapter, and their latest single, “Dreaming,” from Ethereal, captures that transformation in all its intensity. Formerly known as An Autumn for Crippled Children, the band has shed the name that first brought them attention, opting for a

Greek outfit Eldingar may profess to play black metal, but the message conveyed on their second full-length, Lysistrata, is less church-burny and more why-can’t-we-all-get-along. That doesn’t mean that the music is soft or lacking in intensity, though. Lysistrata is laced with pagan folk metal influences, but there’s plenty of typical melodic BM extremism, as well, on the many

Photo by Nick Perry We haven’t heard much from lefty guitarist Scott Hedrick since the last Skeletonwitch album, Devouring Radiant Light, in 2018. Hedrick’s played on a couple of avant metal releases (Ghosts in 2019 and Spectres in 2023) by improvisational Dutch duo Dead Neanderthals, but there’s been a definite lack of progressive black thrash riffage. With his