Metal

Photo by Julie Didomenico Going back to the early ’80s, Chicago has a long reputation for noisy industrial rock. The home of Touch & Go and Wax Trax! Records, the city has churned out decades of aggressive, edgy bands. New trio, Burndy, follows that tradition in unconventional fashion, as illuminated on their new single. “Static,” taken
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Photo by Shaman Gibson Seems like there’s a little interband competition with the members of Ohio sludge/stoner/doom lords Moontemple as to who can grow the mightiest beard. What they lack in locks, they make up for in crumb-catching whiskers. We only know this from the new video for their latest single, “Horus,” which is a
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Greetings, Decibel readers! Hope everyone had a great time at this year’s installment of Decibel Metal and Beer Fest, and that you’ve begun your journey to recover and prepare for the Denver edition this December. In the meantime, here’s some black metal. And a new death metal album from Dark Descent. — Diabolizer – Murderous Revelations
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Where they from?Canberra, Australia. I’m no economist but I do have one little question: Destroying the global economy, that’s a bad thing, correct? Just wondering. You see, this is the kind of shit I’m forced to write about now that my hockey team isn’t making the playoffs. Why the hype?Australian grindcore, let’s talk about it.
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Photo Credit – Giuseppe Calvinisti Rimouski, Quebec space-themed, orchestral metal band Vortex are dropping their concept EP Alien Realms tomorrow. Before it gets released everywhere, you can stream it here. Alien Realms by Vortex The cosmic horror-themed album features a lot of melody and orchestral elements paired with aggressive riffing and straightforward metal. Like their previous
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Photo by Felix Vesker You’re definitely getting your money’s worth with this track premiere from Canadian atmospheric black metal trio, A Flock Named Murder. They’re offering up the 17-plus-minute “To Drown in Obsidian Tides” from their upcoming second second full-length, Incendiary Sanctum. The epic track finds the band—Mike Wandy (bass/vocals), Cam Mueller (drums), Ryan Mueller (guitar/vocals)—traveling
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Prepare yourselves. Get your affairs in order. Brace for impact. Canada’s Prophetic Suffering is ready to unleash its debut full-length album on an unsuspecting world. According to the band, the album is: “Pure Hell materializing from the ether. Rivalry of Thyself is our first major offering, and is a violent manifestation of personal struggle. This release
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Obliterated Life, the new album from French death dealers Putrid Offal, is an exercise in gory, primitive death metal and it’s one you can take in right now. Coming five years after their debut, Sicknesses Obsessions, they’ve honed their songwriting chops and given their grindcore-infused death metal a boost. There’s a lot of variety across the 14
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Philly trio Family Garden—featuring ex-members of YDI, Eat The Turnbuckle, Crackhouse, Woods of Ypres and Woe—return in thunderously loud fashion with their second LP, Dreams Beyond Control. Coming three years after their debut, Born From the Heavens, Family Garden arrive surrounded in chaos and debauchery, doling out a combination of black metal, crust, thrash and hardcore. Their
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Greetings, Decibel readers! This week’s crop of new releases leans heavily on the well-produced, epic and theatrical side of the ledger today. So if that’s your bag, you should get really pumped for the new albums from Allegaeon, Eonian and Tómarúm. I feel like each of those entries could be the soundtrack to their own sci-fi
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