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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

You’ve been itching for a playlist update and daddy’s got that for ya right now. Have no fear, kiddos. This week, we added a fuckton of new songs, including some that didn’t make the cut last week. We’ve added Behemoth, Ghost, and a whole slew of other tracks for you to sink your teeth into.

It’s always nice when a band wants the fans to be a part of the process. We’re here to show them love, and this is just one way they can seemingly reciprocate it. One band that’s ripping and roaring to do that is the Bay Area band Machine Head, who are set to film a

It’s the obvious low-hanging fruit, so I won’t make some joke about Tesla cars and Tesla the band because, what purpose would it serve besides making me giggle? BUT, since we’re on the Tesla topic, it seems as though Tommy Skeoch, the band’s former guitarist and the current guitarist for the rock band Bad Marriage,

I don’t know how well you know me, but if you do, you know that I’m a big fan of playing roulette. And if you know me you also know that – not to yank own chain to hard – I’m pretty fucking good at it! Over the years, I’ve developed a simple system based

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

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

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.

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

Photo by Hillarie Jason It’s good to know your neighbors. Sometimes you luck out and have a friendly smile willing to keep an eye out for your deliveries; other times you end up living next to a makeshift meth lab that considers a cough after 6 p.m. a noise violation. Either way, it’s helpful to

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

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

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

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

Jack Black is one funny son of a bitch. We all know that. We also all (should) know how talented he is musically. Sir Black hosted Saturday Night Live last night and was part of this skit called “Goth Kid on Vacation.” In it, he ever so handsomely impersonates My Chemical Romance‘s Gerard Way, poking

Last summer, good news came out of the Grave camp. The Swedish death metal legends, who for the latter half of the band’s career were led by founding member Ola Lindgren, decided to return in their most original form. There’s something sweet about the original members coming back together, though, and they did just that

Loathe really knows how to tease. That naughty, naughty band. The last we heard from the British nu-metal was one 2022 single, “Dimorphous Display,” following an incredibly well-received sophomore album, I Let It In And It Took Everything, in 2020. Loathe have been talking about a new record for some time now while managing to

Okay so hear me out—if you knew you had beef with some b-words over some bullshit, how far would you let a situation like this go? I feel like the answer would not be very far, but I also know that planning a tour and putting together bills is no easy feat, so I’ll hush

IT‘S FINALLY HERE! Metal & Beer Fest: Philly 2025 kicks off tonight (April 3) at the Foundry with our our special Relapse 35th anniversary Pre-Fest (a Pre-lapse if you), followed by Friday (April 4) and Saturday’s (April 5) main event at the Fillmore. Catch special sets from Exodus, Dismember, Darkest Hour and Incantation plus rare appearances

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