Metal

Happy Boxing Day everyone! In the spirit of the season…have you ever pulled the move at a Christmas gathering where, after realizing you forget to get a gift for your wallflower friend Joey or your Aunt Bunny (who you rarely cross paths with anyway), you say something to the effect of, “Ah shit, I must

(Editor’s note: Looking back on 2024, there were so many good albums released that we decided to reach out to some of today’s artists and get them to weigh in on their favorites. What follows is Shadows Fall frontman Brian Fair’s ‘Top Albums of 2024’.) Brian Fair from Shadows Fall here. Man, 2024 was a

Next year’s going to have a lot of new releases to get hyped about, but one thing that could potentially be on the horizon is Megadeth‘s follow up to 2022’s The Sick…The Dying…and the Dead!” With general concensus being that we could see a new release from the iconic thrash band in the future, guitarist

In a tragic turn of events just months after his band released their fourth full-length release Be and Exist, Lucifer’s Hammer frontman Andrés “Hades” Adasme was killed “by a criminal” at 38 years old. Having been a member of the band since its formation in 2012, Hades can be heard providing his vocals on all

This coming spring looks like a hell of a time for European concert goers, as yet another trek featuring an incredibly popular act was recently announced. This time around, Swedish melodic death metal act Dark Tranquillity revealed a long list of dates throughout Europe with Moonspell and Hiraes in tow. Set to kick off on

Earlier this month, Shadows Fall released their first new song in a dozen years with “In The Grey” and it got a lot of attention from fans everywhere. To think that happened in the year of our lord 2024 is just wild to a lot of people — myself included. Over the weekend, the band

Photo by Lalitree Darnielle It’s November 7, 2024 and Albert’s persistent co-nerds are sitting in a Zoom lobby, waiting for today’s player character to ready up. Truth be told, the atmosphere is remarkably glum. Though we’re excited to be chatting with a former colleague, 2024 has taken its toll on us. Just two days removed

Fancy yourself a lover of Norwegian melodic, progressive, and doom metal, perhaps all rolled into one? Well, this might be your lucky fuckin day because it seems that one of the classics is coming back in one of its best forms. The 3rd and the Mortal just announced that they’ll be reuniting with singer Kari

Canis Dirus Bindrune Recordings is once again bringing black metal’s raw spirit to life with the announcement of By the Grace of Death, the fourth full-length offering from Minnesota’s atmospheric purveyors Canis Dirus. Following 2020’s Independence to the Beast and their 2021 split A Harmonious Union of Vibration with Crown of Asteria, the duo of

Blackened sludge slingers Mantar first crashed the Decibel Flexi Series back in 2018, and Decibel is is all too happy to welcome the deadly duo with a new track, “Bitter Cum Symphony.” Can’t wait to “stream” that one. ANYWAY,  recorded during sessions of their forthcoming Post Apocalyptic Depression LP (out via Metal Blade on February

How about a little Texas-style retro doom to dampen those holiday spirits? Houston rumblers Warlung are offering up the second single, “White Light Seeker,” from their upcoming fifth album, The Poison Touch.  This experienced outfit—George Baba (guitar/keys/vocals), Philip Bennett (guitar/vocals). Chris Tamez (bass), Ethan Tamez (drums)—ride a Sabbath-circa-Sabotage riff to doom metal glory with a few nods to

The longest-running heavy metal tour in North America returns with its boldest lineup ever in 2025! The Decibel Magazine Tour resumes this spring with Norwegian black metal godfathers Mayhem headlining Decibel’s 12th continental expedition of the extreme. Tour support comes from countrymate and dungeon synth progenitor Mortiis, New York City cinematic death metal chaos wielders Imperial Triumphant and San Diego death rock night-bringers New

Greetings, Decibel readers! The big story, stylistically, in black metal in 2024 was seeing the wave of bands that emerged in the late 2010s diverge between the enduring and inspiring leaders — and those that fall into the vast sandy beaches of “raw” or “vampiric” blandness. To be sure, I’m very easily swayed by raw, vampiric

Photo courtesy of the band Montreal sci-fi prog-metalers Mad Parish unveil their new album, The Dust of Forever, on January 31 as a self-release, but you can preview the video for their song “Bishop’s Tomb” below. The album is an original story written by Mad Parish that is told through a soundtrack and follows the story of

Yesterday, Gorguts guitarist Kevin Hufnagel posted on Instagram that there had been a fire at his residence on Sunday, December 15. He clarified that everyone was safe and that it was believed the fire started from an e-bike his neighbor kept in the basement. Despite Hufnagel, his wife and their two cats being safe, they still

The longest-running heavy metal tour in North America returns with its boldest lineup ever in 2025! The Decibel Magazine Tour resumes this spring with Norwegian black metal godfathers Mayhem headlining Decibel’s 12th continental expedition of the extreme. Tour support comes from countrymate and dungeon synth progenitor Mortiis, New York City cinematic death metal chaos wielders Imperial Triumphant and

If you like your death metal grunts with a touch of cold, mechanical industrial poundage, let us introduce you to Brazilian trio, Necrotech, and their new single, “Deadly Industries.” This track arrives on the outfit’s upcoming debut EP, Necrotechnology, a five-song onslaught of mechanical death punishment. “Deadly Industries” is a crusty, Godflesh-inspired mechacrusher, with a relentless

Photo by Stephanie Cabral Ever since the first installment of Kill Screen, Decibel’s co-nerds have sought a consensus among our player characters on the parameters of what makes a game or console “retro”—and have failed miserably. Some have proclaimed that the demarcation for gaming’s modern era started as early as 1989 and as late as

Swedish melodic black metal group Fatal Embrace made their first run as a band from 1992 to 1998, releasing a couple demos and their debut album, Shadowsouls’ Garden, released on Candlelight in 1997. According to the band, they still had plenty of ideas and went into the studio to record their second album, Hail Down Deep. Fatal Embrace

Industrial institution Godflesh made their return to recorded music a decade ago this year, releasing seventh album A World Lit Only By Fire in October 2014. Not only was it regarded as an instant-classic, it heralded a new age for the duo of Justin Broadrick and Ben Green; since its release, Godflesh added three more albums to their discography: