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Wretched Blessing, Spurious Ovation Prepare for a temblor along the extreme music fault line as Kayhan Vaziri (known for work in Yautja and Coliseum) and Rae Amitay (of Immortal Bird and Thrawsunblat) roll out an earth shaker as Wretched Blessing. Formed in Chicago in 2023, with Vaziri taking the lead on guitar and vocals and

Are you feeling hungry? I hope so, because you’ll need a strong stomach to eat from the Amalgamations of Gore on display on Ohio death metal butchers Mutilation Barbecue‘s first full-length album. Formed after the demise of Ohio death-thrashers Subtype Zero, Mutilation Barbecue released their first demo in 2021 before catching the eye of hype death metal

Where they from?Los Angeles, California. I know I’m addicted to watching sports because even though I don’t follow college basketball I watched like fifteen games this weekend. Is there any better way to disassociate from an uncomfortable social situation than to just stare at your phone and watch Yale beat Auburn? THEY’RE A FOURTEEN SEED,

Black metal is well-renowned for it’s capacity for blazing fury and aggression. But in the last several years, many bands have taken this darkest of arts and honed it in ways that are more pensive and contemplative. Verwoed is definitely one of those bands, and this is absolutely true of the project’s latest album, The

You may not be familiar with Mustard Gas & Roses—MGR for short—but you are almost certainly familiar with main man Mike Gallagher, who spent nearly a decade and a half with post-metal titans Isis. Originally begun as a sort of side project and becoming a more prominent focus as the years have passed, Gallagher has used

Protest The Hero are touring Canada this May, which is of note to everyone, not just Canadians, since it means the band will be touring on their home turf. The tour kicks off May 23 in Tillsonburg, ON and wraps up June 1 in Kingston, ON. Check out the dates below, and get tickets here.

Static-X are celebrating the 25th anniversary of their classic album Wisconsin Death Trip with a special documentary. The film will take a look at the history of the band’s career, and you can stream the trailer below. The band announced the documentary on the anniversary of their 1999 album yesterday. The documentary will be called

Since debuting in the thrash metal arena with Misconception in 2019 and following up with No Life Forms in 2022, Critical Defiance has kept a release pace as relentless as their tempos. Navigating lineup changes with remarkable agility—notably with Mauricio Toledo joining on guitar during No Life Forms— the Chilean upstarts are turning instability into

Where they from?Motherfucking south Jersey. The NCAA basketball tournaments start this weekend. College basketball is the one sport I pay absolutely zero attention to, but I always love making Final Four predictions. This year I have DeVry, Delco, Emerson and Duke. Oh, and let’s just throw the Kansas City Chiefs in there for the Hell

Horror Pain Gore Death Productions present Destiny, the debut album from Memphis, Tennessee’s ultra-violent sludge metal sadists Mudshow. Destiny is a wrestling-focused concept record telling the story of Matt Tremont’s explosive blood-soaked feuds with Atsushi Onita and Rickey Shane Page. Additionally, it is heavily indebted to A Season In Hell by 19th century French Symbolist

Greetings, Decibel readers! I’m particularly excited to talk up the new Necrophobic album this week, as it continues a winning streak they’ve been on for the last couple albums. But there’s other sources of righteous racket to enjoy below as well, including new ones from Apparition (I did the name … for no reason in

Photo: Nick Sayers UK lads Mastiff are no strangers to depression, anger and grief. Those emotions have been present on each release in the band’s very bleak catalog and come to a head on Deprecipice, the band’s fourth album. Though it’s Mastiff’s first release since the end of pandemic lockdowns, they aren’t depressed or angry about that; instead, Deprecipice sees

Austin, TX-based power trio Rickshaw Billie’s Burger Patrol sound just about as big and dumb as their moniker would imply. They’re also as ridiculously awesome as their big, dumb moniker would imply. Since 2017 or thereabouts, vocalist and eight-string slinger Leo Lydon, bassist Aaron Metzdorf and drummer Sean St.Germain have been churning out lumbering cascades

  Get ready for a double dose of black metal in the form of the new split EP between Vancouver black metal/crust purveyors Wormwitch and black-thrashers Sadistic Ritual, streaming now via Decibel. The split features three songs from each band, with Wormwitch starting it off. The Canadians once again demonstrate their ability to marry first-pumping melodic black metal, crust

Photo by Alex Krauss Art is often said to imitate life. The link between life and video games, with an interest in fantastical, superhuman or paranormal forms, is typically muddied, making it much easier to be seen as an escape from reality rather than a reflection of it. For Zachary Ezrin, founding member and frontman

Photo: Bradley Lightfoot On their first three EPs, English death metal outfit Slimelord established themselves as a band to watch, peddling a weird brand of death/doom that sounded like it came from a swamp, as the name suggests. On their first full-length album, the unpronounceably-named Chytridiomycosis Relinquished, they get weirder and gnarlier, making for one of the

It’s no secret, but we at MetalSucks fuckin’ love cats and dogs (I’m more of a cat person, myself). Those furry little bastards always seem to make even the shittiest day better, so when we heard that shredder and guitar influencer Alyssa Day released a song to help a no-kill shelter, we knew this had

Dödsrit really is a special band. No one really sounds quite like them. Oh sure, plenty of bands combine various elements of black metal, doom metal and heroic guitar melodies, but not quite like this. Few bands weave melancholy and triumph so seamlessly as these guys. And that particular form of musical alchemy is especially

Andorran extreme metal unit Persefone have been hacking it out for over two decades in the underground, developing a musical identity somewhere between progressive and melodic death metal. They recently welcomed vocalist Daniel R. Flys into the mix, one of the only lineup changes in the band’s long history, for new EP Lingua Ignota: Part I. Decibel caught up with

Time to pull your old JNCO Jeans out of the closet because ‘90s alt-metal group Orange 9mm announced their long-overdue reunion this week. The reunion comes with a new lineup that includes original vocalist Chaka Malik—the band’s only consistent member—and guitarist Taylor McLam alongside new members drummer Chris Enriquez and bassist Drew Kasal. The band