Metal

Their first show in Italy should have been an entirely positive experience, but Ukrainian World War I-themed blackened death metal band 1914 ran into a problem with local police over money they collected during the tour. According to a statement the band shared with fans, their visit to Italy went mostly without a hitch until

Metalcore outfitAugust Burns Redhave a new album titled Season of Surrender coming out this June and it’s with that in mind that they dropped their new single “Sonic Salvation”. The new track features Polaris vocalist Jamie Halls. Clocking in at just over four minutes, guitarist JB Brubaker said the track was the very first he

It’s beginning to sound like new Baroness is on the horizon, as the band gets ready to head into the studio this summer. Details surrounding the sludge metal band’s seventh album and follow up to 2023’s STONE have been scarce at best, but some new details have emerged thanks to guitarist Gina Gleason. While speaking

The name of their newly announced tour may evoke the winter months, but Finnish epic power metal band Ensiferum‘s ‘The Winter Storm Over North America’ is taking place this September. Juuust a little shy of winter, guys. Set to play American and Canadian venues over a two-week span, the tour will kick off during ProgPower

It’s been a little more than a month sinceSpirit Adriftplayed what was supposed to be their final show ever. But thanks toNate Garrettbeing one of the good guys in metal, that plan has been tossed to the wayside to help some fellow musicians in need, as the band is replacing Fulci on the Decibel Tour.

It’s almost the weekend, baby! Time to kick back, relax, and listen to some new metal tunes. We’ve got those below, so all you gotta do is go to wherever you get your music these days and snap up these albums and more. At The Gates The Ghost Of A Future Dead (Century Media) Big

A legal battle over some rare early recordings of a little known band that would one day become Black Sabbath has come to an end, with the band now gaining full control of those tapes. And we know this because Sharon Osbourne shared the details on the recent The Osbournes podcast. For those that don’t

Greetings,Decibelreaders! It’s an important day for metal, as we’re given the lastAt the Gates album featuring Tomas Lindberg. Lots to say about that below. But it’s also a day to be grateful for the other releases on this list, especially if you want to hear the future of the melodic death metal as well (scroll

Decibel Magazine Metal & Beer Festreturns to Denver for its fifth round, tapping the Fillmore Auditorium as home of the world’s loudest, heaviest, most extreme craft beer festival on Friday and Saturday, December 4-5, 2026. Southern doom supergroupDownmake their first Denver appearance in over 12 years to headline Saturday night (December 5), while crossover thrash

Due to visa processing issues,Fulciare unable to perform on the upcoming Decibel Magazine Tour, as well as Decibel Magazine Metal & Beer Fest: Philly 2026 on May 3. Fulci will return next year as part of the 2027 Decibel Tour. But this year, Texas heavy metal mastersSpirit Adrifthave stepped up to fill the void, joining

It’s been a while since we’ve featured a new song from “doom wop” trio Rickshaw Billie’s Burger Patrol. Their 2024 album Big Dumb Riffs was a good time, as we featured a number of singles off that studio effort. This morning, the wait for more good times from RBBP are back again with the release

What a day! Two stories referencing baseball and two chances for me to talk about how the New York Mets have failed me up to this point. (Really, it’s bad you guys.) But down in Baltimore, the Orioles are doing relatively okay and earlier today they announced that they would be celebrating GRAMMY-winning hometown hardcore

Goth glam post-hardcore outfit Black Veil Brides have a new album titled VINDICATE coming out on May 8 via Spinefarm and they dropped its fourth single earlier today with “Revenger”. And unlike the other previous offerings, this one’s got something up its proverbial sleeve that most won’t see coming — they have Machine Head frontman

This must be fate or something. My New York Mets finally won a game after 12 grueling, faith-shattering losses and now heavy metal outfit Armored Saint dropped a new single called “Hit A Moonshot”. For those that aren’t familiar, a “moonshot” is baseball parlance that means to hit a baseball high and far for a

We chatted with Denver-based atmospheric band Sungrave about their recent self-released EP, Cold Flesh and No One. The EP was written, produced, and performed by Sungrave and Creaturess as part of their fall 2025 Midwest tour. The cover art was painted by Denver-based artist Josh Porter, specifically inspired by the music and concept. Drums were

This summer, thrash metal stalwarts Vio-lence will be going global with their show, as they head out on the ‘Eruption Of Screams’ international tour later this summer. Set to kick off on July 20 in Gdańsk, Poland, the tour will run pretty much non-stop until it all comes to a close on August 28 in

When a tour featuring Lamb Of God, Kublai Khan TX, Sanguisugabogg, and Fit For An Autopsy announced late last night, I gotta admit — it sounded almost too good to be true. Surely there’s no way that many bands on such a tear lately could share the stage at the same time, I thought. Thankfully,

It’s been a minute since the world got new Korn tunes, but that’s all changed thanks to a nearly three-year-old video game. Earlier this morning, the influential nu metal band released “Reward The Scars”, a new track dropped to promote the Lord Of Hatred expansion pack for Blizzard’s action RPG Diablo IV. With the expansion

Earlier this week, motherfucking Slayer announced that they were celebrating the 40th anniversary of Reign In Blood with a pair of special shows: one on September 4 in Shakopee, Minnesota and another on November 13 in Los Angeles, California. The list of supporting acts are stacked and all, but we should have known they weren’t

Death metal mofos from the Empire State, Undeath, are done recording their fourth full-length studio effort. And though we won’t know much about it for a while longer, the soon-to-be-announced release will be their first on Relapse Records after signing with the label. According to the band, the new album was produced by Colin Marson