Metal

Greetings, Decibel readers! There’s something beautiful about how upsetting extreme metal is. You’re not going to make people cheery with the albums below. You can’t put any of the song titles on a pillow at TJ Maxx. Well, maybe you could. And I’d buy that pillow. But I’m not most people. And neither are you,

London death dealers Vaticinal Rites got together in 2020 and wasted no time in hitting the ground running, blasting out their self-titled EP a year later. Keeping the momentum going, the band quickly got to work on their debut LP, Cascading Memories of Immortality. The first track, “Plead for Termination,” gave listeners the first taste of the new

LanzerRath have a killer split with Shroud of Despondency coming out May 10 via Northern Spire Productions. You can stream LanzerRath’s weird and epic contribution “Nuclear Collapse: The Dissolution of Order and Meaning” below. Shroud of Despondency/LanzerRath Split by LanzerRath “LanzerRath have spent the last year coalescing with the raging cosmos,” the band say. “These

Brooklyn-based queer and femme folk metalers Zelenaya are announcing their new album, Folk Songs, out April 26, and are beyond stoked to unleash the third single from that record, “Spod Tego Jawora,” with us. Folk Songs is the band’s debut album. When listening to Zelenya, expect haunting Eastern European influence, sludge, doom, even death metal.

Nuclear Tomb – Weirdo Death Thrash from Baltimore With a decade of sharpening their unique musical attack, Nuclear Tomb is ready to riot with riffs and explode like a Molotov, proving that the spirit of metal thrives underground. After two self-released EPs and a series of electrifying East Coast tours, the Baltimore quartet is poised to ascend

Photo: Christoph Vohler Guitarist Wolf Hoffmann has been playing with German heavy metal institution Accept since he was a teenager in 1976. It’s been a long road for the band, who have endured lineup changes, hiatuses and the various tribulations that come with a nearly 50-year career but, especially since reuniting in 2009, you can’t stop

Where they from?Dayton, Ohio. This week is The Masters, which means that ESPN is supplementing all its daytime coverage with fucking golf. Do they not realize what this has done to the under-employed demographic that make up their daytime viewers? I would rather watch Pat McAfee bloviate for two hours and trust me, I FUCKING

It was recently reported along with Entheos’ latest single that they’ll be touring with As I Lay Dying and Chelsea Grin this summer, but the technical/progressive deathcore outfit wasn’t content with the long list of dates they’d already amassed. No, they had to add a little more than half a dozen headlining shows to give

Photo by Zev Deans & Christopher Raymond Very much living up to its name, 2022 debut Loud Arriver from Philadelphia sensual dark rockers Sonja turned heads at Decibel, who placed the album at a staggering No. 3 on our objectively objective Top 40 Albums of the Year list. Equally impressed were Century Media Records, who

Megadeth’s 1985 debut album Killing Is My Business…and Business is Good is widely considered one of metal’s great records. Now Dave Mustaine, in a new interview with Paraguay’s channel Trece (as reported on by Metal Injection), Mustaine says that the record was ahead of its time. When asked what his favorite Megadeath album, Mustaine was

Sometimes it just takes one song to save an artist from fading into obscurity. For New York-based funk metal icons Living Colour, that song is their 1988 iconic classic “Cult of Personality.” In a recent interview with YouTube talk show The Logan Show as reported on by Metal Injection, Living Colour frontman Corey Glover talked

We’ve got a big update to the MetalSucks Playlist this week, as there was a lot of new music that came out over the last few days. As such, you can expect more than half of our 50 tracks this week to be brand new additions, so that’s exciting. From Kerry King’s new track, which

Norwegian death metal outlet Okular have returned after several years away to bring their brand of techy and progressive darkness back into our ears. The band is set to unleash Regenerate, their first album since 2013, and Decibel is pleased to unleash the album’s lead single “Wake-Up Call” here today. The song’s title is quite intentional,

DeathWytch have just unveiled a weird new video for the esoteric song “Todeshexe.” You can check out the lyric video for the song below. The name DeathWytch is a character name from Orpheus’ Saga, brought to life by Sartoraaus, and the band blend the most unlikely of genres in their sound.  “Musically, DeathWytch made a

Greetings, Decibel readers! Lots of death metal this week: dissonant, straightforward, and even some melodeath! But don’t worry, if that’s not your thing there’s a new Heavy Temple album out as well. Off to the desert with you! — Benighted – Ekbom Slickly produced brutality that delivers all manner of punishment. Lots of flair on display here,

John Jarvis’ Nest work quickly. Releasing their first album in 2019, they kept trucking despite Jarvis’ involvement with bands like Pig Destroyer, Agoraphobic Nosebleed and Scowl, releasing three more albums, the latest of which comes out tomorrow. Endeavors is a bleak and abrasive sludge record, one that understands the genre is best at its absolute darkest. Its 10-track runtime

Marble Ghosts have shared their new video for “End of the World’ with us. The song is from the band’s March 1 self-titled, debut EP. “‘End of the World’ is cynical and angry and reflects the mentality of a millennial generation that grew up being told that their actions would make a difference in the

Throwing Bricks and Ontaard release there split collaboration Oud Zeer on April 12th Prepare for an explosive collaboration as Utrecht-based bands Throwing Bricks and Ontaard join forces to release their split album Oud Zeer on April 12. From sludge to hardcore punk, black metal to screamo, the album delivers a wrenching journey that reveals a

Meet legendary death metal engineer Scott Burns at Decibel Magazine Metal & Beer Fest: Philly on April 12-13 to sign copies of the new book, The Scott Burns Sessions: A Life in Death Metal 1987 – 1997, alongside author David E. Gelhke at the Decibel merch table! Scott Burns/David E. Gelhke book signing times: Friday: 6:30pm

You probably know Jason Netherton as the bassist and vocalist of deathgrind institution Misery Index and early Dying Fetus, but there’s more to the musician than meets the eye. In his new project, Sulphur and Mercury, Netherton contributes his voice to a more classic metal sound, combining heaviness with old-school heavy metal flair. In Sulphur and