Metal

Where they from?Connecticut. All everyone wants to talk about this week is the stupid fucking eclipse but I guarantee that will be ancient history by the time this thing hits the web. No, what is a far BIGGER news story is my one headphone stopped working at the gym. IDK if this has ever happened

During one of our many conversations for this Hall of Fame entry, the great Shane Embury, Napalm Death leader and the man of a thousand other bands—including Brujeria, of course, where he is known as Hongo—says this: “The beauty of Brujo is the chaos. You have to let it go. He comes from different angles

Pacific Northwest death dealers Draghkar have emerged from the metaphorical darkness with their first release since their 2020 full-length, At the Crossroads of Infinity, partnering with long-running New Jersey death metal outfit Helcaraxë for a new two-song split. For Draghkar, A Glorious Call in the Terrible Darkness is an opportunity to showcase the band’s new lineup. For Helcaraxë, it’s a

What goes better with metal than beer? It makes good metal even better and it makes rap-metal vaguely tolerable. Well, the Decibel Magazine Metal & Beer Fest: Philly is coming up on April 12-13 and, in addition to a killer lineup that includes Biohazard, Deicide, Dying Fetus, and Crowbar, two bands are creating their own

Funeral Leech Photo by Evan Hunter McKnight New York City’s Funeral Leech is back, and they’re not here to hold your hand through the abyss. Four years since their acclaimed Death Meditation, they’re unleashing The Illusion Of Time on April 5th via Carbonized Records. A manifesto of despair, a symphony of grief, and a relentless

Photo by Hillarie Jason At the time of writing this intro, Baltimore die-hards Dying Fetus are busy preparing for quite the year. Following their special “old-school” set at Metal & Beer Fest: Philly on April 13, the trio sets out yet again throughout North America for a month before heading over to Europe to bludgeon

The best clue in deducing what a band sounds like before you actually hear them is to check out what shirts they decided to pick off the pile on promo picture day. One of the next best ways of prejudging a band is to take a look at who they’ve shared the stage with. In

In exactly one week, the Decibel Magazine Metal & Beer Pre-Fest: Philly 2024 will be loading into the Foundry at the Fillmore on April 11 for all those eager to pregame this year’s main festivities. Featuring an already stacked lineup including death metal new bloods Undeath, horrifying hometown heroes Outer Heaven and pitch-black thrashers Morbikon,

Greetings, Decibel listeners! Well, time to shake things up a bit, and no I’m not referring to the minor earthquake that just make my house rattle for like 15 seconds. No! I’m talking about the five new releases below! Below you’ll find earth-shattering death metal, torrential waves of black metal, and other styles fit for puns

Japanese multi-instrumentalist Kosuke Hashida has been around for a long time, playing guitar with Nihilist Workshop and The Cauterized in the early 2000s. In the time since, he’s played live guitar with American death metal outfit Abysmal Dawn and now riffs with Osaka-based death metal/hardcore group World End Man. With that firm understanding of extreme metal

Photo courtesy of the band Known for their blend of raw violence and classic death metal themes, Chunked are unveiling their debut album, Inhaling the Infestation, on May 3 via Gore House Productions. Check out the lyric video for the title track ahead of that release. “’Inhaling the Infestation’ is a power ballad about a swarm of

Photo: Dirk Draeger Hillsborough County, a municipality in Florida that contains the city of Tampa, has awarded a historical marker to Morrisound Recording, the legendary studio where your favorite death metal albums were recorded. According to the official post made by Morrisound’s Facebook account, the marker will be placed at the “site of our earlier

Philadelphia doom lords Crypt Sermon have returned with their new album The Stygian Rose, and Decibel has summoned our own exclusive edition on Ochre-streaked Orange vinyl courtesy of Dark Descent Records, limited to a mere 100 copies! Recorded, mixed and mastered by the infernal Arthur Rizk, this expansive third LP from the mystical sextet comes

Austin doom crew Destroyer of Light have been one of the most consistent and reliable doom bands over the last twelve years, releasing six albums, three EPs and more, but all things have an expiration date and Destroyer of Light have reached theirs. Degradation Years, the band’s new full-length, shows a considerable growth for the long-running band. It’s

Where they from?England, U.K. Baseball started this past week. My World Series prediction is Yankees/Dodgers. I don’t know how accurate that is, I just know it would piss everybody off the most, which would be great. No one deserves to be happy! Especially us Mets fans! Why the hype?OY A BIT OF THE OL’ MASH

Any self-respecting sludge fan knows that Iron Monkey created some of the best music in the genre during their initial run. With a self-titled debut (1997) and a worthy follow-up Our Problem (1998), the Nottingham marauders made some of the decade’s most infectiously violent and hateful music. With an impossibly groovy rhythm section, riffs both

On its second album, Litanies of the Unceasing Agonies, one-man black/death metal outfit Altar of Gore strips death metal back to its rawest, purest form and revels in it. Following the project’s last release, 2022’s Infinite Visions of Violence, Litanies of the Unceasing Agonies comes from a similar place, with creator The Acolyte of the Foul Ones eschewing

Do you want a piece of the late, great Lemmy Kilmister of Motörhead fame? Well, if you aren’t lucky enough to be one of the few friends that were given his ashes, you can have the next best thing with the new book that Z2 has put together as a tribute to the late frontman.

Jack Owen has been a legend in death metal since the late ‘80s when he became one of the founding members of Cannibal Corpse. He stayed with them until 2004 when he left and joined Deicide, staying with them for 12 years before leaving them in 2016, before he eventually ended up reuniting with fellow

Though they originally rose to underground fame in the ’80s, death metal band Morta Skuld are a great example of a band who didn’t get their due until later in their career. While they may have flown under the radar a little bit when they first burst onto the scene, they are slowly realizing what