Metal

The Gathering went on a wild, exploratory journey after they, along with former label Foundation 2000, unfurled their atmospheric doom-death masterpiece Always… in the summer of 1992. Whether it was Mandylion (1995) and How to Measure a Planet? (1999) or The West Pole (2009) or their most recent album, Beautiful Distortion (2022), the Dutch masters

Dejecter says their second EP Majesty Artificial is not just a rumination on how technology has changed humanity but a more intense and urgent release. “This EP picks up where we left off with our first release but takes everything up a notch,” guitarist Josh Caldwell says. “We expanded our sonic palette in every direction.

Photo by Rachel W. Rawle It’s been 16 years since Salt Lake City’s Iota released their debut album, Tales, and also 16 years since the band’s last release. The dry spell finally ends on March 22 when Iota release their second album, Pentasomnia. It picks up where they left off, playing warm stoner grooves intermixed

Welcome to our latest semi-regular Decibel feature. Here, talented musicians from across the metalsphere provide us with their Last Tape Before Doomsday. Sebastian Thomson’s range of reference when it comes to his drumming is infinite in its eclecticism. As a studious player, Thomson brings the motorik pulse of Krautrock, funky backbeats, DC hardcore power, jazz-like

Noise rock, extreme metal and post-punk have often gone hand-in-hand, with the genres overlapping sonically and often sharing fans. If you, dear reader, are one of those fans, then we have a treat for you today: a complete stream of Wax Donut Records‘ new compilation, New Wave Donut: A Raucous Tribute to the Birth of Post-Punk.

We’re back, baybee! You thought this thing we call The MetalSucks Top Tracks of the Week was dead and done but nope. We’ve got 50 tracks — almost half of which are brand new to the playlist — for your listening pleasure. From Rotting Christ to Linkin Park, Leather Lung to Belushi Speed Ball, and

The best part of waking up is blood in your cup! According to Metal Injection, Concepts Café, the company that brought us Cannibal Corpse’s Cranial Extraction Cold Brew has brought us another metal-themed offering. This time they’re teaming up with former Sepultura and current Cavalera Conspiracy members Max and Iggor Cavalera. Their new venture is

Photo Credit: Ryan Piorkowski and Alex Joo Brace yourself for L.A.’s Stygian Crown‘s explosive return with their much-anticipated sophomore album, “Funeral for a King,” releasing on February 23, 2024, via Cruz Del Sur Music in CD, vinyl, and digital formats. A colossal offering of doom metal enriched with nods to legends like Candlemass and Iron

Venezuelan black metal force Selbst will release its new album (and third overall), Despondency Chord Progressions, on April 19 via the always excellent Debemur Morti Productions. And since neither we nor you can wait that long to get a taste of the project’s Enslaved- and Mgła-inspired progressive madness, we’re stoked to premiere the first track

Since 1999 Oakland’s Rock Against Rock provocateurs Sleepytime Gorilla Museum have been rewriting the heavy side of avant-garde with just about every twist in the vine. Their perpetual use of the kitchen sink has rightly or wrongly earned them comparisons to Mr. Bungle, Estradasphere and Secret Chiefs 3 and after 13 years of inactivity the

Greetings, Decibel readers and honored guests! As you enter the building, you’ll see various exhibits on display today. From the latest masterworks from Borknagar and Morta Skuld, to the return of long-dormant composers like Job For A Cowboy. So please, enjoy your time here, but please, don’t touch the artwork. Happy musing: — Borknagar –

Cuntroaches are dropping a delightfully self-titled album tomorrow via Skin Graft Records, but you can get ahead of the curve and stream it with us here first. “Cuntroaches is inspired by witches who do not know how to summon stuff (unable to take care of themselves), stretched out labyrinthine toilets with knotted septic pipes (conducting bigger

Photo: Chris Klumpp Job For a Cowboy are back this Friday with their much-anticipated new record Moon Healer, out via Metal Blade Records. Their first album in a decade, the pressure was on, and they do not disappoint. While JFAC have flirted with a variety of sounds in their career, they seem to have simplified things with

Photo by Hillarie Jason Since its inception, the video game industry has been largely dominated by Japan, the United States and the United Kingdom with names like Super Mario Bros., Minecraft and Grand Theft Auto having reached a level of ubiquity such that even our technologically impaired editor-in-chief has some idea of what we’re talking

Riders of Rohan do not fit neatly into metal, and they are better for it. The idiosyncratic Swedish rock trio is themed around the Tolkien universe, feature multiple lead singers, and are sonically so proto-metal oriented that they were blacklisted and removed from Metallum. Following their release of their self-titled 2022 debut, Riders are ready

Though they’re a new band, Guiltless are no strangers to the worlds of post metal and artsy rock. A collaboration between A Storm of Light members Billy Graves, Dan Hawkins and Josh Graham plus Intronaut’s Sacha Dunable, the band members draw upon their shared love for noise rock, sludge and heavy experimental music on their debut

We don’t realistically know if the “Savage Dawn” referenced here by Spanish speed metal outfit, Iron Curtain, is a really aggressive ex-girlfriend or, like, an especially unpleasant morning with a bad hangover. Could be both. Boy, that would suck. But, look, what we do know is that these Spanish thrashers—Mike Leprosy (vocals/guitars), Joserra (bass), Moroco

Pirate metal is no laughing matter but this new song from The Dread Crew of Oddwood might be. Calling their music “heavy mahogany,” the group of ruffians play acoustic folk metal-influenced tunes about life on the high seas. With new album Rust & Glory on the way, The Dread Crew of Oddwood are singing tunes of their travels

You ever hear an album and immediately think, “Now that’s fire”? That’s what I thought the very moment I hit play on “Encorcelled Spirits” by Indiana-based black metal outfit Karkosa. And the name of that song is fitting, seeing as the band’s music strikes me as a blend of Anthems-era Emperor and various technical death