Metal

You know you must be a giant fuckhead when a band that doesn’t even exist has shunned you for being a piece of shit. That’s what Spinal Tap just did. Well, Harry Shearer did. The co-writer and co-star of the mockumentary film—he played the band’s bassist Derek Smalls—took to Twitter to let former President Donald

We love us some good hardcore. If it can get our juices flowing within the first few seconds it’s definitely a keeper, like Mammoth Grinder‘s new single “Undying Spectral Resonance.” It’s the title track off their upcoming new EP that’s due out this November. Listen to it below. That’s a pretty cool ass title, right?

Tomorrow sees the release of Draconian Darkness, the seventh album by Finnish melodic death metallers Wolfheart. Pretty damned prolific for a band that started as a solo project in 2013 by vocalist/guitarist Tuomas Saukkonen (Before the Dawn, Dawn of Solace, ex-Black Sun Aeon, Bonegrinder, RoutaSielu, The Final Harvest, Jumalhämärä, Rajavyöhyke). Below we’re giving you the opportunity

King Diamond is an elder statesman in the metal community, one of our foundational pillars. He is no longer just a vocalist but an action figure, cat enthusiast, and the subject of cartoons. The metal community universally loves him. Generations of metal fans have grown up with King Diamond, the friendly uncle. While most are

Photo courtesy of Glacier Boston post-metal band Glacier are dropping a heavy-as-hell new record, A Distant, Violent Shudder, a joint release via Wolves & Vibrancy Records and this Friday.  It’s a dark and dismal LP, and one that perfectly incapsulates the bleak present, and you can listen to the full record here before it drops at the end

Greetings, Decibel readers! This week, we have two bands with “God” in their name. And two bands from Ireland. And two bands from the Netherlands! Alas, there’s only one from Canada, but they have really cool album artwork, so it’s ok. Enjoy! — God Dethroned – The Judas Paradox God Dethroned, arriving to us with

Photo courtesy of Spread Thin Spread Thin, the heavy-hitting hardcore band from Wisconsin, have shared a new video for “Gaslit” from their July album World of Snakes.  According to the band, “The song speaks of the frustration of watching someone you love struggle and when you try to help, it blows up in your face every time.” Vocalist

Boston sludge/funeral doom crew Fórn went quiet shortly after the release of 2018’s Rites of Despair, their second LP. The release was followed by a series of events, both personal and worldwide, that kept Fórn quiet for the better part of six years. The dry streak ended earlier this year when the quartet announced their third album, Repercussions of

Ignominous Hailing from Thessaloniki, Greece, black metal trio Ignominous emerge from the shadows with the release of their first single from the upcoming debut album Dawn With No Light. Formed in 2020, the band features Anestis Nekhromancer (Terrordrome, Twilight, Obscence, Medivial) on bass, Chris (ex-Regent) on guitar and vocals, and Billy Vongaar (Terrordrome, Twilight, Disembowel,

New Zealand is home to some of the most ferocious and feral metal on the planet, and Ifrit is no exception to this legacy of brutality. On the band’s new EP, Haunting Charnel Grounds, the band blazes a trail of blackened death metal destruction. Fans of Angelcorpse, Immolation, Bolt Thrower, Incantation, and Gateways-era Morbid Angel will find a lot to

Change is afoot with the insanely fast, talented, and based Irish thrash metal outfit Gama Bomb. Roughly five years after their longtime drummer Paul Caffrey left the band, they’ve officially filled in that vacancy with a full-time drummer by bringing their live drummer Chris Williams into the fold. Williams has been playing with Gama Bomb

Killer black ‘n’ roll records are rare in the American underground, which makes Summer, the debut album from Raleigh, North Carolina rockers Valletta, even more enjoyable. Formed by members of Mo’ynoq and Lord Almighty along with vocalist Will Goodyear (Prayer for Cleansing, Hopesfall, ex-Between the Buried and Me), Valletta play black ‘n’ roll that’s inspired by mid-career

Get excited, doom metal fans. It’s looking like Denver’s own Khemmis have something new coming. In a recent tweet, the band revealed that they were working on their fifth full-length album and follow up to 2021’s Deceiver. In addition to it being a minute since their last slate of new music, things have been relatively

You need to wear earplugs at concerts. You just do. I’ve been going to loud rock concerts since I was 14 years old and I just started wearing earplugs a few years back and, let me tell you, I wish I had started a lot earlier. If I could meet my younger self like in

I’ve come to terms with the fact that I’ll never be on the fame end of the show stick, casting eyes down at the main character in the front row versus being the one casting eyes up. And, that’s okay. I’m fine with it. Much like how Guitar Hero and Rockband did for us back

Talk about a good moonlighting gig. Sure, everyone is dynamic in their own way with so many sides to them, but you wouldn’t necessarily expect a pretty mild-mannered profession to have such a metal-mannered alternative. Chinese black metal band Zuriaake has been paving the way for Chinese black metal basically forever at this point, but

Where they from?Sydney, Australia. As everyone gets excited for the NFL season I am here to simply remind everyone of one indisputable fact: the New York Mets suck. They currently are only 2.5 games back from the Atlanta Braves for the last wild card spot in the NL but it doesn’t matter because they can’t

Denver doom trio Oryx have always wielded heaviness deftly, knowing when to crush the listener and when to pull back. That hasn’t changed on new album Primordial Sky. If anything, it’s only gotten more pronounced, as you’ll hear on “Myopic,” the first track from the band’s upcoming release, due out October 18 on Translation Loss. Adding a blackened

Massachusetts crushers Thy Will Be Done spent plenty of time in the aughts and early 2010s grinding through the underground scene, touring across North America, Europe, the UK and Japan, while releasing two albums and an EP. While they never truly went away, things slowed down and there weren’t many releases until 2020, when Thy Will Be

Greetings, Decibel readers! I’m about to head out for a fantastic late holiday in northern New England, but before I let myself feel totally checked out (enjoying a strong drink on an Adirondack chair), let’s make sure you’re all set for heavy music this weekend! It’s an especially ferocious week, so buckle up. — Avmakt