Metal

If Dutch avant noise metal duo Dead Neanderthals were looking to add a little blackened thrash to their chaotic instrumental sonic stew, one might think a collaboration with erstwhile Skeletonwitch guitarist Scott Hedrick would do the trick. Except Dead Neanderthals—Otto Kokke (synthesizers) and René Aquarius (drums)—likely weren’t looking to take things in that direction and Hedrick, as

On their debut record, Pennsylvania technical death metal outfit Distention—who count among their ranks current and former members of Rivers of Nihil, The Last Ten Seconds of Life, Organ Trail, Visceral Disgorge and The Kennedy Veil—establish themselves as a band to watch. Taking a similar approach to the genre as later Job for a Cowboy

U.S. black metal institution Krieg return with Ruiner, their first full-length album in nearly a decade, and Decibel has manifested our own horrific edition on Red with Black Marble Smoke Vinyl, courtesy of Profound Lore Records. Executed from the mind of Decibel‘s own low-culturist Neill Jameson and limited to a scant 90 copies total in existence,

Bands using backing tracks has been a heavily contested trend in recent months, with differing schools of thought effectively going to war over what’s genuine and what’s not. And now we’ve got another person entering the fray, as Anthrax guitarist Scott Ian came out in support of backing tracks during a recent interview. In a

Earlier today, the gut-busting TexMex fast food conglomerate Taco Bell posted a seven minute set by the California-based hardcore punk band Scowl. And while that’s far too fast of a set to really get into the swing of things with their music, it’s certainly not faster than the amount of time it’ll take for diarrhea

The smoke may have finally settled around Wacken following last week’s heavy metal rager, but that doesn’t mean the organizers for next year’s festivities are able to rest on their laurels. Despite the uncooperative weather this year, Wacken Open Air 2024 will take place from July 31 to August 3, 2024. With just 360 days

Photo courtesy of Dismal Aura Canadian black metal trio Dismal Aura have dropped a lyric video for “Les Allumettieres.” The band are known for exploring issues like colonization, trans rights, and labor rights, and this song is in the same vein. “The single ‘Les Allumettieres’ is inspired by the women who advanced worker’s solidarity in

Wacken Open Air Festival made history on August 2 when they officially enshrined Motörhead‘s Lemmy Kilmister’s ashes as part of their annual celebration of metal. Although the festival was riddled with storms all day, they still managed to pay tribute with a parade and ceremony lead by Motörhead’s Phil Campbell and Mikkey Dee. They placed

Former Lostprophets vocalist and convicted human piece of shit… I mean pedophile… Ian Watkins is struggling to continue wasting our air after he was stabbed multiple times in a U.K. jail. According to reports by The Mirror and The Guardian, the incident occurred at HMP Wakefield, where Watkins is serving a nearly 30 year prison

Escuela Grind have announced that they will once again be entering the studio to record music, this time alongside famed producer Kurt Ballou. The band, hailing from Massachusetts, first popped onto the scene in 2020 with their initial record, Indoctrination, and then dropped their follow-up, Memory Theater, in 2022. Once their extensive touring schedule is

Crosses (†††) just posted an intriguing teaser on Twitter, seemingly about new music they plan to unveil. The band features Chino Moreno of Deftones fame and Shaun Lopez from Far. The group put out their first album in 2014. This has been the first music since then, and now that is hopefully about to change.

Have you ever wanted to cuddle up next to a deathcore guitarist, yet you’re cursed with the social skills of a newly skunked basset hound? Then boy do the folks at The Acacia Strain have just the thing for your sorry ass. Taking a page out of every weeaboo’s favorite merchandise catalogs, the Massachusetts-based outfit

Another week, another MetalSucks Playlist update. As always, we’ve taken tracks from the last few days and added them to the running list of metal madness. From stoner metal to grindcore, we’ve got tracks to satisfy all tastes, so feel free to dive in. Summer’s only around for this last month and then the world

When fans gathered to watch Megadeth take the stage at Wacken Open Air yesterday, there had been hints that something exciting was going to happen during the band’s set. In a not-so-subtle Instagram post, Dave Mustaine said the band had a “special surprise” along with a a photo of himself and former Megadeth axeman Marty

Death metal legends Cryptopsy are back with a new single, “Flayed The Swine.” The song is from their forthcoming album, As Gomorrah Burns, out September 8 via Nuclear Blast Records. This will be the band’s first record in over a decade, and this track proves that the band are still catchy and in touch with

Earlier this week, major metal acts Amon Amarth and Ghost kicked off their North American tour at the Concord Pavilion in Concord, California. And while this run of dates is effectively a re-run of the two bands’ last time out on the roax1d, it was killer to once again catch them in action. When it

Post black metal and shoegaze heroes An Autumn for Crippled Children get emotional and keep it weird on their latest release, Closure, out via Prosthetic Records. The Dutch band get truly experimental on this latest record, so don’t expect run-of-the-mill black metal with light shoegaze influence. While only made up of three members, An Autumn

Greetings, Decibel readers! An interesting thing happened this week. Apparently Billie Eilish took to her social media and gave It Dies Today a big boost. That’s right, the metalcore band from the mid-2000s who were the prototypical band who put breakdowns into their songs where they totally didn’t fit and then suddenly cut to emo-style

Reid Haithcock Photo Legendary Virginia hardcore punk outfit Pg. 99 (or Pageninetynine) have flown under the radar in recent years, having not released new material in nearly two decades, with their last run of performances taking place in the pre-pandemic era. Well prepare to reacquaint yourself with the raw and gritty force of nature that

When you think about metal’s riff masters, who do you have in your Mount Rushmore? Tony Iommi, Dave Mustaine, Jeff Hanneman, K.K. Downing… all masters in their own right. But for my money, one dude sits at the head of the table. In fact, he might even be the table. Dollar for dollar, pound for