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KEN MODE’s New Album ‘VOID’ on Decibel-Exclusive Vinyl Is Available for Pre-Order RIGHT NOW! June 2, 2023 We have only 100 copies available of KEN Mode new album, VOID, on exclusive blue vinyl, perfectly complementing the sadness within. Originally Posted Here

New Jersey’s grindcore berserkers Organ Dealer bring barbwire laced riffs and blast beat fever to their long-awaited sophomore album The Weight of Being. The foursome of Eric Schnee (drums), Jeff Knoblauch (guitar), Trevor Graham (bass, vocals) and Scot Moriarty (vocals on the record, later replaced in the line-up by Chris Ward) took to the studio

Photo by Anna Haas Nashville heavy duo Friendship Commanders present a new video for “Vampire” from their upcoming album Mass, out September 29. Guitarist/vocalist Buick Audra says about the track: “There was a season at the end of my time in Boston where I was being turned into The Problem by someone who wanted to control

Decoherence, the enigmatic U.K. black metal innovators, release their haunting third full-length album, Order, this week. This mechanized odyssey draws listeners into a realm of absolute darkness and existential emptiness, exploring humanity’s insignificance within the vast expanse of reality. The album envisions a future where advanced technology bridges cosmic distances, forcing mankind to confront its

What began four years ago as a solo project by an anonymous masked fiend who goes by the moniker No One has been transformed on The Sun’s Journey Through the Night’s fourth full-length release, Wordless. On this newest effort No One is joined by three collaborators—Lune (guitar), Deimos (drums), Corvus (bass)—in crafting a dynamic, modern black metal album

Someone better check the temperature down in Hell, because it’s late July 2023 and I’m writing a MetalSucks post about Vince Neil actually sounding half decent during a recent show. While the rest of Mötley Crüe are ostensibly working on new material or trying to find new ways to drag Mick Mars through the mud,

Last year, a product called The Real Thing cropped up on Kickstarter that could only be described as a weird little tabletop roleplaying game that was loosely based on — and endorsed by — Faith No More and their releases. Earlier this week, the company behind the RPG came back to fans with their hat

Earlier this month, Philadelphia sludge eulogists Quiet Man released their debut LP. The Starving Lesson is a churning collision of harsh distortion, art-house doom, and Neurosis post-metal. The promo text initially grabbed me with the promise that Quiet Man are “bringing the darkness back to psychedelia.” Then I quickly realized that the band was a

Where they from?Czech Republic. If your baseball team sucks this year (God knows mine does) then you, along with millions of other Americans, have entered the dead zone of the sports calendar. I know I should probably be at the beach or vomiting on a Six Flags roller coaster somewhere in New Jersey, but goddamn,

Metallica has been a cultural commodity for so long that it’s difficult to imagine their lives before global fame. Fortunately, there is a time capsule: the band’s life-altering debut Kill ‘Em All, which hit shelves four decades ago today. The album came out when the band members were in their early 20s. It is Metallica

Prepare to widen your mind’s eye and take an acid-tinged journey through the cosmos with Sweden’s Domkraft. Formed in 2014 with an aim to craft heavy music with a psych-filled twinge, the outfit have released three albums, two EPs and one split record ahead of their latest opus, Sonic Moons, available September 8 through Magnetic Eye

Boy meets girl. Boy falls in love with girl, but when boy meets girl’s family and friends, they definitely don’t love him. So, boy and girl try to run away, hijinks ensue, yadda yadda yadda, people wind up dead. It’s a tale as old as time, one that’s been interpolated by storytelling masters like William

With this new release from Norwegian retro trio Flight, we’re turning the way-back machine to a time before the term “heavy metal” really existed. Yep, that era when metal was being forged, but in the parlance of the day, it was just heavy rock or hard rock. And it should be noted that even though

It’s been a couple years since the world got new Testament tunes, but that’s not going to be the case forever, as guitarist Eric Peterson and newly minted drummer Chris Dovas have apparently begun hashing out ideas for the next release. Over the weekend, Peterson posted a few pictures on his Instagram account highlighting some

Guns N’ Roses frontman Axl Rose is notoriously selective about when he gets his photo taken. Sure, when he’s on stage he doesn’t really have a say in the matter and sometimes he’ll wave to a gathered crowd outside a hotel room every once in a while, but he’s also known to want his privacy.

It’s honestly a happy accident that The Silver—Philly’s favorite post-black metal quartet, which happens to feature half of Philly’s favorite progressive death metal quartet Horrendous—are the Decibel Flexi Series entry the same month that Horrendous graces Decibel’s cover. While we’ve been banging on about Horrendous for over a decade, we’ve been just as excited about

The best records feel immediately familiar, like a classic record you’ve heard a dozen times by the end of your second listen, while offering something fresh to the mix. That’s certainly the case for Celestial Prophecies, the second album from Midwest death dealers Machinations of Fate. Despite hailing from Newport, Kentucky, Machinations of Fate sound distinctly Swedish.

Lajon Witherspoon of Sevendust is our guest this week! We are here to celebrate their 14th studio album Truth Killer coming out July 28. We also perspective that came after the pandemic, the Huntridge Theater in Las Vegas being a hub for heavy music in the late 90’s, how Sevendust feels about releasing new music

On Sunday, July 16th, our dear friend and brother, Dave Cohen, suddenly passed away. He was only 36 years old. Both Dave and his wife, Mariann, joined the Stryper camp in early 2023, with Dave as our guitar tech and Mariann as dual guitar and monitor tech. Most recently, Dave was working on the Dreamsonic

Last week, The Zenith Passage dropped the video from the title track of their latest album, Datalysium, out now via Metal Blade Records. This record is the band’s second full-length, and the LA-based death metal band are leaning into their technical prowess as well as their melody and musical chops on this latest release. The