Metal

Here at Decibel, we’ve been keeping you abreast of the rotting breast of Rottenness for well over a decade — do a site search and you’ll find stuff going back to 2012 — and just as we don’t seem to be stopping, neither do these Mexican-American death metallers. This time the news is all about

Photo courtesy of Brilliant Emperor Records Australian old-school death metallers Anoxia are dropping their first full-length, Revel in Sin, on April 17 via Brilliant Emperor Records and Gutter Prince Cabal Records. Check out the video for “Rule By Cold Steel” from the album ahead of the release.  The record follows their EP Languish in Suffering, and

Photo by Drew Barry The mark of a good metal band name is its origin, the backstory. In-joke? Biblical reference? Satanic bible reference? Lord of the Rings reference? Dungeons & Dragons character? Count New Jersey prog death outfit Chronepsis in the latter category. And their debut, six-track mini-album, Weight of Eternity, is basically a D&D session in

San Diego sludge-slingers -(16)- are still riding high on the immaculate power of  2025’s career standout Guides for the Misguided, a record that led our esteemed reviewer Justin M. Norton to proclaim “These guys should keep playing forever,” but the extreme lifers aren’t content to coast. With that Decibel has secured an exclusive song, “Idol

There once was a group of Philly noise rockers called Plaque Marks. Their tenure was relatively short lived, with the band releasing only one EP—2017’s Anxiety Driven Nervous Worship—and touring a bit. Plaque Marks are gone but PLQ MRX have risen to take their place, pushing the band’s raucous noise rock in new, Funkadelic-inspired directions. PLQ MRX are

Where they from?Northern France. This past Friday was the 13th anniversary of when Dave Mustaine posted on Facebook about spilling a breakfast smoothie on his jeans. This is undoubtedly one of the greatest internet posts of all time and will be studied by future generations as a sort of fisheye-lens into the soul of our

Industrial rock titans Ministry have unleashed a sensual, psychedelic music video for their latest remake of “Every Day Is Halloween.” Originally issued in 1984, the band recently took a shot at a remake of this song, titled the Squirely Version. Today sees them share a brand-new music video to accompany it. Directed by Vicente Cordero

Kiritsis formed in Indianapolis in 2024 and got straight to work, writing and recording their debut, self-titled album, which you can listen to below. Kiritsis is lean, mean and focused, bashing through eight songs in half an hour, taking the band’s doom, sludge and hardcore influences and rolling them together into one heavy wrecking ball. “When we formed,

Anthrax gave us the pleasure of announcing they’re actually working on a new record, and that it’s allegedly supposed to come out sometime at the end of the year. But all that talk was months ago, and it seems they’ve been shooting the shit or doing some goddamn nonsense that caused them to put the

Anarchy in the USA, hopefully. We’re getting a good dose of the raucous punk energy we need, thanks to some good news coming from the Sex Pistols. They’ve just announced a North American tour—seeing them return to the U.S. for the first time since 2003—with Frank Carter at the vocal helm. Along with Carter, the

Now that the Gel dust is starting to settle, bookers and promoters have probably been working overtime trying to fill the various holes the band left around touring bills and other nonsense. One of those empty slots had to do with the European and UK tour that Volbeat and their main supporting act Bush are

No Celebration: The Official Story of Paradise Lost is back as a deluxe expanded edition! The original Decibel Books edition (out of print since 2021) returns with expanded content in the form of additional chapters, a 16-page photo section of rare and some never-before-seen shots, and a gorgeous fully debossed gold-printed cover wrap! Paradise Lost

Who’s thirsty?! We’re a mere ONE WEEK AWAY from Philly’s truest of beer fests and “Metal & Beer” tickets are quickly running dry. To help whet your palate, we’ve decided to release the entire beer menu that will be on hand at this year’s festivities. If your beer goggles are getting the better of you,

Greetings, Decibel readers! Hope those of you out west are able to catch this year’s installment of The Decibel Magazine Tour. It was a real trip seeing Mortiis perform for the first time, and yell out in excitement when he started to play “En mørk horisont.” Makes me wish I could attend Northeast Dungeon Siege this weekend.

Meet legendary death metal engineer Scott Burns at Decibel Magazine Metal & Beer Fest: Philly on April 4 to sign copies of the book,  The Scott Burns Sessions: A Life in Death Metal 1987 – 1997, at the Decibel merch table! Scott Burns book signing times:Friday: 7:00pm to 8:00pm Copies of The Scott Burns Sessions:

Portland, OR band These Cursed Hands just dropped a video for “Perihelion” from their latest EP, Intelligent (RE)Design, released November of last year. Check it out below. The band fuse black, progressive, core, death, and thrash metal elements, and, on their latest album, tell the story of “divine beings who, weary of humanity’s existence, engineer a cybernetic fungal evolution

Our AI overlords tell me that the title of the Övervåld track we’re premiering here today, “Förruttnelse,” translates into “putrefactive.” That wasn’t super helpful, so first I scolded AI because it was “a needlessly complex word for a simple idea ,” and then I insisted that AI “apologize for the word.” It came up with

Cogas London-based Sardinian black-death metal force COGAS is set to unleash their second full-length album, Among the Dead: How to Become a Ghost, on April 24, 2025—a harrowing and deeply personal meditation on loss, generational trauma, and the stark realities of their homeland. Today, Decibel is proud to premiere “The Noble Rot”, a bold and

Where they from?Binghamton, New York. It is the first week of the NCAA college basketball tournament here in the United States and, to be honest, I have mixed feelings about it. Obviously, I am a huge fan of disassociating out of awkward social situations using sports and the tournament is rather ideal for that but

‘NO CELEBRATION: THE OFFICIAL STORY OF PARADISE LOST’ Returns as an Exclusive Expanded Edition! PRE-ORDER NOW! March 25, 2025 Out of print since 2021, No Celebration: The Official Story of Paradise Lost returns with expanded content including additional chapters, a 16-page photo section of rare and some never-before-seen shots, and a gorgeous fully debossed gold-printed