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Photo by Hillarie Jason What do Monty Python alum Eric Idle, late Unsolved Mysteries host Robert Stack, Star Trek’s original Dr. Spock Leonard Nimoy, actor and musician Scatman Crothers and legendary film director Orson Welles have in common? They were all cast as voice actors for 1986’s The Transformers: The Movie. Seriously! Hell, for Crothers

You may not think of progressive metal when you think of Puerto Rico, but MOTHS are out here to make a believer out of you. Earlier today, the band announced the upcoming release of their fourth full-length album, Septem, along with its first single “Gluttony”. Set to release on August 14, Septem is described as

Ancestor of Kaos play black metal that rocks. Or, rather, Ancestor of Kaos play black metal that thrashes on their new album, Animal Ritual, which the band self-recorded and will release later this week on Horror Pain Gore Death Productions. The thing that stands out the most about Animal Ritual is the enthusiasm and aforementioned

Asheville, North Carolina outfit Mo’ynoq have spent the last decade dispelling the myth that black metal only comes out of the frozen north, infusing their brand of USBM with an atmosphere that recalls their home in the southern United States. Three years after their last release, 2022’s A Place for Ash, Mo’ynoq are back in action and they

Photo by Julie Didomenico Going back to the early ’80s, Chicago has a long reputation for noisy industrial rock. The home of Touch & Go and Wax Trax! Records, the city has churned out decades of aggressive, edgy bands. New trio, Burndy, follows that tradition in unconventional fashion, as illuminated on their new single. “Static,” taken

You’ve been itching for a playlist update and daddy’s got that for ya right now. Have no fear, kiddos. This week, we added a fuckton of new songs, including some that didn’t make the cut last week. We’ve added Behemoth, Ghost, and a whole slew of other tracks for you to sink your teeth into.

It’s always nice when a band wants the fans to be a part of the process. We’re here to show them love, and this is just one way they can seemingly reciprocate it. One band that’s ripping and roaring to do that is the Bay Area band Machine Head, who are set to film a

It’s the obvious low-hanging fruit, so I won’t make some joke about Tesla cars and Tesla the band because, what purpose would it serve besides making me giggle? BUT, since we’re on the Tesla topic, it seems as though Tommy Skeoch, the band’s former guitarist and the current guitarist for the rock band Bad Marriage,

I don’t know how well you know me, but if you do, you know that I’m a big fan of playing roulette. And if you know me you also know that – not to yank own chain to hard – I’m pretty fucking good at it! Over the years, I’ve developed a simple system based

Photo by Shaman Gibson Seems like there’s a little interband competition with the members of Ohio sludge/stoner/doom lords Moontemple as to who can grow the mightiest beard. What they lack in locks, they make up for in crumb-catching whiskers. We only know this from the new video for their latest single, “Horus,” which is a

Greetings, Decibel readers! Hope everyone had a great time at this year’s installment of Decibel Metal and Beer Fest, and that you’ve begun your journey to recover and prepare for the Denver edition this December. In the meantime, here’s some black metal. And a new death metal album from Dark Descent. — Diabolizer – Murderous Revelations

Where they from?Canberra, Australia. I’m no economist but I do have one little question: Destroying the global economy, that’s a bad thing, correct? Just wondering. You see, this is the kind of shit I’m forced to write about now that my hockey team isn’t making the playoffs. Why the hype?Australian grindcore, let’s talk about it.

Photo Credit – Giuseppe Calvinisti Rimouski, Quebec space-themed, orchestral metal band Vortex are dropping their concept EP Alien Realms tomorrow. Before it gets released everywhere, you can stream it here. Alien Realms by Vortex The cosmic horror-themed album features a lot of melody and orchestral elements paired with aggressive riffing and straightforward metal. Like their previous

Photo by Hillarie Jason It’s good to know your neighbors. Sometimes you luck out and have a friendly smile willing to keep an eye out for your deliveries; other times you end up living next to a makeshift meth lab that considers a cough after 6 p.m. a noise violation. Either way, it’s helpful to

Photo by Felix Vesker You’re definitely getting your money’s worth with this track premiere from Canadian atmospheric black metal trio, A Flock Named Murder. They’re offering up the 17-plus-minute “To Drown in Obsidian Tides” from their upcoming second second full-length, Incendiary Sanctum. The epic track finds the band—Mike Wandy (bass/vocals), Cam Mueller (drums), Ryan Mueller (guitar/vocals)—traveling

Prepare yourselves. Get your affairs in order. Brace for impact. Canada’s Prophetic Suffering is ready to unleash its debut full-length album on an unsuspecting world. According to the band, the album is: “Pure Hell materializing from the ether. Rivalry of Thyself is our first major offering, and is a violent manifestation of personal struggle. This release

Obliterated Life, the new album from French death dealers Putrid Offal, is an exercise in gory, primitive death metal and it’s one you can take in right now. Coming five years after their debut, Sicknesses Obsessions, they’ve honed their songwriting chops and given their grindcore-infused death metal a boost. There’s a lot of variety across the 14

Philly trio Family Garden—featuring ex-members of YDI, Eat The Turnbuckle, Crackhouse, Woods of Ypres and Woe—return in thunderously loud fashion with their second LP, Dreams Beyond Control. Coming three years after their debut, Born From the Heavens, Family Garden arrive surrounded in chaos and debauchery, doling out a combination of black metal, crust, thrash and hardcore. Their

Jack Black is one funny son of a bitch. We all know that. We also all (should) know how talented he is musically. Sir Black hosted Saturday Night Live last night and was part of this skit called “Goth Kid on Vacation.” In it, he ever so handsomely impersonates My Chemical Romance‘s Gerard Way, poking

Last summer, good news came out of the Grave camp. The Swedish death metal legends, who for the latter half of the band’s career were led by founding member Ola Lindgren, decided to return in their most original form. There’s something sweet about the original members coming back together, though, and they did just that