Metal

The metalcore supergroup Better Lovers has been all over the place these last few months, putting on shows around the U.S. and dropping new music left and right. With more than a dozen new songs already written for their debut album, they’re looking to keep taking their sound out on the road with a lengthy

Back in 2022, I premiered a track from NYC doom project Witnesses. In that premiere, I commented that multi-instrumentalist Greg Schwan’s approach to doom “shapeshifts from unsettling ambient to a sound that’s equal parts Peaceville doom and post-metal.” Two years later, we learned that Witnesses have planned a new album Joy, scheduled for release sometime

Photo Credit – Jordan Price The Last Ten Seconds Of Life just shared their new single, “Broken Glass Incantation,” alongside an exclusive video. The song is from the band’s upcoming album, No Name Graves, out February 9 via Unique Leader Records. The deathcore banger is definitely a heavy one, and the haunting, black-and-white video that goes with

By most accounts, 2023 was a banner year for the gaming industry. A number of landmark entries across various genres ensured that no one was lacking for something new to discover from gaming’s latest generation. Similarly, Decibel’s nerdiest column has done over two dozen interviews with metal musicians representing a wide spectrum of subgenres, with

Photo by Jacob Smith Brodequin are back with more absolute brutality with their latest track, “Of Pillars and Trees,” which you can stream below. “Of Pillars and Trees” is classic Brodequin. New drummer Brennan Shackelford fits right in on the double bass attack, and the vocals are as raw and guttural as ever. If this

Photo courtesy of Whores WHORES. are gracing us with their new single and video, “Quitter’s Fight Song,” ahead of their WAR LP, out April 16 via The Ghost Is Clear Records. The video, which you can stream below, is a lot of fun and the perfect companion to the first single from this EP. It also

On their debut album, Cerebral Purgatory, we can assure you that Brisbane, Australia sludge/death/grind quintet Resin Tomb aren’t fooling around. This is a 29-minute ear-battering of truly atonal and dissonant proportions. Relentless? Yep! Savage? Uh-huh. Unkind and spiteful? That too. The band—Matt Budge (vocals), Perry Vedelago (drums), Brendan Auld (guitar), Matt Gordon (guitar), Mitch Long (bass)—basically

Where they from?Salisbury, MD. This is such an odd time of year because it’s usually when I catch up on all the great releases from last year that I’m just discovering now. I feel like such a schmuck! This is what happens when you spend too much time watching ESPN rather than keeping your nose

Montreal’s own doomy/experimental/drone outfit Big|Brave has announced a new album, A Chaos Of Flowers, out April 19 via Thrill Jockey, and they’ve shared the first single from the record. Inspired by Emily Dickinson’s poetry, the song “i felt a funeral” blends contrasting sounds, themes, and influences to build the track. Speaking of the single’s release,

The constant revolving door at Nervosa is turning once again, as drummer Michaela Naydenova has parted ways with the band as of the start of the new year. For those keeping score, she was only part of the Brazilian thrashy death metal outfit for less than a year. According to a post on her Instagram

Two minutes is all Pestilength need to make their point—a surprising metric for a black/doom metal band. For a style of music which usually takes a longer path to achieve fruition, this Basque duo opts for efficiency over classical form, resulting in something as crushing as it is fleeting. In “Baleful Profusion,” the brief song

War never goes out of fashion in metal, with death metal being no exception. It served Domination Campaign plenty well on their first album, Onward to Glory, and it holds true on their sophomore effort, A Storm of Steel. Formed by Psycroptic guitarist Joe Haley (who plays drums in Domination Campaign) and vocalist Jason Peppiatt (who also plays guitar

I don’t believe I’m writing this in 2024, but Wintersun has officially announced that the insanely long-awaited album Time II is finished. We’re supposed to learn more about the album next week, according to an official statement, but holy shit — real fucking progress. For the uninitiated, Time II was supposed to come out alongside

August Burns Red are extending their 20th anniversary tour with a livestream celebration for those who weren’t lucky enough to catch them live this time around. The show airs their May 3 performance last year on Stage AE in Pittsburgh. The footage contains 90 minutes’ worth of powerful performance complete with professional mixing on the

Hardcore heavyweights Ignite just released the song “Done Digging The Grave featuring star power in the form of Andrew Neufeld of Comeback Kid. This is the first music the Orange County, California band have released since their 2022 self-titled album, which was released via Century Media Records. They’re coming back with a bang, featuring a

Enterprise Earth, Inferi, Crown Magnetar, and Tracheotomy just announced an epic tour across the U.S. “We are incredibly thrilled to headline North America once again, this time in support of our new album Death: An Anthology, releasing February 2, the band say about the tour. “We’re bringing some of heavy music’s finest in Inferi, Crown Magnetar, and Tracheotomy along for

Cannibal Corpse just dropped a rad line of pet collars and leashes, and according to the comments section, not everyone assumed this new merch line was for dogs. They are though, for sure, as the line is not a collaboration with a kink brand, but rather with Caninus Collars, a dog collar company. There are

Avenged Sevenfold just officially dropped their “free for all” map that serves as a mod to the popular game Fortnite. The game, which was teased back in November, officially got released today. The design of the map was inspired by the video for the Avenged Sevenfold song “We Love You.” The band posted the following

Man, it sure has been a minute since we updated these things, eh? That’s what the holidays will do to ya. Either way, we’re back and we’ve thrown 17 new tracks onto our weekly playlist and scrapped just as many, keeping balance with the playlist gods and keeping our setup to a crisp 30 tracks