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Sweden is definitely the place to shop for all your metallic hardcore needs. There’s just something in the water that produces a whole different level of crushage. Witness Swedish quintet Obstruktion doing maximum damage in just three brief minutes on new track, “Sow Fear.” The track comes from their upcoming second full-length, The End Takes Form, and

Photo: Maaike Ronhaar Dutch progressive/technical thrash outfit Cryptosis are looking toward the future, both in terms of technology and of the genre, on their new album, Celestial Death. Released earlier this month by Century Media, Celestial Death dwells at the intersection of multiple genres while tackling some big ideas. Decibel caught up with bassist Frank te Riet to get a better insight

Stormo (Photo Credit: Marco Vivaldi & Eugen Bonta) Long-running Italian post-hardcore and noise punk force STORMO return with Tagli/Talee, their fifth full-length and most volatile work yet—set for release on March 21 via Prosthetic Records. Today, Decibel is proud to present an exclusive premiere of the entire album. Tagli/Talee (translated as Cuttings/Grafts) was forged entirely

Where they from?Houston, TX. I am writing this on St. Patrick’s Day 2025. Personally, I hate all holidays but I happen to hate this day the most. It’s nothing against the Irish, really. I just hate when people are happy for any reason, but I do have to pay respect to alcoholic drinking on a

After three can-crushing years at Summit, Decibel Magazine Metal & Beer Fest: Denver is now tapping the Fillmore Auditorium as this year’s home of the world’s loudest, heaviest, most extreme craft beer festival on Friday and Saturday, December 5-6, 2025. Freshly reunited sludge/doom legends Acid Bath make their first Denver appearance in over 30 years to headline

I’ve been a fan of Norway’s Barren Womb since their 2014 debut, The Sun’s Not Yellow, It’s Chicken. The duo of Timo Silvola (drums) and Tony Gonzahl (guitar/vocals) have since delivered regular offerings of angular and pulsating “electronic rock/noise/hardcore” that land somewhere between the Refused, Daughters and NoMeansNo on one end, and the “Bigs” (Business

After three can-crushing years at Summit, Decibel Magazine Metal & Beer Fest: Denver is now tapping the Fillmore Auditorium as this year’s home of the world’s loudest, heaviest, most extreme craft beer festival on Friday and Saturday, December 5-6, 2025. Freshly reunited sludge/doom legends Acid Bath make their first Denver appearance in over 30 years to headline

Greetings, Decibel readers! I was sick this week, so I didn’t have a lot of headspace to focus on music, but the show must go on. Because you’re not sick. Well, maybe you are and the only cure is black metal. If that’s the case, take some of the below. Don’t bother calling though, I’m

It’s been four years since the metal scene at large last heard from midwest blackened death metal outfit Throne (peep their last album, Pestilent Dawn, here) but the Jackson, Michigan horde are officially back. That Who Sat Upon Him, Was Death continues in the same vein as its predecessor, combining a love for acts like early Behemoth with the straightforward

Photo courtesy of Calyces Athenian progressive metalers Calyces are sharing their new album Fleshy Waves of Probability, which is out on March 21. It’s a mix of ’00s sludge prog metal with ’70s progressive rock influences, and you can hear it below. Fleshy Waves of Probability by Calyces “Our debut album, Impulse to Soar, depicted

Photo by Sarah Hammel Seattle death rock/goth metal mavens, Dark Meditation, have returned with a brand new six-song EP, Where the Darkness Bleeds, which we’re previewing in its entirety here. The gloomy quintet—Adam Vick (vocals), Ryan Fitch (guitars), Ian E. (guitars), Will Klintberg (drums), Rachel Robillard (bass)—are following up 2022’s Polluted Temples with another potent dose of blackened

Time And The Hunter, an experimental electronica group formed by ex-Dark Tranquillity guitarist Niklas Sundin and The Moor main-brain Enrico Longhin, debut three tracks from their forthcoming Inertia Music debut, Weapon Pt. I. While most fans have come to recognize Sundin’s post-NWOSDM (also the much-missed Laethora) work as a visual artist for Dark Tranquillity, Arch

UK black metal/punk hybrid Final Dose are gearing up to release their next full-length album, Under the Eternal Shadow, and the first track from the release is live now. “Dark Paradise” follows in the path of bands like Midnight and Too Old Too Cold-era Darkthrone, It alternates between a hair-whipping groove and energetic blast beats, complemented by its accompanying

Photo by Alex Morgan Surrounded by flame, adorned in black robes and growling in blood-soaked tongues, Whitechapel frontman Phil Bozeman roars via their lead single and title track that the band’s latest offering, Hymns in Dissonance, is the stuff of nightmares. This most recent album is touted as a lyrical sequel to 2008’s deathcore pillar

Extreme in its extremities. the new five-track EP from Pyramid Mass, Gargling Rot, drills into your brainpan with some potent, industrial-strength sludge before launching into a death metal barrage and seamlessly finding some ambient soundscapes to float in. It’s all presented surprisingly cohesively with contrasting sounds well integrated within songs and the EP as a whole.

You can’t beat the classic sounds, but you can definitely present them in exciting ways, which is exactly what Amammoth do on their new album, Distant Skies and the Ocean Flies. Steeped in doom, stoner and sludge influences from Sleep, Electric Wizard, Melvins and Black Sabbath, the Aussie trudge through seven tracks of amp worship. Amammoth’s biggest strength

Fans of the rap-metal band Fire From The Gods got a surprise last night (March 15). The band joined Traitors during their Austin, TX date of their “Phobias 2025 Tour,” where they revealed a new vocalist without warning. Welcome to the FFTB club, Myke Terry. It’s nice to have you here. Terry’s in the Los

We love it when a good band makes a return. Double time if it also includes the return of a good member. That’s what Connecticut metalcore/hardcore band 100 Demons is doing. Not only have they welcomed back their old bassist, Sean Martin (ex-Hatebreed), but it’s also said that they’re working on new music for the

Gary Holt Book Signing Announced at Metal & Beer Fest: Philly! February 20, 2025 Legendary thrash guitarist Gary Holt will be on hand at Decibel Magazine Metal & Beer Fest: Philly on April 5 to sign copies of his new book, A Fabulous Disaster: From the Garage to Madison Square Garden, the Hard Way. Originally

We’re just a few weeks away from Swedish death metal legends Dismember headlining the opening night of Decibel Magazine Metal & Beer Fest: Philly with an exclusive performance of their 1991 landmark album, Like an Ever Flowing Stream (plus other choice cuts), so what better way to celebrate than with a full track-by-track breakdown of the