Metal

Happy Saturday, everyone! Thanks to the holiday on Monday, this week went by crazy fast and man, are we thankful for that! This week was chock full of new songs, so we shook things up quite a bit with the playlist. Of the 20 songs we select each week, 15 are brand spanking new. Only

Two bands you might not want or expect to think about at the same time are Nickelback and Pantera, but that doesn’t change with the fact that both Dimebag Darrell and Vinnie Paul were both fans of Nickleback and friends with the band. Unlikely as it may seem, Darrell even collaborated with the band at

Clutch made everyone happy last week when the announced a new seven-inch box set of their latest album featuring some unreleased tracks. The set includes their most recent record, Sunrise on Slaughter Beach, as well as three unreleased tracks, “Boogeyman Blues,” “Arts & Crafts,” and “Railroad Daises.” The box set is out now and also

In major bummer news, Suffocation had to cancel their entire European summer tour due to injuries sustained at past shows. The band say they are still planning on finishing their new album, which will be their first since 2017 and the first record featuring their new vocalist, Ricky Myers. On Instagram, the band say: “It

Rammstein frontman Till Lindemann has been given the boot by his publisher Kiepenheuer & Witsch, as more allegations surface following an incident during the band’s show at Vilnius, Lithuania. The move was announced in a social media post from the publishing house, which has since been translated. Originally reported by the German arm of Metal

Greetings, Decibel readers! Check out this week’s new releases below. It’s a good week if you’re into really dark black metal and death metal. But there’s a math-core surprise hidden in the shadows as well, in case you’re in the mood for something different. — Corpsessed – Skeletal Grotesquery (Live) A nice little bonus for

Boundless Domain, the highly-anticipated second full-length album from Creeping Death, is anything but an endless kingdom away; more like a measly two weeks away at time of posting! Print subscribers already know this as our latest issue has a feature on the aforementioned best ever death metal band in Denton and all of the hardcore

Canadian noise rock quartet KEN Mode are back and they’ve got a slate of new songs to hit you over the head with. Earlier today, the band announced they were ready to showcase their upcoming album VOID by not only announcing its release date, but also by putting out its first single, “The Shrike” on

Canadian noise rockers KEN mode have returned with VOID—the companion piece to last year’s NULL—and Decibel has successfully secured 100 copies on truly Blue vinyl to complement the sadness within. Recorded and mixed by Andrew Schneider and featuring artwork and layout by Randy Ortiz, this special Decibel edition comes courtesy of our friends at Arttofact records. Set to release September 22, you

In the pantheon of rock stars that are no longer with us, there are few more unadulterated, few more real and genuine, than the late Lemmy Kilmister. Whenever Motörhead rolled into town, you knew you were going to get raw and unfiltered badassery in the form of insanely loud rock and roll. Having been fortunate

Photo by Katrina Vella It kind of feels like Hemplifier have done all the heavy lifting for me as far as introducing the band and their debut full-length album, The Stoner Side of the Doom. Having read this far, is there any question as to what this Maltese (as in, from the tiny island country of

Forming a few scant months before the world shut down in 2020 has meant that the totality of Cavern Deep’s discography has been impacted by the confinement and desolation foisted upon humanity by COVID’s human eating charm. Then again, hailing from Umeå, Sweden as these lovers of doom metal, velour smoking jackets and image filters

Josh Homme and the guys in Queens of the Stone Age are no strangers to the dark. Their music has always had a tinge of the macabre, the melancholy, the strange, that can be traced back all the way to their debut release back in 1998. Yet their most recent releases, …Like Clockwork and Villains

Isua bring the thunder from the land down under on Abandon, the group’s first full-length album. Describing the album’s style as “grinding doom,” Isua often find themselves in a post-metal sonic territory that takes the framework laid out by bands like Neurosis and The Ocean and drops it on its head. Songs like “Spiral & Dissolve”

Vile Ritual have debuted a new song, “Aimless,” from their forthcoming album Caverns of Occultic Hatred, out June 16 via Sentient Ruin. You can stream the track with us first: The East Coast, psychedelic, one-man death metal force have laid out a complex and brutal slab of violence with this release. They bring all the weirdness

Back in 2018, Norwegian trio Saint Karloff released their first album All Heed the Black God. It was an energetic and impactful intro, embracing the heavy blues grooves of early Sabbath and the dopesmokin’ psych fuzz of Electric Wizard. The debut sparked a flurry of activity, including a split with Devil’s Witches and a 40

There was a time back in the early 80s when Metallica weren’t a household name like they are now. In fact, there was a time they were a small band, covering new wave of British heavy metal tunes and writing/playing their own music. Eventually, they ended up putting out a demo called No Life Til’

Italian cinema redefined horror in the 1970s and 80s, with auteurs with names like Bava, Argento and the incomparable Lucio Fulci becoming masters of the dark art on the silver screen to a new generation of cringe-loving voyeurs. Fabio Frizzi was Fulci’s right hand man, providing the sonic backdrop throughout some of his biggest genre accomplishments,

Old-school death metal troopers To Descend are releasing a new EP, Mindless Birth, out June 2 via Horror Pain Gore Death, and we have the sneak peek. This is the band’s first release for Horror Pain Gore Death. The Swedish band features Jens Johansson of Mega Slaghter on vocals and Rogga Johansson of Ribspreader, Ghoulhouse, Paganizer…

Under Attack, the blasting hardcore punk squad out of Richmond, VA is your new favorite band you don’t even know about yet. With a line-up that has spent time in the likes of Municipal Waste, Human Remains, Discordance Axis, Limp Wrist, Suppression and many, many, many more, this new three-song EP, Bastards Fucking Bastards, is