Metal

Two albums and eight years in and Denver’s Oak, Ash & Thorn are catching stride with their conglomerate take on D-beat infused blackened death metal. Following the 2018 self-release of first album, May Every Altar Linger and follow up, To Gaze on Stars of Frost three years later, the quartet of vocalist/guitarist Adam Armstrong, guitarist

Greetings, Decibel readers! It’s been a couple weeks, so we’re playing catch-up a bit here. Couldn’t let the new Cattle Decapitation and The Acacia Strain releases go unmentioned. The legions would never allow it! Also, big new release from VHS as well. Easily a top contender for one of the best albums of the year.

It’s an imperial stout with a gloriously friggin’ stupid name and a stupidly friggin’ glorious finish. This isn’t even the first imperial stout named “Thiccolas Cage”—Sacramento’s Track 7 got there first. What in Zeus’s butthole is going on here? Welcome to the very weird and wooly subculture of beers (and meads) brewed in tribute to

Breaking News, Exclusive, News, Vinyl Doom, drone, home featured, James Plotkin, Khanate, Sacred Bones Records, Stephen O’Malley, Sunn O))). Surprise! Acclaimed experimental doomcasters Khanate are back in aktion after 14 years(!) with their astonishing fifth album To Be Cruel. Decibel has managed to get our clean hands on an exclusive edition, with only 200 copies available on “Black and

Photo courtesy of Pylar Today, we bring you the latest from Pylar, their new single “Límite.” The song is from the new album Límyte—small distinction in name, but they both carry the same haunting, bleak imagery. Of the track, the band say: “This track, ‘Límite,’ is a perfect example of how extra musical influences have a

As far as inspiration for forming a metal band goes, we’re fully sold on the concept of movie-obsessed death metal. So, congrats to Canadian trio VHS for bringing it all together with a perfect moniker, as well.  The outfit—Mike Hochins (guitar/vocals), Andy Middaugh (drums), Curtis Mill (bass)—generally chooses a theme for each release and on their

The perfect video to accompany Nerver‘s noisy, battering track (which invokes Drive Like Jehu’s wiry tension and Unsane’s rumbling aggression) would definitely be something like an homage to The Blair Witch Project as viewed through an old analog TV, with plenty of cemetery scenes thrown in for good measure. This jittery pounder, suitably titled “The

Let’s be real: Decibel copy editor Andrew Bonazelli has a more refined taste in music than anyone else in that rotting hellhole we call a masthead. The man keeps the rest of us on our toes, presenting out-of-the-box extraordinary ideas for Hall of Fame records and reminding us that melody exists outside of 1990s Sweden.

The thrash metal world was dealt a heavy blow back in March when we all learned that founding member and Dark Angel guitarist Jim Durkin had passed away at 58 years old. The news came as a particular shock, since it was announced that the band was working on new material and had special gigs

photo: Bobby Cochran Dark lords of the frayed riff, Yob have become the stuff of legend across 20-plus years in the metal space.  Now, after two decades, the band is set to reissue their debut full length Elaborations of Carbon, a melting pot of influences and genre melding that foreshadowed their epic dominance to come.

Since emerging from the darkest crevices of Lexington, Kentucky back in 2008, Tombstalker have served as one of the South’s foremost purveyors of stomping death metal terror. Despite having just a single long-player under their belts – 2015’s vicious Black Crusades – the band have stayed busy, releasing a half dozen splits, demos, and EPs.

Back at the turn of the century, guitarist Drank Hetzel formed Beltfed Weapon in the Seattle metro area. Along with a rotating cast of collaborators, Hetzel’s project fused west coast thrash with old school death metal. After 2009’s Peacekeeper EP, Beltfed Weapon started introducing more elements of ’80s speed and power metal with the band’s

It’s been six long years since the release of the last LP by legendary U.K. industrial metal duo Godflesh. Luckily for the extreme metal world, that didn’t signal the start of the post-Godflesh era as their latest full-length offering, Purge, is due to be released on June 9 worldwide. Justin Broadrick and Ben Green return

dai-ichi‘s second eponymous album, following an eponymous debut and a split with black metal darling Lamp of Murmuur, explores uncharted waters for this mysterious raw black metal duo. Though ii‘s majority paints their raw passions in shades of minimal, riffy black metal, it’s vocalist Yūrei and multi-instrumentalist Han Kirisuto’s fearlessness which takes dai-ichi to the

When I met first met author Jason Schreurs, through my fellow Decibel scribe, Greg Pratt, I knew him as a writer, an editor/instructor at a Victoria, BC college and a family man. He was part of a friend group in town who would get together occasionally and nerd out playing heavy metal trivia. He, and everyone else

Where they from?Queens, New York by way of Nepal. One of my favorite yearly traditions of the sports calendar is celebrating when all the Canadian teams have been eliminated from the Stanley Cup Playoffs. This year it came a few weeks later than anticipated due to the Oilers and somehow miraculously the Maple Leafs surviving

Legal proceedings and a lack of official representation in the music industry be damned, Marilyn Manson is teasing something on his Instagram page. Just a few hours ago, the disgraced shock rocker whose last musical output was a guest spot on a Kanye West track, told his fans and followers that he had “something for

Sludge crushers Come to Grief formed out of the ashes of the legendary Grief, picking up where the influential band started. Though they formed in 2014, it took Come to Grief a few years to release any studio output and almost 10 years for their first proper album, When the World Dies.  Because EPs, splits and demos are

Northern Michigan quartet, The Glorious Dead, announces their return today with the release of their lead single, “Horizons of Ash.” The group spent the entirety of the global pandemic working on their newest material–honing their craft and galvanizing their core sound. As a result, their punishing, second full-length record entitled Cemetery Paths exudes a more dynamic progression

There’s a lot of dark, cavernous death metal out there today. The system of caves and tunnels are seemingly endless, providing listeners with ever more ways to plumb the subterranean depths of brutality. Scotland’s Order of Decay occupies there own corner of this complex, and are ready to smash out to the surface wit their