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Photo: Nick Sayers UK lads Mastiff are no strangers to depression, anger and grief. Those emotions have been present on each release in the band’s very bleak catalog and come to a head on Deprecipice, the band’s fourth album. Though it’s Mastiff’s first release since the end of pandemic lockdowns, they aren’t depressed or angry about that; instead, Deprecipice sees

Austin, TX-based power trio Rickshaw Billie’s Burger Patrol sound just about as big and dumb as their moniker would imply. They’re also as ridiculously awesome as their big, dumb moniker would imply. Since 2017 or thereabouts, vocalist and eight-string slinger Leo Lydon, bassist Aaron Metzdorf and drummer Sean St.Germain have been churning out lumbering cascades

  Get ready for a double dose of black metal in the form of the new split EP between Vancouver black metal/crust purveyors Wormwitch and black-thrashers Sadistic Ritual, streaming now via Decibel. The split features three songs from each band, with Wormwitch starting it off. The Canadians once again demonstrate their ability to marry first-pumping melodic black metal, crust

Photo by Alex Krauss Art is often said to imitate life. The link between life and video games, with an interest in fantastical, superhuman or paranormal forms, is typically muddied, making it much easier to be seen as an escape from reality rather than a reflection of it. For Zachary Ezrin, founding member and frontman

Photo: Bradley Lightfoot On their first three EPs, English death metal outfit Slimelord established themselves as a band to watch, peddling a weird brand of death/doom that sounded like it came from a swamp, as the name suggests. On their first full-length album, the unpronounceably-named Chytridiomycosis Relinquished, they get weirder and gnarlier, making for one of the

It’s no secret, but we at MetalSucks fuckin’ love cats and dogs (I’m more of a cat person, myself). Those furry little bastards always seem to make even the shittiest day better, so when we heard that shredder and guitar influencer Alyssa Day released a song to help a no-kill shelter, we knew this had

Dödsrit really is a special band. No one really sounds quite like them. Oh sure, plenty of bands combine various elements of black metal, doom metal and heroic guitar melodies, but not quite like this. Few bands weave melancholy and triumph so seamlessly as these guys. And that particular form of musical alchemy is especially

Andorran extreme metal unit Persefone have been hacking it out for over two decades in the underground, developing a musical identity somewhere between progressive and melodic death metal. They recently welcomed vocalist Daniel R. Flys into the mix, one of the only lineup changes in the band’s long history, for new EP Lingua Ignota: Part I. Decibel caught up with

Time to pull your old JNCO Jeans out of the closet because ‘90s alt-metal group Orange 9mm announced their long-overdue reunion this week. The reunion comes with a new lineup that includes original vocalist Chaka Malik—the band’s only consistent member—and guitarist Taylor McLam alongside new members drummer Chris Enriquez and bassist Drew Kasal. The band

In the world of death metal, we’ve become accustomed to the word “darkness” as a standard adjective. But there’s some music that evokes it more apparently than others, and that’s definitely true of Chapel of Samhain. For rabid fans of bands like Incantation, Profanatica, Imprecation, and Ritual Necromancy, the band’s new album Black Onyx Cave

The members of VLTIMAS are all legends in their own right. David Vincent blessed the sick for Morbid Angel. Rune Eriksen made grand declarations of war as Mayhem’s blasphemous axe man. No one is more vile than Flo Mounier, who’s been drumming for Cryptopsy since their earliest exhumations of the underground. But on their second

Photo: Heath Metzger Amblare, the self-titled album from the band of the same name, contains the final recordings of Hum drummer Bryan St. Pere, who played with the band in their original run and on Hum’s excellent reunion record, Inlet. Amblare operate in a similar territory of heavy, fuzzed-out rock that borders on shoegaze, building a moody

Little Rock’s big riff machine Terminal Nation return with their incendiary new album Echoes of the Devil’s Den, and Decibel has an exclusive vinyl variant on Easter Yellow Inside Orange Crush limited to a scant 100 copies! This crushing death metal and hardcore amalgam arrives in a standard jacket with an insert on the eve of the band’s debut Decibel Magazine

Earlier this year, a new festival popped up on my radar: a new death metal festival in Austin, Texas! This year marks the first-ever Austin Death Fest, being held on April 27 and 28 at Mohawk, and features basically the top-tier of modern, contemporary death metal. For real, nearly all the big names that emerged

With Decibel Magazine Metal & Beer Fest: Philly 2024 now less than one month away, we are honored to reveal the exclusive beer collaboration between Florida death metal legends Deicide and Indiana craft beer institution (and presenting brewery) 3 Floyds! Presenting: The Light Defeated—named after the closing track from Deicide’s forthcoming new album, Banished by

Photo courtesy of Matt Viel – Windows Down Zine Omega Glory are back with a new single, “Cut Adrift,” from their upcoming full-length Offerings which you can stream below. Playing hard, ripping, grindy metal in the vain of Nails or Black Breath, this track is about someone desperate and unable to connect with their surroundings,

Photo courtesy of Weston Super Maim Weston Super Maim are unveiling their debut LP, See You Tomorrow, Baby, in all its weird and technical glory for you to stream. The U.K./U.S. based band popped up in the mid-2000s as a solo project from Tom Stevens of All Of Space an Brown Stratos, and then fully came

Post-metal powerhouse O ZORN! will release its profoundly introspective album Vermillion Haze on March 15 via Hard Drugs/Seeing Red Records. Beyond the glitz of Los Angeles, the band delves into the city’s darker, chaotic underbelly, magnified by the pandemic’s aftermath. Fronted by the charismatic Bill Kielty and backed by a formidable lineup, O ZORN! crafts a sound that captures

Plenty of artists ape the stylings of ’70s and ’80s but Armagh do it with a level of authenticity that’s hard to do. Drawing inspiration from ’70s hard rock, classic ’80s heavy metal and first-wave black metal, their new album Exclamation Point is a melodic, alluring album that is both subdued and energizing. An eight-song ripper, Exclamation Point is produced

Where they from?Kaiserslautern, Germany. Normally I chat about sports or other bullshit in this intro section but this weekend Blake Harrison of Pig Destroyer passed away and I just want to pay him a little tribute. Blake was one of the first people I met in the entire grindcore scene, bumping into him at the