Metal

Welcome to our latest semi-regular Decibel feature. Here, talented musicians from across the metalsphere provide us with their Last Tape Before Doomsday (yes, that title is indeed a nod to the under-appreciated doom band Worship)—a 10-track mixtape of essential songs that shaped their lives. Whether he is holding down the bass amongst the melodic black

Doom and sludge purveyors Lair of the Minotaur have been peddling their dark brand of music for more than 20 years, with a few lineup changes along the way—OG drummer Larry Herweg (Pelican) left in 2006 and bassist DJ Barraca split in 2008. After 17 years, however, life brought the original trio back together to record two

It’s always exciting for Decibel to get to premiere a new track from a band that’s been away for a bit, or at least hasn’t released anything new in a while. Queens, New York death meal horde Hypoxia return to the fray with a brand new cut, “Pathway to Charon,” from their upcoming third full-length, Defiance. And after a

Where they from?Copenhagen, Denmark. Well, the Super Bowl rematch is set. Everyone is complaining about how they are sick of the Chiefs but honestly this is the team America deserves. We are a feeble, cattle-like population of intellectually uncurious people who should be forced to grovel in the face of a certain pop star every

Ah, love. What else is there to say other than it’s really nice to see two people so enamored with one another that they decide to get hitched and make it a life-long thing. So I think it’s time that some congratulations are in order for Anthrax drummer Charlie Benante and Butcher Babies vocalist Carla

In just a few weeks, Avenged Sevenfold will once again hit the road for the next leg of their ‘Life Is But A Dream’ U.S. tour, and as such, some members of the band are hitting the airwaves to promote the shit out of it. Yet while chatting with 99.7 The Blitz about the run

“We named the EP after the best Guns N’ Roses album, Chinese Democracy. No, I’m not being facetious. ‘Shackler’s Revenge’ is Axl’s best moment. ‘Paradise City’ sucks and so does ‘Sweet Child O’ Mine.’” We don’t usually attach track premieres to volcanically hot takes but frontman Tarek Ahmed, along with the rest of Intercourse, like

You could be forgiven for not knowing who Southern New Jersey post-black metal band Deadyellow are, but it’s time to change that. Formed over the pandemic and releasing their first full-length album in 2021, the quartet have honed their musicianship and songwriting skills at numerous live shows and on a split with US raw black metal

The ever-talented Lena Scissorhands of Infected Rain is our guest on this week’s episode of The MetalSucks Podcast! During our time together, we discuss the band’s latest album Time out February 9. Other, totally not super heady topics also get discussed, such as the journey we all take to ensure we’re not wasting time, the

Tennessee deathcore band Whitechapel just dropped their second live album on Friday called Live in the Valley on Metal Blade Records. That’s “Live” with a long “I” sound, not a short “I” sound. They’re not telling you to go live in the Valley. The live album was recorded at their Christmas Benefit Show in 2022

In a recent interview with Bass Player, long-time System of a Down bassist Shavo Odadjian explained how he became the band’s bassist and revealed that it was practically an accident. Apparently, he was only supposed to take on the role temporarily until they found a permanent bassist. That turned into three decades as a “temporary”

Check out the latest in cross-genre collaboration, and no, I’m not talking about Ben Shapiro and Tom MacDonald’s rap song. At a show in Nashville, TN on January 23, iconic post-metal band Tool brought up bluegrass guitarist Billy Strings to join them for their song “The Grudge.” Considering that both metal and bluegrass have their

Fans of mysterious masked alternative metal band Sleep Token are understandably upset after ticketing company AEG pulled off a blunder on par with giving the Best Picture Oscar to the wrong movie or booking Donald Trump at Four Seasons Total Landscaping. Last week, Sleep Token announced their 2024 North American tour known as the Teeth

A black metal band from Houston, Texas came under fire after playing an overly literal game of Pass the Pigs at one of their shows. On Friday January 19, Houston-based black metal band Martyrdom was playing a local gig at the Houston venue The White Swan Live, and a band member tossed a severed pig’s

Get ready for more wild groove metal because Max Cavalera is working on a new Soulfly album. The controversial frontman and guitarist was recently a guest on the podcast Nu Pod with Joshua Toomey and Ro Kohli where he mentioned that he is working on writing Soulfly’s next record, which will be the 13th album

I don’t know about you, but I needed this weekend. Talk about the week from Hell… Thankfully, we’ve got a whole mess of new tunes to listen to and to help get them into your earholes, we’ve updated The MetalSucks Playlist. There’s still some old stuff in the mix of 30 songs, but nearly half

Uh-oh. Don’t look now, but another boomer rockstar is airing his dirty laundry in public. This time, Van Halen singer David Lee Roth posted some unhinged shit on his YouTube channel bitching about some years old shit that happened involving Wolfgang Van Halen. In the video, originally titled “This Fuckin’ Kid” before he changed it

There comes a point in every metalhead’s life—well, every metalhead with facial hair’s life—where that person takes a long, hard look in the mirror and thinks… “Oh, I wash this thing?” At least that’s what happened with me recently when I realized I’ve really been neglecting the ol’ facial fuzz. My journeys online took me

The official Decibel Magazine Metal & Beer PRE-FEST—presented by Prosthetic Records and Kill Screen—on Thursday, April 11 at the Foundry (located directly upstairs at the Fillmore) has your pre-game (and pre-gaming) covered! Death metal corpse-crushers Undeath headline a special evening with support from Philly’s own aural annihilators Outer Heaven, Richmond black metal party people Morbikon and the one-man blast fest of California’s Houkago Grind Time!

Greetings, Decibel readers! I’m especially excited to tell you about the new Lucifer album today. I talk a lot about how metal is basically the art of nostalgia nowadays. A photocopy endlessly reproducing itself in the hope that someone will still find it as interesting as the original print. However, here is a band that takes