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Thrash/shred guitar virtuoso/J-Pop idol/TV presenter, Marty Friedman’s new memoir, Dreaming Japanese (co-written with Jon Wiederhorn) is set for release on December 3 via Permuted Press. It’s a nearly 400-page tome that covers the incredible arc of his unusual professional career, as well as plenty of personal anecdotes. Friedman is obviously primarily known to the metal

Where they from?Their Bandcamp bio simply states “Florida,” One time about eight years ago I worked at the Hot Topic in the King of Prussia Mall and we had to stay open for twenty-four hours on Black Friday and at about 3 a.m. in the I convinced my co-worker that the show Boy Meets World

Decibel last checked in with Slovenian black metal duo Snøgg (and their myriad collaborators) in June 2019, when we premiered the band’s Chhinnamasta album. They’ve been busy in that time, releasing another three albums and now Huda Luknja, their new EP, which is officially out later this week. Like Snøgg’s previous work, lyrically they delve into a combination of mystical

Photo by Jane Duke Among the original mid-’80s progenitors of grunge—Soundgarden, Melvins, Green River, Malfunkshun, etc.—Skin Yard has been frequently overlooked, despite the quartet’s deep ties to the scene, the presence of renowned producer/guitarist Jack Endino in the band and being the launching point for numerous world class drummers. And, hey, their musical out put

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In early 2008, if you knew of Mick Barr and Colin Marston, it was as musicians operating on the outer fringes of underground metal. At the time, Barr was best known as the hyperspeed shredder for Orthrelm, a duo that made a habit of exploring unheard-of extremes, from info-overload linear density to epic-scale minimalism, while

Trench In an age of predictability, Calgary’s Trench smashes the mold with their blend of metallic hardcore and experimental edge. Today, we’re thrilled to premiere the music video for “MY COLD BLOOD,” the latest single from their monumental album, Between Inverted Worlds, released via New Damage Records in August. The track features Johannes Persson of

Welcome to our latest semi-regular… okay, first-time-in-a-long-time Decibel feature. Here, talented musicians from across the metalsphere provide us with their Last Tape Before Doomsday. “The music I love the most is music that that raises the specter of the ugliness of our world, and holds out the vision of a better one. I know that music can

Photo courtesy of Akuro Productions Melodic power thrashers Among These Ashes share a new video from their upcoming record, Embers of Elysium, out December 6 via Alone Records. Check out “The Undertow” below. “‘The Undertow’ is the third and final single from Among These Ashes’ sophomore album, Embers of Elysium,” the band say about the video

Let us introduce you to recently-spawned deathgrind entity Horse Butcher. Formed by members of Hissing and wearing their love for Pissgrave, early Carcass and Agothacles on their sleeve, their self-titled EP is a celebration of gory and savage extreme music, as dense as it is aggressive. The latest to come from Horse Butcher is “Penduncular Hallucinosis,” which

Greetings, Decibel readers! It’s another banner week for death metal, with releases spanning the spectrum from death-doom, cavernous death metal, brutal tech-death, Opeth doing growls again, you name it! Check it out! — Aversion – Futile Attempts to Reach The Light The debut album from death-doom newcomers Aversion. The band, hailing from Costa Rica, captures the spirit of

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Fellow metal scribe, acclaimed author, and prolific podcaster Jeff Wagner and his wife Adrienne Everheart have lost their home in historic Greensboro, North Carolina to a catastrophic fire. Wagner is a long-time Decibel brother-in-arms, author of Soul On Fire – The Life and Music Of Peter Steele, Mean Deviation: Four Decades of Progressive Heavy Metal,

Kill Screen’s fondness for New York death metal maestros Undeath has been established since day one—literally. In 2022, as our misfit column was still very much in alpha, guitarist and World of Warcraft fanatic Kyle Beam kindly offered to be our first player character. And when the co-nerds needed a headliner for their Metal &

There’s something to be said for a nice, concise 20-minute extreme metal album. Aukland, New Zealand death grind quartet Rvkkvs (rukus?) offer up just that on Antithesis of Prosperity. The longest song on this aggro crusher clocks in at three minutes and most are in the one- to two-minute range and are frequently augmented with snippets of

We all say it every year, but this year was another exceptionally-loaded year for extreme music, with more album-of-the-year contenders and records that raise the bar than in recent memory. The Decibel Top 40 Albums of 2024 list reflects that fact, too: it spans across genres and labels from all corners of the extreme music scene. If

In case you haven’t been keeping score, our latest installment of Metal & Beer Fest: Denver kicks off in just three weeks. Though we’re excited to experience all 14 bands and 13 breweries tapped to participate, we’re not trying to speedrun the weekend either. This year, the co-nerds at Kill Screen have teamed up with

Photo: Victoria J. Polsoni Laura Bates is a brilliant violinist, peerless musician, and a vital part of the Canadian doom metal band Völur. Her musical bona fides, however, extend far beyond the metal genre. Bates makes a good living in Toronto as a musician for hire, a violin teacher, and with studio gigs. Some of

Photo by Bella Peterson No doubt Nashville quintet Flummox flummox the hell out of people with their progressive, genre-hopping symphonic thrash, as evidenced by their latest single, “Executive Dysfunction.” This madcap nearly six-minute track finds Flummox—Alyson Blake Dellinger (vocals/bass/stunt guitar), Max Mobarry (guitars/vocals/midi), Chase McCutcheon (guitars), Jesse Peck (keys/programming), Alan Pfeifer (drums)—skating between majestic metal crush

Thin Lizzy—iconic, obviously. The fact that we might still get them in some form—awesome. Scott Gorham, one of the legendary guitarists from the band, is still out here kicking and sharing as much of that Thin Lizzy loveliness as he can. Gorham just did an interview with Neil Jones of TotalRock about updates on what