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Greetings, Decibel readers! Have lots of great death and heavy metal in store for you this week. Hopefully these tunes prepare you to endure having to hear “Shipping out to Boston” over and over again when you go out on Monday. Hope you have a Happy St. Patrick’s Day regardless! (They should be playing this song

Photo: Hunter Astrid @shottbyhunter Southern California hardcore band Feed the Beast have dropped their latest album, Mercy, the band’s first for Futureless. Check out the video for “Tombs Underneath the Tombs” with us today. Feed the Beast’s started out as high school friends who connected over music. “It was a very small school, which was even funnier how we were all into the same music,” says Nicholas Garcia, guitar.

To put it as plainly as possible, if you consider yourself a fan of heavy tunes and Persekutor isn’t already on your radar, your are absolutely fucking up. Their frigid riffage and barebones blackened heavy-metal-rock-and-roll is fit for any brand of metalhead, and their tongue-in-cheek sleaze is a reminder that we’re all here to have

Photo courtesy of Enemy Inside Enemy Inside are bringing their latest record, Venom, to the masses on February 28 via Reigning Phoenix music. The metalcore/industrial/weirdo band shared a track-by-track breakdown of the forthcoming album with us. 1. Venom is the title track of the album and definitely one of the heavier songs, packed with intense screams and powerful

Denver hardcore/metalcore outfit Hellgrammites—Bill Jenkins (drums), Erik Petersen (vocals/synths/samples), Lehi Petersen (guitar), Troy Ten Eyck (bass)—are unleashing a brand new video for the track, “Bayonet,” from their upcoming Ethos EP. It’s a performance video set in some sort of dystopian laboratory and finds the band playing unorthodox instruments. “Bayonet” is a lurching, swirling, stuttering crusher filled with noisy,

Where they from? Tennessee. So I just looked it up and the MLB season starts next week with the Tokyo Series between the Cubs and the Dodgers, so I guess it’s time to make my World Series prediction. I have the New York Mets beating the Detroit Tigers in seven games. I base this off

DC-area death metal band CrusHuman know how to keep themselves busy; quickly forming after the dissolution of the members’ last band, Snipers of Babel (who released their first and only album in 2022), CrusHuman released their debut album in 2024 and now they’re back with Besides, their cleverly-named new album. “These are some B-side songs that were left

Cavalera (or Cavalera Conspiracy) are re-living old glories on the re-recordings of classic Sepultura death-thrash platters Bestial Devastation, Morbid Visions, and Schizophrenia. Not only are these revisits from the heart, they rip hard. Certainly, Max and Iggor Cavalera aren’t pulling the George Lucas on metaldom, as they showed on physical but with physicality on the

Go ahead and immerse yourself in the two minutes of noise rock chaos and insanity that is the new track, “Ol Man Shleep,” from Philly quartet My Wife Is an Angel. It’s a full-tilt dash toward oblivion with Boone (guitar), Fancy (bass), Jagwah (drums) and G (vocals) more or less playing whatever the fuck they

Sometimes you gotta change things up, which is exactly what Estonian quartet Surgent did for their new single, “Demon Eyes.” Pivoting from the death metal style of their 2022 album, the new single sees Surgent incorporate grunge and stoner/sludge influences into their songwriting, delivering a final product that straddles the line between the three genres. As Surgent

Nasalrod (Photo by James Rexroad) Portland’s genre-defying chaos crew Nasalrod have never been ones to play it safe. Their latest single, The Maker, is a whirlwind of punk intensity, jagged rhythms, and theatrical vocal acrobatics—exactly the kind of unhinged energy you’d expect from a band that thrives on the unpredictable. But they’re not alone in

Photo by Kristie Vantlin Over the past few years, Decibel has championed Indianapolis sons Mother of Graves due to their continuation of the somber spirit the likes of Anathema, Paradise Lost and My Dying Bride. So smitten are we that each of their full-length offerings, 2022’s Where Shadows Adorn and 2024’s The Periapt of Absence,

In just four short years, Philly upstarts Unholy Altar have brought no shortage of new followers to worship their brand of second-wave-inspired black metal. Last year, their Veil of Death! Shroud of Nite debut full length even managed to crack Rolling Stone‘s 20 Best Metal Albums of 2024 list. In April, they’ll cast a pall of darkness over Metal

Photo Credit: Cindy Herma French progressive metal band March of Scylla are dropping their debut album, Andromeda, on March 7 via Klonosphere and Season of Mist. Hear it below before it becomes available. The band was initially founded Christofer Fraisier, guitarist formerly of Taman Shud. Their dark, proggy sound came together when he added Gilles Masson formerly of Ashura on

Greetings, Decibel readers! Lots of cool stuff out this week. You’ve got one big name, one big-sounding band, one blackened beast, one blasted noise nightmare, and one bulldozer death metal album. You laugh, but you were along for the ride through all of that alliteration. Be well! — Cryptosis – Celestial Death If you’re looking

Death/doom collective Tribunal returns with their sophomore album, In Penitence and Ruin, an elegy most grievous and forlorn, descending deeper into the solemn abyss of woe, but Decibel is here to brighten the mood with an exclusive Green Smoke Vinyl variant strictly limited to 100 copies courtesy of 20 Buck Spin! The Canadian (now) quintet builds

Photo courtesy of Voidchaser Montreal/Stockholm progressive metalers Voidchaser, are dropping their latest EP, Trust, on March 7, and they’re sharing it with us first. The record is their follow-up to the 2024 release Solace and comes ahead of an extensive tour that will be announced soon. “Trust picks up directly after the events of Solace,” says vocalist and rhythm

“NinetyNinePagesOfBotchInaRow” was how I recently described Seattle’s Mercy Ties to a curious friend. He shook his head, after doing what he thought was an imperceptible double take, gave me the usual suspicious side-eye before asking me to “decode, dumbass.” I set the record straight by laying out the influences that went into Mercy Ties’ new

Low-and-slow Mexican City sludge duo Oculto are back with another psyched-out full-length vinyl LP, Mal de Ojo, exclusively on Things From Beyond Records. This fuzzed-up five-track doom fest—mostly instrumentals—is propelled by Adán Nájera (bass/vocals) and Gerson Paredes (drums), who grind through grimy riffs and crushing, doomy tempos on their fourth album. Mal de Ojo will be issued

The Gothenburg sound has never gone out of style, but Til The End aren’t just here to pay tribute—they’re here to carve out their path with sharpened riffs and anthemic aggression. Formed in 2023, this melodeath supergroup brings together a lineup of battle-tested musicians: vocalist Antony Hämäläinen (Nightrage, Armageddon), guitarist Kostas Sotos (Mystic Prophecy, Crystal