Metal

Ranking 20 Buck Spin alumni and Bay Area old-school nasties Vastum have returned with Inward To Gethsemane and Decibel has landed a mere 100 copies for you to lust over on murky Gray & Black Marbled Vinyl! This highly limited and mercurialy mixed vinyl variant perfectly complements the unsettling sonic horror within. Set to release November 10, this atrocity of an album will

Greetings, Decibel readers! Well, at this late date in 2023 it’s looking to be a banner year for American black metal, with new releases from Profanatica, Krieg, Woe, Wolves in the Throne Room and so many more. Daniel Lake must be furiously taking notes out there for when it comes time to write the preface

Photo courtesy of Besra Besra give us a peak into their forthcoming full-length, Transitions, out September 29 via Suicide Records. Check it out with us first. Drummer Ville Kaisla says about the album: “Transitions revolves around confronting the complexities of human behavior and the tumultuous landscapes we create—both in our social behavior and to the

We are beyond stoked to witness the 2023 return of The Red Chord as part of this year’s Decibel Magazine Metal & Beer Fest: Denver in December at the Summit. So much so that we’re releasing a live rendition of their classic “Dreaming in Dog Years,” recorded at the 2022 Philly edition of Metal & Beer

The brand new full-length, Grieve, from London-based atmospheric stoner doom outfit Morga Tang is a full-on master class in fuzzed-out sludge. We’re talking four tracks and 40+ minutes of overdriven grime, with vocals as gnarled and rotten as the six-string damage being inflicted. It lurches, it rumbles, it pads glacially along with only passing glimpses of relief

With their debut album, Entering the Gateways, Disguised Malignance assert themselves as a young death metal band to follow, offering up old-school sensibilities with a modern vibe. At eight songs and 34 minutes in length, Entering the Gateways is a well-paced album that takes a base layer of OSDM and embellishes it with doomy, technical and brutal flourishes. At no

With a new album coming next month, hardcore band Mouth For War dropped a bunker buster of a track earlier today with the release of “Saturate Me.” As fans of the band have come to expect, the track jams face contorting breakdowns, brutal rhythms, and insanely pissed vocals right up the listener’s ass. Set as

Last weekend, the annual Louder Than Life festival saw some huge acts like Foo Fighters, Tool, Pantera, and Queens of the Stone Age take to the stage in Louisville, Kentucky for one of the larger American festivals still around. It’s during this kind of gig that some bands decide to switch things up and do

Photo by Laura Douglas Today we escape the misery and mire of Earth and crash land on Planet Brutalicon. That’s the debut album name from Stepmother, a raucous and rockin’ new proto-punk project from Graham Clise. If the name sends familiar, congrats on being a rocker of distinction and taste. His guitars have electrified listeners

Photo by Shimon Karmel. The co-nerds that run Kill Screen have certainly hit a new high score with this week’s installment. With over two hours of recorded discussion—not to mention an extended off-camera conversation afterwards—the word count for this week’s interview with Derrick Vella and Payson Power, the guitar duo for Canadian death metal heroes

Hallucinatory prog-infested bestial black/death metal cohort Ch’ahom is set to burst into the metal consciousness with their dynamic tome on sonic wizardry in the form of their debut full-length album Knots of Abhorrence. “Having started as far back as 2015 and existed for many years as a raw, bestial obscure war cult following in the

It’s no secret that certain members of the Decibel staff share a fanatical obsession with early ’90s death/doom and early ’90s doom-death… what? No, those are definitely two different subgenres. Yes, I have kissed a girl. Anyway, it’s getting harder to find new acts, who both carry that hugely specific torch, yet move the style

Photo by Britt Crowe The latest track from Chicago duo Stomach is like the tale of two bands (and songs). Lest you should turn off “Double Lung Transplant” after the first 10 seconds of powerviolence mayhem, you’d miss the ensuing repetitious sludge and misery of the following 3:30. Apparently all these sounds are a part

Where they from?Dallas, Texas. The past two weeks I have had to watch Zach Wilson play quarterback for my team and all I can say, is thank the cosmos for Grindcore. And that’s right, it’s capital G Grindcore, enough of this lowercase bullshit. Oh my god, he just threw another incompletion. Why the hype?Another week

Months after rape allegations forced Between The Buried And Me/Glass Casket guitarist Dustie Waring off of the band’s “Parallax 2: Future Sequence Tour,” Furnace Fest attendees were surprised yesterday to see him back on stage with the band. And while the band has made zero mention of his return, the embattled guitarist has since posted

The Slovakian evil metal masters reign supreme. Though Malokarpatan‘s last album album Krupinské ohne featured a doomier and more deliberate sound, it’s with the upcoming Vertumnus Caesar that we get a proper stylistic successor to the blackened heavy metal sound the band perfected on Nordkarpatenland back in 2017. Situated just past the album’s halfway point,

Photo: Sam Bramble Minneapolis-based atmospheric black metal outfit Ashbringer are taking the opportunity to turn the page on new album We Came Here to Grieve. The band’s fourth record, and first since the world went sideways, isn’t really a radical departure in sound so much as it is Ashbringer expanding the boundaries of what they can sound like. We

“Decibel, what the fuck are you talking about? This isn’t metal!” you exclaim upon pressing play. You’re right about that, but “Power Plant,” the new song from synth-soundscape maestro Dave Neabore definitely rips and drips in ’80s nostalgia. Perhaps known to you as the bassist of Jersey rap/hardcore crew Dog Eat Dog, Neabore dabbles in

In an unexpected twist that maybe zero people saw coming, Thy Art Is Murder announced just moments ago that their long-time vocalist Chris McMahon has been kicked out of the band. According to an Instagram post on Thy Art Is Murder’s official page, the lineup change is exactly why their new album Godlike was pushed

Thy Art is Murder made headlines yesterday when Chris McMahon was fired from the band, and it was announced that he would no longer be appearing on their new album. Now, McMahnon has doubled down on his stance and made a statement about not being sorry and his frustration with the band. This happened on