Metal

Greetings, Decibel readers! Peak spooky season has arrived! If you’re looking for a solidly creepy and cheesy horror flick, I highly suggest 1988’s Night of the Demons. It has Bauhaus on the soundtrack! It has Lennea Quigley in the cast! It has really good costume and make-up design! Trust me, you’ll be jealous you weren’t invited to the party, just
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We’d like to take a moment to announce that after a 168 hours apart, we’ve decided to welcome the weekend back into the fold. We’re thankful for the contributions that the weekdays have given us, but it just feels right to have the weekend back after being apart for what feels like forever. Autopsy Ashes,
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Vicious Colorado-based quintet Mouth for War unleashes brutal therapy on their new album Bleed Yourself, available on October 27th through MNRK Heavy. The combined forces of Trae Roberts [vocals], Mason Sego [drums], Gabe Moya [guitar], Jonah Starbuck [guitar], and Michael Guglielmi [bass]—rally listeners together around unflinchingly honest and uncontainable bursts of aggression and emotion. Decibel
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Portland deathgrind practitioners Rank and Vile will unleash their punishing second full-length, Worship, on November 17th via Modern Grievance Records. After a four-year term since their debut album Redistribution of Flesh, the band elected to seek the recording council of Hallowed Halls (Poison Idea, Pallbearer) and Leon del Muerte of Beastman Audio (ex-Nails, Terrorizer AD) to
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Photo by Caleb Bryant Miller Brooklyn instrumental avant-prog trio Bassoon ably demonstrate that you don’t need a big budget to make an entertaining video. There’s nothing here that one would describe as “high art” or “pro shot,” but as far as videos of three nerdy dudes—Stuart Popejoy (bass/keys), Sean Moran (guitar), John Mettam (drums)—playing in an
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With their next streaming event slated for tomorrow at 12 noon PST/3 p.m. EST, Puscifer dropped a special sneak peek of the festivities with their performance of “Grey Area” over on PusciferTV.com. Touted as the band’s “third Halloween offering,” tomorrow’s event dubbed Global Probing was filmed at the Yavapai College Performing Arts Center in Prescott,
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Today we introduce you to Young Acid, a new project featuring a bevy of talent from the Swedish heavy psych scene. Press play on the single below and you’ll hear the unmistakable voice of Greenleaf crooner Arvid Hällagård. If you’re a stoner rock sommelier, you can also detect the rich bass tone of Martin Wegeland
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The best and most memorable black metal out there remembers that it’s metal first. Atmospheric black metal? It should be atmospheric, anyway, you know? Post-black metal? What does that even mean anymore? When it comes to black metal, Valdrin‘s brand of black metal walks between the rows, never fully committing to one specific sound (especially
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German industrial metal powerhouse Rammstein added a buncha new dates to their previously announced European tour set for next summer. As you’ll see in the full list of shows below, a lot of the new dates are simply more shows at previously announced venues, likely because those shows sold out ridiculously fast. That being said,
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Portland death metal trio Thanamagus will unleash their Lie In Wait debut EP on October 27th via Carbonized Records in the US and Seed of Doom Records in Europe. Decibel is pleased to premiere the EP in its entirety. Lie in Wait by Thanamagus Comprised of Jonatan Quintana (Ritual Necromancy, Decrepisy), Nick Alosio, and Charlie
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