Metal

This year marks 26 years since the release of Orgy’s debut album Candyass, so what better year for a 25th anniversary tour? Well, the actual 25th anniversary year, I guess. The nu metal band, who scored their first big hits in the late-‘90s, announced a co-headlining tour with Cold that kicks off on April 11,

Germany’s Metal Queen herself, Doro, put out a Metallica cover from back in the days before all of Metallica’s members qualified for AARP. The latest single from Doro’s upcoming EP Conqueress – Extended is a cover of Metallica’s “The Four Horsemen” from the band’s 1983 debut album, Kill ‘Em All. While obviously a classic Metallica

A whole lot of cool new tunes came out over the last week, so you know what that means — the MetalSucks Playlist is back and updated as fuck, baybeeee. This time around, we added more than a dozen new songs to the list, including songs by Samael, Invent Animate, and Leather Lung. All good

Legendary band Meanstreak, the “Real Housewives of Heavy Metal,” reunited in 2022 and were the supporting act for John Petrucci’s recent solo tour. Now, the reunited Meanstreak have announced their first reunion album, a new EP due out February 2nd called Blood Moon, which in no way sounds like it should actually be the title

The devastation that gone on in Gaza since the heinous October 7 terror attacks committed by Hamas has been devastating. Though no one in their right mind should ever try to justify the murder of Israeli civilians, it’s not a stretch to call the response by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government one of the most

Our friends down in Uruguay are gonna be bummed about this one. Earlier this afternoon, Megadeth announced on their official social media pages that a show set to take place there on April 11 isn’t happening anymore. And details behind the show’s cancellation are pretty scarce at this point. The legendary thrash band was supposed

Today we celebrate the official release of Black Metal: Evolution of the Cult—Restored, Expanded & Definitive Edition by revealing the first excerpt from this massive hardcover black metal history (over 800 pages!), authored by Dayal Patterson. The following passage transports readers to—you guessed it—Norway: the waning days or the underground death metal craze, the messy

Greetings, Decibel readers! Those of you who like to inhabit the borderlands between thrash and death metal will be very happy with the first three albums on this week’s list. Those of you who just want to hear the new Vemod will be happy too. Enjoy! — Boundless Chaos – Sinister Upheaval Deadlier than what

Maybe all of us should pull a Sleep Token and delete our social media accounts. The world would be a better place, don’t ya think? Ah, one could dream. Here’s a few of this week’s new releases. Lord Dying Clandestine Transcendence (MNRK Heavy) We’re pretty big fans of sludge metal around these parts, so naturally

Since last October, the Palestinian people in Gaza have been under siege by the Israeli military in reaction to horrific terrorist attacks perpetrated by Hamas fighters. Though no one should try to justify the murder of Israeli civilians on October 7, what’s followed since has been the disgusting and atrocious murder of tens of thousands

Upon our first listen to Metal Blade’s Metal Massacre IV compilation in 1983, we were immediately entranced by an intense young quartet from British Columbia, Canada called Sacred Blade and their insanely wordy and speedy track, “The Alien.” And so, it seems, Sacred Blade’s fellow Canucks in Kontact felt the same many years later. Formed

Hot off the release of their third album Obsidian Wreath, Virginia-based blackgaze screamo outfit Infant Island announced that they’re heading out on the road this April and they’re bringing some friends along for the ride. Kicking off on April 6 in Brooklyn, the U.S. tour will run through local venues everywhere until the whole thing

The metalcore supergroup Better Lovers has been all over the place these last few months, putting on shows around the U.S. and dropping new music left and right. With more than a dozen new songs already written for their debut album, they’re looking to keep taking their sound out on the road with a lengthy

Back in 2022, I premiered a track from NYC doom project Witnesses. In that premiere, I commented that multi-instrumentalist Greg Schwan’s approach to doom “shapeshifts from unsettling ambient to a sound that’s equal parts Peaceville doom and post-metal.” Two years later, we learned that Witnesses have planned a new album Joy, scheduled for release sometime

Photo Credit – Jordan Price The Last Ten Seconds Of Life just shared their new single, “Broken Glass Incantation,” alongside an exclusive video. The song is from the band’s upcoming album, No Name Graves, out February 9 via Unique Leader Records. The deathcore banger is definitely a heavy one, and the haunting, black-and-white video that goes with

By most accounts, 2023 was a banner year for the gaming industry. A number of landmark entries across various genres ensured that no one was lacking for something new to discover from gaming’s latest generation. Similarly, Decibel’s nerdiest column has done over two dozen interviews with metal musicians representing a wide spectrum of subgenres, with

Photo by Jacob Smith Brodequin are back with more absolute brutality with their latest track, “Of Pillars and Trees,” which you can stream below. “Of Pillars and Trees” is classic Brodequin. New drummer Brennan Shackelford fits right in on the double bass attack, and the vocals are as raw and guttural as ever. If this

Photo courtesy of Whores WHORES. are gracing us with their new single and video, “Quitter’s Fight Song,” ahead of their WAR LP, out April 16 via The Ghost Is Clear Records. The video, which you can stream below, is a lot of fun and the perfect companion to the first single from this EP. It also

On their debut album, Cerebral Purgatory, we can assure you that Brisbane, Australia sludge/death/grind quintet Resin Tomb aren’t fooling around. This is a 29-minute ear-battering of truly atonal and dissonant proportions. Relentless? Yep! Savage? Uh-huh. Unkind and spiteful? That too. The band—Matt Budge (vocals), Perry Vedelago (drums), Brendan Auld (guitar), Matt Gordon (guitar), Mitch Long (bass)—basically

Where they from?Salisbury, MD. This is such an odd time of year because it’s usually when I catch up on all the great releases from last year that I’m just discovering now. I feel like such a schmuck! This is what happens when you spend too much time watching ESPN rather than keeping your nose