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Mongolian band The Hu just unveiled a new video, “Sell The World.” While it’s their first animated video, it’s not a lighthearted one—It tackles limited resources and climate change. The song is from the band’s 2022 record Rumble of Thunder, out via Better Noise Music. “The ‘Sell the World’ music video is the first-ever animated

Brazilian death metal moguls Krisiun shared a video for “Necronomical” as well as some tour dates for lucky European fans. The song is from the band’s previously released studio album, Mortem Solis, out via Century Media Records. The video was created by Joao Mauricio Leonel / Biruta Filmes. Krisiun guitarist Moyses Kolesne says, “Doing the

It’s been an emotional roller coaster of a week for Betraying The Martyrs fans. The French metalcore band graced everyone with a music video featuring two singles, but also announced their imminent breakup. The video is for singles “Irae” and “The Veil” from their EP Godspeed. Along with the video, the band also dropped a

After falling victim to COVID exposure and injury on the road, Corey Taylor had to cancel his solo performance at Aftershock Festival today in Sacramento, California. The beloved Slipknot frontman was originally set to play at 5:35 p.m. PST today on the Jack Daniel’s stage, but now, Reddstar were moved from the Shockwave stage to

Another week, another new iteration of The MetalSucks Playlist. I’m not going to go on about some asinine thing here to get you to read my shit for too long before getting to the music this week, so all I’ll say is this new songlist includes new tracks from Wayfarer, Static-X, Prong, Kraanium, and Stain

Last month, Megadeth announced that guitarist Kiko Loureiro wasn’t going to join the band on the current leg of their “Crush The World” tour because of an undisclosed family emergency. It was an unfortunate situation that conflicted with the planned dates, but the band was able to soldier on by adding Wintersun guitarist Teemu Mäntysaari

Back for spooky season, horror-themed melodic metalcore band Ice Nine Kills recently announced that they’ll be premiering their music video for the song “Meet & Greet” via a livestream event on October 12. The special event, called “Meat & Greet: The Horrorwood Saga Comes to a Tasteful End,” will take place at The Montalban Theatre

The self-titled debut Montrose album, released 50 freakin’ years ago (!)—October 17, 1973—on Warner Bros. records was a game-changer that was hugely influential on some of the biggest metal and hard rock bands the world would ever know. Iron Maiden were fans, as was a little band from Pasadena called Van Halen. Montrose was a prime

It’s fitting that Vermilia release a video for “Ruska” at this time of year. After all, the Finnish word “ruska” represents autumn colors and foliage. Here in the northeastern United States, the time has come for that season to set in, and I imagine it’s nearing it’s peak in Finland as I write this. The

The response from people online over the ousting of CJ McMahon from Thy Art Is Murder and the band’s decision to replace him with Tyler Miller has been completely reasonable and full of good faith discourse. No calls to boycott and certainly no loudmouthed vocalists butting their tattooed faces into someone else’s business… Yeah, you

On October 10, Feral House will be publish A Walk Across Dirty Water and Straight Into Murderer’s Row (pre-order here), a new memoir from Oxbow frontman, acclaimed author and Decibel columnist Eugene S. Robinson. Focused on his time growing up in Brooklyn during the 1970s, playing in punk bands and touring the world during the 1980s,

The stoner doom blueprint has survived intact and mostly unchanged for decades, which is no small miracle in the musical world. You can pretty much count on hearing the usual sources of inspiration pop up from Ozzy-inflected vocals to Kyuss-dusted drop-tuned slack rifferama to Monster Magnet space weirdness. Long Island trio Restless Spirit tick all

It’s no secret that hardcore punk has always been at the forefront of pointing out social ills, political hypocrisy and the complete shit hammering the 99% suffers at the hand of the powerful 1%. While the rich, powerful and militarily connected continue to run rampant over the rest of us, you can always count on

During their most recent tour stop in Anaheim last night, grunge icons Alice In Chains whipped out a classic tune from their self-titled album from 1995 that rarely gets any live play these days. Fronted by William DuVall for the last 17 years (oh no, we’re all getting older…), the band has long had a

We’re still a few months out from the 2024 edition of the Inferno Metal Festival, but organizers were happy to announce earlier today that symphonic black metal stalwarts Dimmu Borgir will be taking the top of the weekend’s bill. Set to take place from March 28 to March 31 at various venues in Oslo, the

Back in 2021, Cincinnati’s Scab Hag conjured their first offering of disgusting bog-dwelling death metal. Pustulent Perversions turned heads as a down ‘n’ dirty EP embodying old school barbarity with a fresh edge. Now Scab Hag is back with another batch of homicidal hexes on their upcoming album, Wading Through Mephitic Filth. Today Decibel Magazine

Two years ago Heath Rave (Lotus Thrones, ex-Wolvhammer) came together with Jeff Wilson (Chrome Waves), Alan Cassidy (the Black Dahlia Murder) and Nathan Verschoor (UADA) and collaborated on a project using the nomenclature of Altars of the Moon. Resulting in Brahmastra, a two-track, 28-minute exploration into a more psychedelic and darker corner of doom metal

Hail Gwar, our lords and masters, for promising to emerge from their Antarctican stronghold and provide us with the ocular pleasure that is three online screenings of a previously filmed live recording next month. Dubbed the Scumdogs XXX Live event, this special screening will apparently feature not just the current ranks of Gwar, but some

When it comes to Wolves in the Throne Room, there are generally two schools of thought: those who think the band are overhyped hipsters who make black metal look goofy, and those who think they are one of the best things to happen to black metal. I’m probably one of the few folks who finds

Aglo is a (mostly) one-man Australian doom project launched in 2022 by Aaron Osborne (I Exist, Mental Cavity). Previous releases include a couple of EPs—Collector (2022) and Into the Maze (2023)—offered up to introduce the world to Aglo’s death-burnished doom sludge. The track we’re premiering today, “Shame as a Weapon,” sounds like Wolverine Blues-era Entombed played through a