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Stuffed animal enthusiasts will be pleased to note that Scowl will have a special collaboration with Plushie Love on their upcoming tour They won’t be the first hardcore band to do such a collab. Turnstile also worked with the company last fall to make their own stuffed animal. Catch the band on tour with Militarie

Summer may be “unofficially over,” but it’s still hot as fuck all over the place so yeah. Stay cool out there and put down the fuckin’ pumpkin spice. Don’t be ridiculous. THis week has some cool tracks being added to the MetalSucks Playlist. New music by Code Orange, Prong, and Gama Bomb are on the

What’s that? You want to know what that cloud over the horizon is and why it’s quickly approaching your location? Why, that’s High On Fire and the October/November tour dates they just announced to celebrate a quarter of a century as a band. Revealed earlier today, the band announced that they’d be taking Pallbearer out

Sylosis’ latest album A Sign Of Things To Come dropped today and to celebrate the occasion, the band released the music video to what should be the album’s final single, “Descent.” With the day finally here, frontman Josh Middleton said he was excited to see how fans reacted to the new album. “The day has

Last night was supposed to be the beginning of an absolutely stacked Blue Ridge Rock Festival, with bands like Biohazard, Staind, Machine Head, and more set to rip shit up. Yet all of that changed when a storm rolled through a little after 6:30 p.m., forcing fans to struggle to find shelter as rain and

Greetings, Decibel readers! As we reach the home stretch of 2023, some major album-of-the-year candidates are rolling through. We recently had Incantation‘s new masterwork hit our shelves, and this week brings the newest slaughterfest from Dying Fetus. You might need to make individual lists by style at this rate, just to keep up with the

Last year, we introduced you to Israeli thrashers Sinnery and their “Black Bile” video taken from the then-forthcoming album of the same name. Fans of Kreator, Testament, The Haunted, Nuclear Assault and Exodus hopefully gathered ‘round and checked the band out, if not because they deliver thrash with passionate fierceness and frantic ferocity, but because

According to V, the bassist, vocalist and guitarist for Fossilization, “I think Leprous Daylight is Fossilization’s most violent effort so far but still full of the melancholy and sadness you have been used to with our previous releases.” Upon listening to songs like “Once Was God,” with its combination of ruthless brutality and devastating aura,

This one’s for the ladies! The latest video from English hardcore tech death gnashers Burner, “Hurt Locker,” is a black-and-white performance video with sweaty, moshing dudes a-plenty. The testosterone-laden sausage fest captured here features precious few women in the crowd, but lots of tatted up gorillas pushing each other around to the quartet’s—Harry Nott (vocals), Nathan

Photo by Donovan Malley Deathgrind maniacs Rat King are teasing the track “Vermin” ahead of their full-length, Psychotic Reality, out September 29 via Satanik Royalty Records. “We must accept the fact that the human race isn’t but a disease onto this world,” Rat King say about the track. “This song explores that sentiment, and it’s musically encased

An unexpected turn of events forced the organizers of the Blue Ridge Rock Festival to move their Friday set schedules around, as Rammstein frontman Till Lindemann and his solo band had to cancel their appearance at the last minute due to the singer falling ill. News broke of Lindemann’s inability to perform this Friday after

Next year marks the 20th anniversary of Irish doom trio Slomatics forming in Belfast (by way of deep-space). Slomatics were first recommended to me by Jon Davis of Conan and Black Bow Records in an interview. I listened, and quickly became a devotee as well. Since that point, Decibel Magazine has helped premiere the band’s

Check out this new video from Trounce, “The Crippled Saint,” from their forthcoming album, The Seven Crowns, out October 20. Project mastermind Jona Nido says: “This track has its own special vibe, bringing together elements that I was never able to put together in other bands. It’s basically a long mid-pace and meditative blastbeats with super melodic

Photo courtesy of Broken Pillars Iranian band Broken Pillars, who are part of digital black metal label Ardawahisht Kollektive, are sharing their Of Pillars and Primordial Myth EP exclusively with us. “The name ‘broken pillars’ is inspired by the ancient ruins of Persepolis, one of the oldest sites of civilization, which was the capital of the

Megadeth guitarist Kiko Loureiro won’t be with the band on their upcoming tour dates due to an undisclosed family emergency. The news came in a recent post on the band’s social media accounts in the last hour or so. Droogies! Kiko has had something come up in his family life that requires him to miss

Come to think of it, the term “disturbingly beautiful” effectively describes everything metal is about — don’t you think? Finland’s Terromania is here with their new video “Disturbingly Beautiful,” an audio-visual love letter to heavy metal aesthetics. The hard-rocking jam will feature on the band’s upcoming debut album, Nyctophobic, due out on November 17 via

Photo by Leon De Backer And today we learn about the meaning of irony courtesy of Belgian ear-scrapers Youff, who offer up a new song and video called “Sunshine” that are pretty much bereft of both. But, hey, in lieu of anything “sunny” you get an absolute earful of pounding noise rock with squalling guitars, a

Where they from? Glasgow, Scotland. Alright, here is my yearly preseason Super Bowl prediction that is always 100 percent failsafe accurate: Bengals over Cowboys. Yes, that was as painful to type out as it was for you to read, but come this February you can take that shit to the bank! Why the hype?Despite knowing

Pain of Truth have just announced some new tour dates to support Not Through Blood, their latest album, out September 8 via DAZE. The new record features guest spots from 200 Stab Wounds and Terror. Preorder the album here. You can also catch the band at these multiple tour dates below: w/ Vomit Forth 11/2 Boston,

Thanks to the sheer breadth of music being made these days, it’s not an exaggeration to say there are some black metal and ambient acts out there that deserve to be as popular as The True Mayhem. Though these bands didn’t make the cut since they’re currently disbanded, they’re certainly legendary and didn’t receive nearly