Metal

Greetings, Decibel readers! Not only is it Friday, it’s also new-Incantation-album day! Speaking of Incantation, have you picked up Decibel #228 yet? It has the band on the cover and goes into detail about the band’s history and the making of Unholy Deification. All of that and more to be found below. — Blut Aus

God damn it, man. Every time The Callous Daoboys put something new out, it’s fucking killer and I almost can’t stand it. The six-piece from Atlanta have a style that’s hard to pin down, oscillating from madcap insanity to borderline sexy melodies to irreverently screaming “fuck you” to conventions, this band is one you should

Photo: Lindley King Last year, while researching a Kreator cover story, I looked for some thrash upstarts who could talk about how much Mille and his band meant to them. Around the same time, I was spinning Graveripper‘s Radiated Remains. Vocalist and guitarist Corey Parks ended up in the story (nice job). Graveripper must have

Photo by Seydina Seck For the uninitiated (this scribe included), Haurun is an Egyptian protector god of magic and healing. Or so the interhole tells us. This Haurun, however, is a heavy, doomy psych outfit from Oakland, CA, offering up a new track, “Lost & Found,” from their debut full-length, Wilting Within. The single from the

In 1986, São Paulo teenager Marcelo R. Batista channeled his love of pure, wild heavy metal into the self-produced fanzine United Forces. Over the next five years, his homemade publication captured the explosion happening before his eyes thanks to riotous Brazilian metal upstarts including Sepultura, Sarcofago, Vulcano, Holocausto, Mystifier, Sextrash, Ratos de Porão, Skullkrusher, Necrobutcher

In the same way that 24’s fictional anti-terrorist superhero and protector of the Great Fortress of America, Jack Bauer (ironically not only played by a Canadian, but a Canadian who’s grandfather was chiefly responsible for universal health care) would invariably get shot — on those rare occasions of a lapse in his unassailable bullet-dodging skills

Noise rock quartet Chat Pile are getting ready to head out on the road for an extended run of dates. And while it’s a long list of shows they’ve got on their plate, they went and did the only possible thing that makes sense — they added more dates. They’ll once again be on the

Photo by Shane K. Gardner Psychedelic black metal band Nixil are sharing a full stream of their forthcoming album From the Wound Spilled Forth the Fire. The record is out August 25 via Prosthetic Records. The chaotic, heavy and challenging new album is both psychedelic and crushing, weaving a hypnotic web that mirrors the art on the

New Jersey based progressive/angular metal duo Equivocator drop their eponymous EP this September through Nefarious Industries. Until then, Decibel proudly shares their powerful, layered new single “Axiomatic”, a sonic wallop from the pair Matthew Lupo (East of the Wall, Stronds, Opul, The Postman Syndrome) and East of the Wall bandmate Chris Alfano (ex-NY In 64,

Polynesian metal force Shepherds Reign hail from South Auckland, New Zealand. United by an ironclad sense of ancestral pride, Shepherds Reign is an ode to fortitude, family, and survival. Alongside frontman and keytarist Filiva’a James, the band includes fellow warriors Gideon Voon (guitar), Oliver Leupolu (guitar/production), Shaymen Rameka (drums) and Joseph Oti-George (bass). Shepherds Reign

And now, for some extreme metal hailing from the Middle East, we’ve got Israeli thrash metal outfit Sinnery. Hailing from Tel Aviv, the four-piece have a new EP coming out on September 29 titled Below the Summit. To mark the occasion, the band released the EP’s second single and its accompanying music video, “Somber.” Right

Photo: Mark Diehl Philly noise rock/punk crew Rid of Me made a few waves with their debut album, Traveling, in December 2021 and they’re back this winter with Access to the Lonely, their sophomore album. Taking a solid mixture of melodic punk and blown-out noise rock and mixing it with bassist/singer Itarya Rosenberg’s “PJ-Harvey-but-snarling-and-yelling” vocals, Rid of Me have

We have the global pandemic for gifting us yet another brilliant Swedish death metal band. Grand Cadaver is the result of five longtime friends and vets of the extreme metal scene—guitarist Stefan Lagergren (The Grifted/ex-Treblinka/Expulsion), guitarist Alex Stjernfeldt  (Novarupta/Let Them Hang/Child), drummer Daniel Liljekvist (Vordor/Disrupted/ex-Katatonia), vocalist Mikael Stanne (Dark Tranquillity, The Halo Effect), bassist Christian Jansson (Pagandom,

Where they from?France. At long last, NFL season is seeing its way creep back into the picture. Autumn is a magical time for many reasons, not the least of which is the fact that we get to watch grown men in tights chase each other for three hours on Sunday and briefly feel like we

Two years after they released their 2021 album Violence Unimagined, the pioneering death metal outfit Cannibal Corpse prepares to unleash their sixteenth studio album, Chaos Horrific on September 22. And with a slate of new tracks that will leave you feeling like the victim of the worst acts of psychopathy, Cannibal Corpse proves that they

In yet another instance of metal artists falling down far right conspiracy rabbit holes and disappointing everyone in the process, Thy Art Is Murder frontman CJ McMahon deleted his Instagram account after receiving backlash for sharing anti-trans content and openly wishing death on someone. According to third-party accounts (since his initial post was reported and

Photo: Katt Wilkins Philly sludge purveyors Caged will release their monstrous debut album, From Roving About the Earth, on September 29 via Translation Loss. Though sludge is the core of what Caged do, From Roving About the Earth also features notes of death metal, punk, noise and hardcore, all of which you can hear featured prominently on new

An enigma and personality as much as he is a black metal musician, Scott “Malefic” Conner of Xasthur, returned this summer with a new record Inevitably Dark. Part reluctant love letter to a genre he can’t seem to escape despite all the baggage that goes with it, and part self-exploration of an inevitably aging metalhead,

In another example of Kid Rock being a fictional character played by a rich white boy named Robert James Ritchie, the Ted Nugent understudy was seen clutching a Bud Light during last night’s Colt Ford show in Nashville. You may recall he followed the right wing herd back in April when they all got mad

George “Corpsegrinder” Fisher just donated a bunch of stuffed animals to a Johns Hopkins All Children’s hospital in Florida. Corpsegrinder probably got the toys from playing claw games, something he is known for doing while on tour with Cannibal Corpse: “Last week @stacy.alourdasfisher @mayflow_r and myself brought 7 bags of plushies to @allchildrens hospital in