Metal

Another week, another MetalSucks Playlist update. As always, we’ve taken tracks from the last few days and added them to the running list of metal madness. From stoner metal to grindcore, we’ve got tracks to satisfy all tastes, so feel free to dive in. Summer’s only around for this last month and then the world

When fans gathered to watch Megadeth take the stage at Wacken Open Air yesterday, there had been hints that something exciting was going to happen during the band’s set. In a not-so-subtle Instagram post, Dave Mustaine said the band had a “special surprise” along with a a photo of himself and former Megadeth axeman Marty

Death metal legends Cryptopsy are back with a new single, “Flayed The Swine.” The song is from their forthcoming album, As Gomorrah Burns, out September 8 via Nuclear Blast Records. This will be the band’s first record in over a decade, and this track proves that the band are still catchy and in touch with

Earlier this week, major metal acts Amon Amarth and Ghost kicked off their North American tour at the Concord Pavilion in Concord, California. And while this run of dates is effectively a re-run of the two bands’ last time out on the roax1d, it was killer to once again catch them in action. When it

Post black metal and shoegaze heroes An Autumn for Crippled Children get emotional and keep it weird on their latest release, Closure, out via Prosthetic Records. The Dutch band get truly experimental on this latest record, so don’t expect run-of-the-mill black metal with light shoegaze influence. While only made up of three members, An Autumn

Greetings, Decibel readers! An interesting thing happened this week. Apparently Billie Eilish took to her social media and gave It Dies Today a big boost. That’s right, the metalcore band from the mid-2000s who were the prototypical band who put breakdowns into their songs where they totally didn’t fit and then suddenly cut to emo-style

Reid Haithcock Photo Legendary Virginia hardcore punk outfit Pg. 99 (or Pageninetynine) have flown under the radar in recent years, having not released new material in nearly two decades, with their last run of performances taking place in the pre-pandemic era. Well prepare to reacquaint yourself with the raw and gritty force of nature that

When you think about metal’s riff masters, who do you have in your Mount Rushmore? Tony Iommi, Dave Mustaine, Jeff Hanneman, K.K. Downing… all masters in their own right. But for my money, one dude sits at the head of the table. In fact, he might even be the table. Dollar for dollar, pound for

silhouettes of three tourists in the rays of the setting sun in the mountains Ten albums, five EPs, a steady progression throughout all of this body of work into increasingly subtle and bittersweet, melody-ridden atmospheric black metal; and above all, a curiously elegant approach to the anonymity aspect of the band, which never felt like

There’s a storm brewing out there, and it’s coming from the Pacific northwest. Nott, the dynamic duo of Tyler Campbell and Julia Geaman, has summoned the clouds to rain death-doom terror on their upcoming album Hiraeth. Decibel is happy to premiere the video for the booming title track. If you’re a fan of the dissonant

Fabled German death metallers Drowned return from their years-long, self-imposed slumber to rain death, doom, and destruction upon mankind once more. New song “Chryseos Vas” picks up the mummified corpse right where the group’s macabre 2014 debut Idola Specus left off. It’s both a nod to Drowned’s origins–the group formed in Berlin in 1992–and the

The Venn diagram of old school crooning and the devil definitely has some overlap. For the longest time, Danzig was among the few that sat at that intersection, bringing dark verses with his dulcet tones, but lately a doo-wop duo by the name of Twin Temples has taken the mantle. And while their music is

Photo by Hillarie Jason The co-nerds that helm Kill Screen are getting older. Chances are, so are you. With that relentless march of time comes an ever-increasing list of responsibilities, whether it be our jobs, our families or our social lives and pastimes. Even as a duo who have somehow landed careers focused on extreme

Got two minutes to spare? Cause that’s all we’re asking to get an earful of the new single and video, “Nature Bot,” from industrial metal quartet Realize. And fittingly enough, this track comes from the Tucson unit’s third full-length, Two Human Minutes. Though the band members themselves—Matt Mutterperl (guitars), Matt Underwood (guitars), Kyle Kennedy (vocals/bass/guitars/drum

Cincinnati doom crew Blessed Black first spread their wings back in 2018. They quickly released an album in 2020 (Beyond the Crimson Throne) and established themselves as a rising talent in the Midwestern heavy music scene. With a thick ’70s doom tone and psychedelic leanings, Blessed Black bring grit to cleanly sung stoner rock. Five

Nearly a month ago, we were absolutely stoked to find out that New Jersey technical grindcore act Gridlink were making a comeback after a nearly decade-long hiatus. Just that news alone was enough to get us unbelievably hyped, but then after they also dropped their first new song “Coronet Juniper” and announced a new album

By now it’s pretty much common knowledge that touring bands are getting a rough deal these days. From increased travel costs to venue merch cuts and inflation kicking everyone’s ass, it’s just real hard to get out on the road and play in front of as many people as you can. That equation gets even

Where they from? Dortmund, Germany.Speaking of Germany, I tried watching the new version of All Quiet on the Western Front this past weekend and as a war film aficionado I honestly had to stop several times because it was just too intense. It was like the opening 20 minutes of Saving Private Ryan but over

As Sevendust approach their 30th birthday, you would think that singer Lajon Witherspoon would be starting to slow down, or at least noticing the effects of time on his voice. Not only is that not the case but the opposite is apparently true: Witherspoon’s voice is aging like wine. While making an appearance on the

For half a decade now, Metallica‘s non-profit organization All Within My Hands (AWMH) has made headlines and been the backdrop for some pretty cool performances by the world’s largest metal band. But behind all the cool acoustic sets and merch, Metallica has managed to help raise and invest more than $6 million to help foster