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Broken Hope finally announced the follow-up to their 2017 album, Mutilated and Assimilated. Guitarist and frontman Jeremy Wagner announced the record recently on social media, saying the band have been working on it over the past nine months. He has also become active once again with his other band, Earthburner, this time collaborating on the

Bleed From Within have released the deluxe version of their 2022 album Shrine alongside three previously unrelesed bonus tracks. The songs, “The Will To Resist,” “Overthrone,” and “Chemical Carnival,” can be streamed below. The songs and the rereleased album are out through Nuclear Blast. “Upon releasing Shrine in June 2022, it’s safe to say that none of

Apparently, Kiss are calling it quits soon, and for those who can cough up the cash, we can all stream their final concert. The show will take place December 2 at Madison Square Garden in New York City. It will be streamed live exclusively on PPV.com and via satellite operators in the U.S. and Canada. The

So we may not be getting a Slayer reunion anytime soon, but hey — Kerry King’s finally back in the spotlight so that’s just as good and not a Kirkland brand knock off… right?! This week’s update to the MetalSucks Top Tracks Playlist Extravaganza Electric Boogaloo has 11 new tracks to ruin your hearing with.

Days after Slipknot announced that his services behind the drum kit were no longer needed, Jay Weinberg has taken to social media to share his thoughts on the matter. Up until last Sunday, Weinberg was the band’s drummer for the last decade since being chosen as Joey Jordison‘s replacement. As such, he was a constant

Classic-style German/Swedish band Lucifer will be dropping their next record, Luciver V, On January 26 via Nuclear Blast Records. Formed in 2014 by frontwoman Johanna Sadonis after her former band, The Oath, broke up, the band channel influences like Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, and Coven and fuse the with mordern, doomier, and heavier sensibilities. They

In a move that will make some folks mad and others really stoked, Spiritbox just collaborated with Megan Thee Stallion to release a remix of her song, “Cobra.” The Canadian metalcore band redid the rap icons song, which is already wracking up views on YouTube. While Megan Thee Stallion has made headlines as an iconic

If you’ve been holding out all hope that System of a Down will get over their internal strife and go on a massive world tour, you should probably stop now. Because aside from the aforementioned issues that are keeping the band from putting out new material, it seems vocalist Serj Tankian is just over the

The metal world has spawned a plethora of unusual items: Abbath snow globes, Cannibal Corpse bedding, Nordjevel hot sauce, Korpiklaani drinking horns, etc. When it comes to apparel, Cradle of Filth’s infamous “Jesus Is a C*nt” T-shirts and Marduk’s “F*ck Me Jesus” tops certainly make the right kind of statements. Interestingly, some supposedly high-fashion brands

Greetings, Decibel readers! Can’t believe it’s November already. Pretty soon it’ll be time to pre-emptively reveal our Top 40 albums of the year. But before any of you finalize your own list, keep coming here every Friday to see who shuffles in at the last minute. There’s definitely a couple strong contenders for your list

Did you know Sharon Osbourne once wrote a disco song? Did you want to know that? Well, now you do, for better or worse, and you can even stream it. On the latest episode of the Osbournes’ podcast, Sharon shared the bygone disco song “You Can Strike Oil in Hollywood.” It dropped in 1978 and

Shipwreck Karpathos. Photo by C.S. Bindner Photography The Greek isle of Karpathos rests in the southeastern Aegean Sea, over 9000 miles from Indiana’s capital of Indianapolis. But under the idyllic blue waters surrounding the island there is a graveyard of sunken ships littering the seabed. Although the ships were reclaimed by the waters they used

Sure, Nadja have collaborated with roughly seventeen million bands throughout the course of their fascinatingly diverse and already respectably long career, and even the idea of pairing up with a more concrete, brutal band isn’t entirely new (the split with Disrotted comes to mind, for instance), but still, this one had us all worked up

Norwegian noise rock duo Barren Womb toe a fine line between tuneful and terse on their brand new single, “Squat Walker,” that we’re premiering here today. The track is the first to be released from the band’s upcoming fifth full-length, Chemical Tardigrade, which is set for release in February 2024. What may be the most interesting

David Obuchowski, founding member, guitarist and singer of Goes Cube (The End Records, Coextinction Recordings, Old Flame Records) and Publicist UK (Relapse Records) is embarking on a new eclectic and emotional solo project, Bitter Cold, through his recently launched Moth Hospital Records, nearing the release of its debut album Mirrors. Decibel is proud to release

Photo by Jason Sinn Anyone with a passing familiarity of the Decibel brand knows the public bromance between us and Colorado doom wizards Khemmis. Not only have each of their releases been a dependable fixture of our Top 40 Albums of the Year feature with sophomore LP Hunted being ranked our second favorite album of

Three weeks ago, Metal & Beer Pre-Fest—with an absolutely killer (you can be sure the fighting game puns will keep on [thumb]rolling) lineup of Umbra Vitae, Graveripper, and Psychosomatic—was announced as part of the weekend festivities of Metal & Beer Fest: Denver 2023. And, apologies for this one, but we were holding out on you.

Photo by Sean Bryant USBM force Pyrolatrous are back with a new album, Inveterate, out November 10 via Gilead Media. The band features members of Hull, Krallice, Anicon, Woe, and more and this new record is more melodic, blackened and expansive metal from the project. Vocalist Nicholas Palmirotto says, “The content deals with death, grief, addiction, loss

Folks in the Lone Star State are going to enjoy this particular piece of news, as two more Texas shows were added to the previously announced Tool tour, featuring Elder, set to kick off early next year. The two new dates are January 30 at the American Bank Center in Corpus Christi and February 7

One-man progressive/melodic black metal act Shylmagoghnar is back this Friday with the impending release of his third record, Convergence and its mastermind Nimblkorg has released a video for “Infinion” to give us a taste. Set for release via Napalm Records, we’ve already heard the singles “Follow The River” and “The Sea” (some definite nautical themes