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Death/Doom Warriors TZOMPANTLI Return! PRE-ORDER New LP ‘Beating the Drums of Ancestral Force’ on Decibel-Exclusive Vinyl!

March 29, 2024

There are only 100 copies of Tzompantli‘s new LP, Beating the Drums of Ancestral Force, on exclusive blue-and-purple-merged vinyl. Get one EXCLUSIVELY via Decibel!

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Video Premiere: Julia Gaeta’s “Blur Divine”

March 28, 2024

Hear Julia Gaeta‘s musical evolution via the dark wave/post-punk/trip-hop of new track “Blur Divine”

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Slayer’s Debut “Show No Mercy” Turns 40

December 4, 2023

There was once a metal world without Slayer, as hard as that is to imagine. That world changed forever with this album. Show No Mercy is a giant’s first loud footstep.

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Necrot

May 2024 [#235]

Includes exclusive limited edition Houkago Grind Time flexi disc

Born to Die! Also: Melvins, My Dying Bride, Full of Hell, VLTIMAS, the Decibel Hall of Fame: The Making of Brujeria’s Matando Güeros, Inter Arma, Apparition, Imperial Triumphant and more

CITY OF CATERPILLAR to Release Exclusive New Track, “In the Tall Grass,” via the Decibel Flexi Series

March 29, 2024

Get your deluxe Decibel subscription by Monday, April 1 to obtain this HIGHLY LIMITED flexi disc single from Richmond post-hardcore legends City of Caterpillar.

Video Premiere: Semuta – ‘Glacial Erratic’

March 28, 2024

Portland sludge duo Semuta party with the Portland metal scene in their new video.

Interview: Morta Skuld Finally Get Their Due on ‘Creation Undone’

March 28, 2024

Morta Skuld guitarist/vocalist Dave Gregor about the band’s latest album, Creation Undone. We unpack the record, the process, and how it feels to finally get some recognition.

Full Album Stream: Suffer – “Grand Canvas of the Aesthete”

March 27, 2024

“We wanted to have one last chance to make a Suffer album that sounded the way every Suffer recording should have sounded.”

Track Premiere: Wretched Blessing – ‘Spurious Ovation’

March 27, 2024

Hear Kayhan Vaziri (Yautja) and Rae Amitay (of Immortal Bird) roll out a new earth shaker as Wretched Blessing.

Full Album Stream: Mutilation Barbecue – “Amalgamations of Gore”

March 26, 2024

Hope you brought you appetite: it’s time for the debut album from Ohio death metal butchers Mutilation Barbecue.

Blast Worship: Shock Withdrawal

March 26, 2024

Hear grind vet Mitchell Luna return with the debut LP, The Dismal Advance, from his new group, Shock Withdrawal.

Full Album Stream: Verwoed – “The Mother”

March 25, 2024

According to Dutch black-metallers Verwoed, the band’s new album is “truly is a prayer of blood and fire.”

Full Album Stream: MGR – “Glacier’s Wake”

March 25, 2024

Former Isis guitarist Mike Gallagher explores post-rock and more on the new MGR album.