Full Album Stream: Sacrilegious Rite “Summoned From Beyond”

Formed in 2009, Germany’s Sacrilegious Rite (featuring ex-members of Capitis Damnare and Bael) bubbled up from the ever-dark Underworld with spiteful intent. The group’s debut EP, Sexual Blood Rites–a split…

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Track Premiere: Stone – ‘Lost On You”

Milwaukee hardcore heavyweights Expire may have called it quits last year, but former guitarist Zach Dear isn’t resting on his laurels. Dear is now fronting Stone, a new hardcore band from Milwaukee,…

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Review: Cloak – “To Venomous Depths”

The Children of the Children of the Night Release Date: November 10, 2017 Label: Season of Mist Cloak’s self-titled debut EP was a bit of an underground phenom. The Atlantans…

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Horrendous Sign to Season of Mist, Announce New Album

Decibel favorites Horrendous have announced their signing to Season of Mist for the release of their currently untitled fourth LP. The new album follows 2015’s Anareta, which took home Decibel‘s 2015 Album of the Year…

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Prurient’s New Album is Too Long

Next month Prurient will release a three-hour long record. That album is too long. Admittedly, I haven’t heard Rainbow Mirror. Yes, I know, two thirds of you just clicked away,…

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Dream Death’s “Journey into Mystery” Inducted into the Decibel Hall of Fame

Doom-death pioneers Dream Death join the ranks of the Decibel Hall of Fame for their seminal 1987 debut LP, Journey into Mystery.  You can read the full, seven-page story including interviews from current…

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Label Spotlight: Transcending Records

Chicago-based label Transcending Records have an eclectic roster. Their roster stretches across niches in metal, presenting everything from genre-blending acts to trad doom torchbearers The Monolith Cult. Decibel caught up with label owner Mike Ramirez to…

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xXx Fanzine: Mike Gitter On Boston, Hardcore, And Bookbinding

Never mind that he funneled Bad Religion to Atlantic or facilitated in the harvesting of Opeth to Roadrunner. For the better part of Mike Gitter’s 24-year career in the music…

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Khemmis in the Studio to Record New Album for Late Summer Release

Denver doomsayers Khemmis confirmed today that they have booked studio time with Dave Otero’s Flatline Audio (Primitive Man, Cobalt, Cattle Decapitation) in January. The album is expected to see release in late…

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Track Premiere: Obskuritatem – ‘Gdje tišina vječno vlada’

Very little is known to the public regarding the allegedly Bosnian seemingly one-person black metal entity Obskuritatem. It’s known that they’re a part of the so-called Black Plague Circle (Void…

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