Tag: hardcore
Reconsidering Warrior Soul
One of the great injustices of modern music history is that New York’s Warrior Soul got lumped in with hair metal bands and never recovered from it. The reality is…
Read more »Track Premiere: Dirty Grave – ‘Evil (Is Going On)’
Black Sabbath-styled doom metal has always owed a debt to the blues artists of days past, and Dirty Grave are no exception. Originating in the fertile underground of São Paulo, Brazil, Dirty Grave play traditional…
Read more »Still Not Forgetting the Struggle, Still Not Forgetting the Streets: Legendary Warzone Singer Honored In NYC Twenty Years After Death
This past weekend in New York City the fine folks behind Black N’ Blue Productions and The New York Hardcore Chronicles pulled together an absolutely insane lineup to mark the twentieth anniversary…
Read more »Full Album Stream: The Great Discord – “The Rabbit Hole”
Progressive metal outfit The Great Discord released their debut album, Duende, in 2015 via Metal Blade Records, followed by an EP called Echoes. Now on The Sign Records, The Great Discord have returned with their…
Read more »Metal & Beer: Trappist’s Chris Dodge Goes Full Barbarian
Craft beer podcasts are a dime a dozen. And listening to people drink beer and talk about beer isn’t as fun as actually drinking beer. But the members of L.A.’s…
Read more »Enslaved
E More like a B+ Record Label: Nuclear Blast Release Date: October 13, 2017 Since Isa, Enslaved’s trajectory has followed a relational, if expected, path. The Norwegians were building on…
Read more »The Decibel Meter for October 2017 is Born of Nightmares
Last April we announced our partnership with f.y.e. for the Decibel Meter, a monthly collection featured both online and in store to make sure you don’t miss any of the…
Read more »Track Premiere: Malokarpatan – ‘V okresném rybníku hastrman už po stárocá vycína (In the provincial pond, a water goblin has been raging for centuries)’
Hailing from that corner of Eastern Europe formerly known as the Eastern Bloc, Slovakia’s Malokarpatan (meaning “an inhabitant of the Little Carpathians”) play 1st wave-style black metal influenced by old…
Read more »Track Premiere: Twingiant – ‘Shadow of South Mountain’
Stoner metal act Twingiant are preparing to release Blood Feud, their first album in three years, via Argonauta Records, and today Decibel has an exclusive premiere of new song “Shadow of South Mountain.” The track features…
Read more »Full Album Stream: Lo! – “Vestigial”
Lo! are a powerful force on their third album, Vestigial. A momentous collection of sludge and post-metal, Vestigial is immense, but it maintains an aggression rarely found in most post-metal. Powerful grooves like the ones…
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