Video Premiere: Left Behind – ‘Tough Love’

West Virginia bruisers Left Behind made a splash with their debut record, Seeing Hell, combining hardcore with sludge and thrash influences. Now they’ve announced a second record, Blessed by the Burn, and Left Behind…

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Argus: Full Interview With Butch Balich

If you’ve gotten bored with the endless fracturing of metal into brittle microgenres – and if you haven’t yet heard the latest opus from Pennsylvania trad dudes Argus – then…

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Track Premiere: Chaos Moon – ‘The Pillar, The Fall, and The Key (I)’

Eschaton Mémoire, the newest album from Philadelphia black metal group Chaos Moon, is an epic, raging work, including artwork from Leviathan’s Jef Whitehead. The first of five songs, “The Pillar, The Fall…

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Fest Alert: Descendants of Crom

We managed to get Shy Kennedy, vocalist for Pittsburgh’s own doomsters Horehound, to sit down long enough to pick her brain about her latest epic project: a single-day doom, sludge,…

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Video Premiere: Hideous Divinity – ‘Feeding Off the Blind’

Technical death metal outfit Hideous Divinity cemented themselves as one of Italy’s finest extreme metal bands with the release of their third long player, Adveniens. The quintet also just left for a tour with…

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Ten Songs Inspired by Stephen King

This coming Friday, a new film adaptation of Stephen King’s iconic and massive horror novel ‘IT’ will be released in American cinemas. Will it be good? King does not have…

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Top 5 Undiscovered Death Metal EPs

Throughout death metal’s history, the EP has served as a way to a full-length or as a stopgap between full-lengths. Decibel combed through some of the rarest (and sought after)…

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Track Premiere: Children of Terror – ‘(((Patah)))’

Indonesian hardcore group Children of Terror don’t shy away from taking any and all forms of heavy music and molding it to fit their breed of pulverizing metallic hardcore. Citing influences that…

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For Those About to Squawk: Cannabis Corpse, Paradise Lost, Caligula’s Horse

Well, here we go again guys… We’ll get through this week, but there will be new releases from the Unsane AND Loincloth this month, so it’s shaping up to be…

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Rank and Defile: Greg Mackintosh Orders Paradise Lost’s Records

For nearly 30 years Paradise Lost have meticulously been writing extreme metal’s rule book. From death metal, to doom, to death/doom, to goth, to electro pop and back again, their…

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