Demo:listen: Malefaction

Welcome to Demo:listen, your weekly peek into the future of underground extreme metal. Whether it’s death, black, doom, sludge, grind, thrash, -core, heavy, speed, progressive, stoner, retro, post-, punk/, etc….

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Deconstructing the Doom Side of the Moon: An Interview with Kyle Schutt

In talking with The Sword‘s Kyle Schutt, one immediately feels compelled to load up a bowl, sketch out your alibi and call into work for the day. The undeniable contact…

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September 2017 Decibel Meter: Wolves in the Record Collection

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 essential titles…

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Full Album Stream: Vasilek – “The Dark Road”

Earlier this month, Decibel brought you new music from Vasilek, the dark ambient project of Tombs’ Mike Hill. While the three songs (including massive album closer “The Green Lady”) on The Dark Road lack a familiar…

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Full Album Stream: Ruby the Hatchet – “Planetary Space Child”

Philadelphia’s resident spaced-out psych rockers Ruby the Hatchet have emerged from parts unknown, new LP in hand. Planetary Space Child lives up to its name—this is fuzzy, retro-sounding psychedelic rock. Led by frontwoman…

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Leng Tch’e return with career-defining “Razorgrind”

Belgium grinders Leng Tch’e are dropping their sixth album tomorrow, and the band has decided to take the bold move of giving the album—their first since 2010’s Hypomanic and the…

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Metal, Punk and Horror: An Interview with Holy Mountain Printing

“Black Metal. Black Shirts. Black Coffee,” states the mug that’s staring at me with its third fill of coffee today. This cup is emblazoned with the mantra of Holy Mountain…

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Track Premiere: The Kennedy Veil – ‘Flesh of the Sun (Feat. Trevor Strnad)’

The Kennedy Veil have returned, and more fiercely than ever. Their latest album, Imperium, hits the streets through Unique Leader on October 20 and their first offering, “Flesh of the Sun,” is…

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Metal & Mead: Brimming Horn Meadery Offers Incantation’s Goat’s Blood

Typically the kind of alcoholic beverages we cover in this column have four ingredients—barley, hops, water and yeast—and rhyme with “ear.” But we couldn’t pass up this collaboration called Goat’s…

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Track Premiere: Sanhedrin – ‘Die Trying’

New York heavy metal band Sanhedrin (among their ranks, current and former members of Black Anvil, Vermefüg, Lost Goat and others) wouldn’t be out of place next to Judas Priest and Iron Maiden in…

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