Full Album Stream: Seventh Genocide – “Toward Akina”

UK label Third I Rex has a taste for experimental metal as shown by their previous releases and their latest, Italian black metal group Seventh Genocide. Their latest album, Toward Akina, is an…

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Get Out of Print Kreator, Eyehategod & Black Dahlia Murder Vinyl!

We’ve nearly survived summer, so your friends at Decibel are rewarding you with a back-to-school five-flexi discount! Order this special Deluxe subscription now and, in addition to your monthly flexi-containing issues of Decibel, we’ll…

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Demo:listen: Yahar’gul

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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Watch: Expulsion – ‘Nightmare Future’ (Guitar Playthrough)

Grind supergroup Expulsion — including members of Repulsion, Exhumed, Phobia, Intronaut, Gruesome and others — released their debut album, Nightmare Future, last month. If the 14 minutes on Nightmare Future weren’t enough for you, Decibel has…

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Track Premiere: Zornheym – ‘Whom The Night Brings’

After completing a three year run as the bassist of Dark Funeral in 2014, multi-instrumentalist Zorn (ex-Devian) began the process of assembling a new band, called Zornheym. Still rooted in black metal,…

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That Tour Was Awesome: Pestilence/Autopsy/Bolt Thrower (1990)

It’s easy, with the passage of time and so much metal, to see the names of three death metal legends—in this case, Pestilence, Bolt Thrower, and Autopsy—buttressed next to each…

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Full Album Stream: Empyrean Throne – “Chaosborne”

Empyrean Throne are one of US black metal’s most exciting up-and-coming bands, playing a biting fusion of black and death metal. On their debut record, Chaosborne, they combine the vocal stylings of death…

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Track Premiere: God Mother – ‘Tar Mirror’

God Mother, the Swedish powerhouse signed to Party Smasher Inc., escape easy classification. Their blend of sludge, hardcore, punk and grindcore is blistering. Further rounding out their sound is a…

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Conflict is Inevitable: An Interview with Moral Void

Over the last five or so years, there seems to have been a strange merging of genres between black metal and hardcore punk. While something like the crust and black…

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Track Premiere: Dark Waters End – ‘Up the Dose’

Progressive death metal band Dark Waters End garnered an underground following for the mathy, technical death metal heard on their 2016 EP, Rat King. They haven’t ditched that on their debut album, Submersion, but rather…

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