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1 week ago | 
decibelmagazine.com | Adem Tepedelen
Going back to the early ’80s, Chicago has a long reputation for noisy industrial rock. The home of Touch & Go and Wax Trax! Records, the city has churned out decades of aggressive, edgy bands. New trio, Burndy, follows that tradition in unconventional fashion, as illuminated on their new single. “Static,” taken from their upcoming self-titled debut. The track is a slow builder, that’s terse and nervous with big Joy Division energy and a side of Sonic Youth.
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2 weeks ago | 
decibelmagazine.com | Adem Tepedelen
You’re definitely getting your money’s worth with this track premiere from Canadian atmospheric black metal trio, A Flock Named Murder. They’re offering up the 17-plus-minute “To Drown in Obsidian Tides” from their upcoming second second full-length, Incendiary Sanctum.
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2 weeks ago | 
decibelmagazine.com | Adem Tepedelen
Seems like there’s a little interband competition with the members of Ohio sludge/stoner/doom lords Moontemple as to who can grow the mightiest beard. What they lack in locks, they make up for in crumb-catching whiskers. We only know this from the new video for their latest single, “Horus,” which is a straight performance vid shot on what looks like a theater stage. The tune is a galluping, very Mastodon-inspired rumbler, loaded with killer guitar harmonies and Egyptian mythology inspired lyrics.
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3 weeks ago | 
decibelmagazine.com | Adem Tepedelen
The mark of a good metal band name is its origin, the backstory. In-joke? Biblical reference? Satanic bible reference? Lord of the Rings reference? Dungeons & Dragons character? Count New Jersey prog death outfit Chronepsis in the latter category. And their debut, six-track mini-album, Weight of Eternity, is basically a D&D session in death metal form, replete with all the usual warriors and monsters.
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4 weeks ago | 
decibelmagazine.com | Adem Tepedelen
Our AI overlords tell me that the title of the Övervåld track we’re premiering here today, “Förruttnelse,” translates into “putrefactive.” That wasn’t super helpful, so first I scolded AI because it was “a needlessly complex word for a simple idea ,” and then I insisted that AI “apologize for the word.” It came up with “rot.” The sound of “Föruttnelse” is indeed rotten—HM-2 embalmed DM with some black metal cobwebs.
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1 month ago | 
decibelmagazine.com | Adem Tepedelen
Sweden is definitely the place to shop for all your metallic hardcore needs. There’s just something in the water that produces a whole different level of crushage. Witness Swedish quintet Obstruktion doing maximum damage in just three brief minutes on new track, “Sow Fear.” The track comes from their upcoming second full-length, The End Takes Form, and is accompanied here by a grainy, high-contrast performance video that perfectly matches the song’s raw, grinding DM-influenced hardcore.
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1 month ago | 
decibelmagazine.com | Adem Tepedelen
Seattle death rock/goth metal mavens, Dark Meditation, have returned with a brand new six-song EP, Where the Darkness Bleeds, which we’re previewing in its entirety here. The gloomy quintet—Adam Vick (vocals), Ryan Fitch (guitars), Ian E. (guitars), Will Klintberg (drums), Rachel Robillard (bass)—are following up 2022’s Polluted Temples with another potent dose of blackened classic metal.
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1 month ago | 
decibelmagazine.com | Adem Tepedelen
Extreme in its extremities. the new five-track EP from Pyramid Mass, Gargling Rot, drills into your brainpan with some potent, industrial-strength sludge before launching into a death metal barrage and seamlessly finding some ambient soundscapes to float in. It’s all presented surprisingly cohesively with contrasting sounds well integrated within songs and the EP as a whole.
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1 month ago | 
decibelmagazine.com | Adem Tepedelen
Denver hardcore/metalcore outfit Hellgrammites—Bill Jenkins (drums), Erik Petersen (vocals/synths/samples), Lehi Petersen (guitar), Troy Ten Eyck (bass)—are unleashing a brand new video for the track, “Bayonet,” from their upcoming Ethos EP. It’s a performance video set in some sort of dystopian laboratory and finds the band playing unorthodox instruments.
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1 month ago | 
decibelmagazine.com | Adem Tepedelen
Go ahead and immerse yourself in the two minutes of noise rock chaos and insanity that is the new track, “Ol Man Shleep,” from Philly quartet My Wife Is an Angel. It’s a full-tilt dash toward oblivion with Boone (guitar), Fancy (bass), Jagwah (drums) and G (vocals) more or less playing whatever the fuck they want. The relentless drumming seems like the only semi-coherent thing happening here. Otherwise it’s just a harsh wash of guitar skree, ranting vocals and general insanity.
