Philly outfit Cathari have taken on various forms in their existence and new EP It Will Hurt the Entire Time You Are Alive sees them transition again, shifting from doom metal to a searing combination of sludge, noisecore and metallic hardcore. They’re delivering the first taste of the four-track EP in the form of “Weight,” its third song. Starting off with a tense riff that quickly explodes into a full-band effort, “Weight” starts off at a fast pace and slowly devolves into a combination of discordant guitar and noise, slowing down as vocalist Magdalena Stephens delivers a ..read more

Extrema have unleashed a video for “Paralyzed,” which you can stream below. They released it alongside the celebration of the 30th anniversary of their debut album, Tension at the Seams. In addition to the video, they are doing a series of live performances to celebrate the milestone that this Italian metal album was. Throughout their career, they’ve played alongside American and U.K. contemporaries Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer, and Motörhead. This single follows on the heals of their album Headbanging Forever, released in 2019. The video was directed by the talented Adelaide Fiori, a ..read more

We are just hours away from Austin post-everything noisemakers Glassing releasing their fourth LP, From the Other Side of the Mirror, but you can gaze deeply into band’s video for the track “Wake” right now. The collective vision of director/editor Ken Whiting, cinematographer Manny OA and screenwriter Andrew Bonazelli, the team commonly known as 10 Seconds to Comply, “Wake” is another arresting treatment from the trio’s growing videography (The Keening, Junius). “When you hear ‘God, was it a memory’ contrasted against these melodic riffs that serve as bumpers to a bowling lane of pain and joy ..read more

You would be correct if you thought you’d been seeing a lot about Exhumed lately. First, the band is celebrating the 25th anniversary of their debut Gore Metal with a national spring tour. Second, Gore Metal was just inducted into Decibel‘s vaunted Hall of Fame. Finally, the band just finished work on a three-part documentary on the band’s history that will premiere on Exhumed’s YouTube channel on April 28. The documentary is also available for DVD or VHS (!) preordering via Exhumed’s webstore. Fans in the Bay Area can see Decayed Decades and meet the band and filmmakers (Andrew Corson and Avi ..read more

Postmortem Procedures The Making of Exhumed’s Gore Metal In 1998, there was some thrilling, forward-thinking game-changing happening in extreme underground metal. The Dillinger Escape Plan were storming the scene, making us rethink what was humanly possible on instruments, Nile were animating death metal’s mummified corpse and Nasum were blasting excitement back into grindcore. Then there was Exhumed. The California-based goregrind/death metal outfit was on Relapse, the same label as the aforementioned trailblazers, but I distinctly recall getting promotional material for Gore Metal when it ca ..read more

“You guys are nerds, are you?” What followed was a tension-shattering bout of laughter from your eager co-columnists, already halfway through our most star-struck interview to date. It was our guest who less threw out a jab and more stated the obvious after disappointingly learning that Kill Screen was incapable of carrying much of a conversation about his love of basketball save for a few distant childhood memories of NBA Jam. “There’s nothing wrong with that!” he reassured us as we took in the moment, but best believe that when the legendary John Carpenter calls us nerds, we wear that with p ..read more

Hailing from Yogyakarta, Indonesia, Exhumation emerges once more with their fourth full-length album, Master’s Personae. Since their inception in 2008, the band has garnered attention for their unique blend of atmospheric solace and death metal aggression. Master’s Personae encapsulates the essence of Exhumation’s sound, weaving a tapestry of darkness and brutality that is both captivating and intense. From the opening track to the closing crescendo, the album immerses listeners in a world of sonic debauchery, where every riff and growl is infused with raw emotion and energy. The alb ..read more

With a band name like Tombstoner, one would normally expect to hear sluggish Sabbath or Sleep worship. Fortunately, Tombstoner are the exact opposite of that. The New York death metal unit hail from Staten Island are straight-up killers, blending their riff-centric death metal with strains of grindcore and thrash for a groovy, fast-paced time. Their second album, Rot Stink Rip, comes three years after their debut and sees the band tighten up their writing while upping the intensity factor. The influence from Power Trip and Pig Destroyer is immediately felt on Rot Stink Rip ..read more

Where they from? Pilsen, Czechia. The NHL playoffs are here and my team is in it. What this means is that for the next few weeks I will have to explain to various people in my life that I can’t hang out on a random Tuesday night in May because I have to watch a bunch of grown men on ice skates run up and down in an igloo for three hours while screaming “SHOOT THE FUCKING PUCK!” as loud as I can. And what is my reward for doing this? Well if my team wins, I get to do it for another three weeks. Why the hype? LilixElbe, angular powerviolence from Pilsen. Got a good ring to it, right? It’s really ..read more

Here at Decibel, we’re down with pretty much anything drummer Dirk Verbeuren (Megadeth, Cadaver, ex-Soilwork) is down with. That goes double for Savage Lands, his eco-friendly band with guitarist Sylvain Demercastel. Functioning as a 501(c)3 nonprofit, Savage Lands uses money from music royalties, as well as donations and other fundraising sources, to build sanctuaries and support preservation efforts in Costa Rica. As such, it’s only natural that for their new song and video “Black Rock Heart,” Savage Lands joined forces with Heilung vocalist Kai Uwe Faust and singer Chloé Trujillo ..read more