Over the past seven months, I’ve grown to love Close Your Eyes for their distinct sound and fantastic creative direction. This year’s male rookie groups have done a great job carving out their own niche in the market and although Close Your Eyes have played… Read More »Song Review: Close Your Eyes – SOB (with Imanbek)
Apparently, Rottenness, those pustulating pendejos of death metal’s pulsing pile, can’t and won’t stop, so we here at Decibel feel equally as compelled to keep you abreast of their doings and transpirings. Just like we’ve been doing so almost since this website was a thing.… Read More »EP Stream and Tour News: Rottenness and Saintbreaker Team Up To Conquer (Part of) the World
Seems like a fitting time of year for a label/webzine called Witching Buzz to release a tribute, Spaceship Landing, to stoner rock icons Kyuss. Allow us to give you a full and complete taste of said tribute in its 20-song glory. This is not what you would call… Read More »Full Album Stream: Various Artists –Spaceship Landing: A Tribute to Kyuss
It took Decibel’s co-nerds exactly 26 seconds to start making moves on today’s installment. For those unfamiliar with rapidly rising brutal death metal act PeelingFlesh, no other word more accurately describes their sound than one of metal’s most overwrought adjectives: heavy. With tunings dropped below… Read More »KILL FEED 073: D. Harris and Joe Pelletier of PEELINGFLESH Are Stuck in a Simulation
Chicago’s Burned in Effigy return with a full-length inferno that marries neoclassical precision to melodic death-metal mayhem. On Tyrannus Aeternum, the quintet sharpen every blade first forged on 2022’s Rex Mortem, turning technical mastery into something feral and cinematic. Across eleven tracks, the band balances virtuosity and violence—ornate solos,… Read More »Album Premiere: Burned in Effigy – Tyrannus Aeternum