Despite consistently releasing new music, AB6IX have struggled to recapture the buzz of their debut era. Instead, they’ve expanded their sonic palette, exploring a variety of genres with generally strong results. 2021’s funky Cherry was one of those successes and new single NVKED echoes that… Read More »Song Review: AB6IX – NVKED
Testament are thrash royalty. The Bay Area gods are still practicing what they preach after 37 years and thirteen full-length albums, the latest of which is 2020’s powerful Titans of Creation. Currently, the “thrashsters” are out supporting the reissue and remaster of their 1987 debut,… Read More »Q&A: Chuck Billy (Testament) Goes A Haunting
We present to you today the latest track, “Rescission,” from five earnest-looking, bearded, black shirt-adorned Scots called Codespeaker. It’s as bleak and monolithic as the structure looming on the quintet’s second full-length, Scavenger, a lurching, dissonant, down-tuned post-metal crusher. The nine-song Scavenger was recorded and mixed by… Read More »Track Premiere: Codespeaker – “Rescission”
– October 9th, 2024 – Tickets On Sale This Friday! Finnish folk metal goliaths, ENSIFERUM will join their comrades in Korpiklaani for a 2025 North American co-headlining tour. The journey runs from February 27th in Boston, Massachusetts through March 30th in Brooklyn, New York. Additional… Read More »Ensiferum Announces 2025 North American Co-Headlining Tour with Korpiklaani
It’s no secret that all of the nerds at Decibel—not just the video game ones—are fans of Denver quartet Blood Incantation. Capable of delivering riffs as angular as they are punishing, the Stargate frequent fliers continually incorporate heavy doses of psychedelic, world and synth music… Read More »KILL SCREEN 047: Jeff Barrett of BLOOD INCANTATION Is Absolutely Here for the Future of Gaming