Interview With VERITAS
We recently had a pleasure to chat with a U.S. Hard Rock/Metal band VERITAS. Their debut studio album, Threads of Fatality, was released in 2020. Entire chat follows below: How...
Reviews
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Exhumed – Gore Metal – Decibel Magazine
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,...
MALTUKA’s Black Rite – A Ferocious Debut That Thrashes with...
Bergen, Norway’s newest thrash export, Maltuka, waste no time making their presence known with their debut EP, Black Rite, released via High Roller Records. The band, formed by guitarist/vocalist Viljar...
Destruction’s “Cracked Brain”
Sometime in the 1990s, I had a year-long period where I was absolutely obsessed with thrash and old-school metal, culminating in traveling to Milwaukee Metalfest for my first festival experience....
The Obsessed – Lunar Womb
For 15 years, The Obsessed’s 1991 LP Lunar Womb was spoken about in hushed and reverent tones, particularly in stoner rock circles. That’s how long it took for the band’s...
MANTAR’s Post Apocalyptic Depression – A Raw, Unfiltered Sludge-Punk Onslaught...
A Nihilistic Soundtrack to Burnout Few bands wield the sheer force of raw, unfiltered power like Mantar. The German duo—Hanno Klänhardt (guitar/vocals) and Erinc Sakarya (drums)—have built a reputation for...
Morbid Angel’s ‘Illud Divinum Insanus’
Almost every band has that album: you know, the critically and/or commercially reviled dud in an otherwise passable-to-radical back catalogue. Occasionally, a Decibel staffer or special guest will take to...
Khanate – Khanate – Decibel Magazine
Time and a dedicated body of work has helped to facilitate digestion of Khanate’s unconventional and glacial approach to doom metal, drawing in elements of drone (recalling Earth’s own synthesis...
Metal Meets Activism – SAVAGE LANDS’ Army of the Trees...
Savage Lands isn’t just another metal band—it’s a movement. With Army of the Trees, their debut full-length dropping on February 14, 2025, via Season of Mist, this eco-conscious collective fuses...
Twisted Sister’s “Love Is for Suckers”
Almost every band has that album: you know, the critically and/or commercially reviled dud in an otherwise passable-to-radical back catalogue. Occasionally, a Decibel staffer or special guest will take to...
