Greetings, Decibel readers!
Have an particularly lethal set of releases for you this week. However if you wish to know who my favourite fashionable old-school heavy steel band is, scroll to the underside.
Get pleasure from!
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Coffin Feeder – Huge Bother
Do you want brutal demise steel, Nineteen Eighties action-movie references, and crystal clear political metaphors? Nicely, have I obtained a deal with for you!
Stream: Apple Music
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Disfuneral – In Horror, Reborn
Some stable demise steel. Easy as. Followers of Vader, Grasp, and Asphyx will discover a lot to take pleasure in on this album.
Stream: Apple Music
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Insineratehymn – Irreverence of the Divine
Brutal, satisfying evil set to music. Deicide clearly looms massive over this band’s music, however there’s echoes of Immolation, Incantation and Imprecation to be discovered right here as properly. I imply, you’re offered already, aren’t you?
Stream: Apple Music
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Samiarus – Reign Destroyer
Talking of evil, let this sink its enamel into you, you received’t remorse it. The Oakland-based band has entered the sector with a supremely violent new launch, a piece that mixes blackened demise steel with the angle of grind and powerviolence in a approach that’s just like bands like Gravesend and Caustic Wound.
Stream: Apple Music
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Venator – Psychodrome
Among the many legions of “new old-school heavy steel” bands which have emerged over the past 10 years, none looms bigger for me that Venator. The whole lot in regards to the band’s sound comes collectively so properly, channeling Judas Priest, The Scorpions, WASP and Thundersteel-era Riot and updating all of it for the 2020s. Superb however by no means tacky, aggressive however properly balanced, melodic however nonetheless completely badass — it simply completely guidelines. The riffs are there, the vocals are there (and most singers on this fashion actually flip me off, however Hans simply owns the fabric so expertly), and the songwriting is just supreme (these choruses!). This can be one of many few non-black or demise steel albums on my finish of yr record for 2025, assured.
Stream: Apple Music
