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Greetings, Decibel readers!

This week’s roundup brings an eclectic mix of styles, from classic heavy metal, to neon-blasted synthwave, to world-swallowing blackened death metal.

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Axe Dragger – Axe Dragger

Yes. Just … YES!!!

Ok, so when it comes to classic heavy metal — THIS is how the vocals should sound. You gotta blend raspy and strong lines with high notes that hit at just the right moment. It’s thrilling, powerful and blazing with fury but NOT CHEESY. So, for real, ditch the irony, throw on the spikes and leather, and bang your head to this.

Stream: Apple Music

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Carpenter Brut – Leather Temple

Oh sure, synthwave got a little oversaturated in the last decade. But on the other hand, this is still really great, so who cares? Carpenter Brut always shined brightest along with the best in the game like Perturbator, Gost and Dan Terminus. And like those acts, Carpenter Brut brought a composition style that made the music uniquely appealing to metalheads who may otherwise be averse to electronic music. So get those neon-lights going once again and crank this up.

Stream: Apple Music

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Harrowed – The Eternal Hunger

A deadlier outing that I’m used to from Dying Victims, but I’m all about it! Think of Left Hand Path but throw in some 80s doom-metal hooks and heavy metal grooves, and you’ll get what Harrowed is all about. Listen once and keep coming back for more. Eternal hunger, indeed.

Stream: Apple Music

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Necrofier – Transcend Into Oblivion

I remember when Necrofier first popped up on my radar with Prophecies of Eternal Darkness and it’s been really cool to watch them get steadily bigger and bigger since then. After, Decibel put them on the magazine tour back in 2024 for a good reason! The band’s latest release plays like a dense, epic, and mystical tale told with cinematic flair and blackened-death metal madness. Let the spectacle begin!

Stream: Apple Music

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Vreid – The Skies Turn Black

The legacy continues in the capable hands of Vreid on their 10th album (well, under this name, you could say it’s their 14th album in a spiritual sense). The album represents a couple key tendencies: connections with their roots and an urge to keep experimenting and exploring. It’s what makes them one of the most interesting bands in modern metal.

Stream: Apple Music

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Fucked Up are no strangers to ambitious projects, but it’s hard to imagine anything more ambitious than what they’ve currently got underway. For decades, Fucked Up have been releasing long, expansive 12″ singles dedicated to the years of the Chinese Zodiac calendar. They’re finishing it up with a massive new series called Grass Can Move…

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In 2019, I accidentally stumbled upon St. Petersburg’s wacko dark cabaret metal freaks Tardigrade Inferno’s debut Mastermind, depicting an adorable evil water bear as mascot. You can imagine that I was immediately hooked. Their legitimately heavy riffs and whimsical songwriting kept me coming back for more when Burn the Circus dropped four years later. That release doubled down on original material backed by a more focused metallic spirit, and all the better for it. Initially, it sounded like third installment, Hush picked up right where Burn left off. However, gone is my beloved little tardigrade. What could this mean?

While Tardigrade Inferno’s sonic formula remains largely the same as it was on Burn the Circus—albeit with the addition of accordions and kazoos and one very unexpected burst of blast beats (“I Am Eternal”)—it’s clear that they moved away from their titular character on Hush. A darkness follows that disappearance, reflected in the dour and morbid attitudes imparted throughout Hush’s 45 minutes (“Dead Fish Smile”). Absent the maniacal main character that gave Tardigrade Inferno’s music life, direction, and purpose, Hush’s storytelling feels aimless and shallow. Thankfully, those trusty hooks, bouncy riffs, and infectious choruses entertained me just enough as I navigated through an uncomfortable grieving period for the Tardigrade Inferno I once cherished.

After a time, I felt ready to embrace Hush, knowing it wasn’t going to offer the same wacky storyline as previous records spun. However, I never escaped my disappointment that Tardigrade Inferno chose an album of vignettes, pulling from a wide gamut of fairy tales and ubiquitous monsters, as their solution. Cuts like “Deadly Fairytales” and “Goor” hammer that generic storytelling home musically as well, though there are small moments in each that make for a great idea or an ear-catching setup (see the howling vox and silent rests in “Goor”). Others like “All in Your Head” and “I.C.D.,” in contrast, expound upon the natural horrors that plague the human mind in the real world. While that topic works quite well in metal writ large, Tardigrade Inferno don’t sell it with the same compelling gravity or subversion as other acts who adopt this exuberant cabaret influence (like Pensees Nocturne or Sanguine Glacialis). Consequently, Hush lacks substance and excitement for a good chunk of its duration.

However, there are a number of cool ideas, new tricks, and fun details found here that Tardigrade Inferno could, and should, take advantage of on future endeavors. The title track is a certified bop, with a bouncy riff backed by fun synths and a sticky chorus that I can’t stop involuntarily repeating. “Subatomic Heist” is a bizarre little number that brims with vibrancy and energy as well, and it’s no surprise that it also calls back to those virtually unkillable microscopic creatures of past installments. Similarly, the proggy and doomy closer “I Am Eternal” foreshadows a tardigrade resurgence inside off-kilter melodies, unorthodox songwriting (for this band, at least), and gorgeous lead guitar work. Naturally, returning to the critters and characters that gave Tardigrade Inferno its primary appeal also gave this song the backbone and direction it needed to feel worthy and interesting. This, in turn, further exemplifies the issues that plague all of the songs on Hush that make no such return.

I’m not normally one to recommend a band revisit past ideas or themes. In fact, I am a firm proponent of a band sticking to their guns and finding their way whenever they make a potentially divisive shift from past work, either musically or thematically. In this case, however, I think killing off their main character and the silliness that came with it—not to mention the dearly missed conceptual storytelling—doomed Tardigrade Inferno’s third outing. Hush isn’t unsalvageable, as it has nifty ideas and some new songwriting tricks and fun instruments that fit well into Tardigrade Inferno’s sound, but it’s missing the direction and compelling arcs that made their first two records successful. My wish for Tardigrade Inferno is therefore to ditch the horror stories and rebuild the circus, for the show must go on!

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Rating: Disappointing
DR: 5 | Format Reviewed: 320 kb/s mp3
Label: Self-Released
Websites: tardigradeinferno.bandcamp.com | facebook.com/tardigradeinfernomusic
Releases Worldwide: March 5th, 2026

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(Below is Wil Cifer’s review of No Peace, a new album by D.C.-based No/Más that’s set for release on March 13th by Redefining Darkness. The cover art was created by Brian Sheehan.) There could never be a more fitting soundtrack for the world today than this album. NO/MÁS are angry as fuck. They are not […]

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A British singer who found worldwide fame with her sassy, hip-hop-inflected take on retro soul, she became a tabloid fixture because of addiction problems.

Since he and parted ways, has released not only a slew of studio works but also no less than four concert albums, his latest being from 2021, and there’s a new one on the way, titled “The Acoustic Trio & … Continue reading →

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With hits like “Respect” and “Chain of Fools,” she defined a female archetype: sensual and strong, long-suffering but ultimately indomitable.

You’ll have to settle for subtitles.

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