This week: the crew reconvenes after a few weeks off to discuss new songs from Slipknot, Queens of the Stone Age, Soul Glo, Your Old Droog, Steven Wilson, Slayyyter, and more! In the news: the Mast…

The thumbnail isn’t for a discussion about Bleach, it’s just how we’re all feeling after this week. Yes, again. Tired and worn out and sad, yet we carry on because we live to figh…

This week: the crew discusses new songs from Godflesh, Beabadoobee, Chat Pule, Cult of Luna, and Shabazz Palaces. In the news: Spotify to start labeling AI slop on their platform, the ownership of …

Welcome to the Decibel Boost Podcast album roundup for the month of July 2026. As the calendar rolls over into the second half of 2026, the July release calendar actually found itself pretty decent…

This week: the crew discusses new songs from Dawn Richard, Colin Stetson, Benny The Butcher, Sleep, and more! In the news: further turmoil surrounding Sid Wilson, and even more depressing news abou…

We’re all mad at Sony for ALL of the reasons right now. But we’re not mad at Discotek since they and AnimEigo alike offer everyone really cool things and actually treat their customers …

This week: the crew discusses new songs from Ninajirach and Porter Robinson, Frontierer, Slayyyter, President, SOB x RBE, Greta Van Fleet, and more! In the news topics: Shave Odadijan finds himself…

This week: the crew discusses Chad Hugo’s debut solo single, Amon Amarth picking up their axes once again, the newest single from Orville Peck, Protomartyr taking us through an uncomfortable …

This week: the crew discusses new tracks from Queens of the Stone Age feat. Nikki Lane, Coldrain, Carly Rae Jepsen, Tinashe, and more! In the news topics: looks like it’s not all doom and glo…

This week: the crew discusses new tracks from Mastodon feat. Josh Homme, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, DJ Premier & The Alchemist, Ladrones, Rico Nasty, and more! In the news topics: Tida…

Welcome to the Decibel Boost Podcast album roundup for the month of June 2026! We’re finally at the halfway mark of this year, and so we must now look back on what this past June had to offer…

Another weekend of Anime Expo has come and gone, and with it came a LOT of things from all corners, a true cornucopia of styles for just about everyone: take your pick, be it green yuri with Nirvan…

This week: the crew discusses Czarface’s latest team-up with Tom Hardy, our first taste of Carly Rae Jepsen’s upcoming double album, Charli XCX giving a fashionable wink to the audience…

This week: the crew discusses new songs from Sleep, FKA Twigs feat. Lil Yachty, Channel Tres, and more! In the news topics: the Grammys continue to make some very odd rule changes for their next ce…

So who or what is the “monster” in this title? It’s whoever you want it to be, be it the former head of Kadokawa trying to sue his way back into relevancy or the people wanting to…

Ay, I haven’t heard anything from Vince Staples in a while. Musically, that is. In case you don’t remember, he did have his own Netflix show, but that only lasted 2 seasons and didn’t get ren…

This week: the crew discusses new songs from Chat Pile, Bonobo, Rapsody, Cult of Luna, and more! In the news topics: Mike Mangini fills in on drums for Godsmack (for some reason), and the upcoming …

Welcome to the Decibel Boost Podcast album roundup for the month of May 2026! As we approach the midway stretch of the year, the album release schedule found more room for noteworthy and exciting t…

This week: the crew discusses new songs from Mastodon, Tierra Whack, Protest The Hero, Weezer feat. Wednesday, Captain Murphy, and more! In the news topics: even SEGA can’t seem to stop themselves …

This week: the crew discusses new songs from Ariana Grande, Barbarians of California, Rome Streetz, The Ocean, and more! In the news: the current administration’s attempts to “celebrate” this count…

Another year, another Crunchyroll awards show that only the influencers and most terminally online folks actually care about. We’re not some of those people, but we talked about it anyway bec…

So, hey, JPEGMafia is coming out with a new album… a new solo album aka “not Scaring the Hoes, pt.2” (and no, I’m not even sure if that’s still a thing now). I know I sound like I’m not…

This week: the crew discusses new songs from Vince Staples, Haken, Anthrax, President, Fat Dog, Olivia Rodrigo, The Avalanches, and more! In the news topics: Rolling Loud is hitting the silver scre…

Welcome to the Decibel Boost Podcast album roundup for the months of April 2026. This past April was another one of those months where, while the release calendar definitely had a lot going, the am…

This week: the crew discusses new songs from Charli XCX, JPEGMAFIA, Loathe, Floating Points, and more! In the news topics: layoffs at some major metal news sites, an interesting addition to DragonF…

Apologies, once again, for the delay in this show going up due to a combination of scheduling issues and some illnesses roaming around. But we’re back to catch up on the big things in the ind…

This week: the crew discusses the latest single from Devin Townsend’s upcoming orchestral epic, the first new Quicksand material in 5 years, Vince Staples turning to a bit of synth-punk on his new …

Welcome to the Decibel Boost Podcast album roundup for the months of March 2026. While there were definitely some projects of note in the past month, March 2026 didn’t have the most saturated…

This week: the crew discusses new songs from Olivia Rodrigo, Genghis Tron, Electric Callboy, Oneohtrix Point Never, and more! In the news topics: the 2026 inductees for the Rock And Roll Hall of Fa…

This week: the crew discusses new songs from Evanescence, Dogstar, Periphery, Callous Daoboys, and more! In the news, ominous teasers from Boards of Canada, and The Weeknd will be presenting at the…

AnimeJapan has come and gone, and with it came the expected deluge of too much stuff to go over, but we did and we made sure to not leave out any important things for this year’s rundown of t…

It’s been 6 years since Thundercat released an album with the Grammy-award winning It Is What It Is, and we have been fiending for something new from him for a while. Aside from doing some guest ap…

This week: the crew discusses new songs from Fire-Toolz, Elder, President, girl_irl and Danny Brown, and more! In the news: Poppy lends her voice to a new Junji Ito project, and the lineup for Loll…

This week: the crew discusses new songs from Devin Townsend, Lip Critic, Kacey Musgraves, and more! In the news topics: the Live Nation antitrust lawsuit sees a myriad of tense developments. Your h…

This is a weirder show than most, on account of the vast mood shifts with all of the topic at hand here. There’s a not-so-good amount of bad news to dive into, be it from the unfortunate winn…

Welcome to the Decibel Boost Podcast album roundup for the months of January/February 2026. As the calendar rolls over from 2025 into 2026, we have to contend with… well the world falling apart in …

This week: the crew discusses new songs from Channel Tres, Sevendust, Mike Will Made It, and Anne Hathaway! In the news: Apple Music’s AI transparency efforts, and the 2026 lineups for Aftershock a…

So, it’s been about 3 years since Mitski released her last album, but she’s still doing some work since then. The single “My Love Mine All Mine” became her first Billboard-charting hit, peaki…

This week: the crew discusses new songs from CAVS, Swae Lee, Underscores, Sepultura, and American Football! In the news: Better Lovers are moving forward without Greg Puciato, the Rock & Roll H…

This week: the crew discusses new songs from SZA, At The Gates, Nekrogoblikon, Thundercat feat. Mac Miller, and more! In the news: Louder Than Life books its biggest lineup ever, and just the bigge…

This week: the crew discusses new songs from Knocked Loose feat. Denzel Curry, Jane Remover, Rustie, Lip Critic, Larry June / Curren$y / The Alchemist, and more. In the news: the latest revelations…

200 episodes ago, a group of guys got together to talk about anime every couple of weeks, record those discussions, and upload them to a small corner of the internet that seems to care what a group…

This week: the crew discusses new songs from TOMORA and Mitski, Bad Bunny’s incredible Super Bowl Performance, Kid Rock’s festival hits a hilarious snag, and the list is finally out for Record Stor…

This week: the crew discusses a bit of the 2026 Grammy Awards alongside new songs from Thundercat feat. Lil Yachty, The Scythe, Skindred, A Wilhelm Scream, and Christine And The Queens! In the news…

There’s no point in sugarcoating it, it’s been a rotten cold weekend already, either due to the widespread ice storm or the more vicious “ICE” storm happening. Things are st…

This week: the crew discusses new songs from J. Cole, Converge, Mitski, Charli XCX, Poison The Well, and more! In the news topics: Bandcamp chooses not to fuck around when it comes to AI music on t…

This week: the crew discusses new songs from Bruno Mars, Robyn, Black Veil Brides, and more! In the news topics: we celebrate the wins of Sinners and KPop Demon Hunters at this year’s Golden Globes…

This week: the crew returns for our first episode of 2026, discussing some songs released over the break from the likes of Disclosure feat. Leon Thomas, Carpenter brut, Floating Points, and more! I…

2026 is here, and so far… not a great start to the year, for various reasons. Nevertheless, this show continues on to be an escape from those perils and horror and will continue to delivers t…

2025 was… just utterly terrible. Nothing but alternating between despair, anxiety, and being infuriated by how much everything everywhere sunk into chaos while evil was allowed to run rampant…