Q&A with ‘Scream Therapy’ author Jason Schreurs on his “Punk Journey Through Mental Health”
Author/podcaster Jason Schreurs is screaming for positive mental health in his new book, Scream Therapy: A Punk Rock Journey Through Mental Health.
Author/podcaster Jason Schreurs is screaming for positive mental health in his new book, Scream Therapy: A Punk Rock Journey Through Mental Health.
Talking Finnish death metal with Markus Makkonen and Kim Strömsholm, authors of Decibel Books’ Rotting Ways to Misery.
The Mexican American horror author V Castro brings heavy metal fire to the Latinx Screams anthology.
Decibel mourns the loss of Mike “McBeardo” McPadden, author of a pair of modern classics for Bazillion Points, Heavy Metal Movies and Teen Movie Hell.
Daniel Lake sits down with Tombs frontman and ‘Metal Matters’ podcast host Mike Hill to discuss the process of assembling the new book, USBM: A Revolution of Identity in American Black Metal.
A chat with the author and a peek inside of the new book, Tape Dealer 1984-1994: A Decade of Demos and Tape Trading, featuring artwork by Mark Riddick.
Read our interview with Doomed to Fail author JJ Anselmi as well as an exclusive excerpt from the book.
Getting the dirt on how Douglas Esper’s new book about Chuck Mosley isn’t The Dirt.
No Celebration author David E. Gehlke dishes the dirt on his new Paradise Lost biography out next week on Decibel Books!
Mysticism, Ritual, and Religion in Drone Metal author Dr. Owen Coggins is here to help you transcend the material plane with a little help from his (extremely extreme) friends.
See you at the Regent on Thursday, December 12 as part of Decibel Magazine Metal & Beer Fest: LA’s official PRE-FEST!
Heavy metal devotee and underground writer/editor extraordinaire Nick Cato takes us on a back row tour extremely extreme, metal-friendly cinema.
It’s time for a crash course in Songs About Sea Monsters with top-shelf metal-head horror novelist Patrick Lacey!
Swedish journalist Ika Johannesson talks her fantastic and enlightening new cultural history Blood Fire Death: The Swedish Metal Story.
Author & Punisher‘s Beastland is reviewed.
Our resident birdbrains pecks on new titles from Deadbird, Mutilated by Zombies and Author & Punisher.
Dark fiction author Chad Lutzke presents a playlist of extremely heavy horror fiction-inspired tracks.
Read an interview with extremely extreme author Dean Swinford on his new book, Death Metal Epic: Book II: Goat Song Sacrifice now!
Rising metalhead horror author John Boden peppered his recent haunting, lyrical coming-of-age novella Jedi Summer With The Magnetic Kid with a slew of knowing nods to eighties heavy metal and hard rock. And he’s cited such distorted-yet-diverse bands as Masters of Reality and the Pixies as influences on his delightfully demented post-apocalyptic children’s book Dominoes. So it seemed apropos to hit the eloquent Harrisburg, Pennsylvania-based world-builder up for a few recommendations on where those looking to blend their loves of reading n’ riffage.
We catch up with the author of Damn the Machine, a new book about the history of Noise Records, to get the scoop on why he chose Noise to write about, the rocky relationships between the label and its bands, and much more.
Decibel talks to the author of the excellent new book Heavy Metal Africa.
Two nerds enter. Two nerds leave. Choosing Death: The Improbable History of Death Metal & Grindcore author Albert Mudrian and Black Metal: The Cult Never Dies Vol 1. author Dayal Patterson talk creative process, Lords of Chaos, Swedish Death Metal and more.
In an attempt to gain an outside perspective on our current cover stars, Gojira, we contacted author, radio personality and all-around bearded badass Ian Christe. Here’s what our man had to say about his personal interest in the band and how he sees them fitting into the wider scope of the current metal scene.
Melk En Honing
Drinking and driven
dB Rating: 8/10
It’s nice to know the Author & Punisher mastermind has a sense of humor, and it’s on full display in this extremely fucking weird, occasionally hilarious video.
A year ago, metal enthusiast and writer Dayal Patterson presented the world with his authoritative document Black Metal: Evolution of the Cult, claiming the dark hearts of literate misanthropes everywhere. To anyone who read the book and thought it could have been more developed… well, the author thought so, too. This year, we will have…
Last year we excerpted a couple selections from Lewis Dimmick’s excellent book This Music over at the Metalnomicon. He came back not long ago to take us behind the scenes of hardcore megaliths Sheer Terror. Today he returns with another great guest essay on Beyond/Quicksand guitarist Tom Capone’s metal roots and his uber-brutal Mutilator fanzine……
I blame every sobering statistic regarding global literacy on the fact that until now the world didn’t have Heavy Metal Movies, the twisted tome cataloging Mike “McBeardo” McPadden’s infatuation with extremely extreme music and film. With 666+ reviews of headbang-friendly films, McBeardo is your personal Virgil leading you into the underworld of metallic cinema treasures….
Consider this here, folks, as an unofficial, off-the-cuff (read: poorly researched and impulsive) addendum to Decibel #112’s Top 20 2014 preview. This being the Internet, consider the following dispatch to be largely free of firm facts such as album/song titles, empirical data (release dates), and official words to corroborate our conjecture as to when said…
We’re all listed out after totalling up the scores for the albums of the year and putting together our Top 100 Black Metal Albums of All Time special issue. But author Dayal Patterson, a man in league with unfathomable evil, kindly dipped into his wellspring of arcane ancient darkness to muster the energy to give…