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Kill Feed Contest: Win an Actual Cool World Super Nintendo Cart Signed by CHAT PILE!

December 12, 2025

Now is your chance to win this one-of-a-kind relic along with two LPs from the Oklahoma cinephiles!

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Full Album Stream: Fanatisme –Tro, håp og kjærlighet

December 10, 2025

Fanatisme‘s roughly recorded (and played) new seven-song record takes a raw black metal aesthetic and vocal approach and marries it to early ’80s post punk and goth gloom.

Editorial

Gus Rios (Cold Slither): The Toys That Saved Me

May 30, 2025

Fresh from his reveal as Cold Slither frontman Zartan, drummer/guitarist/vocalist Gus Rios provides the following homage to the impact of the toys that defined his childhood and shaped his adulthood. 

Latest Issue

GWAR

January 2026 [#255]

Includes exclusive limited edition Morbikon flexi disc

40 Years of Fluids, Filth and Fun! Also: the Decibel Hall of Fame: The Making of Pallbearer’s Sorrow and Extinction, The Top 40 Albums of 2025, Morbikon, Blut Aus Nord, Phobocosm and more

Five For Friday: Death Metal 2025

December 12, 2025

Check out some of the year’s best in death metal madness, including releases from Drawn and Quartered, Evoken, Ancient Death and more!

Preorder: NO/MÁS’s “No Peace” on Decibel-Exclusive Bloodied White Marble Vinyl Limited to Just 100 Copies

December 12, 2025

There are only a mere 100 copies of No Peace, the new full-length LP from D.C. grindcrushers No/Más on Decibel-exclusive Bloodied White Marble vinyl. Hurry before there are… no more.

Video Premiere: Humanness Test – “Prima Facie”

December 11, 2025

Progressive metal duo Humanness Test unveil their latest single, “Prima Facie,” along with new video. You can hear it with us first.

Prog Metallers The Reticent Have a Lot to Say About Mental Health/Illness

December 11, 2025

Read and listen as prog-metallers the Reticent take an extensive, and personal, look at mental health and illness with their new album.

Video Premiere: Morbikon – ‘Flames That Blind and Shadows Cast’

December 10, 2025

Blackened death thrash conjurors Morbikon return with the third chapter of their animated medieval-fantasy saga taken from their new full-length Lost Within the Astral Crypts, out now on Tankcrimes.

Full Album Stream: House by the Cemetary – Disturbing the Cenotaph

December 10, 2025

Hear Horror-obsessed death metal lunatics House by the Cemetary deliver 30 filthy minutes of sharpened bone saws, sewer-stench groove, and classic Fulci-drenched death.

Blast Worship: Carthage Must Be Destroyed

December 9, 2025

London grinders Carthage Must Be Destroyed will blast you back to the stone age.

1914 Break Down Their New Album, Viribus Unitis

December 8, 2025

Learn the story of a Ukrainian solider in World War I via a breakdown of the new 1914 album.