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$25 Decibel Metal & Beer Fest: L.A. Tickets: HURRY, LIMITED TO 100, ONE WEEK ONLY!
September 13, 2019
“Just Metal” tickets for for Decibel Magazine Metal & Beer Fest: LA are just $25 until Sept 22. Only 100 available. Hurry!
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Track Premiere: Infirmity – ‘Darkness Reigns Supreme’
September 16, 2019
Get an afternoon dose of metal thrashing death from L.A.’s Infirmity!
Editorial
Fallow Heart: Transmissions From a World of Paine
September 13, 2019
“Progress is born of doubt and inquiry. The Church never doubts, never inquires. To doubt is heresy, to inquire is to admit that you do not know—the Church does neither.” —Robert G. Ingersoll
Latest Issue
Opeth - A Toast to Life After Death
October 2019 [#180]
Includes exclusive limited edition Gatecreeper flexi disc
Featuring: Killswitch Engage, Cult of Luna, Entombed A.D., Devourment, a special report on Heavy Montréal, the Decibel Hall of Fame: the making of Tormentor’s Anno Domini, Crypt Sermon, Dark Castle, Monolord and more
Blast Worship: Ona Snop
September 17, 2019 Gene Meyer
Leeds grinders Ona Snop deliver spazztic blurs of goofy buzzsaw powerviolence that are as blistering as they are irreverent.
Album Stream: Grabunhold ‘Unter dem Banner der Toten’
September 16, 2019 Chris Dick
German black metal upstarts Grabunhold stream new EP, Unter dem Banner der Toten, their first for German indie Iron Bonehead Productions.
Listen to TWO Brand New Haunt Singles
September 13, 2019 Albert Mudrian
Trevor William Church can’t, won’t and don’t stop – releases a pair of new split singles from heavy metal heroes Haunt
Track Premiere: Vesperith- “Fractal Flesh”
September 13, 2019 J. Andrew
For those who like their black metal to take them places beyond Earth’s tired atmosphere, Finland’s Vesperith is the band to watch.
Track Premiere: Return Fire – ‘Product of Abuse’
September 13, 2019 Albert Mudrian
Freshly minted thrashers Return Fire will self-release their nine-track debut on September 27, but we have a first taste for you right NOW.
Demo:listen: Golgot
September 13, 2019 Dutch Pearce
On this full moon Friday the 13th, Demo:listen has the pleasure of introducing primitive black death bringers Golgot.
Video Premiere: Hellhorse – ‘The Long Drought’
September 12, 2019 Vince Bellino
Hellhorse prepare for “The Long Drought.”
Track Premiere: Oxalate – ‘Unwholesome Revelation’
September 12, 2019 Vince Bellino
Oxalate give us some good ol’ death metal fun.
Hall of Fame Countdown: The Accüsed’s “More Fun than an Open Casket Funeral!”
September 12, 2019 Greg Pratt
Ranking the songs on The Accüsed’s Hall of Fame-inducted 1989 album More Fun than an Open Casket Funeral! from worst to best.
Video Premiere: Luggage – ‘Shift’
September 12, 2019 Vince Bellino
Stow this in your earholes, new noise rock radness from Chicago’s Luggage.