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METAL & BEER FEST: DENVER 2026 Is Just ONE MONTH AWAY! Got Your Tickets?

November 4, 2026

ONE month away! “Metal & Beer” tickets running low. What are you waiting for? Decibel Metal & Beer Fest: Denver 2026 is right around the corner!

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Video Premiere: Virologist – “Maimed by the Therianthrope”

November 4, 2026

Somewhere in Southern California, a group of young musicians has apparently swallowed an entire medical dictionary, developed a pathological aversion to conventional song structures and decided that brutal death metal simply wasn’t brutal enough. Meet Virologist.

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An Endless Wave of American Darkness: USBM’s Hidden Underground

December 26, 2025

Neill Jameson digs deep into the best that underground U.S. black metal had to offer in 2025.

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December 2026 [#266]

Screaming Volumes! The Metal & Beer Fest: Denver 2026 Special Preview Issue. Also: the Decibel Hall of Fame: The Making of Randy Holden’s Population II, Venom’s Cronos remembered, Walls of Jericho, Enslaved, Darkest Hour, and more. Each issue includes an exclusive limited edition Deathgrave flexi disc!

Track Premiere: The New Yorkers (pre-Megadeth) – “I Only Cry For You”

November 4, 2026

Hear early Megadeth members Gar Samuelson and Chris Poland’s ’70s jazz fusion band, The New Yorkers, on recently unearthed recording.

Blast Worship: Shunt

November 3, 2026

Our beloved country of Philadelphia delivers some ripped entrails from (virgins) Shunt.

Interview: Rebreather on ‘Chaos Patterns’

November 3, 2026

Youngstown, Ohio’s Rebreather have seen decades of moving and shifting in the world of metal. We talked to them about their new music and surviving the landscape for decades.

Q&A: ‘My War On Wilshire’ Author Michael Pearson on Photographing Black Flag at Their Peak

November 3, 2026

My War On Wilshire: Black Flag vs. the Wilshire Federal Building…and the Vex photographer Michael Pearson talks about shooting Black Flag and his new Bazillion Points book.

Track Premiere: Hirax – “Vigilante”

November 2, 2026

Hear the raging violence of the feisty new Hirax track “Vigilante.”

Track Premiere: Eternal Armageddon – ‘Constellations of the Night’

November 2, 2026

Stream a new single from long-running Bangladeshi black-thrash trio Eternal Armageddon‘s final album.

Randy Holden – Population II

November 2, 2026

Population II is a meditative exploration of form and process, presaging elements of the heavy music that followed. But, as the kids like to say, it’s also a mood.

Five For Friday: October 30, 2026

October 30, 2026

As we head into Halloween, it’s a weekend ruled by classic metal slashers like Enslaved, Cirith Ungol, Darkest Hour and more!

Album Premiere: Laser Dracul – Hin Håle Blues

October 29, 2026

Laser Dracul release their new album, Hin Håle Blues, on October 30 via Majestic Mountain Records. You can hear it with us first.