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Read How DEATH Moved Across Country to Keep the Band Alive In This Excerpt From ‘Born Human: The Life and Music of Death’s Chuck Schuldiner’ Out Now!
November 14, 2025
Chuck Schuldiner leaves Florida for California hoping to keep Death alive in a book excerpt from Born Human: The Life and Music of Death’s Chuck Schuldiner, which is out via Decibel Books TODAY!
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Full Album Stream: Destroy, Erase, Improve? With Negative Blast’s Destroy Myself For Fun
November 13, 2025
Check out the new album by rippin’ ‘n’ tearin’ San Diego hardcore punkers Negative Blast!
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: November 14, 2025
November 14, 2025 J. Andrew
This week, we bring you the latest in metal mastery, with new releases from VoidCeremony, Lamp of Murmuur, Strigiform and more!
Pallbearer – Sorrow and Extinction
November 14, 2025 Nick Green
Pallbearer‘s legendary doom heartbreaker Sorrow and Extinction enters the Hall of Fame.
Video Premiere: Devolver – “Wraiths”
November 13, 2025 Addison Herron-Wheeler
Grande Prairie, Canada’s Devolver are sharing their new video for “Wraiths,” a standout track from their latest album Non Compos Mentis.
Now Available: PALLBEARER’s ‘Sorrow and Extinction’ on Decibel Hall of Fame Gold Medal 2xLP
November 13, 2025 Decibel Magazine
There are a mere 100 copies of Sorrow and Extinction, the debut from doom lords Pallbearer on our exclusive Decibel Hall of Fame Gold Medal edition 2xLP vinyl.
Full Album Stream: Monograf –Occultation
November 12, 2025 Adem Tepedelen
Hear Norwegian folk-inspired post-metal outfit Monograf dive deep into Occultation, their sprawling second full-length.
Blast Worship: Snarler
November 12, 2025 Gene Meyer
Nova Scotia grinders Snarler should probably have their new cassette, Blast Rash, looked at.
Album Stream: Withering Soul – ‘Passage of the Arcane’
November 12, 2025 Tim Mudd
Chicago’s Withering Soul return with their fifth full-length, Passage of the Arcane — a blackened melodic death metal odyssey steeped in cursed lore, burning melodies, and an atmosphere as chilling as grave-silt air
SPOILER: Here Are Decibel’s Top 40 Albums of 2025
November 12, 2025 Decibel Magazine
Yes, we know that it’s November. No, we didn’t forget your favorite album. Yes, we’re sure about that.
Full Album Stream: Degraved – “Spectral Realm of Ruin”
November 11, 2025 J. Andrew
The new album from Degraved pulls you into the crypts of death metal despair and only gets darker from there. Hear it now.
Del James on Lucha Libre, Circle 6 Death Matches and His New Graphic Novel, Consensual Violence
November 11, 2025 J. Bennett
Rock/metal legend and longtime GN’R cohort Del James talks about his new graphic novel, Consensual Violence.
