We conclude our mammoth “Heavy Meta” series with a look at the direct impact of Decibel‘s own review of a Winterfylleth album on the artist himself.

Nightfell‘s latest shows a band expertly blending styles together into a creepy, powerful and menacing spell of grit and rage.

Stream the new full length from DC’s Sickdeer and get to know a powerful new force in the USBM underground.

We have a limited number of advance copies of the 15th anniversary issue of Decibel, featuring a flexi disc with an exclusive new track from Gatecreeper, available now. Don’t blow it.

Stream the new split from Pillärs and Wallcreeper.

Decibel honors the greatest rock album of the ’00s – warts and all – with a Hall of Fame induction.

Expain premieres video. Decibel offers second-by-second commentary.

Celebrated True Norwegian Black Metal music photographer Peter Beste talks battle vests, image capture, subculture, metal, and his related new book Defenders of the Faith.

On the eve of his own U.S. tour, Orange Goblin frontman Ben Ward provides five pro tips that every band who is booking their own tour should practice.

Canadian hardcore collective Kennedy bring the sweat and screams in the video for their new single, “Blood & Soil.”