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DISMEMBER Claim Their First Decibel Cover as Part of Our Metal & Beer Fest Preview!

February 14, 2025

Swedish death metal OGs Dismember headline our Metal & Beer Fest: Philly Preview Issue! The issue is available now, but tickets won’t be much longer. Get them for the show at the Fillmore on April 4-5!

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MANTAR Stream Exclusive New Track, “Bitter Cum Symphony,” via the Decibel Flexi Series!

February 17, 2025

Hear and acquire this exclusive new flexi disc single from international sludge rock duo Mantar before the discs are sold out for good!

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Justify Your Shitty Taste: Danzig’s “6:66 Satan’s Child”

October 31, 2024

Celebrate the culmination of spooky season by revisiting Danzig‘s oft overlooked monster, 6:66 Satan’s Child.

Latest Issue

The Decibel Magazine Tour 2025

March 2025 [#245]

Includes exclusive limited edition Mantar flexi disc

Featuring Mayhem, Mortiis, Imperial Triumphant and New Skeletal Faces! Also: Metal & Beer Fest: Denver 2024 reviewed, the Decibel Hall of Fame: The Making of Paradise Lost’s Draconian Times, Pentagram, Obscura and more

Full Album Stream: Mean Mistreater –Do or Die

February 17, 2025

Hear Texas trad metal warriors Mean Mistreater lay some rubber on their high-horsepower second full-length, Do or Die.

Track Premiere: Ritual Ascension – ‘Womb Exegesis’

February 17, 2025

Ritual Ascension take a twisted approach to death/doom with new single “Womb Exegesis.”

Video Premiere: All Against – “Out Of The Box”

February 13, 2025

All Against release their new album, Straight Down To Hell, on March 14 via Raging Planet. Before it officially drops, you can check out the video for “Out Of The Box” to get a preview.

Scorpion Child debuts New LP, ‘I Saw the End As It Passed Right Through Me’, Discuss “HIM and Sisters of Mercy trying to play Judas Priest’ Sound of New LP”

February 13, 2025

Austin bangers Scorpion Child pull off ‘Him and Sisters of Mercy trying to play Judas Priest’ on third LP I Saw the End as it Passed Right Through Me.

Full Album Stream: Kosuke Hashida – “Outrage”

February 11, 2025

Kosuke Hashida reps ’90s death metal and grindcore on his second solo outing.

Blast Worship: Type: Armor Unit

February 11, 2025

You’re gonna have to wait two more years for a threepeat, but you can hear the latest from Belgian blasters Type: Armor Unit today.

Full EP Stream: Pyrrhic Salvation –When Society Crumbles

February 10, 2025

Multi-state progressive DM collab Pyrrhic Salvation return to the fray with manic, ambitious new EP, When Society Crumbles.

Video Premiere: Pyres – ‘Some, Not All, Came Back’

February 10, 2025

Pyres overcome grief on new song “Some, Not All, Came Back.”