Year: 2019

It’s a clamorous clash of titans when Taiwanese black metal wolf Inferno Requiem takes on Japanese black street metal legends Abigail. Hear the full split in its entirety right here.

An Isolated Mind end 2019 on a high note.

The final installment of our five-part countdown of the Top 50 grindcore and powerviolence releases of the decade

Norwegian black metallers Nattverd and Decibel unleash unholy hell on new track, “Slakt Dem,” the first track off new album, Styggdom.

New York’s Ordeals specializes in a certain kind of darkness. The band’s sound is an entrancing and at times terrifying blend of black metal and death metal.

This week Demo:listen finds itself in the black heart of northern darkness with Newfoundland’s Nocturnal Prayer.

As we close out the decade, Decibel has an infernal correspondence on the demise of relevant major-label metal

The Acacia Strain frontman Vincent Bennett talks new album It Comes in Waves, touring with diverse bands, the role of gods on humans and the band’s next record, coming soon.

Floridian swampdwellers Worm will get you in the holiday spirit with this moldy and dank death/doom banger from their forthcoming sophomore album, Gloomlord.

Yuletide is upon us! And fye has some Krampus-approved picks to add some headbanging to the holidays.

Everyone’s doing it, so why can’t he? Check out our longtime columnist and Krieg frontman’s 10 best from the past 10 years.

The making of the be-all and end-all of Polish death metal.

Madball demonstrate their metal-infused NYHC style on the classic Set It Off and enter the Decibel Hall of Fame

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The cold, grim, dark months are upon us. Prepare for your hibernation with 10 excellent albums filled with riffs, sythns and screams.

You didn’t really think we’d close out 2019 without the top pecks of the year from our resident birdbrain, did you?

After 8 long years, God-tier Chicago death/doom trio Cianide have returned with their new EP, Unhumanized.

For an imperial stout, it goes down easy. Easy like Christmas Morning.

Decibel will continue to drop two playlists a week on Apple Music in 2020.

Hard Charger has a new video, and old videos. And Decibel has a contest for you.

Canadian grindcrushers Wake Announce Devouring Ruin; debut records’s first single via Decibel.

Chopped judge Chris Santos talks heavy metal, Brian Slagel, Mayhem Fest and running his own record label, Blacklight Media.

Part Four of our five-part countdown of the Top 50 grindcore and powerviolence releases of the decade

Ex-Abigail Williams/Vehemence guitarist Bjorn Dannov is taking his heavy back to the 90s with Here in Spirit.

We know you haven’t started holiday shopping yet, but Decibel has you covered. Order this special subscription by 4pm EST December 19 and we’ll send you our new issue in time for Christmas.

Philadelphia label/distro Horror Pain Gore Death Productions release a free 42 song sampler to summarize their 2019 releases. It’s the soundtrack for the world’s end, just in time for the year’s end.

We have a limited number of advance copies of the February issue of Decibel, featuring an exclusive Trappist picture flexi disc, available now. Don’t blow it.

Menacing Turkish black metal trio Zifir invite us to the “Empire of Worms,” from their new album, Demoniac Ethics.

Dark Tranquillity guitarist Niklas Sundin reinvents himself in electronic project Mitochondrial Sun. Decibel premieres new song “Celestial Animal” off Sundin’s Argonauta Records debut.

British black metal solo outfit Revenant Marquis haunt our very souls with new track, “Ephebiphobia,” off the group’s new full-length, Youth in Ribbons.