Year: 2023

Secret Machine beers are largely for fans of extremely fruit-forward kettle sours. Baked Alaska, aged on pistachio, chocolate, raspberry and vanilla, fits right in.

This week’s new releases includes the latest screams and riffs from Thron, Tribulation, Rotten Sound and more!

Celebrate the 25th anniversary of Drowningman‘s classic Busy Signal at the Suicide Hotline with the Decibel-exclusive edition!

Minneapolis based alt/space rock band Houston pilot you back to the mid-’90s alt-metal heyday of Failure and Hum.

Watch a band new video California trad metal heroes Haunt in advance of the new album, Golden Arm, out May 5.

Napalm Death’s Shane Embury’s solo venture of dark ambient soundscapes and textures, Dark Sky Burial, returns with its sixth full-length in just three years.

Hear the ear-scraping new debut, ‘Knife,’ from Charm City post-hardcore noiseniks Mast Year.

Death metal legends Pyrexia unleash a lyric video from the forthcoming reissue of their slamming classic 1997 album, System of the Animal.

Check out Maudiir‘s musical soliloquy of prominent prog rock melodies, blackened NWOBHM chord voicings and mid-period Mustaine riffing …Soliloque

Tithe guitarist/vocalist Matt Eiseman on how working through grief led to his best hour as a musician.

Da mighty crossover vocalist prefers his digital body counts to be in the billions.

Fiadh Productions raise funds for rescuing warzone animals with their 50 track charity compilation, From Dreams To Living Things.

Decibel Magazine Metal & Beer Fest: Philly kicks off NEXT WEEK, which means it’s time to finalize travel plans and get your tickets if you haven’t already. To aid in your planning, set times are now available.

Read an exclusive excerpt, featuring Armored Saint, from Metal Blade founder Brian Slagel’s upcoming book, Swing of the Blade: More Stories from Metal Blade Records.

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to accompany Romanian ice metal masters Persekutor on a “Night Job.”

Finnish legends Rotten Sound haven’t lost a step on latest blasterpiece Apocalypse.

Vocalist Sami Kaiser and guitarist Anthony Webster of New Jersey’s Gel talk embracing and breaking convention on their debut LP, Only Constant.

Michael Dimmitt’s incredible new documentary A Wandering Path: The Story of Gilead Media, is screening in May. But you can watch the trailer and read a full review right now.

Our resident birdbrain returns to tackle a pair of new releases from some of Decibel‘s favorite Jersey/Philly artists.

Fans of New York and New Jersey-derived styles of hardcore will find plenty to love from Kings Never Die, from the gang vocals to the crushing breakdown.

Here are the 55 different beers that “Metal & Beer” ticket holders are entitled to sample at Decibel Magazine Metal & Beer Fest on April 14-15 in Philadelphia!

Get your deluxe Decibel subscription by Monday, April 3 to obtain this HIGHLY LIMITED flexi disc single from death metal/hardcore crushers Terminal Nation.

Not the last you’ll hear from Michigan power thrash sextet Finality.

Midwestern death metal upstarts Yotuma just dropped a new video, “Shrine of Absolution,” from their upcoming EP Otherworldly Incarnate, out April 8. Check it out here here. 

Hear Swedish black metal vets Unpure return with Prophecies Ablaze, the first new studio album in nearly 20 years.

Hear and acquire this Origin disc single, featuring an exclusive brand new recording, available as part of the Decibel Flexi Series. Hurry, quantities are extremely limited!

Oxford stoner rockers Desert Storm take a bad trip with some roarin’ riffs on their new fuzz-heavy LP, Death Rattle.

Don’t feel bad, we have no idea what’s going on in the new video from Deaf Club/Starcrawler collab, Squid Pisser, either.

Midwest murder metal mavericks Macabre paint portraits of serial killers on 1993’s Sinister Slaughter.

Hear U.K. blasters Endless Swarm assert themselves amongst Scottish grindcore royalty on Manifested Forms.