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ONLY 100 LEFT! EXCLUSIVE ‘Born Human: The Life and Music of Death’s Chuck Schuldiner’ Death-luxe Edition ALMOST GONE!

October 31, 2025

There are only 100 copies left of our special edition version of Born Human, the biography of death metal pioneer Chuck Schuldiner! Get it with the T-exclusive shirt now!

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Video Premiere: Calcraft – “Perpetually Stabbed”

October 31, 2025

Texas-based death metal outfit Calcraft is here to help us celebrate the season of perpetual stabbing with new a, um, pointed new video “Perpetually Stabbed!”

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

Acid Bath

December 2025 [#254]

Includes exclusive limited edition Terror Corpse picture flexi disc

The Beautiful Upgrade! Also: the Decibel Hall of Fame: The Making of Panopticon’s Autumn Eternal, Tomas Lindberg R.I.P., Testament, Primitive Man, Coroner and more

Five For Friday: October 31, 2025

October 31, 2025

Happy Halloween! We’re here to bring you the spookiest new horrors from Chained to the Dead, Despised Icon, Runemagick and more!

Pantopticon – Autumn Eternal

October 30, 2025

Decibel is honored to induct Panopticon’s atmospheric metal landmark Autumn Eternal into our Hall of Fame.

Track-by-Track: Stillbirth – “Survival Protocal”

October 30, 2025

Get ready to experience Stillbirth‘s eclectic blend of death metal, grindcore, deathcore, and slamming death metal which they call “Brutal Surf Death Metal.”

Full Album Stream: Various Artists –Spaceship Landing: A Tribute to Kyuss

October 29, 2025

Fuzz-drenched underground bands from around the world pay tribute to the mighty Kyuss on ‘Spaceship Landing – A Tribute to Kyuss’,coming soon on Witching Buzz Records.

KILL FEED 073: D. Harris and Joe Pelletier of PEELINGFLESH Are Stuck in a Simulation

October 29, 2025

The vocalist and drummer discuss Call of Duty’s most metal mode, the rise of simulation games and spending more time customizing cars than racing in racing games.

Album Premiere: Burned in Effigy – Tyrannus Aeternum

October 29, 2025

Hear Chicago’s Burned in Effigy return with a full-length inferno that marries neoclassical precision to melodic death metal mayhem.

Album Premiere: Thron — ‘Vurias’

October 29, 2025

German black metallers Thron thrive on transformation. Join them on the path via Vurias before it arrives October 31 on Listenable Records!

Video Premiere: Finality – ‘Haunted’

October 28, 2025

Listen to “Haunted,” the new singe from American heavy metal outfit Finality.

Blast Worship: Fed Ash

October 28, 2025

Nom-nom on new tunes from Binghamton blasters Fed Ash.