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Pre-Order ‘Born Human: The Life and Music of DEATH’s CHUCK SCHULDINER’ from Decibel Books! Read an Exclusive Excerpt Now!

August 8, 2025

Pre-order the massive, nearly 500-page official biography of death metal pioneer Chuck Schuldiner from Decibel Books and read an excerpt now!

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Track Premiere: Achathras – ‘The Despiser Triumphant’

August 12, 2025

Black metal vets try something new in Achathras.

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. 

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Blackbraid

September 2025 [#251]

Includes exclusive limited edition Kontusion flexi disc

The Warrior’s Trail! Also: the Decibel Hall of Fame: The Making of Witchcraft’s Witchcraft, Maryland Deathfest XX & Northwest Terror Fest reviewed, Carla Harvey, Cold Slither, Katatonia and more

Blast Worship: Sick Destroyer

August 12, 2025

Hear Needful Things members return with more Czech grind badassery with Sick Destroyer.

Track by Track: Incite –Savage New Times

August 11, 2025

Phoenix groovecore brutalizers Incite take us track-by-track through their thrashtastic seventh full-length, Savage New Times.

Human Bulldozer: A Conversation with Kommodus’ Lepidus Plague

August 11, 2025

A conversation with Lepidus Plague, the unstoppable force behind the Australian one-man black metal campaign, Kommodus.

Five For Friday: August 8, 2025

August 8, 2025

This week brings a special kind of darkness with the latest from Crypt Sermon, Blackbraid, Malthusian and more!

Track Premiere: Crimson Butchery – “Lab Rat”

August 8, 2025

Crimson Butchery are back with Stalker, their third slab of surgical brutality, and we’re thrilled to slice into the premiere of its gnarly fourth track, “Lab Rat.”

Guitar Playthrough: Last Retch – “In the Polder They Reek”

August 7, 2025

Canadian death dealers Last Retch have blessed us with a playthrough video of “In the Polder They Reek” from their forthcoming record, Abject Cruelty, due out September 26 via Time to Kill Records.

A Brief Reading Round-Up from the Heavy Metal Book Club

August 7, 2025

On the eve of a massive Decibel Books announcement, Kevin Stewart-Panko wants you to know what’s on his summer reading list.

KILL SCREEN 068: Mike McKenzie and Greg Weeks of THE RED CHORD Are Our People

August 6, 2025

One of our earliest player characters returns with a friend to talk about ditching class to play Atari, terrible games and amazing OSTs.