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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-by-Track: Fermentor – ‘Agreement’
August 14, 2025
Instrumental metal duo Fermentor (featuring members of Atheist and Beekeeper) unveil their latest album, Agreement, tomorrow but they’re here to tell you all about it today!
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
Five For Friday: August 15, 2025
August 15, 2025 J. Andrew
This week’s set of new releases cuts deep with the latest from Castrator, Grand Cadaver, Unleashed and more!
Autographed BENT SEA (Featuring Members of MEGADETH/NAPALM DEATH/ABORTED) Decibel-Exclusive Vinyl! PREORDER NOW!
August 15, 2025 Decibel Magazine
There are only 100 AUTOGRAPHED copies of Bent Sea‘s debut LP, The Dormant Ruin, on exclusive Tidal Fire Gold vinyl. Get one EXCLUSIVELY via Decibel!
Video Premiere: Nuclear Dudes – “Truth Paste”
August 13, 2025 Adem Tepedelen
Sandrider’s Jon Weisnewski delivers some grindcore insanity via his latest Nuclear Dudes track, “Truth Paste,” featuring vocalist Brandon Nakamura (ex-Teen Chtulu).
Video Premiere: Tar Pit – “Jubilee”
August 13, 2025 Tim Mudd
From the smoke-choked crypts of Portland rises Tar Pit, casting long shadows with their latest doom-soaked incantation, “Jubilee.” We’re premiering the video for this haunting slab of eldritch doom—a term the band doesn’t just invoke, but embodies.
Track Premiere: Achathras – ‘The Despiser Triumphant’
August 12, 2025 Emily Bellino
Black metal vets try something new in Achathras.
Blast Worship: Sick Destroyer
August 12, 2025 Gene Meyer
Hear Needful Things members return with more Czech grind badassery with Sick Destroyer.
Track by Track: Incite –Savage New Times
August 11, 2025 Adem Tepedelen
Phoenix groovecore brutalizers Incite take us track-by-track through their thrashtastic seventh full-length, Savage New Times.
Track Premiere: Death Meta – ‘Desecrated’
August 11, 2025 Emily Bellino
Death Meta take a Myspace approach to heavy music.
Track Premiere: NecroticGoreBeast – ‘Knuckle Deep Convulsions’
August 11, 2025 Emily Bellino
Slam crushers NecroticGoreBeast release the latest from their new EP, Brute.
Human Bulldozer: A Conversation with Kommodus’ Lepidus Plague
August 11, 2025 Dutch Pearce
A conversation with Lepidus Plague, the unstoppable force behind the Australian one-man black metal campaign, Kommodus.
