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Hardcore punk bruisers Venomous Concept and Richmond crossover crushers Under Attack join forces in the best split 7-inch you’ll hear all year.

You’re not just hearing things — Delusions, the debut LP from Chicago trio Mine Collapse totally rules.

The “Metal & Beer” ticket for Decibel Magazine Metal & Beer Fest: Philly on June 10-11 isn’t gonna be available much longer. Don’t blow it.

Candlemass vocalist/legend Johan Längqvist discusses the doom kings’ special Epicus Doomicus Metallicus set at Metal & Beer Fest, amazingly, on the record’s 36th birthday.

The ever-prolific Dark Sky Burial project of Napalm Death’s Shane Embury returns with a new single just in time for Bandcamp Friday.

Nuclear Assault bassist/legend Danny Lilker talks Metal & Beer Fest beer collaboration with KCBC, a special guest stage-dive performance at the event, and the black metal bedspreads.

The Red Chord talk festival beer collaboration with Bone Up Brewing, vocalist Guy Kozowyk’s secret rabbit lair and the possibility of maybe even rehearsing before their first performance in seven years.

SpiritWorld mainman Stu Folsom recaps his band’s maiden voyage on the recently completed Decibel Magazine Tour.

Hear current and former members of Stygian Crown, Morgion, Exhausted Prayer, Witchaven get their NWOSDM on in Ceremonial Decay.

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

Shane Embury’s electronic ambient Dark Sky Burial has one last holiday present for you before we close the book on 2021.

Napalm Death bassist Shane Embury completes the first quadrilogy of his instrumental/ambient/electronic solo venture Dark Sky Burial. Hear it now.

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

Watch Sin City’s SpiritWorld bring their self-described “death western” to the small screen on “Unholy Passages.”

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Decibel is deeply saddened to report the passing of Eric Greif, the extreme metal entertainment lawyer and former manager of Death and president of Perseverance Holdings Ltd, at the age of 59.

This is your chance to own of piece of death metal history. Former Carcass drummer Ken Owen is auctioning off the drum kit he used on a pair of classic recordings.

New England metallic hardcore bruisers Vaulted return with a new video for the title of their impending new LP Left In Despair.

Register now to get updates on the impending publication of Life? … & Napalm Death the biography of the legendary Shane Embury.

Watch New York death metallers — and current Decibel Flexi Series stars – Undeath deliver a video report from their first U.S. tour.

Hear and acquire this Undeath flexi disc single, featuring a brand new track, available as part of the Decibel Flexi Series. Hurry, quantities are extremely limited!

The legendary doom metal vocalist (The Skull, ex-Trouble) passes away at 62 due to COVID-19-related complications

U.K. underground crusty thrash heroes Hellbastard return with the long-delayed video for “Outsider of the Year”

Shane Embury’s solo venture of dark ambient soundscapes and unsettling industrial noise textures, Dark Sky Burial, returns with its third full-length release since March 2020. 

Watch Gruesome drummer Gus Rios step out from behind the kit and front tribute/cover band Union Black with an arresting Depeche Mode cover.

Legendary Napalm Death bassist Shane Embury takes his ambient Dark Sky Burial project to the stage in London on September 12.

Our minds have led us into ignorance, so Shrew and Shrub return with the crust punk/death metal of Pray U Prey to lead us out of ignorance.

Hear and acquire this previously unreleased Nachtmystium flexi disc single, featuring a lost track from 2006, available as part of the Decibel Flexi Series.

Old-school heavy metal heroes — and creators of Decibel‘s 2020 Album of the Year runner up, Ravening Iron — Eternal Champion will return to the stage on July 9 in Austin.

Hear ex-Massacre and current Obituary and the Absence members fly the blood-soaked flag of old-school death metal in Inhuman Condition.