Andrew Bonazelli

Bend your back for the climax of this crushing epic.

Vancouver does heavy metal right. Drink up.

Black metal perennials Rotting Christ are set to drop their latest slab of malevolence.

Are you in an unsigned band? We’ve got a deal that’ll help get your name out there.

Disgustingly old-school death metal, you say? Count us in!

Nobody in their right mind would line up to tell these dudes that punk’s dead

Japanese doom vets Church of Misery have been holed up in their safehouse for the last three years, but they’re ready to resume their (serial) criminal career with a super cool new accomplice.

The renowned disEMBOWELMENT offshoot continues to make a name of their own.

The Norwegian legend returns in style.

Grind, D-beat, hardcore and more converge on supergroup’s must-hear latest.

Every so often, we take a little time on Mondays to pay tribute to the Muthas! That is, reprinting the adorable metal/maternal Q&As that run in the magazine. Today, enjoy Justin Norton’s chat with Sandra McGowan, mutha of Atheist’s Kelly Shaefer. 

In 1982, L.A. synth-poppers Missing Persons scored a minor Billboard hit with “Destination Unknown” (“Has it all been said and done? / I know I’ll leave when it’s my time to go / ’Til then I’ll carry on with what I know”).

3… 2… get obliterated in more ways than 1 this New Year’s Eve!

Every so often, we take a little time on Mondays to pay tribute to the Muthas! That is, reprinting the adorable metal/maternal Q&As that run in the magazine. Today, enjoy Justin Norton’s chat with Dorothy Pendleton, mutha of SubRosa’s Sarah Pendleton. 

From the city that brought you BTBAM and Corrosion of Confirmity, a hard shot of blackened thrash.

The new video from the mysterious OSDM supergroup has no shortage of sickles, hoods and general madness.

This year’s story is all but written. It’s time to focus on the Top 20 Most Anticipated Albums of 2016. Decibel has you covered with exclusive previews of next year’s extremely extremest, with Amon Amarth, Nails and Darkthrone as the tip of the frostbitten iceberg.

Cello + voice Canadian duo bring the holiday melancholia in spades.

Swedish folk metallers Grimner break out the big blades on new single “Eldhjärta,” and it’s all sorts of fun: syncopated riffage and stirring woodwinds galore.

Snow day! Check the new Ihsahn lyric video from the forthcoming full-length Arktis!

Procrastination is natural. Especially when it comes to holiday shopping. But the clock is perilously close to zeroes. It’s now or never to jump on Decibel‘s Under the Tree, Under the Wire holiday special, which will expire TODAY, December 18 at noon EST. 

Up-and-coming Philly death metal outfit wreak havoc on four-way split.

OSDM done right, courtesy of the faceless supergroup (if there can be such a thing) of Undead Prophecies

The long wait is over!

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Purple Reign
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Monstrous Munster, Germany quintet Supreme Carnage do old-school death metal in the vein of Bolt Thrower and Asphyx. 

In celebration of Decibel Books’ revised and expanded edition of Choosing Death: The Improbable History of Death Metal and Grindcore, we’ve lured eight killer death/grind bands to the one-day extreme music event of 2016

One nightmare you’re not going to want to wake up from, with L.A. doom/sludge psychos as your guides to the underworld.

“Cripple the Cross” with thrash/grind purveyors extraordinaire. 

From the ashes of tragedy, exceptional new music from the Savannah sludge kings.