Chris Dick
GoFundMe Announced in Support of Andrew Scott Thomas’ Fight Against Lung Cancer
May 8, 2025 Chris Dick
Help extreme metal maniac Andrew Scott Thomas in his fight against Stage 3 lung cancer.
Unleashed – Where No Life Dwells
April 18, 2025 Chris Dick
Dropping Thor’s Hammer The Making of Unleashed’s Where No Life Dwells In the early ’90s, the general death metal assumption was that bands from Sweden, particularly Stockholm and its suburbs, were carbon copies of Nihilist. And then Entombed. And then Dismember. Certainly, the second and third generation of Swedes that hell-spawned bands from the subterranean…
Track Premiere: Time And The Hunter Debut New Video & Three Tracks
March 19, 2025 Chris Dick
Time And The Hunter, an experimental electronica group formed by ex-Dark Tranquillity guitarist Niklas Sundin and The Moor main-brain Enrico Longhin, debut three tracks from their forthcoming Inertia Music debut, Weapon Pt. I.
DISMEMBER Break Down ‘Like an Ever Flowing Stream’ Track by Track Ahead of Metal & Beer Fest Album-Performance
March 13, 2025 Chris Dick
Dismember‘s fearsome five breakdown their iconic Like an Ever Flowing Stream as we approach their full-album performance of the album at Decibel’s Metal & Beer Fest: Philly on April 4.
Q&A: Max Cavalera (Cavalera) Gets Schizophrenic
March 11, 2025 Chris Dick
Max and Iggor Cavalera are out on the road with Cavalera with Necrot and Dead Heat as they blaze through critical tracks from Bestial Devastation, Morbid Visions, and Schizophrenia!
Survival Sickness: The Making of Autopsy’s Landmark “Severed Survival”
December 1, 2024 Chris Dick
Get hyped for Autopsy‘s December 6 performance of Severed Survival at Decibel Magazine Metal & Beer Fest: Denver with this Hall of Fame induction from 2015 of the death metal classic.
Acclaimed Author & Podcaster Jeff Wagner Suffers Devastating House Fire, GoFundMe Announced
November 21, 2024 Chris Dick
Decibel ally, metal warrior, and acclaimed author Jeff Wagner has a devastating house fire. Help him recover with his GoFundMe!
Q&A: Chuck Billy (Testament) Goes A Haunting
October 10, 2024 Chris Dick
Decibel interviews Chuck Billy of thrash metal titans Testament about the reissues of The Legacy and The New Order.
Track Premiere: New Skeletal Faces “Until the Night”
September 18, 2024 Chris Dick
California fangers New Skeletal Faces premiere their shimmering, sanguine new track, “Until the Night,” at Decibel. Out November on Peaceville Records.
Deathevokation – The Chalice of Ages
July 30, 2024 Chris Dick
We raise a toast to Deathevokation‘s one-and-done classic, The Chalice of Ages.
Track Premiere: Daughter Chaos “Noble Rot”
July 1, 2024 Chris Dick
Death metal artists Daughter Chaos, featuring ex-members of Armageddon and The Obsessed, launch crushing new single, “Noble Rot,” off their forthcoming album, Noble Rot, via Abrams Records.
Track Premiere: The Gathering – “Stonegarden” (Remix)
February 28, 2024 Chris Dick
Burning World Records celebrates the 30th Anniversary Edition of The Gathering‘s critical debut album, Always…. Streaming “Stonegarden” now only at Decibel!
Farsot – ‘Life Promised Death’
February 5, 2024 Chris Dick
The fourth LP from German black metaller’s Farsot is Decibel‘s album of the week.
Track Premiere: Counting Hours – “Away I Flow”
January 24, 2024 Chris Dick
Members of Shape of Despair/ex-Rapture, Impaled Nazarene, and ex-Colosseum lean into their Finnish gloom roots with Counting Hours.
Cathedral – The Ethereal Mirror
January 5, 2024 Chris Dick
We celebrate the 30th anniversary of Cathedral‘s major label debut with a Hall of Fame re-induction.
Blind Guardian – Imaginations From the Other Side
October 31, 2023 Chris Dick
German power/speed/prog metallers Blind Guardian are past, future, perfect on Imaginations From the Other Side.
Track Premiere: Drowned – “Chryseos Vas”
August 3, 2023 Chris Dick
Fabled German death metallers Drowned premiere new song “Chryseos Vas” off their upcoming new album, Procul His. Streaming in old-school filth and brutality only at Decibel.
Q&A: Max Fox (The Boneless Ones) Rages Full-On In Europe
July 31, 2023 Chris Dick
Max Fox, vocalist for crossover legends The Boneless Ones, readies the troops for the group’s first-ever European shows, specifically in front of 20,000 at Dynamo in Holland.
Atheist and Cynic Members Go Deep On The A Piece of Time Podcast
June 5, 2023 Chris Dick
Kelly Shaefer, of Atheist and Till the Dirt, is host of the A Piece of Time Podcast. In Episode 2, Shaefer interviews Cynic‘s Paul Masvidal for two incredible hours. Atheist and Cynic embark on the Focus and Presence tour June 10th in Austin, TX.
Kelly Shaefer & Steve DiGiorgio Cover Alice In Chains “Rotten Apple”
May 22, 2023 Chris Dick
Kelly Shaefer (Atheist, Till The Dirt) and Steve DiGiorgio (Testament, Death To All) cover Alice In Chain’s “Rotten Apple.” Exclusively at Decibel!
At the Gates – Terminal Spirit Disease
March 1, 2023 Chris Dick
Swedish melodic death metal legends At the Gates walk through the hallowed gates of our Hall of Fame for the third time via Terminal Spirit Disease.
Undeath, Sanguisugabogg, Mortuous, Phobophilic Members Reflect On Death Metal In 2022
December 26, 2022 Chris Dick
Undeath, Sanguisugabogg, Mortuous, Phobophilic, 200 Stab Wounds, Frozen Soul, and Ripped to Shreds members extol the virtues of death metal in this cutting room floor piece. Only death wears CROCS!
The Top 5 Bands That Influenced The Abbey
December 19, 2022 Chris Dick
Finnish progressive doom outfit The Abbey, featuring members of Hexvessel and Shape of Despair, list their Top 5 Albums that influenced new album, Word of Sin.
Full Album Premiere: Hellish ‘The Dance of the Four Elemental Serpents’
December 12, 2022 Chris Dick
Chilean blackened thrash Hellish spawns new album, The Dance of the Four Elemental Serpents. Streaming with blood, fire, and death at Decibel!
Full Album Premiere: Wolok ‘The Bilious Hues Of Gloom’
December 5, 2022 Chris Dick
France-based blackened doom industrialists Wolok punish all in their wake with new album, The Bilious Hues Of Gloom. Streaming now!
Full Album Premiere: Appalling ‘Sacrilege’
November 28, 2022 Chris Dick
American death metallers Appalling crush the cenotaph on new album, Sacrilege, via Personal Records. Streaming at Decibel now!
Q&A: Matt Pattison Of Glorious Times Productions Remembers His Brother And Legend Brian Pattison
November 21, 2022 Chris Dick
Matt Pattison, brother of Anthropic and A Day of Death legend Brian Pattison, reveals plans for the Glorious Times CD (CDN Records) and Day of Death IV festival in Buffalo.
Full Album Premiere: Witchunter ‘Metal Dream’
November 14, 2022 Chris Dick
Italian new wave heavy metallers Witchunter stream new album Metal Dream (Dying Victims) via Decibel. Power and the Glory!
Track Premiere: Sacrilegion ‘Transfixed in Spiral Ambiguity’
November 7, 2022 Chris Dick
Salt Late City’s Sacrilegion creates death metal velvet on new track “Transfixed in Spiral Ambiguity,” off From Which Nightmares Crawl out via Chaos Records.
Decibel’s Top 10 Iron Maiden Live Albums
October 31, 2022 Chris Dick
Decibel lists the Top 10 Iron Maiden live albums. Which one is number 10? Heavy metal never met a better live band.