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GoFundMe Announced in Support of Andrew Scott Thomas’ Fight Against Lung Cancer

May 8, 2025

Help extreme metal maniac Andrew Scott Thomas in his fight against Stage 3 lung cancer.

Unleashed – Where No Life Dwells

April 18, 2025

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

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

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

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

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

Decibel ally, metal warrior, and acclaimed author Jeff Wagner has a devastating house fire. Help him recover with his GoFundMe!

Track Premiere: New Skeletal Faces “Until the Night”

September 18, 2024

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

We raise a toast to Deathevokation‘s one-and-done classic, The Chalice of Ages.

Track Premiere: Daughter Chaos “Noble Rot”

July 1, 2024

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Track Premiere: Sacrilegion ‘Transfixed in Spiral Ambiguity’

November 7, 2022

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.