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Dan “Chewy” Mongrain, Dave Witte, Shane Embury, Bruce Lamont, Christian Doble and a host of other metal and punk luminaries pay tribute to the Cardiacs‘ “Tarred and Feathered” with an assist from bassist Jim Smith!

Evoken unleash their first concept album with Hypnagogia.

What’s in a number?

Next month, you can descend fully into the Well of the Disquieted, but for now, why don’t you just test the waters of Hands of Despair‘s new album.

Fans of heavily medicated prehistoric fauna, today’s your lucky day.

Cleric draw straight lines (through tesseracts) connecting quantum physics to Stephen King and Thom Yorke.

Brazilian percussive drone/noise/punk trio Deafkids rule harder than you might expect.

The biggest problem with our Top 40 Albums of 2017 is that it’s hard to fit 45 albums onto that list. Let’s expand our horizons with Black Anvil, Vallenfyre, Forgotten Tomb, Grave Pleasures and Suffering Hour.

Goatwhore command you to destroy on this month’s Flexi, “Command to Destroy.” Find out how it all happened.

What’s lean, mean and glows in the dark? We don’t know, but this KEN Mode Flexi sure is an offensive shade of yellow.

Bow down for the return of Cleric.

No need to double check the web address bar. Yes, this is Decibel discussing an old Devin Townsend joint. Physicist proves that for every album there is a reaction. Here’s ours.

Days of Darkness lasted two days. So does our coverage. Come on in for a glance at the damp-weather-enforced second round of doom, etc.

Neurosis make an East Coast appearance. Dälek joins. Manilla Road and Perturbator show up to make their own noise. We try to keep our heads from exploding.

Surprised we’re highlighting this one? So are we. But Faith No More‘s legacy deserves a better shake than we first gave it, so let’s lean toward the urinal of taste and shimmy until the job is done right.

Nearly 100 issues ago, we inducted Cynic‘s Focus into our not-yet-crowded-with-talent Hall of Fame. Now we count down those songs in celebration of one of the most confounding death metal records ever.

Mike Bishop sheds Blothar’s antlers and abdominal adornments to speak frankly with us about GWAR after Brockie.

Listen to Spectral Voice. Read about Spectral Voice. But never really know Spectral Voice.

All Out War goes all out Flex with a bit of all out grind.

Less than a week before the full release of Thrice Woven, find out what else Wolves in the Throne Room had to say about their latest work.

Despise stars. Loathe planets. Abhor meteors. Detest nebulae. Hate Moon.

Argus will release their fourth full-length record this week. Get in here and find out all about it.

Find out what Steve Austin of Today is the Day has to say about his recent contribution to Decibel‘s Flexi Series.

Two scene scholars sound off about Decibel cover stars Wolves in the Throne Room.

Poland darkens your doorway once again with a new song by In Twilight’s Embrace.

Cavernlight play emotionally important music.  If you plan to doom today, doom to this.

As a way to introduce younglings to metal (as well as excite the Obi-waning among us), Galactic Empire are starkillin’ it.

Yes, way too much music comes through our inbox to make sense of it all. Yes, lots of it is good, scratching all those familiar itches in just the right way. No, music doesn’t have to reshape your mental cosmos to be worth your time. But when something shoulder-checks your face as hard as the…

Today, Whore of Bethlehem‘s sophomore full-length Extinguish the Light sees release, and we also spoke with guitarist Phil King about the band’s latest endeavor.

We recently got turned on to Ontario blackened sludge fiends Longhouse, who also just became a part of the Deathbound family.  We also asked the band a few questions, which they graciously answered for your reading pleasure.