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USBM: A Revolution of Identity in American Black Metal, the new 544-page hardcover from Decibel Books featuring a foreword from Tom Gabriel Warrior, is available for pre-order now.

Get your deluxe Decibel subscription by Monday, October 5 to obtain this HIGHLY LIMITED flexi disc single from Texas death metal young guns Frozen Soul, as well as a SECOND flexi disc from grindcrushers Wake!

Get your deluxe Decibel subscription by Monday, October 5 to obtain this HIGHLY LIMITED flexi disc single from Canadian post-grind crushers Wake, as well as a SECOND flexi disc announced next week!

Over 100 back issues in the Decibel webstore are on sale now for just $3.00 each! Many of them down to the last copies. Hurry, sale ends Monday at midnight EDT.

Draugr, the multi-instrumentalist of the U.S. black metal bands Galdr, Ancalagon and Obscurum, pens an op-ed on his anti-racist political awakening in underground black metal.

Do you develop apps/type code with one hand while putting up the horns with the other? Get in touch right away!

For our 16th birthday, we got YOU a gift! Take 16% off ALL Decibel subscriptions from now until Sunday night!

Looking back on Decibel Hall of Famer Stormcrowfleet 25 years later with Skepticism organist Eero Pöyry.

Extremely extreme… er, Obscene Extreme Broadcasting, NOW ON AIR!

We’ve got suggestions on releases to help you headbang brain cells away and support bands/labels at time when they profit from it most.

Old Man Gloom drummer Santos Montano pens the fourth and final part of his epic tour diary for the band’s postponed 2020 tour.

Ripped to Shreds frontman Andrew Lee addresses the work that needs to be done in fighting dangerous stereotypes against Asians and Asian-Americans in underground metal.

Do your part to help while grabbing some great new music.

Decibel dives deep beyond the Peaceville Three with this death/doom addendum to our our new Decibel Yearbook: 1995 issue.

Old Man Gloom drummer Santos Montano pens Part I of tour diary for the band’s postponed 2020 tour.

Bandcamp is giving back today. Here are a few Decibel-approved suggestions.

Bandcamp is waiving their cut of all purchases made on Friday, March 20 to support creatives affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Decibel staff provides a few suggestions for your purchasing pleasure.

On the eve of the Mayhem-headlined Decibel Magazine Tour, Necropolis’ founder provides an in-depth interview on the greatest black metal comp ever, Nordic Metal: A Tribute To Euronymous.

On with the Twitter follower count, and the new Body Count album, Carnivore.

From the dark past…. well, more like very recent months, really… this month’s Decibel Meter has blizzard beasts to withstand the fall of time when dark and light don’t differ.

Yuletide is upon us! And fye has some Krampus-approved picks to add some headbanging to the holidays.

With album titles like Human Jerky, Homovore, To Serve Man, and, uh, Humanure, what could be a better fit for Thanksgiving?!

New albums > old Halloween candy.

Whether you’re a death devotee or prog purist, this month’s seasonally-and-topically-appropriate Decibel Meter has some titles for you.

Batushka, Faketushka, Fauxtushka, all the Tushkas; or none, really, as there is no ‘tushka in this month’s Decibel Meter.

Portuguese progressive metallers Apotheus expose the “horrors and injustices of this world” in their latest video, “Caves of Steel.”

Come! and hear the tale of how a humble notary from the Swiss Alps becomes inter-dimensional power metal hero Angus McFife.

Emotive hardcore heroes Knocked Loose move the next youthful crew forward.

On the eve of his own U.S. tour, Orange Goblin frontman Ben Ward provides five pro tips that every band who is booking their own tour should practice.

After a 21-year run with the metal heroes, Des Kensel is officially out of High on Fire.