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We have a limited number of advance copies of the December issue of Decibel, featuring our exclusive new flexi disc single from grinding black crust trio Gravesend available NOW!

Get your deluxe Decibel subscription by Monday, October 4 to obtain this HIGHLY LIMITED flexi disc single from New York new jack black/death/grind trio Gravesend.

Get your deluxe Decibel subscription by Tuesday, September 7 to obtain this limited edition flexi PICTURE DISC single featuring an exclusive new song from doomed heavy metallers Khemmis.

The deluxe expanded edition of Encased in Ice, on exclusive Icy Light Blue color limited to 200 worldwide, is available for pre-order only via the Decibel webstore.

Hear and acquire this Ripped to Shreds flexi disc single, featuring a brand new track, available as part of the Decibel Flexi Series. Hurry, quantities are extremely limited!

Decibel‘s exclusive color of the new double LP from German progressive death metal kings Obscura is the most limited U.S. pressing of this album at only 200 copies.

Tickets for Decibel Magazine Metal & Beer Fest: Philly are running low, like really low. Make your move now.

Love City Brewing joins the brewery lineup of this year’s Decibel Magazine Metal & Beer Philly at the Fillmore Philly on September 25-26, 2021.

Decibel‘s exclusive color of the new LP from Belgian post-doom collective Amenra is the most limited pressing of this album at only 200 copies.

We have a limited number of advance copies of the May issue of Decibel, featuring our an exclusive new flexi disc single from hardcore heroes Earth Crisis.

Get your deluxe Decibel subscription by Monday, February 1 to obtain this HIGHLY LIMITED flexi disc single from Dutch death/doom kings Celestial Season.

Incantation takes you on a track-by-track tour of their death metal juggernaut Sect of Vile Divinities

At Decibel, we refer to today’s annual homage to consumerism as “Extra-Black Friday.” So, we’re happy to brighten (or darken) the day for our metalhead brothers and sisters via two free issues of Decibel.

Oceans of Slumber frontwoman Cammie Gilbert offers wise words of empathy and unity as a woman of color in a white, male-dominated scene. She is a metalhead like all of us.

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

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

Hear the new EP from international black metal historians Departure Chandelier.

This month’s Decibel Meter withstands the fall of time, but not quite at the the heart of winter, for a summer/winter battle courtesy of Abbath.

Erik Rutan to fill in for Cannibal Corpse guitarist Pat O’Brien on the Decibel Tour.

Cannibal Corpse, Iron Maiden, and High on Fire are far better uses of your Black Friday cash than a TV. Come on, you know it.

War Moans
Everybody Wants Some!!
dB rating: 8/10

Demonization
Lock’n like Dokken
dB rating: 9/10

Severed Monolith
On the chopping block
dB rating: 8/10

Our resident birdbrain is back to tackle the new Obituary, Warcrab and Waldgefluster. 

Saxon have enjoyed a prolific career, with a multitude of live albums. Inspired by their upcoming vinyl box set, The Vinyl Hoard, Season of Mist’s Greg Karlowitsch ranks Saxon’s already released live albums from worst to best.

dB got in touch with Tom Angelripper, bassist and vocalist of thrash heroes Sodom, to talk about the legendary band’s new album, Decision Day, and the state of the world today.

Publicist UK vocalist Zachary Lipez provides a rebuttal to Jeffrey S Podoshen’s recent guest editorial on “Social Justice Warriors” the metal scene.

New titles from Obscura, Exodus, Khemmis and more!

New reissues from Moonspell, Kreator, Sodom and a live LP from Behemoth!

Ok, Happy Fourth of July. You know, like, it’s  that day and all. GOATWHORE release Constricting Rage of the Merciless. Let’s not really discuss the title, as I don’t know what it means. Produced by Erik Rutan, this definitely has a full sound, full of clarity and definition without losing any teeth (or beak, in this…