Greg Pratt

Chip McCabe’s new book listing 666 essential metal albums is out now, and we caught up with him to find out his motivations for doing this outrageous project.

It’s been a long time coming, but Sarcasm are releasing their second album, and we caught up with them to get the scoop.

In honor of its recent induction to our Hall of Fame, we rank the songs on Cannibal Corpse’s 1994 coming-of-age album The Bleeding from worst to best.

You know the cover, now find out more about Dust’s 1971 debut in our most recent Primitive Origins.

We spent one hour in the new Interactive Metal Genres Graph and documented our findings.

In which we reconsider Pantera’s final offering, 2000’s Reinventing the Steel.

Shane Embury is pulling a very demanding triple duty on the upcoming European Campaign for Musical Destruction tour; we caught up with him to get the lowdown.

We catch up with the author of Damn the Machine, a new book about the history of Noise Records, to get the scoop on why he chose Noise to write about, the rocky relationships between the label and its bands, and much more.

Our latest Primitive Origins looks at the strange case of Idaho’s Salem Mass and their sole full-length, Witch Burning.

In which we revisit …And Justice for All and rank the songs from worst to best. Justice is done.

We caught up with California’s Dan Seagrave-lovin’ Xibalba to talk about their new EP.

As a special bonus to go along with our new Top 100 Metal Tours of All Time special issue, we rounded up members of Exodus, Slayer and Venom to talk about 1985’s Ultimate Revenge Tour for our latest That Tour Was Awesome.

In defense of Testament‘s most melodic album.

To celebrate our recent induction of Saxon’s NWOBHM classic Wheels of Steel into our Hall of Fame, we ranked each song on the album from least this-rules to most this-rules.

Our latest Primitive Origins examines the 1972 proto-prog-metal of Germans Night Sun.

Our latest That Tour Was Awesome looks back at the time that Neurosis, Voivod and Today is the Day blew Europe’s mind in 1999.

Portuguese death metal crew The Ominous Circle are a mysterious bunch, so we caught up with them just before their debut LP drops to try to make some sense out of it all.

We recently inducted Entombed’s classic second album into our Hall of Fame; let’s take a few minutes to examine it closely one more time, ranking each song from worst to best.

Our latest Primitive Origins looks at the 1972 proto-metal of California’s Sudden Death.

What do the phrase “break the chains,” Kurt Ballou’s production jobs, and ways to die all have in common? They’ve all been themes for Decibel‘s Apple Music playlists, of course.

We catch up with Singapore’s Rudra to talk about the lyrical and musical approaches of their new album, Enemy of Duality.

Our latest Primitive Origins looks back at the first indigenous-language rock album released in North America.

There’s more than a little similarity between Metallica’s new album cover and a classic Crowbar album cover; we caught up with one of the guys who worked on the Metallica cover to find out what’s going on here.

Here comes Ultimo Mondo Cannibale again, so we caught up with Stevo from Impetigo to get the scoop on this classic death/grind album rising from the dead.

A closer look at Living Colour’s classic Vivid album, ranked from worst to best track.

Siberian grind weirdos Stench Price are releasing their debut EP on Wednesday; we’re bringing you an exclusive full-EP stream today.

Hierophant are downers on their new album, so we picked their brain to get their fave party-poopin’ metal albums of all time.

True-’til-death metallers October 31 are about to do the unthinkable: a compilation consisting entirely of Metal Massacre covers.

Belgium’s Blast were laying down proto-thrash bpms in 1972.

Pittsburgh’s Black Forge Coffee know what we like: metal, coffee, and retro video games.