Greg Pratt

No Celebration author David E. Gehlke dishes the dirt on his new Paradise Lost biography out next week on Decibel Books!

Re-examining High Tide’s 1969 proto-metal-with-violin record Sea Shanties.

Ranking the songs on Carcass‘s Hall of Fame-inducted blasterpiece Necroticism – Descanting the Insalubrious from least awesome to most awesome.

Exhumed‘s Matt Harvey gives us his five favorite old-school horror flicks, to celebrate Halloween and the band’s new album, Horror.

San Antonio’s Pinko get noisy with their rock in this new song/video.

To celebrate the release of their new album, All Hail, we caught up with Grayson Stewart of Norma Jean to find out what five heavy albums changed his life.

Catching up with Philly grind crew Die Choking to talk cryptocurrency and their new album, IV.

To celebrate Dark Descent Records’ 10th anniversary, we caught up with owner Matt Calvert to find out what five DD releases mean the most to him.

Looking back on Benümb‘s 1998 debut, a gloriously unhinged document of power violence and grindcore.

Is Blue Cheer‘s Vincebus Eruptum the first metal record? We dive deep to figure it out.

Revisiting the rot ‘n’ roll of Blackstar‘s only album, 1997’s Barbed Wire Soul.

Ranking the songs on The Accüsed’s Hall of Fame-inducted 1989 album More Fun than an Open Casket Funeral! from worst to best.

Looking back on Toxodeth‘s 1990 disasterpiece Mysteries about Life and Death.

A Decibel guide to bands who were just too extreme to be just one band.

The first new Sacred Reich LP since 1996 might actually be their best album yet.

In which we rank Accept‘s albums from worst to best.

Hey, you’re wrong: Warrant’s Cherry Pie is actually pretty awesome.

Re-examining how Randy Holden foreshadowed Eyehategod’s down and dirty sludge in 1969 on Population II.

Mare showed the world how experimental sludge and post-metal should be done with their only release, 2004’s self-titled EP.

Calgary’s Illryian are dropping their second album of razor-sharp thrash tomorrow, and we’ve got a stream of it for you today.

Re-examining New Trolls’ 1972 prog-rock odyssey UT.

Looking back and justifying Sacred Reich‘s underrated 1996 album Heal, which doesn’t really sound like what you remember it sounding like.

To show our support for Dave Mustaine kicking cancer’s ass, we present to you Five More Times Megadeth Just Absolutely Killed It.

To celebrate our recent Hall of Fame induction of Avail‘s Over the James, here’s some unused outtakes from our interviews with the band members for the HOF story.

Does Epitaph’s debut album, from 1971, live up to its ’91-DM cover art? We dig deep to find out.

There were a lot of bad covers back in thrash’s heyday. Here are five of the worst offenders.

To celebrate the release of Cave In‘s new album, Final Transmission, we caught up with vocalist/guitarist Stephen Brodsky to find out what five heavy albums changed his life.

Ranking the songs on Grief‘s 1994 sludge classic Come to Grief from worst to best.

Avail’s melodic hardcore classic Over the James enters the Decibel Hall of Fame.

Revisiting the brilliant bleak hellscape of crust apocalypse that is His Hero Is Gone‘s 1997 album Monuments to Thieves.