Extremely extreme contest alert: Win tickets to see Megadeth and Meshuggah this June and July.

Read a full interview from USBM titans Nightbringer. 

Berserker IV‘s 2017 lineup includes GWAR, The Obsessed and Eyehategod. Festival organizer. Child Bite frontman Shawn Knight talks more about the lineup, and clears up any potential band name confusion.

Atonement
Making good for 29 years
dB rating: 9/10

If simply having Kreator, Obituary, Midnight and Horrendous all on one bill wasn’t enough to excite you so much your reproductive organs explode, this year’s Decibel Magazine Tour will, once again, have some sick regional openers on select dates as well. Here is the complete lists of first kills! 

The Curling Flame of Blasphemy
Beats the Hockey Flame of Blasphemy
dB rating: 8/10

Freedom of speech. Just watch what you say, Deströyer 666 and Metalsucks. 

Diamond Head
>Heady Topper
dB rating: 8/10

Bringer of Drought
Thirsty and miserable
dB rating: 8/10

Grief Relic
Be like Mike
dB Rating: 8/10

The Curse That Is
Turn of the Tide
dB Rating: 8/10

Whether you think they’re the best or worst thing to happen to extreme metal in years, you can’t miss this premiere for an album that’s sure to end up on many top 40 lists at the end of the year. 

Which is what you do if you’re a metalhead all-star closer.

Crime Traveler
Whoa, whoa, whoa—you on the list, fuckface?
dB Rating: 9/10

Krighsu
Shedders and shredders
dB Rating: 9/10

We teamed up with FreqsTV, the all-original rock and metal documentary channel on YouTube, for some pavement-crushing tour videography. 

There will be shred. 

Are you an axe wielding, headbanging, record collecting design enthusiast who has a passion for print?

Ride Forth
Not too young to drink and to shred
dB Rating: 9/10

Too Loud to Live, Too Drunk to Die!
Long live “Decibel rebels”
dB Rating: 8/10

West of Everything Lies Death
Not exactly lacking direction
dB Rating: 8/10

There’s nothing rinky-dink about Jackson’s DK2M Pro Series Dinky.

Because one guitar neck just isn’t enough for proper shredding, noodling, crunching, and general rocking out.  

Deeper Than Sky

Even deeper than pie in the sky

dB Rating: 8/10

**Matt Olivo is the founding guitarist of extreme metal trailblazers Repulsion, whose Horrified LP ranks as our #1 grindcore album of all time. Because we know that every reader ever plays guitar, we brought his print column to the Deciblog. In October 2013 Matt plugged into Jackson’s Pro Series King V, which “still reigns, bloodily.” 

In Memoriam
Slowness will prevail
dB Rating: 9/10

Gearified investigates how to get schooled. 

Just in time for fall:  doom over the world… now available in ones and zeros. 

Dark Abstraction
They can see clearly now
dB Rating: 8/10

**Matt Olivo is the founding guitarist of extreme metal trailblazers Repulsion, whose Horrified LP ranks as our #1 grindcore album of all time. Because we know that every reader ever plays guitar, we brought his print column to the Deciblog. In issue #110 Matt plugged into Peavey’s Vypyr VIP 2, which “is coiled up and ready to pounce.”