Jon Rosenthal

The legendary Chicago photographer tells tales of shooting the biggest names in metal and punk in the city’s most revered rock ‘n’ roll venue.

Brazilian black metallers Power From Hell power up with the first single from their Debemur Morti Productions debut Shadows Devouring Light.

Hear prolific guitarist and vocalist Ryan Clackner’s juxtaposition of traditional American folk music and atonal black metal in Crestfallen Dusk.

Hear the opening track from Of Dusk and Crumbling Silence, the debut LP from USBM upstarts Alvaldur, before its Friday the 13th release date.

Skip spring and summer and head straight to fall with the crisp melodies of Inexorum‘s “Equinox Vigil.”

Read the first review of the surprise-release Thou and Mizmor collaboration album, Myopia.

Hear Floridian blackened deathgrind project Coffin Nail provide a proper pounding.

Hear atmospheric black metal heroes Blut aus Nord return with the first single from new album Disharmonium – Undreamable Abysses.

USBM stalwarts Nechochwen unveil the closing track to their first new album in seven years.

Producer legend Dan Swanö tells the story of Steel, the obscure heavy metal supergroup he formed with Opeth members during the recording of their Morningrise LP.

Philly trad metallers Morgul Blade bring a healthy dose of old-school black metal on debut full-length. Raise “The Morgul Blade” only on Decibel!

Jason Walton (Sculptured, ex-Agalloch and ex-Khôrada) debuts new project, talks, um… Lawnmower Deth.

Hear a new stunner form atmospheric black metal upstarts Noltem.

On their debut cassette, new U.S. power metal duo Ceres capitalizes on classic, “true” metal’s catchy and infectious nature.

Hear “The Ordeal of Undecidability” and read a lengthy interview with Sculptured frontman Don Anderson about the return of the Northwest progressive metal heroes.

Stream Vouna‘s monumental new track black doom track “Grey Sky.”

Frost and Satyr get medieval on your ass as we induct Satyricon‘s landmark Norwegian black metal debut Dark Medieval Times.

Legendary Peaceville founder Hammy diagnosed with hereditary dilated cardiomyopathy. Here’s how you can help.

Hear Dutch black metal band Shagor‘s Sotteklugt in advance of its Friday release on Babylon Doom Cult Records.

Yaotl Mictlan‘s latest effort is a mystical example of pre-Christian belief expressed through the black metal vehicle.

Ved Buens Ende‘s progressive black metal game-changer, Written in Waters is inducted into the Decibel Hall of Fame

Watch post-black metal heroes Laster brings their “Obscure Dance Music” to China.

Read an exclusive interview with Don Anderson and watch a video of Anderson performing Agalloch‘s “A Desolation Song” with Panopticon‘s Austin Lunn.

San Antonio quartet continue their evolution from crust punks to underground metal force.

Former Bethlehem vocalist Rainer Landfermann on his legendary Dictius te Necare vocals and his incendiary performance on his new solo LP, Mein Wort in Deiner Dunkelheit

Sleep tight with a new track from avant-garde within black metal’s infinite realm.

Watch a new video from avant-garde black metal practitioner L’Acéphale and read a lengthy new interview.

Aster Wreath explores black metal’s delicate side.

Ifernach‘s latest composition, “Kesik, Dethroned King of the Northeastern Woodlands,” is music for frigid winters.