Justin Norton

Stream a new song from noise punks Super Thief.

Cheap merchandise. Diminishing revenues for labels already under financial pressure. Death metal shower curtains and bar signs. Decibel‘s special report on how online bootlegging is hurting the extreme metal scene.

Soft Kill main man discusses addiction, sobriety, the birth of his son and new album Savior.

Remembering one of extreme metal’s most iconic figures, Slayer‘s Jeff Hanneman, five years after his death.

Let’s imagine a world where kids can get lost in records and find themselves again. Let’s imagine a world where the bridge to adulthood doesn’t include fearing for your life.

Leila Abdul-Rauf is well known to Decibel readers for her exemplary work with bands including Vastum, Cardinal Wyrm, Hammers Of Misfortune and others. The multi-instrumentalist is also busy composing her own music, which often veers in unpredictable directions. Her upcoming album Diminution, the followup to the 2015 release Insomnia, draws on Abdul-Rauf’s feelings about the collapse of the…

Dag Nasty give a new interview on friendship, bringing things full circle and a new album.

Martin Eric Ain, a member of the legendary outfits Celtic Frost and Hellhammer, is remembered.

A Walk with Love and Death
Double Studio Gonzo
dB rating: 8/10

Mutilated and Assimilated
Too fast, too furious
dB rating: 8/10

Stream the new Gaytheist track “Let’s Get Astrophysical” right now!

Blood Offerings
Axe of the unspeakable
dB rating: 9/10

Filmmaker Sam Dunn talks to us about his new Wacken documentary filmed in virtual reality.

Jinx Dawson gave us an exclusive Q&A on the return of Coven, scheduled for Roadburn later this week.

Get a sneak peek at the special features included with award-winning black metal documentary Blackhearts. 

By 1993, Cannibal Corpse was an interesting conundrum: When you have hammer-smashed every boundary of decency and good taste on your third album, where exactly do you go?

Decibel talked to psychedelic pioneer Arthur Brown about his role in the birth of metal and why art flourishes in times of political and social upheaval. 

Get right with GOD in this week’s Demo: Listen. 

Decibel talks to the author of the excellent new book Heavy Metal Africa. 

Listen to a track from Tight Fright’s pending debut Hotel Metal. 

Read about former Yob drummer Gabe Morley’s struggle with mental illness and homelessness and learn how you can help him secure stable housing. 

Ritual & Revival deliver extreme jams. THESE ARE LITERALLY EXTREME JAMS.

Dead Kennedys guitarist East Bay Ray sat down for a rare interview with Decibel and discussed Trump, his inimitable guitar style and how the Internet breeds fascism. 

At the onset of metal’s second decade, kult was not a choice. Kult was the by-product of poverty, desperation and isolation.

Happy Halloween! Get in the spirit with an exhaustive Decibel oral history of The Electric Hellfire Club, the innovative 90s band that blended metal, industrial music, and Satanism. Burn, baby, burn!  

Tom Gabriel Fischer talks to Decibel first about the pending Celtic Frost reissues. 

Stream The Powder Room’s second album Lucky here on release day.

Stream Cardinal Wyrm’s upcoming album Cast Away Souls and read a Q&A with the band.

A few months after Heavy Metal Parking Lot celebrated its 30th anniversary, we remember the life of Dave Donahue, who made a short appearance in the film but left a lasting impression on his younger brother and friends. 

Every so often, we take a little time on Mondays to pay tribute to the Muthas! That is, reprinting the adorable metal/maternal Q&As that run in the magazine. Today, enjoy Justin Norton’s chat with Bernice Rakes, mother of Richard Hoak (Brutal Truth/Total Fucking Destruction).