Shane Mehling

Get to know the crusty Spaniards of Cruz. 

While debating the musical and artistic impact of each Neurosis release is something many of us are happy to do long into the night, it’s pretty clear that if they ever had a breakout record, that record was Through Silver in Blood.

No matter how good or bad your traditional metal video may have been, one thing it never needed to depend on for success was the lyrics. But then everything changed with the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad idea of lyric videos.

The noise grind attack of Unyielding Love will tear us apart. 

Metal videos are not known for their innovation. So when a band does try to do something new and different, they should almost always be congratulated for it. Megadeth‘s latest is an exception. 

When it comes to hubs for sound financial advice, checking the Decibel site is about on par with rifling through some hesher’s battle jacket. But that’s because we’re usually not talking to people like Jeff Siegel. 

Metal is often a much too serious affair. Just because you’re in front of a camera doesn’t mean you need to be scowling and carving pentagrams into the nearest virgin. But there’s a fine line between being lighthearted and being downright fucking goofy…

Beloved noise-grind three-piece will only be playing a handful of days for their “Make America Dead Again” tour. 

The Oakland duo gets up in your guts with a slithering track off their new album Deathroll.

Brooklyn noisecore trio replace their instruments with being hilarious. 

With the song “Hover” the Brooklyn couple show that they’re louder than love. 

To celebrate the 5th anniversary of Saint Vitus Bar, as well as the release date of Primitive Weapons’ new album The Future of Death, David Castillo looks back at some of the club’s best shows so far.

The legendary producer discusses his work with bands like Swans, Helmet and Unsane. 

Melotov Records cross the extreme music streams. 

And if you worry you are late to the Phobia party, the ludicrously huge Decades of Blastphemy will bring you up to speed. 

Get a taste of the newest full-length from these Canadian grindsons.  

Sometimes you read one of these playlists by a band and, while their choices may be good, you wonder how in the world people with such varied tastes could make such one-dimensional music. This is clearly not true for Bloodiest (ex and current members of Russian Circles, Yakuza and Corrections House), who are so expansive and unorthodox it only makes sense they would be spinning music this eclectic. 

Hollow Earth have always sounded like they wanted to be more than a hardcore band. Sure, the midwesterners never lacked the ability to break necks with and start pits, but there was something around the edges that showed a real thirst for something different, with flashes of doom and melody.  

Meshuggah. Gorguts. Nails. Pig Destroyer. Sure, these are some of the most anticipated metal releases of 2016, but what about the best nu-metal coming out in the nu-year?

There are two kinds of people in the world: Those who think Scorpions only really put out a couple hits and those who are shocked and appalled by the first people.

The Color of Noise is an exhaustive and absolutely fascinating look at a label which is now synonymous with the genre, aesthetic and attitude. But it goes way beyond anecdotes about Helmet’s demo tape and the Dope, Guns, and Fucking in the Streets comps. 

You have about 90 seconds to spare, give or take? Because that is all this North Carolina three-piece needs to hyperblast their way into your defenseless heart. 

Ex-Rorschach and Asva guys show off their crazy 88.

As I told the tipster who led me to Doralice’s Rusted Pieces — a violin/acoustic guitar duet covering five tracks off Megadeth’s Rust in Peace — this kind of shit is a metal website’s bread and butter. 

Bury Them and Keep Quiet doesn’t result in a pretty situation. 

Battle scenes, H. R. Giger artwork, huge skulls, and pseudo-corpsepaint lead to some confused metalheads. 

Despite being tasked with copyediting two dozen illiterates and devising approximately 400 metal puns per issue, Decibel Managing Editor Andrew Bonazelli still manages to create an incredible amount of written material on the side. 

The man behind the art: Shane Mehling has a chat with Bruno Guerreiro, Decibel Art Director and metal illustrator responsible for album covers, gig posters, and shirt designs.  

There had never been a band like Unbroken before. How they sounded, how they looked and what they said all came from a place that baffled a lot of hardcore kids back in the 90s.

But Justin Pearson got it.

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USDA-choice noise-rock
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