Shawn Macomber

As you wait for the first Sworn Enemy record in five years to drop, check out a new track and then jam an exclusive playlist courtesy vocalist Sal Lococo.

New Jersey’s rising prog metal force East of the Wall talk transforming non-metal influences into heaviness-multipliers.

Swedish journalist Ika Johannesson talks her fantastic and enlightening new cultural history Blood Fire Death: The Swedish Metal Story.

Peel back the curtain and check out this conspiracy theory-themed bit of driving, dreamy doom courtesy The Ghost Next Door.

Writer/editor Sam Richard talks the wild new horror anthology Zombie Punks Fuck Off and creates an exclusive playlist to accompany it.

Create a Kill unites Malevolent Creation members from different eras as a thrash metal powerhouse.

Rising metallic hardcore outfit Ithaca quickly make a positive impression with “Slow Negative Order.”

Master are back and ready to throw the death metal “Book” at you!

Occult-obsessed melodic death thrashers Vaultwraith summon new demons on this exclusive premiere of “Four Beasts Before the Throne.”

The legendary guitarist passed away this weekend at age 47.

You’ll be glad you’re not their enemy when you hear “Among Friends” from Portrayal of Guilt.

As part of an ongoing celebration the tenth anniversary of heavy metal-centric book publisher Bazillion Points, we speak to hardcore archivist and author Tony Rettman.

The new track from Baring Teeth is about to give your head The Exorcist treatment.

Broken Hope guitarist Jeremy Wagner returns with his sophomore horror novel Rabid Heart, a tale of love amongst the undead.

Street Sects may wear their brutal early industrial influences on their sleeve, but “Still Between Lovers” is here to break your heart as well as pummel your eardrums.

Decide‘s Overtures of Blasphemy is our Best New Noise.

Green Death deliver a new level of dark thrash mastery via “I Am Eternal.”

Connecticut noise metal iconoclasts Cable return with a killer reimagining of the band’s “lost” 2003 record Never Trust a Gemini.

Check out the latest mind-blowing track from power trio/underground supergroup SUMAC.

There’s a dark and dazzling heavy metal boom on in Denver right now. Ben Hutcherson of Khemmis gives us the inside scoop.

Dark fiction author Chad Lutzke presents a playlist of extremely heavy horror fiction-inspired tracks.

Decibel reviews Skeletonwitch‘s Devouring Radiant Light.

Bay Area quartet Nopes invite you to try to breach a glorious noise punk “Checkpoint.”

Crawl don’t run to your destiny — these Swedish D-beat death metallers have declared you “Sentenced to Rot”!

On the eve of the release of Madball‘s ninth full-length For the Cause, the band’s extreme metal virtuoso drummer Mike Justian submits to a lengthy Decibel inquisition.

Boston hardcore legends Slapshot are back with a brand new full-length — and we’ve got the whole damn thing right here.

Want to take a multimedia walk on the really dark side? The new video from L.A.-based sludge metallers Sixes will take you there.

Lamb of God vocalist Randy Blythe takes us on a walk down his own unique version of Memory Lane to talk his first seven-inch with Burn the Priest. Kayt Vigil of Sonic Wolves chimes in, too.

Noise rock’s got a new dialect thanks to Language.

Eight years after his untimely death, Wendy Dio continues to honor her late, legendary husband’s legacy—carrying his good works and groundbreaking music into the future.