Editorial

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.

Matt Harvey shares the five heavy albums that changed his life.

Revisiting two of Entombed‘s later records, Serpent Saints and Morning Star.

Experimental noise rock met left-field grind and the one and only Boredoms during a legendary tour in 1993 when Pain Teens, Brutal Truth, and the Japanese noise legends hit the road together.

There’s a lot of great underground black metal bands out there among the leather-wearing and corpse-painted multitude. This article features music by Riivaus, Nyctophilia, Atra Vetosus, Antimateria, Ühtceare and Nox.

In which we revisit an absurd and ambitious Mexican metal rock opera from 1984.

Comedian Chris Cook listens to and shares his thoughts on a variety of extreme metal songs.

We caught up with punk rocker and mayoral candidate Joey “Shithead” Keithley to talk D.O.A.’s 17th studio album, 40th anniversary tour, and much more.

Ranking the songs on Paradise Lost‘s 1993 epic Icon from worst to best, to honor its recent induction to our Hall of Fame.

The guitarist/vocalist of English metal band Svalbard pens a guest editorial about her experiences as a woman in the underground metal scene.

Bridging the gap between the Japanese extreme metal scene and the rest of the world.

Fans of classic, old-school New Wave of British Heavy Metal sounds, it’s probably time you check out Fresno’s Haunt.

Looking back on the 24 minutes of insanity that make up Acme‘s …To Reduce the Choir to One Soloist 22 years later.

To celebrate the upcoming release of At the Gates‘ To Drink from the Night Itself, we caught up with guitarist Jonas Stålhammar to find out what the five heavy albums that changed his life are.

Queensrÿche’s Operation: Mindcrime turns 30 today. Read an exclusive excerpt from its Hall of Fame induction.

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

We caught up with Depravity drummer Louis Rando to find out what five heavy albums changed his life.

We recently inducted Grief‘s sludgey debut album from 1994, Come to Grief, into our Hall of Fame; here’s all the interview content we had to cut out of the print version.

Revisiting The Shiver‘s one and only album, 1969’s Walpurgis.

J. Bennett remembers his friend and former Cave In/Old Man Gloom/Zozobra bassist Caleb Scofield.

Revisiting Dystopia‘s 1994 masterpiece of despair and extreme experimentalism, Human = Garbage.

We revisit 1990’s incredible and groundbreaking Bride of Insect , the debut from Arizona’s Nuclear Death , and rank the songs from worst to best.

Highlighting Indonesia‘s most insane grindcore bands.

Stay vigilant and speak up, especially for those who can’t speak for themselves. We can all do better at this.

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.

To celebrate the release of Will Haven‘s new album, Muerte, we wrangled up guitarist Jeff Irwin to talk about the five heavy albums that changed his life.

As a small Leviathan-affiliated record store and screenprinter are being forced out of Portland due to rising rent. Jef Whitehead and Stevie Floyd explain the importance of record stores in 2018.

When people tell you they don’t like metal, they might mean they’re not familiar with it. Here’s a way to think about getting people into music that’s new to them.

Confess vocalist/guitarist Nikan (Siyanor) Khosravi is in hiding in Turkey after the band was charged and put on death row in Iran; we caught up with him to get an update.

Revisiting Saint Vitus‘s much-maligned C.O.D.