Editorial

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.

In 1975, Dirty Tricks put out a proto-metal album that had a couple dips into proto-doom; today, we re-examine that record to see how it’s held up.

Rest in power, A389 Recordings. Here are five times the label ruled.

Krieg’s Neill Jameson recounts another round of instances in which black metal was falsely pronounced dead.

Judas Priest will hit the road without guitarist Glenn Tipton, but the band remains great in his absence.

Kreator‘s 1992 album Renewal is nowhere near as shitty, or as industrial, as you think. Let’s re-evaluate.

Sketchy business practice or a necessary evil? Decibel examines the practice of merch cuts in extreme metal.

Krieg’s Neill Jameson recounts various times throughout history when black metal was falsely pronounced dead.

In the early ’90s, the Cry Now, Cry Later compilations had the cream of the power violence crop; here are five times the compilation series totally ruled.

Hot Taake coming through from Krieg’s Neill Jameison.

In 1972, Jerusalem released their one and only album. And it was heavy , as we find out in the latest Primitive Origins .

In celebration of the start of the seventh incarnation of the Decibel Magazine Tour, Enslaved creative force Ivar Bjørnson ranks the band’s albums from worst to best.

Happy Valentine’s Day from Decibel. We like you like you, so we made you a playlist of metal love songs — light on the power ballads.

In 1991, Assück released one of the greatest grind records of all time, Anticapital . Today, we revisit it.

We finally got a Soundgarden album in our Hall of Fame in 2017; here’s a look back at that album, ranking the songs from worst to best.

When it came to mid-to-early 2000s metalcore and heavy post-hardcore, Abacus Records were on fire. Here are five times they killed it.

Revisiting Australian rockers Buffalo ‘s 1973 foray into proto-metal, Volcanic Rock .

Every artist eventually faces a bad review of their work. But a very public reaction to that review invites even more negative criticism.