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“All of us come from very disparate places and try to create music somewhere in between all that.” Wrap your ears around the result, “Shallows.”

Stream the debut EP from NWOBHM-worshipping scuzzbags Charger, featuring Matt Freeman of Rancid, here today.

Italy-based throwback doom masters conjure up fuzzed-out terrors on new track, “Aeons Has Fallen,” from full-length, Astrological Warfare.

Freya guitarist Brendon Flynn returns with the proggy, atmosphere-heavy Diagonal Path — and we’ve got an exclusive stream of a new track.

French black-death maniacs Vortex Of End unfurl new track “Voraciovs Egregore” off new album, Ardens Fvror, for storied indie Osmose Productions.

The “Experience” run of dates will have wrapped up two days before the time you read this, but if you come across Industrial Accident, it’s very worthy of your viewing time.

Cauldron Burial is back to give you a little “love from beyond the grave” — and scare the hell out of you to boot.

Featuring an all-star line-up and a beyond pissed punk hardcore sound to back it up, American War Machine is here to wage Unholy War on your expectations.

Cult Romanian black metal duo Siculicidium stream new EP, “A Halál És Az Iránytű,” on Sun & Moon Records at Decibelmagazine.com.

It’s time for a crash course in Songs About Sea Monsters with top-shelf metal-head horror novelist Patrick Lacey!

Currently in the filming/interview stages, The Growl’s intent is to document the ride the genre has taken from its obscure beginnings through roller coaster-ing waves of popularity and obscurity over the years to how the scene has morphed and come full circle in the present.

Shotgun Sawyer are back with a new slab of blues-y doom and more than a bit of sympathy for the devil.

Norwegian black metal mob Nordjevel prepare the world for new album, Necrogenesis. Streaming now in full at Decibel Magazine.

Friends from Napalm Death, Paradise Lost and more share some of their favorite Jeff Walker memories as we all wish the Carcass frontman a happy Big 5-0!

Florida Man is out to break your face with its stellar noise punk/core track “Brain Cell.”

In true Wacken style, the Wacken Metal Battle really is the biggest Battle of Bands ever.

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.

Golden State maniacs P.O.O.R. (Point Of Our Resistance) return after 6 years with a four-song glimpse into their new LP.

Check out a new song, and video, from Australian punkers Clowns right here.

Get lost in this exclusive stream of the massive new album from Swedish symphonic melodeath outfit Meadows End.

Over 100 back issues in the Decibel webstore are on sale now for just $3.00 each! Hurry, sale ends Sunday at midnight EST.

Check out this new banger from Chicago-based blackened thrash horde Usurper, off their new album Lords of the Permafrost.

Mexican-American deathgrinders Rottenness provide an update on their new album.

Death crust duo LIGÆDER bludgeon humanity on their debut LP, Den Tomme Menneskehed.

Don’t get caught snoozing on this debut EP of immense atmospheric death metal from the UK’s Pernicion.

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

When Lars Frederiksen isn’t playing with Rancid, he’s playing with The Old Firm Casuals; here’s an exclusive stream of their new album.

Bazillion Points, the heavy metal publishing house founded by Sound of the Beast author Ian Christe, turns 10 this year. Well, last year, so we’re a little late here, but we’ve got one more entry that’s worth the wait.

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

Danish post-punk power trio Foreign Resort set fire with new edit of single “Outnumbered” off the group’s new album, “Outnumbered.”