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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.

Check out this exclusive stream of the killer debut from Deathwards.

Emperor is playing this year’s Heavy Montreal. We talk to the dudes who booked them (and the other bands).

Norwegian post-metal doom-bringers KITE loudly pursue a quiet place on their The All Penetrating Silence EP.

Jam the debut album from Denmark’s Taphos in its entirety now.

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Swedish black metal depressionists Vanhelga premiere new track “Varde Mörker.”

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While Long Beach, CA-based post-hardcore menaces, Struckout may still may be a couple months out from the July 20th release of their self-titled third album, the band and its new label, Postmark Records are doing an early, full court PR press. The advance announcement was made a couple weeks ago, pre-orders are already available and…

Hear and acquire this exclusive new Amorphis flexi disc single right here.

Sludge metal masters Black Tusk unveil new track “Agali.”

British doom coven Witchsorrow foreshadow the world’s end on their riveting new LP Hexenhammer.

Get your Hellenic black metal fix with this exclusive full album stream from Greece’s Melan Selas.

Norwegian black metallers Djevelkult stream new album “Når Avgrunnen Åpnes.”

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.

These Decibel back issues from 2004 to 2006 are about to sell out. This is your last chance to complete your dB collection!

Check out this exclusive full stream of the new single from Ontarian black thrashers Occult Burial now.

Get the details on the forthcoming new material from obscure Finnish death metal gods Abhorrence.

There are many things in life that will instantly put a stupid smile on my stupider face. New material from Chicago’s Nequient is one of those things.

Austin rockers From Beyond blast synths and heavy space riffs on their otherwordly LP The Band From Beyond.

With exclusive track premieres from Caveman Cult, Crurifragium, and more.

Stream the debut album from German death horde Abythic now.

Get to know Lepidus Plague, the man behind Australia’s newest black metal force, Kommodus, while you stream the follow-up to last year’s staggering demo.

June 15th sees the vinyl re-issue of Mouth of the Architect’s The Ties that Blind. Today, we pay our respects in comprehensive, Decibel style with drummer Dave Mann and former guitarist/vocalist Gregory Lahm.

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

Stream the epic new track from Russian symphonic black metal duo Grimorium Verum now.

The world premiere of Shaving the Werewolf’s “Ass Above, So Below” from their new album, One Way to Dick City

St. Louis-based genre-benders The Lion’s Daughter scream through ’80s horror filters on new song “Die Into Us.”

Dutch black metal philosophers Wesenwille match dystopian warnings with fiery discord on their I : Wesenwille debut.

Drown in the stream of this new Funerary Descent song now.