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While debating the musical and artistic impact of each Neurosis release is something many of us are happy to do long into the night, it’s pretty clear that if they ever had a breakout record, that record was Through Silver in Blood.

Upon forming in 1985, Neurosis were a punk rock band. Few would classify their output for the past 20 years as such—though the band probably wouldn’t flinch at the association—but in their early years as a pissed-off East Bay quartet, the Oakland, CA, band made their home at the punk-friendly 924 Gilman Street club, and they gathered a following that idealized the lean and the mean.

Justin Pearson (The Locust, Retox) is no stranger to the road. Dude has been staring at blacktop and lane dividers in the name of playing dive bars and assorted shit holes around the world for ‘round about 20 years

Get in on this exclusive stream of the first song from Predatory Light’s eponymous debut full length.

In which we debut the new demo by Phoenix-based Demo:listen alumns Ceremented.

Psychedelic Seattle shapeshifters warn of shroom-doom and shapeshifting dolphins in the climax of their phantasy thrashterpiece Hallucinogenesis.

Wake up and smell the incinerating human remains with this exclusive stream of the debut EP from California’s Crematory Stench.

On this week’s Demo:listen, we bring you a premiere of something completely different from the Deep South’s Hexenkraft. 

For the first time in western Canada in a long-ass time, and for the first time on one stage ever, hoser headbanging heavyweights…

“Trans-apocalyptic” psych droners Darsombra are about to hit you up with some seriously weird , perception-expanding atmospherics when the band drops Polyvision — its first album in four years — on September 9 via Translation Loss just six days ahead of a sure-to-be-memorable appearance at Shadow Woods Metal Fest.

Unless you’ve got a sensory deprivation chamber, Voidspawn’s debut EP Pyrrhic is the closest you’ll get to the dark interstices between the dimensions.

On this week’s Demo:listen, we bring you an exclusive premiere of the demo by Vancouver Island’s Graveolence.

Carcass. Crowbar. Ghoul. Night Demon. A basement filled with rowdy Philadelphians. Who will survive and what will be left of them?

Boston post-metal explorers SEA explore the murky depths of post-metal on “Stone Ship” before embarking on a European expedition with WeedWolf.

Pittsburgh’s Brown Angel don’t want to crush you. They want you to listen as they crush themselves. 

Decibel caught up with death metal legend Stevo do Caixao and Howling/Wooden Stake mainwoman Vanessa Nocera for a chat about the Surgikill origin story and its reworking/resurrection of the lost/last Impetigo song “Planet of the Vampires.”

Strange sounds are coming from Down Under and Brisbane’s Spire are at the vanguard. Check out this exclusive premiere of “Ends,” the opening track from their debut album Entropy, and be sure to let us know what delusions or fears are evoked during the experience. 

The troubling early history of depressive suicidal black metal pioneers Bethlehem is revealed in this exclusive Black Metal: The Cult Never Dies Vol. 1 excerpt.

Brujería vocalist Juan Brujo doesn’t mice words on Donald Trump in the cover story of the September Decibel. 

Larissa Glasser — AKA Thuringwethil — is  best known for her work as the guitarist/vocalist of “witching metal” powerhouse Hekseri and as a rising author of Clive Barker-ian surreal dark fiction found in anthologies such as The Healing Monsters and Procyon. Glasser’s eclectic, disquieting new solo album The Hill was recorded under the moniker Spoorloos, You can hear a track here. 

Psychedelic doom rockers EERIE are here to prepare you for the zombie apocalypse with “Immortal Rot.”

Get to know Ester Segarra, the photographer behind the lens of some of your favorite live pictures and Decibel covers.

Hailing from Wrocław in western Poland, The Dog has been blasting out the powerfully violent powerviolence for a solid three years now. Here’s a rather apt description: “Lost generation music for people who feel like shit and don’t know exactly why. Keywords: lost hope, broken dreams, lack of satisfaction, stagnation.”

Mike “Gunface” McKenzie — the perception-scrambling metal visionary hitherto best know as the guitarist of The Red Chord guitarist and mastermind behind Stomach Earth — recently recorded a song for Sesame Street entitled “6 Steps to Potty Training.”

Get through your Tuesday with the entire new album by Meek Is Murder, Brooklyn’s foremost purveyors of “whatevercore.”

By now, we hope you have been enjoying Gojira’s new album, Magma, as much as we have.  What follows here are outtakes from our cover story interview, including discussions about specific songs on Magma, the forthcoming U.S. tour and that mystical, mysterious place called NYC.

Most Decibel readers likely know 6623 Press founder D.X. Ferris as one of the most incisive, dogged metal journalists around — the man who literally wrote the (absolutely indispensable) books on both Reign in Blood and Slayer’s “Jeff and Dave” years.  

British black metal blasphemers Cradle of Filth recently joined forces with Cacophonous Records to release the original recording of Dusk…and Her Embrace (called The Original Sin, out July 8th). To celebrate, Decibel revisits the first collaboration between the band and label: 1994’s sanguinary trailblazer The Principle of Evil Made Flesh.

Exposing the Haeresis Noviomagi, a Netherlands-based black metal cabal responsible for such acts as Lubbert Das, Turia and Iskandr. 

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