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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. 

Get a Deluxe Decibel subscription by July 5 at 9am EST to ensure you get this rare Integrity vinyl. 

The Armstrong Metalfest has grown from humble beginnings to be a regular mainstay with its south-central BC location making for a popular summertime destination for fans and bands alike. We tracked down co-founder Jesse Valstar to get the low-down.

As grind-infused industrial black metal levelers Anaal Nathrakh put the finishing touches on the band’s as-yet-untitled ninth full-length — tentatively slated for an October release via Metal Blade — Decibel caught up with vocalist Dave Hunt for a illuminating chat.

Slip beyond the veil with this exclusive premiere of a new Candelabrum song. 

In honor of Black Sabbath‘s final trek around the globe, we are running our 2014 print feature on the story behind the cover art of Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, which was illustrated four decades ago by a rising Los Angeles artist named Drew Struzan. 

Australian incendiaries Denouncement Pyre like their dying stars the same color as their metal: BLACK.

Expedite your passport application, make the trek north of the border, take advantage of the Canadian dollar trading at 75-80 cents on the American greenback.

Entombed guitarist Uffe Cederlund gives Decibel the exclusive scoop on how the long-awaited return of one of the greatest death metal bands of all time. 

Atlanta-based dark metal conspirators Cloak comb the blackest shadows of rock ‘n’ roll on the opening track off their eponymous EP.

Diabolical Conquest: Extreme metal bands Belphegor and Incantation endure censorship and worse in Russia

Smash that play button and get demolecularized by “Dead Space” from Detroit’s mutated thrashers, Nuke. 

We’re streaming the first video from Alaric‘s new album End of Mirrors. 

Heads up, Charm City: Decibel will infiltrate Maryland Deathfest like a leprous plague from May 26th to May 29th. Come visit Decibel’s booth Friday through Sunday, within screaming distance of the Edison Lot.