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From the city that brought you BTBAM and Corrosion of Confirmity, a hard shot of blackened thrash.

The new video from the mysterious OSDM supergroup has no shortage of sickles, hoods and general madness.

This year’s story is all but written. It’s time to focus on the Top 20 Most Anticipated Albums of 2016. Decibel has you covered with exclusive previews of next year’s extremely extremest, with Amon Amarth, Nails and Darkthrone as the tip of the frostbitten iceberg.

Cello + voice Canadian duo bring the holiday melancholia in spades.

Swedish folk metallers Grimner break out the big blades on new single “Eldhjärta,” and it’s all sorts of fun: syncopated riffage and stirring woodwinds galore.

Snow day! Check the new Ihsahn lyric video from the forthcoming full-length Arktis!

Up-and-coming Philly death metal outfit wreak havoc on four-way split.

OSDM done right, courtesy of the faceless supergroup (if there can be such a thing) of Undead Prophecies

Monstrous Munster, Germany quintet Supreme Carnage do old-school death metal in the vein of Bolt Thrower and Asphyx. 

One nightmare you’re not going to want to wake up from, with L.A. doom/sludge psychos as your guides to the underworld.

“Cripple the Cross” with thrash/grind purveyors extraordinaire. 

From the ashes of tragedy, exceptional new music from the Savannah sludge kings.

Having wrapped up their 50th (!) anniversary tour, the Scorpions bring us an authorized DVD about how hard it is to say goodbye.

Haven’t done any holiday shopping? We’re not saying it’s panic time… because we have the solution: Decibel‘s annual Under the Tree, Under the Wire special!

Check out the latest brand new grimness from the 2016 Decibel Tour headliner!

Ho ho ho! Your holiday season could use an “occult black metal seance,” and the hypnotizing, crippling discord of Ibex Angel Order is here to provide it.

The Gypsyhawk offshoot knows how to skill roll. 

Life is not peachy for St. Louis blackened sludge downers.

The only desires worth having are the worthless variety.

Don’t sleep on these Canadian HOFers, who have already gotten much-deserved Flexi Series love!

The middle finger means “come hither.”

Metal has a vast expanse of space that it calls its popularity continuum, and I, admittedly, have no idea where Finland’s Re-Armed would be located along this stretch of real estate. However, the band  recently returned from a three-week tour of China. We quiz vocalist Jouni Matilainen and bassist Juhana ‘Bobo’ Heinonen about their latest adventure.

Just say yes to this video, no to tying one off and skateboarding.

Black Friday is a happy memory compared to this.

“Get It Wrong” never felt so right!

Cyber Monday is upon us, and to celebrate another year without a robot uprising, we have a deal for you! 

Two great tastes that… uh, just press play and listen for yourself.

Pronunciation isn’t the issue. Just press play.

Sort of a Where’s Waldo for the Stockholm scene…

Post-hardcore raging to make your pre-holiday Monday suck less.