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Celebrate Death‘s Scream Bloody Gore reissue with these never-before-seen interview cuts about the LP from limited edition Choosing Death book.

Speaking with Kriscinda Lee Everitt and Shawn Macomber for a behind-the-Monsters look at what it takes to put together such a righteous benefit anthology, which now spans two volumes!

Guitarist/vocalist Jason Mendonça is excited and filled with positivity. And you should be, too. 

Creepsylvanian death/thrash miscreants Ghoul join the Decibel Flexi Series.

When I first saw extreme metal Brooklynites Kosmodemonic, they were killing it on a stage Watain doused with pig’s blood soon after.

San Diego dour trio Ghoulgotha offer up another tantalizing peek at their forthcoming LP, To Starve the Cross.

Mastodon‘s whale of sophomore LP gets the dB HOF treatment. 

KEN mode’s Shane and Jesse Matthewson have decided to take a step back from being full-time road dogs and focus on their new venture, MKM Management services, which combines their desk job skill set with their rock and roll lifestyle experiences.

Exclusive. Gorguts. Full-EP premiere. We don’t need to say anything more, really. 

In this month’s issue of Decibel, we bring you a flexi so close to our hearts that it’s practically a third ventricle.  We got Asphyx mouthpiece Martin Van Drunen to talk about his relationship to the magazine and its editor, as well as the way the band put together our most recent edition of the flexi series.

“Everything is permitted.” Considering that’s Norwegian experimental collective Ulver‘s genre description, hindsight confirms it’s no surprise they strayed so dramatically from the black metal that shaped their earliest albums. Following the release of their 13th LP, vocalist Kristoffer Rygg shares his thoughts on the band’s evolution and his own artistic journey.

30 years of epicus doomicus metallicus means new EP(icus). 

Hear the first new Asphyx song in four years, which also happens to be the new official Decibel theme song.

Hickory, NC’s Rapheumets Well is a band heavily steeped in science fiction and fantasy. They slam dunk their lushly orchestral and luxurious symphonic melodic blackened death metal into a fantastical and fantastically creative and complex world that I don’t even want to embarrass myself trying to explain.

Hope you’re enjoying that limited edition Marilyn Manson Antichrist Superstar cassette you picked up Saturday. 

“This video shows what we are, doing what we do in this band. No pretense, no overblown image, no bullshit, no gimmicks, no artificial/cheap attention grab. This video IS NAILS.”

No parasites or dirty needles are involved. Hopefully. 

Necro + rot in the title = alive + fresh in the songs. In a crypt-dwelling, corpse-ridden sort of way, that is. 

“Des Siecles a décimer” calls for immediate headbanging promptly followed by a horror film of the utmost goriness. 

Whether you think they’re the best or worst thing to happen to extreme metal in years, you can’t miss this premiere for an album that’s sure to end up on many top 40 lists at the end of the year. 

“Oracles Hex” bewitches, entrances, and predicts a haunting full-length. 

Part space, part old school, part its own thing entirely, Sentient is death metal not to be missed. 

The Des Moines heavy thrashers educate on how to catch attention with a re-release.

The first new Asphyx song in four years is a tribute to your favorite metal magazine… which you’ll need to subscribe to if you want this exclusive flexi disc. 

Sweden’s Livet Som Insats second full-length, Check Your Grind features a take on the iconic Beastie Boys cover. We’d say the similarities end there, but listen and see if you can pick up on the similarities between the bands while we introduce you to them via a getting-to-know you interview.

That’s a nasty sounding collaboration, you may think — and you would be correct. 

Just don’t vomit in the car. Please. 

Ivar Bjørnson talked to Decibel about his love of electronic music and what metal fans can expect when they hear his other work in Bardspec. 

Orlando’s The Glorious Rebellion is the sort of band that, were they alive and kicking back in the late 80s/early-to-mid 90s, would have been about as seriously tailor-made for a life signed to AmRep as one could imagine.

Get out past the stratosphere with a new track from the upcoming On Strange Loops.