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Waldo is not in here. You can find him in a Van Halen video seven years earlier. But everyone else is pretty cool!

Finnish grind veterans Rotten Sound have been doing the damn thing for over 20 years, and do it well on new album Abuse to Suffer.

Prepare for maximum discomfort, courtesy of Dutch BM crew’s “Wille Zur Macht”

Hollow Earth have always sounded like they wanted to be more than a hardcore band. Sure, the midwesterners never lacked the ability to break necks with and start pits, but there was something around the edges that showed a real thirst for something different, with flashes of doom and melody.  

Veteran Dutch devil worshippers Cirith Gorgor are back to wreak blackened havoc.

Get into this bunch of (young) battle axes.

Bend your back for the climax of this crushing epic.

Vancouver does heavy metal right. Drink up.

Black metal perennials Rotting Christ are set to drop their latest slab of malevolence.

Disgustingly old-school death metal, you say? Count us in!

Nobody in their right mind would line up to tell these dudes that punk’s dead

Japanese doom vets Church of Misery have been holed up in their safehouse for the last three years, but they’re ready to resume their (serial) criminal career with a super cool new accomplice.

The Norwegian legend returns in style.

The renowned disEMBOWELMENT offshoot continues to make a name of their own.

Grind, D-beat, hardcore and more converge on supergroup’s must-hear latest.

3… 2… get obliterated in more ways than 1 this New Year’s Eve!

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!