Interview

“Before, it was me just trying to beg the world: ‘Please listen to me. Please look in my direction, I make music and I promise it’s good enough for you listen to,’ and now we truly have an audience.”

Louisiana- and Texas-based black metal shoegaze band vide just dropped their new EP, Decorated in spiderweb, on May 2. Check out their track-by track rundown of the release here.

Divide and Dissolve vocalist Takiaya Reed talks grief, joy and Black liberation in the eve of new LP Insatiable.

Futuristic Dutch thrashers Cryptosis talk Black Mirror, technicality versus melody and their new album, Celestial Death.

Dismember‘s fearsome five breakdown their iconic Like an Ever Flowing Stream as we approach their full-album performance of the album at Decibel’s Metal & Beer Fest: Philly on April 4.

Max and Iggor Cavalera are out on the road with Cavalera with Necrot and Dead Heat as they blaze through critical tracks from Bestial Devastation, Morbid Visions, and Schizophrenia!

Boston-based melodic death metal outfit Aversed fill us in on the their rebirth via Erasure of Color set for release on March 21 via M-Theory Audio.

Austin bangers Scorpion Child pull off ‘Him and Sisters of Mercy trying to play Judas Priest’ on third LP I Saw the End as it Passed Right Through Me.

Guitarist Bumblefoot (ex-Guns N’ Roses) discusses his new solo album and 30-year career, plus the funeral doom album he’s currently producing.

Mikael Stanne (Dark Tranquillity, Grand Cadaver) on “the instinct and the 30 years of experience” that goes into the new LP from The Hallo Effect.

The computer metal mastermind finds endless imagination in physical limitation.

This summer, as Colin Marston was regrouping while scouting for a new home for the studio, he took some time to reflect on the transition and take stock of the Menegroth experience as a whole.

Erik Wunder, the enigmatic figure behind the Colorado-based solo project Man’s Gin (as well as acclaimed USBM force Cobalt), on his latest sonic offering, The Reprobate

Skin Yard co-founder and bassist Daniel House shares the details of the grunge progenitors’ new deluxe singles box set.

The sole proprietor of Estonia’s Thunraz discusses the sepulchral, avante-sludge gauntlet of his latest, Incineration Day.

Accomplished violinist Laura Bates (Völur) has a steady income, however, her landlord is trying to evict her. She discuses the unchecked power of landlords and housing instability.

Long-running underground outfit Impelliterri discuss their new album and working with Slayer drummer Paul Bostaph.

Post-metal mainstays Pelican discuss reuniting the band’s original lineup and approaching new music.

Skeletonwitch guitarist Scott Hedrick’s left-hand path is more meditational than metal on his new debut solo album, Devotional Drift Vol. 1.

We catch up with Progressive deathcore heroes Within the Ruins to talk about the long-gestating sequel to Phenomena

Decibel interviews Chuck Billy of thrash metal titans Testament about the reissues of The Legacy and The New Order.

Author B.R. Yeager talks fiction writing, favorite bands and collaborating with Uniform.

God Is An Astronaut founding member Torsten Kinsella discusses the band’s new album.

Decibel favorite Scoot discusses is new band Retsu and the U.K. underground hero’s never-ending enthusiasm for noisy hardcore punk.

Catching up with Nervosa frontwoman Prika Amaral ahead of the international thrashers’ upcoming US headliner.

Hamilton, Ontario’s death/doom outfit Absorb on death, doom and promise of new material so soon after the release of their crushing new EP, Smog.

Powerwolf‘s new album is out today, so Decibel spoke with the band to learn more about the German heavy metal outfit.

Australian screamo crew Blind Girls stream their heaviest record to date.

Portland, OR-based death rockers Deathcharge discuss the long and winding road to Midnight Road, their first new LP in over a decade.

Cop rockers X-Cops discuss new EP XCAB, the presidential election and their uncanny similarities to GWAR.