Interview

Catching up with hardcore OG and Circle Jerks frontman Keith Morris on the band’s return to the stage after 15 years.

Grim Reefer Fest celebrates riffs and spliffs with a nine-band lineup of stoned heaviness on April 16th in Baltimore, MD.

Nuclear Assault bassist/legend Danny Lilker talks Metal & Beer Fest beer collaboration with KCBC, a special guest stage-dive performance at the event, and the black metal bedspreads.

With Def Leppard style hooks, Judas Priest anthemics and Maiden/Lizzy-esque guitar harmonies, Bomber’s debut is exactly what we need after two years of pandemic doom and gloom

Joey Hockin talks about how the ingredients of planning, having faith and never stopping went into Hyperspace Metal Fest 2022.

On the 40th anniversary of Christian Death‘s Only Theatre Of Pain, Decibel talked to all the living members of the album lineup about the making of this deathrock classic and its legacy.

In which we present the second part of Sculptured, ex-Agalloch guitarist Don Anderson and Decibel‘s Forrest Pitts lengthy discussion on creative musical impact.

Bitter Branches discuss their new album, Your Neighbors Are Failures.

Producer legend Dan Swanö tells the story of Steel, the obscure heavy metal supergroup he formed with Opeth members during the recording of their Morningrise LP.

To celebrate the release of the Nightmare Frontier EP, we got Abysmal Dawn vocalist/guitarist Charles Elliott to mosh us through the five heavy albums that changed his life.

We caught up with Voivod bassist Dominic “Rocky” Laroche to find out what five heavy albums changed his life. To Morgoth! (Not the band!)

Decibel celebrates the 10th anniversary of Liberteer‘s Better to Die on Your Feet Than Live on Your Knees with Matt Widener, the man behind this eclectic grind masterpiece.

Demonstealer schools us about India’s metal history and premieres a new video!

Getting into the mind of Mizmor‘s A.L.N. to find out what five heavy albums changed his life.

In which Sculptured, ex-Agalloch guitarist Don Anderson and Decibel‘s Forrest Pitts discuss the tonal impact of Anton Webern’s Opus 21 symphony.

British doom legends Cathedral celebrate three decades of Hall of Fame album Forest of Equilibrium.

On the eve of their final show at this weekend’s Decibel Magazine Metal & Beer Fest: Los Angeles, we sit down with Early Graves for an informal exit interview

Decibel celebrates the 40th anniversary of Venom‘s extreme metal ground zero, Welcome To Hell, with former guitarist/songwriter Jeff “Mantas” Dunn.

Clifford Meyer (ex-ISIS the band) teams up with veteran game wizard Nathan Purkeypile to soundtrack the new soon-to-be-smash video game The Axis Unseen.

Hear a track from Eight Bells‘ album Legacy of Ruin (due on February 25 and available now for preorder), the band’s first record in roughly five years.

Houston promoter and musician Christian Larson discusses new records from Necrofier and Night Cobra, plus the fourth edition of his Hell’s Heroes festival.

We shoot some questions at Tom Angelripper about Sodom‘s 20-year anniversary box set of the their Vietnam War-themed album, M-16.

Check out an interview with Jason Newsted about Flotsam and Jetsam and latest Hall of Fame entry, Doomsday for the Deceiver!

Each Khemmis member shares five albums that personally influenced them while writing and producing their upcoming LP, Deceiver.

Cult Never Dies publishes a Z.A.S.T. zine anthology. We chat with the former editor, one Havard “Mortiis” Ellefsen, all about it.

Pepper Keenan and Karl Agell remember Corrosion Of Conformity‘s heavy-hitting, genre-busting, politically-charged Blind on its 30th birthday.

The Metal God, Judas Priest vocalist Rob Halford, talks about putting together the band’s exhaustive new box set and what it means to be making metal for 50 years.

Criminal mastermind Anton Reisenegger recounts the making of new album Sacrificio and the forces — resistance, repression, revolt — behind the album’s lyrics.

Jeff Walker, Bill Steer, and Michael Amott recount the thesaurus-busting, mandatory-listen that is Carcass‘s Necroticism – Descanting the Insalubrious on its 30th birthday.

Death rock progenitor Steve Sylvester discusses the 10th Death SS album, X, and new video for goth-tinged track “Temple of the Rain.”