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Someone’s gotta finally admit it: Suicidal Tendencies are hella confusing. Here are five times they really threw us for a loop.

Decibel sets our sights on the Americas as we continue to mine for black gold.

We catch up with Mantar‘s Hanno Klänhardt to find out what the five heavy albums that changed his life were.

In memory of the grindcore legend, Decibel picks the best songs written by Jesse Pintado.

To celebrate the release of their new album, Loved, we caught up with KEN mode guitarist/vocalist Jesse Matthewson to find out what five heavy albums changed his life.

Psycho Las Vegas returns this weekend. Here are Decibel‘s most-anticipated performances of the fest.

Terror‘s Scott Vogel picks his 10 all-time favorite hardcore albums.

Five bands to watch at Shadow Woods Metal Fest.

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It’s August. It’s really hot outside. So hot that it BURNS. Burning is pretty metal though, right? So here’s ten great songs about burning!

Immortal call forth the freezing wintermoon and bring a chill to summ–er, rather, record collections.

Decibel picks the best singles of 2018 thus far.

Summer days are hot, but the moon is freezing no matter what month it is. So here’s 6 underground black metal bands for you to blast when the sun goes down.

Dark fiction author Chad Lutzke presents a playlist of extremely heavy horror fiction-inspired tracks.

Ten releases from the first half of the year that kicked ass under the radar.

Matt Harvey shares the five heavy albums that changed his life.

There’s a lot of great underground black metal bands out there among the leather-wearing and corpse-painted multitude. This article features music by Riivaus, Nyctophilia, Atra Vetosus, Antimateria, Ühtceare and Nox.

Decibel reconsiders five perfect songs from the “sell-out” age of thrash metal in the ’90s.

Want to find out more about how Wrekmeister Harmonies learned to sonically collapse your consciousness? Of course you do!

The best goddamn producer of scene-documenting live hardcore videos of all time is taking his game to the next level. And you can help.

Rest in power, A389 Recordings. Here are five times the label ruled.

In the early ’90s, the Cry Now, Cry Later compilations had the cream of the power violence crop; here are five times the compilation series totally ruled.

In celebration of the start of the seventh incarnation of the Decibel Magazine Tour, Enslaved creative force Ivar Bjørnson ranks the band’s albums from worst to best.

Happy Valentine’s Day from Decibel. We like you like you, so we made you a playlist of metal love songs — light on the power ballads.

Are you mad as hell and not going to take it anymore? Denver’s Fathers is here to help.

Don’t call them comebacks. Call them the best reunion albums in metal history.

When it came to mid-to-early 2000s metalcore and heavy post-hardcore, Abacus Records were on fire. Here are five times they killed it.

On this week’s Demo:listen we invite some of our friends to share their favorite demos of 2017, while we count down some demo highlights of the year that—for whatever reason—we never got a chance to feature.

Continuing the fun that our Napalm Death special issue started, here we examine and rank the band’s four “wilderness years” albums from worst to best.

The biggest problem with our Top 40 Albums of 2017 is that it’s hard to fit 45 albums onto that list. Let’s expand our horizons with Black Anvil, Vallenfyre, Forgotten Tomb, Grave Pleasures and Suffering Hour.