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On this week’s Demo:listen we hear some shit we’ll never un-hear from Atlanta’s Cryptorchidism.

You obviously won’t come out of this exercise knowing the usual informational nuts and bolts about Protosequence, like their history and how they formed, but hopefully this will shine some light onto the band’s creative process.

Swedish perception-expanding post-metallers Cult of Luna and singular, legendary Made Out of Babies/Battle of Mice vocalist Julie Christmas bring their extraordinary 2016 collaborative effort Mariner to North America for “the first and last time.”

Check out this exclusive track premiere for just a taste of the unholy scourge that is Diabolical Baptism, the third album from Adelaide’s Nocturnes Mist.

Being a progressive band worth listening to brings two challenges. First, the band must be willing to explore and weave different styles together in a compelling way. Second and perhaps most importantly, the sound should still be tethered to some recognizable form that audiences can use to relate to the music. The music can’t just…

Our latest That Tour Was Awesome looks back on when Pestilence , Autopsy , and Bolt Thrower terrorized Europe in 1990.

Check out a new track from reactivated NYHC legends Burn.

Get to know the man behind some of your favorite Decibel illustrations, and gain some insight into the creation of his latest book, Metal Gods: A Tribute to Judas Priest.

Check out this official lyric video for the title track off the new album from ex-Trouble vocalist Eric Wagner’s psych/doom outfit, Blackfinger.

Cavernlight play emotionally important music.  If you plan to doom today, doom to this.

“I quit my job at Apple to start a metal station that sells vinyl records,” Gimme Radio founder and CEO Tyler Lenane tells Decibel. “To a lot of people that probably sounds fucking insane. But I believe in it — and I’m hoping to turn a lot of other heavy music lovers into believers, too.”…

New York thrash metal heroes Nuclear Assault join the ranks of the Decibel Hall of Fame this month with the induction of their landmark 1986 debut album, Game Over. You can read the extensive story about the making of the album in the September issue of Decibel (available here), which includes interviews with each member of Nuclear Assault who performed on…

Long-running industrial/crossover mainstays Prong released their twelfth full-length, Zero Days, today. To celebrate, Decibel asked frontman Tommy Victor — who ran sound at CBGB’s in the 80’s — to rank the five most insane sets he worked sound for. What follows were his answers; Victor has clearly witnessed and contributed to some legendary performances. Dark Angel (February 8,…

Voivod rule. Here are five reasons why.

The new Gravesite doesn’t drop for another week, but today we bring you an exclusive stream of these Italian death-slingers’ brand new sophomore album, Neverending Trail of Skulls.

Panopticon performed live at Decibel Metal and Beer Fest in April. Watch now!

Stream Clovers, the debut EP from Baltimore doom outfit Gateway to Hell. 

California’s Wilderness Dream are about to drop their second EP, so we caught up with them to find out why they love EPs, where the hardcore went, and more.

Watch a new video from groove metallers Granada. 

After 20 years later in the grave, Chile’s Death Yell has reformed. Not only to exact revenge on the time away from the molten metal spotlight but to issue the band’s first album, Descent into Hell. Now signed to Hells Headbangers, the Chileans are using their time wisely, focusing on reality instead of fantasy. Hell is real, and Death Yell have returned to remind us.

Watch the video for Godhunter‘s cover of Tegan and Sara’s “Walking With a Ghost” now. 

Win free tickets to Chicago Open Air this weekend featuring the Decibel Headbanger’s Bier Hall.

Ewigkeit‘s last album, 2013’s Back to Beyond, was released on a little known label called D.T.M. Productions (also home to Jaldaboath). To say it went under the radar is a massive understatement. Nevertheless, with the recent resurrection of Norwegians In the Woods…, in which Mr. Fog (aka James Fogarty) is new frontman, spawned yet another resurrection. See, prior to the Fogarty replacing Jan Kenneth Transeth, he had, from a certain vantage point, put his long labor of love Ewigkeit on hiatus.

Slaughter’s Ron Sumners talks about why he formed Slaughtering Slaughter… and what exactly it is.

Check out the new lyric video from metallic hardcore outfit Get the Shot.

Stream the video for “Perpetrator Emasculation” from ferocious death metal machine Venom Prison.

In which we reconsider Rush’s 1987 soft-rock opus Hold Your Fire.

Spin into the whispering darkness with a new track from the masters of death-doom brutality.

Watch the new video from Australian black metal band Somnium Nox.

We caught up with Pounder’s Matt Harvey to talk about how his new trad metal project is really more similar to his extreme metal bands than you might think.