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Ardent Craft Ales’ IPA X may be #2,729 to the uninitiated, but currently #1 in Decibel’s hearts and bellies.

Gaze into the terrifying indifference of the universe with the latest emanation of Switzerland’s Helvetic Underground Committee.

You’re already living in a tech-hellscape. Might as well let Chicago dark industrial upstarts 5 R V L N 5 provide you an appropriate soundtrack for trying to survive it.

New Jersey’s Putrascension continues the state’s contradictory nature with their new EP.

NJHC legend Nathan Voorhees has endured a wild, terrifying series of medical ordeals over the last five years. Here’s the playlist that lets him keep that PMA.

Boston doomgaze project SEA match funereal heaviness with elemental poetry on their stunning and heart-rending debut LP Impermanence.

Because we’re only two weeks into 2020 and there is still music to discover. And because you can’t get enough goddamn lists, here are 60 more from 2019 to chew on.

Portuguese old school death metal power trio Innards digs deeps into the bowels of repugnance for this nasty splatter platter.

The second edition of this full-blown, three-day grindcore and powerviolence festival will be held in Northern California this July!

Hear and acquire this ultra-rare Trappist picture flexi disc single, featuring an exclusive new track written for the Decibel Flexi Series. Hurry, quantities are extremely limited!

Morgan Rider and the Deep Dark River‘s new video ponders “What if Vintersorg gave the fused DNA of Peter Steele, Mina Caputo and ICS Vortex singing lessons?”

Don’t sleep on former Decibel demo faves Snorlax. Hear their new song “Encapsulated Apocalypse”

The final installment of our five-part countdown of the Top 50 grindcore and powerviolence releases of the decade

Yuletide is upon us! And fye has some Krampus-approved picks to add some headbanging to the holidays.

Madball demonstrate their metal-infused NYHC style on the classic Set It Off and enter the Decibel Hall of Fame

You didn’t really think we’d close out 2019 without the top pecks of the year from our resident birdbrain, did you?

Canadian grindcrushers Wake Announce Devouring Ruin; debut records’s first single via Decibel.

Part Four of our five-part countdown of the Top 50 grindcore and powerviolence releases of the decade

Ex-Abigail Williams/Vehemence guitarist Bjorn Dannov is taking his heavy back to the 90s with Here in Spirit.

Philadelphia label/distro Horror Pain Gore Death Productions release a free 42 song sampler to summarize their 2019 releases. It’s the soundtrack for the world’s end, just in time for the year’s end.

New Jersey doom n’ rollers Solace channel a career of hard luck into a scorching comeback record.

Part Three of our five-part countdown of the Top 50 grindcore and powerviolence releases of the decade

Los Angeles, you’ll get a chance to see Mayhem, Abbath, Gatecreeper and Idle Hands on March 23!

A weekend of Carcass, Possessed, Nails, Vio-lence, Gruesome, Gatecreeper, Schammasch and more along with a dozen metal-friendly craft breweries is nearly upon us!

Legendary Iron Maiden bassist Steve Harris is set to torch expectations with “The Burning,” the sophomore offering from his prog-tinged hard rock British Lion side project.

Black metal duo Haxandraok beckon Beezlebub in their entrancing new single “Ba’al Zel Bul at the Gates of NOX.”

Part Two of our five-part countdown of the Top 50 grindcore and powerviolence releases of the decade

The mystical and powerful Thuringian black metal magus Mosaic takes us to “The Devil’s Place” to prepare us for their impending debut full length, Secret Ambrosian Fire.

Part of 1 of our five-part countdown of the Top 50 grindcore and powerviolence releases of the decade.

It’s okay to celebrate the release day of No Celebration: The Official Story of Paradise Lost with this exclusive excerpt from Decibel‘s limited edition hardcover book.