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Your ears do not betray you: The post-hardcore vets of The Judas Knife have defied death (seriously) and are here to slay.

Our minds have led us into ignorance, so Shrew and Shrub return with the crust punk/death metal of Pray U Prey to lead us out of ignorance.

Hear and acquire this previously unreleased Nachtmystium flexi disc single, featuring a lost track from 2006, available as part of the Decibel Flexi Series.

Philadelphia duo Old City deconstructs classic hardcore, punk, and metal to imbue hip hop with new heaviness.

Unendlich’s scythe-swinging riffs shape misery into majesty on the USBM project’s new LP, Paradox of a Broken World.

Watch Idaho’s killer hardcore power trio Ingrown in their natural habitat in the new video “Waste.”

The Decibel Flexi Series is proud to welcome a new, exclusive track from Bay Area death metal masters Ripped to Shreds!

Take a deep dive into the new album by post-metal monsters Year of No Light!

With a (new) name like Filth is Eternal you just know the latest from these Seattle levelers has to be brutal.

Black metal nightbeasts Vampirska and Wampyric Rites join forces to create the sanguinary split LP, The Drowning Void.

Midwest grindcore crew Gastropod marry a caveman aesthetic with a progressive approach to performance.

In the latest installment of Health Awaits, a new Decibel fitness column, Nate Garrett of trad metal faves Spirit Adrift reveals how his iron paved his path to sobriety

Romanian/Los Angeles ice metal heroes Persekutor unveil their latest hedonistic video from last year’s Permanent Winter

Hear “The Ordeal of Undecidability” and read a lengthy interview with Sculptured frontman Don Anderson about the return of the Northwest progressive metal heroes.

Brazilian death thrashers Hatefulmurder release the video for their only Portuguese-language single, “Santificado Seja o Meu Ódio.”

In which a psychedelic doom metal band releases a split album with a folk singer from Brooklyn

Stream Vouna‘s monumental new track black doom track “Grey Sky.”

Check out the latest video by French death groovers Akiavel!

Looking to sharpen your corpse pose game? Cop Problem/Painbody front woman Deb Cohen has got you covered.

Portland goth-flavored metallers Unto Others—formerly Idle Hands—return with a new name, a new label and new music.

Vancouver post-metal project Empress raise a chalice to lost loved ones on their evocative doom single, “Libations.”

Get in now on Trinity’s Bière de Garde-style Mad Ear while it’s still kvlt.

Are Ptomatopsiaa your new favorite hypergoreblast band? Of course they are!

Legendary hardcore vocalist Chaka Malik talks transcendence, time, and the long, impactful tailwind of 1990s NYC hardcore and post-hardcore.

Brazilian stoner sludge degenerates Void Tripper lure doom devotees with promises of Satan and drugs on their debut LP, Dopefiend.

Love may bite, but Tokyo shredders LOVEBITES are here to prove old school heavy metal most certainly does not.

Choke‘s It’s Hard To Talk Shit, With No Fucking Teeth is the antifacist grindcore antidote to a lifetime of bullshit.

Some 15 years after its recording, the Decibel Flexi Series releases an unearthed, never-before-heard Nachtmystium song “Chemical Catharsis” from the Instinct: Decay sessions.

Check out an advance track from the debut full-length by NJ black metallers Putrascension!

Burning Tongue offers up a blackened crust soundtrack to suburban madness on new track “Cult-De-Sac.”