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Brass-heavy metallers Red Fiction ask the age-old question: “What happens if the last human to escape the Earth he just destroyed was judged by soul-sucking Aliens?”

Keep on rotting in the free world with a full album stream from Philly metallic punks Backslider.

Chicago symphonic metal guardians Shield of Wings uncage their soaring first LP, Unfinished. Out February 11th.

Hear Los Angeles’ Syntax create well-formed songs in the language of grindcore.

Watch the first video and single from Sum of R‘s harrowingly heavy and delicately beautiful new LP Lahbryce.

All ticket options for Decibel Magazine Metal & Beer Fest at the Fillmore Philly on June 10-11, 2022 are officially on sale. The time to buy is NOW!

Double your (dis)pleasure: The legendary Immigrant Sun Records returns and resurrects stellar 90s noisecore act Hourglass for a “Complete Discography.”

Cannibal Corpse headline Metal & Beer Fest’s Philly return while special full-album sets from Candlemass, Wolves in the Throne Room, Nuclear Assault and the Red Chord highlight June 10-11.

Death metal blasphemers Father Befouled summon fresh hell on their sinister new single, “Unheavenly Catechesis.”

Hear D.C. deathgrind crushers Deliriant Nerve before the release of their nine-track grind tornado Uncontrollable Ascension.

Hear metalcore crushers Foreign Hands take the genre back to its halcyon days of 20 years ago on “Separation Souvenir.”

Take an exclusive sneak peek of the second and final excerpt of Turned Inside Out: The Official Story of Obituary, now shipping directly via Decibel Books.

Make Instagram more metal and win some killer prizes doing Justin Bartlett’s ABCs of Extreme Metal Music Challenge in February

The new single from rockin’ thrashers Tantivy is certainly worthy of your attention!

In which we wonder aloud, way can’t every one-person grind project be as good as Full Body Punishment?

View the results of Harassor drummer Sandor G. Finta’s unlikely union with famed ’80s/’90s metal video director Eric Zimmerman for Finta’s Andorkappen project.

Decibel Magazine Metal & Beer Fest: Los Angeles 2021 festival shirts, pint glasses, screen-printed posters and woven patches now available at reduced prices.

Check out the NES-style 8-bit animation of Night Cobra‘s music video “The Neuromacers Curse.”

Only a mere 100 of this white LP from Texas death revelers Malignant Altar have been made available in the U.S. and Decibel has got all of them. Pre-order Realms of Exquisite Morbidity now!

Face the rabid anger of the new Speckmann Project single, “Fiends of Emptiness.” Featuring Paul Speckmann of Master and Abomination.

Watch Brazil’s premiere grindcore unit Test expand to Test Big Band for an 11-minute grind opera.

Get your deluxe Decibel subscription by Monday, January 10 to obtain this HIGHLY LIMITED flexi disc single from avant garde black/death kings Imperial Triumphant.

The Oakland post-post-hardcore powerhouse Strangelight return with another stellar offering,The World Needs Laughter.

Las Vegas/Brazilian deathrashers Claustrofobia recruit Marc Rizzo (ex-Soulfly and Cavalera Conspiracy) for their new single “Corrupted Self.”

Death metal fiends Fossilization unearth a single from their split with Ritual Necromancy, “Exalted in the Altar of Insignificance.”

Now that 2021 has ground to a halt, blast back with the 21 best grindcore and powerviolence songs of the past year.

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

That’s right — Timothy Sheahan is not only one of coronavirus’ fiercest foes, but also a punk-hardcore metalhead in extremely good standing.

Oakland DIY label Transylvanian Recordings made a lot of waves this year. Listen to some of our favorite Transylvanian albums from 2021 before the new year.

Get a load of this sweet artwork, dedicated to Metallica‘s Ride the Lightning, created to support children’s hospital in need.