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In which we present the second part of Sculptured, ex-Agalloch guitarist Don Anderson and Decibel‘s Forrest Pitts lengthy discussion on creative musical impact.

Sometimes a name perfectly encapsulates what a band sounds like. And Portland’s Dry Socket found the exact right moniker to describe their painful, impossible-to-ignore approach to hardcore punk.

It’s been a long goddamn while since a hardcore band blasted out of the gate with a sound as feral and kinetic – yet savvily refined in construction – as Guardrails. Hear them now.

U.K. death metal antagonists As the World Dies premiere their new single, “Desolate.” Album out on March 25.

The Decibel edition of Devil Master‘s Ecstasies of Never Ending Night LP is “Clear with Violet & Black Splatter” vinyl and limited to just 100 copies worldwide!

Get down with the serious beatdowns of Indonesian grinders BLCKHWK.

Hear doom heavyweights Come to Grief unleash the first single form their debut full-length album, When the World Dies, out May 20, via Translation Loss.

Claim your own hot or cold spot in hell and blast the debut album from death metal demons Hellfrost and Fire. Stream it now before the album’s March 18th release.

Hear Horror Pain Gore Death Productions’ reissue of Comé Mierda‘s ripping 2021 demo. That counts as a premiere, right?

Watch Philly-based speed rock force Roadkiller team up with CYK’s Jess Margera for the project’s latest single.

Eddie Sutton of metallic hardcore crossover underground royalty Leeway continues to battle an aggressive cancer. Here’s the latest update and how you can help.

Tech death duo Hellbore banish us to the underworld in their sinister new track, “All Men are Created Evil.”

Cloud Rat, World Peace, Sick/Tired, Choke, Fluoride, Knoll, Test, Sissy Spacek, Grishka and Brazil’s Test all set for the second annual Dreary North Fest.

California’s Helsott are here to grace your unholy President’s Day off are with their new official video for “I’ll Make Ya Famous.”

Decibel Magazine Metal & Beer Fest in our hometown of Philadelphia (June 10-11, 2022) is our fastest-selling event ever. Fence-sitters, leave the hall and get tickets now!

Sick, twisted crust-influenced grind is skin that Bodyrot are in on Fleshworks.

End Reign, featuring Mike Score (All Out War), Domenic Romeo (Integrity), Art Legere (Bloodlet) and Adam Jarvis (Misery Index), are your new favorite metallic hardcore supergroup.

After over a decade of trying, we finally induct Dead Kennedys‘ landmark Frankenchrist into the Decibel Hall of Fame.

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.