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Watch Gruesome drummer Gus Rios step out from behind the kit and front tribute/cover band Union Black with an arresting Depeche Mode cover.

Krieg’s Neill Jameson reflects on the closing of New Jersey’s legendary Vintage Vinyl and what it means for your favorite indie record store.

You may think clean living and bloodbaths are mutually exclusive, but the punk slasher Straight Edge Kegger suggests otherwise.

UK black metal revolutionaries Underdark shine brilliantly on their debut LP, Our Bodies Burned Bright on Re-Entry.

Hear the full length debut from Philly death dealers Covered in Sores and grab a copy from HPGD Production before that shit gets infected.

Drummer/guitarist/vocalist Gus Rios pens an editorial about overcoming suicidal thoughts.

Our fine feathered fiend digs deep until the underground this week and returns with a mixed bag of worms.

Watch Wolvhammer expatriate Heath Rave enlist the haunting saxophone of Yakuza’s Bruce Lamont in the latest Lotus Thrones video

Ukrainian death metal brain-scramblers Brilliant Coldness continue their shrewd genre progression on their new full-length album.

Chameleonic frontwoman Lindsay O. (Coma Cluster Void, Natalia) embraces her slam/death side with Eyes of Perdition. Watch their new video and read an interview with Lindsay here.

Don’t overthink the caustic grind of Los Angeles blast duo Shitbrains.

Get free flexi discs from Bloodbath, Converge, Opeth, Gatecreeper and more when you order Decibel Flexi Series Deluxe Edition Collector’s Box this weekend ONLY!

Sounding like a mix of Dave Mustaine’s veins circa-1985/’86, the floor of the Rochester, NY studio Metallica slept on whilst recording Kill ‘Em All and Lemmy’s liver from 1969 onwards, it’s Archangel A.D.

Hear Italy’s Bottomless dive deep for low-end on their self-titled debut album.

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