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Decibel Magazine Metal & Beer Fest: Philly has been officially rescheduled for April 9-10, 2021 at Fillmore Philly! Tickets for the original 2020 festival dates will automatically be valid for the new dates.

No noise interludes, no Werner Herzog samples, just poorly recorded (but properly executed) moron grind for your reptilian brain stems from Snagg.

Hear late U.K. noisemongers Fudge Tunnel captured at the height of their abrasive powers live in 1993.

Tragic Cat acquire a portion of the late Jim Konya’s personal T-shirt collection, and each day in May they’ll post a unique piece from the assortment to raise donations for his namesake scholarship fund.

Bottoms up! Get ready to drink to a new track from U.K. death squad Foetal Juice!

Resurrected heavy metallers Tyrant have a new album, Hereafter, available on May 15. Streaming heavy metal gold only at Decibel

And now, for something completely different, here’s some good news: Playing Enemy‘s debut LP and EP are now available digitally via Translation Loss

Four new four Napalm Death LPs—Smear Campaign, Time Waits for No Slave, Utilitarian and Apex Predator – Easy Meat—get the reissue treatment with an assist from Decibel.

Boston blasters Scalp the Pioneer don’t mice words on The Idiot’s Guide to Self-Hatred.

Upland Brewing Company and Paradox Beer Company collaborate on what might be the world’s most complex brown ale

Irish thrashers Gama Bomb donate new single proceeds to Dublin Simon Community, providing vital services to families, who are homeless or at risk of homelessness.

Salvadoran misanthropes Conceived by Hate lure listeners to a haunted graveyard in their ectoplasmic new single “Into Cemetery Fog.”

Recorded and arranged by Gruesome‘s Gus Rios, the 10-track lambasting rings in just over 22 minutes and features deep cuts like “Bad Marketing,” “Reconsider Your Life Choices” and “Dumbest Name Ever for Water.”

Who’s a good boy? Who’s a good boy? The new -(16)- video is! The new -(16)- video is!

It doesn’t matter if we all die, as long as you hear the new single from shoegaze-infused black metallers An Autumn for Crippled Children first.

Rhode Island bruisers Cyttorak summon beasts from distant worlds on their new slab of slowerviolence Simultaneous Invocation Of Apocalyptic Harbingers.

Ex-the Gates of Slumber and Chrome Waves drummer Bob Fouts passes away at 45.

Spend 90-coronavirus-free seconds with the new Bleach Everything video before the President of the United States tells you to eat Tide Pods.

Australia-based black metallers Order Of Orias corrupt harmony on their new album, Ablaze, now streaming in full only at Decibel.

Ved Buens Ende‘s progressive black metal game-changer, Written in Waters is inducted into the Decibel Hall of Fame

La Sirêne Brewing’s Wild Tripelle took a little while to make it across the Pacific Ocean. By the time this hit shelves last year, it was already aging.

Hear and acquire this ultra-rare Graf Orlock X-ray picture flexi disc single, featuring two exclusive new tracks written and recorded for the Decibel Flexi Series. Hurry, quantities are extremely limited!

Get a full D-beatdown from righteous Californian hardcore crushers Destroyed in Seconds (D.I.S.) via Divide and Devour right now.

Let Osaka, Japan “dark witch doom duo” BlackLab lead you down a strange, wild “Forked Road” to the abyss.

Canadian death cult Duskwalker lure listeners into a brutal tale of terror in the Rabidog Films music video for “Shadowcreeper.”

In which our grindcore correspondent talks about Brooklyn again? OMG, can you believe he actually lives there? Crazy, right?!?!

Oliver Brewing Co‘s Mind Freeze collab with Decibel faves Haunt is an instant DIPA classic.

We have a limited number of advance copies of the June issue of Decibel, featuring an exclusive Graf Orlock X-ray picture flexi disc, available now. Don’t blow it.

A wild progressive black metal transmission courtesy Xenoglyph, an anonymous band hailing, apparently, from planet Extremely Extreme.

Heavy Metal lustlords Sacred Leather are back to tease their upcoming LP with the fiery riff-spittin’ new single “Oruku.”