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Mathgrind/noise trio Fawn Limbs unveil the first track from their forthcoming LP, Sleeper Vessels. Hold on to your faces!

Independent venues need our help. Tell your legislator to #SaveOurStages.

Ripped to Shreds main man Andrew Lee gets his blast on with Houkago Grind Time

You can’t handle the truth. You want answers?! Reach for a bottle of Boulevard Brewing Co‘s Dark Truth Stout

Ready to grind, thrash, and pummel your way to a better world? So are the artists on this extremely extreme benefit comp.

Perfectly named for the end-days, melodeath duo Dystopia A.D. indulge prog and shred whims on their upcoming album, Rise of the Merciless.

An early full album stream of For Dread Shall Reign, the brand-new record from three-headed Austrian thrash beast Deathstorm.

Drop out of life with the new Inhalement EP, Eternally Stoned, in hand.

Cultus Profano‘s Accursed Possession is due out August 28 via the always fantastic Debemur Morti Productions. We’ve got the record’s new single, “Towards The Temple of Darkened Fates, Op. 19,” NOW.

Everything you ever wanted to know about Sick of it All, but were afraid to ask.

Death metal enforcers Temple of Dread prep a pyre for Earth’s burning on their sophomore LP, World Sacrifice. Out July 24 from Testimony Records.

Featuring members of Meth Drinker, New Zealand sludge fiends Unruly leave your ear drums feeling like ground meat with their new single “Unruly Family.” Unruly’s self-titled LP is out July 31st from Sludgelord Records.

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Advance listening of the new EP by these avant-calamity creators!

Pacific Northwest doom-folk collective Geist & the Sacred Ensemble share the meditative, ominous video of “Closed Eye” from their upcoming LP, Waning Hymns.

Unsung California thrash heroes Psychosomatic return with their first new song in five years.

Ready for some stoner post-punk psych rock to help you get in touch with your inner simian? Sheenjek is here to oblige with the raucous “Monkey Brains.”

London rockers Black Helium unveil the heavy psych and black-mass fuzz of “Two Masters” before the release of their upcoming LP, The Wholly Other.

Philly’s Cephalothoracopagus play the grindcore twin-killing of blast ‘n’ groove.

Northeast death metal legends Incantation reveal the second advance track from forthcoming album Sect of Vile Divinities.

Chicago’s Cardiac Arrest belch new track, “Sodomite,” from new album, The Day That Death Prevailed. Streaming filthily only at Decibel!

In a concerted effort to break stigmas and stress its universal importance to metalheads worldwide, Decibel gathered over 140 musicians in support of wearing masks to help end the novel coronavirus and expedite the return of live extreme music.

Watch Italian death metal crushers Blasphemer totally NAIL the crucifixion of Christ in their new video “The Sixth Hour.”

Earth Crisis guitarist Scott Crouse talks about the reissue of the epic 2014 animal liberation-themed Salvation of Innocents in this pandemic moment.

Dissonant death/grind newcomers Resin Tomb crack open the crypt of their upcoming EP with unholy new single “Prostrate.”

German blasters Wreck are a masterclass in how a modern, clean production should sound for a grindcore band.

We’ve got suggestions on releases to help you headbang brain cells away and support bands/labels at time when they profit from it most.

Doom, Woe, Panopticon and more than two dozen other bands contribute new or unheard music to Bindrune’s Overgrow to Overthrow compilation, benefitting Black Lives Matter and Life After Hate.

Check out the new single from Gorgatron and the news of what’s likely to be the year’s lone metal fest.

Gruesome and Filter drummers get together to break the stigma on mental illness.