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Canadian blasters Soil of Ignorance are firmly embedded in grindcore’s fertile roots.

Let the sublimely chaotic, enlivening 1981 set captured on “Live at CBGBs” help you regain The Faith.

The True Mayhem shredder Teloch also crafts scintillating synthwave as Bergeton. Watch the borderline-NSFW video for “Miami Murder” now.

Wanna hear a sick new brutal slamming death metal demo? Well, move this one to the top of the Corpse Pile.

Don’t be left out in the cold — stream the first new music in fourteen years from NYHC legends Subzero right now!

Australian black metal quartet Vyrion merge abominable power and unstoppable force on “Avalanche,” from their impending new album, Nil.

Finally, Mexico City deathbangers Infesticide unleash their sophomore full-length. Vintage Morrisound death metal bloodshed awaits on Envenoming Wounds.

Scottish post-hardcore sludgians Bosphorus slowly and carefully lower their massive, ground-shaking debut album Slow Burn.

The ever-prolific Andrew Lee returns with some new “emotional grindcore” from his Skullsmasher project.

Bristol, U.K. trio Svalbard didn’t merely make a better record than 2018’s solid It’s Hard to Have Hope, but delivered the first truly great album of their career.

California-based Transcendence LA thrash ’til (melodic) death on new album, Towards Obscurities Beyond. Streaming only at Decibel!

Trust the crust of Napalm Death live guitarist John Cooke’s Corrupt Moral Altar.

Members of Transistor Transistor and Kowloon Walled City unite in killer post-hardcore outfit Strangelight.

Swedish grindcore trio GRID continue Umeå, Sweden’s proud tradition of fantastic outsider art.

Mastodon‘s Bill Kelliher talks, Bill & Ted 3, Brent Hinds’ “Wild Stallyns Bill and Ted Forever” tattoo and the band’s new comp.

Swedish doom trio Laser Dracul lure fans of scuzz and fuzz into the haunted forests of their debut LP, Hagridden.

The latest sonic haymaker from rising metallic hardcore revitalizer Chamber is an eye-opening “Vision of Hostility.”

Heavy metal short film Landgraves conjures suspense from snowstorms and blackened doom. Watch this festival standout now.

Guitarist Willie Adler talks about Lamb of God‘s involvement in the Bill & Ted Face the Music soundtrack.

We have a limited number of advance copies of the November issue of Decibel, featuring an exclusive Hyperdontia flexi disc, available now. Don’t blow it.

Thirty years ago Anthrax released the thrash metal apotheosis Persistence of Time, a timeless record which remains as beguiling and potent as ever.

Bullet-belted deathrashers Evoke race the devil on their debut LP, Seeds of Death. Out September 18 on Pulverized Records.

Polish black/death duo DeathEpoch provide a little demonstration of the sonic warfare that is their debut album Abysmal Invocation.

Texas one-woman grindcore project Pyosisified is, of course, rotten to the gore.

New compilation features new music from 40+ new bands and benefits Movement for Black Lives.

Blackened folk metal rogues Finntroll are back from studio hibernation. Welcome them back by watching the hallucinatory video for “Mask.”

Killer Denver, Colorado horror metal outfit Axeslasher reemerges from the shadows with a wild and nasty new live album.

Canadian death metal executioners Sadistic Embodiment unleash unseen terror with their new single “Phantom Tormentor.”

Peruvians blasters Audiotrauma ride the crushing wave of South American grindcore dominance

We pay tribute to Power Trip’s Riley Gale with our cover story to the sold-out February 2019 issue of Decibel.