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Video Premiere: Get the Shot – ‘Hellbringer’
July 6, 2017 Emily Bellino
Check out the new lyric video from metallic hardcore outfit Get the Shot.
Video Premiere: Venom Prison – ‘Perpetrator Emasculation’
July 6, 2017 Emily Bellino
Stream the video for “Perpetrator Emasculation” from ferocious death metal machine Venom Prison.
Justify Your Shitty Taste: Rush’s “Hold Your Fire”
June 29, 2017 Greg Pratt
In which we reconsider Rush’s 1987 soft-rock opus Hold Your Fire.
Join Incantation in the “Rites of the Locust”
June 23, 2017 J. Andrew
Spin into the whispering darkness with a new track from the masters of death-doom brutality.
Video Premiere: Somnium Nox – ‘Transcendental Dysphoria’
June 22, 2017 Emily Bellino
Watch the new video from Australian black metal band Somnium Nox.
Exhumed’s Matt Harvey talks new trad metal project Pounder
June 22, 2017 Greg Pratt
We caught up with Pounder’s Matt Harvey to talk about how his new trad metal project is really more similar to his extreme metal bands than you might think.
Video Premiere: Sunlight’s Bane – ‘Begrudging Soul’
June 21, 2017 Emily Bellino
Sunlight’s Bane reveal an unsettling video for “Begrudging Soul.”
Track Premiere: M.O.D. – ‘You’re a F***ing Dick’
June 14, 2017 Emily Bellino
M.O.D. are getting straight to the point.
Watch: Withered Live At Decibel Metal And Beer Fest
June 14, 2017 Emily Bellino
Watch Withered‘s performance from Decibel Metal and Beer Fest.
Watch: Falls Of Rauros At Decibel Metal And Beer Fest
June 9, 2017 Emily Bellino
Watch Falls of Rauros at Decibel Metal and Beer Fest.
Reach the Mortal Horizon With Desecrecy
June 9, 2017 J. Andrew
Delve into a cavernous atmosphere of riffs and growls on the latest installment of Desecresy’s forward-looking approach to death metal.
Crowbar’s ‘Odd Fellows Rest’ Inducted Into The Decibel Hall Of Fame
June 7, 2017 Emily Bellino
Read about the making of Crowbar‘s Odd Fellows Rest in the latest issue of Decibel.
Video Premiere: Ursinne – ‘Talons’ (360 Degree Video)
June 6, 2017 Emily Bellino
Ursinne (ex-Benediction, ex-Bolt Thrower) are on the internet in 360 degrees.
CONTEST: Ibanez Guitars is Giving Away a Pair of Tix to Each Night of the Megadeth/Meshuggah Tour!
June 5, 2017 Jesse Chase
Extremely extreme contest alert: Win tickets to see Megadeth and Meshuggah this June and July.
VIDEO PREMIERE: Khaos-Dei “Sous La Bannière Noire”
June 5, 2017 Chris Dick
“I do not know if we can talk about concept because it really reflects our life concretely,” says Khaos-Dei vocalist Nacht. “Catechism is the natural evolution of our first album.
Video Premiere: Altar of Betelgeuze – ‘Absence of Light’
June 2, 2017 Emily Bellino
Watch a new video from Finnish stoner death/doom group Altar of Betelgeuze.
Watch: Municipal Waste At Decibel Metal And Beer Fest
June 2, 2017 Emily Bellino
Watch Municipal Waste perform “Slime and Punishment” live at Decibel Metal and Beer Fest.
The Ecstatic Joy of “Metal Without Context”
June 2, 2017 J. Andrew
Your new favorite, and totally absurd, Twitter feed about metal!
Journalist Martin Popoff talks new Rush, Motörhead, thrash metal books
June 1, 2017 Greg Pratt
Journalist Martin Popoff just released a trio of new metal books, and we picked his brain about them.
VBERKVLT Instagram challenge wants metalheads to post their vinyl for prizes
June 1, 2017 Greg Pratt
VBERKVLT have a new Instagram contest happening that involves metal, vinyl, you, and prizes. We caught up with the man behind it all to find out the details.
STREAMING: Kafirun “Lord of Blessed Murder”
June 1, 2017 Chris Dick
Look up the word ‘kafirun’. In Arabic, it translates to ‘unbeliever’ or ‘atheist’, but Canada’s most violent black metallers Kafirun aren’t addressing Islam or its treatment of Al-Kafirun on debut album, Eschaton.
Eyehategod’s Mike Williams on liver transplant, recovery, and addiction: “I will never regret anything”
May 26, 2017 Greg Pratt
The Eyehategod frontman opens up about post-liver-transplant life, getting sober, and more in this new interview.
Phobia talk reunited lineup and how politics influenced Lifeless God
May 25, 2017 Greg Pratt
California grind lifers Phobia are back with a new album, and we caught up with them to talk shop.
Video Premiere: Beyond Grace – ‘Oracle’
May 24, 2017 Emily Bellino
Interpretative dance meets death metal in the new Beyond Grace video.
Go Behind The Scenes Of Bill & Phil’s ‘Dirty Eye’ Video
May 24, 2017 Emily Bellino
Go behind the scenes with Bill & Phil for their music video, “Dirty Eye.”
Watch: Immolation Perform At Decibel Metal & Beer Fest 2017
May 24, 2017 Emily Bellino
Watch Immolation‘s entire set from Decibel Metal & Beer Fest, plus an introduction from Dave Mustaine.
STREAMING: Acherontas “Amarta (Formulas of Reptilian Unification Part II)”
May 22, 2017 Chris Dick
For Greece-based Acherontas, it would seem as if black metal, as a genre, is secondary to the devotional aspects of what drives, inspires, and fulfills their physical and incorporeal beings.
Album premiere: Norse’s “The Divine Light of a New Sun”
May 18, 2017 Greg Pratt
Australia’s Norse are dropping their next batch of mind-bending black metal songs next week; we’re giving you an exclusive stream of the whole album today.
Progressive Metal Outfit Fortis Amor Release Self-Titled Album Teaser
May 18, 2017 Emily Bellino
One-man progressive metal force Fortis Amor tease their new, self-titled record ahead of its release on May 19.
STREAMING: Highland “Loyal to the Nightsky”
May 15, 2017 Chris Dick
The 1990s have come and gone. The greatness of Immortal, Emperor, Dissection, Unanimated, and others is now history. The cruel sands of time are slowly ebbing away at the monuments erected by the gods of old. But as it was so it will be. California’s Highland, formed by three Armenian-Americans, are standing for the ways of the past by thrusting it, via scorching melodic black metal, into the present.