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“I quit my job at Apple to start a metal station that sells vinyl records,” Gimme Radio founder and CEO Tyler Lenane tells Decibel. “To a lot of people that probably sounds fucking insane. But I believe in it — and I’m hoping to turn a lot of other heavy music lovers into believers, too.”…

New York thrash metal heroes Nuclear Assault join the ranks of the Decibel Hall of Fame this month with the induction of their landmark 1986 debut album, Game Over. You can read the extensive story about the making of the album in the September issue of Decibel (available here), which includes interviews with each member of Nuclear Assault who performed on…

Long-running industrial/crossover mainstays Prong released their twelfth full-length, Zero Days, today. To celebrate, Decibel asked frontman Tommy Victor — who ran sound at CBGB’s in the 80’s — to rank the five most insane sets he worked sound for. What follows were his answers; Victor has clearly witnessed and contributed to some legendary performances. Dark Angel (February 8,…

Voivod rule. Here are five reasons why.

The new Gravesite doesn’t drop for another week, but today we bring you an exclusive stream of these Italian death-slingers’ brand new sophomore album, Neverending Trail of Skulls.

Panopticon performed live at Decibel Metal and Beer Fest in April. Watch now!

Stream Clovers, the debut EP from Baltimore doom outfit Gateway to Hell. 

California’s Wilderness Dream are about to drop their second EP, so we caught up with them to find out why they love EPs, where the hardcore went, and more.

Watch a new video from groove metallers Granada. 

After 20 years later in the grave, Chile’s Death Yell has reformed. Not only to exact revenge on the time away from the molten metal spotlight but to issue the band’s first album, Descent into Hell. Now signed to Hells Headbangers, the Chileans are using their time wisely, focusing on reality instead of fantasy. Hell is real, and Death Yell have returned to remind us.

Watch the video for Godhunter‘s cover of Tegan and Sara’s “Walking With a Ghost” now. 

Win free tickets to Chicago Open Air this weekend featuring the Decibel Headbanger’s Bier Hall.

Ewigkeit‘s last album, 2013’s Back to Beyond, was released on a little known label called D.T.M. Productions (also home to Jaldaboath). To say it went under the radar is a massive understatement. Nevertheless, with the recent resurrection of Norwegians In the Woods…, in which Mr. Fog (aka James Fogarty) is new frontman, spawned yet another resurrection. See, prior to the Fogarty replacing Jan Kenneth Transeth, he had, from a certain vantage point, put his long labor of love Ewigkeit on hiatus.

Slaughter’s Ron Sumners talks about why he formed Slaughtering Slaughter… and what exactly it is.

Check out the new lyric video from metallic hardcore outfit Get the Shot.

Stream the video for “Perpetrator Emasculation” from ferocious death metal machine Venom Prison.

In which we reconsider Rush’s 1987 soft-rock opus Hold Your Fire.

Spin into the whispering darkness with a new track from the masters of death-doom brutality.

Watch the new video from Australian black metal band Somnium Nox.

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.

Sunlight’s Bane reveal an unsettling video for “Begrudging Soul.” 

M.O.D. are getting straight to the point. 

Watch Withered‘s performance from Decibel Metal and Beer Fest.

Watch Falls of Rauros at Decibel Metal and Beer Fest.

Delve into a cavernous atmosphere of riffs and growls on the latest installment of Desecresy’s forward-looking approach to death metal.

Read about the making of Crowbar‘s Odd Fellows Rest in the latest issue of Decibel. 

Ursinne (ex-Benediction, ex-Bolt Thrower) are on the internet in 360 degrees.

Extremely extreme contest alert: Win tickets to see Megadeth and Meshuggah this June and July.

“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.

Watch a new video from Finnish stoner death/doom group Altar of Betelgeuze.