Promoter M A Spiro is looking to offer a better festival experience for the discerning fan metal with the curated Shadow Woods Metal Fest. She talked to us about what campers can expect. 

The kings of soaring, guitar-driven alt-rock (that doesn’t suck) are about to drop album number three, and we’ve got an exclusive song premiere for you.

Every so often, we take a little time on Mondays to pay tribute to the Muthas! That is, reprinting the adorable metal/maternal Q&As that run in the magazine. Today, enjoy Justin Norton’s chat with Becky Myers, mutha of Sabbath Assembly vocalist Jamie Myers.

Since 1990, Sweden’s Centinex, despite a brief breakup, have ruled underground death metal with an iron fist. With stints on labels like Underground Records, Emanzipation Productions, Repulse Records, Candlelight Records, and now Agonia Records, the merchants of death have kept their profile six feet under while continuing to wave the maggot-infested flag of true death metal.

f.y.e. is happy to assist in your hearing lost, and we’re happy to help. 

Five ideas to make a metal Dad happy this Father’s Day directly from Decibel‘s online store. 

Hatchet unleashed its dark thrash smorgasbord Fear Beyond Lunacy on the day before Halloween last year, but these San Fran shredders aren’t done bringing the scary and fucking with your psyche quite yet as our exclusive premiere below of the band’s disquieting video for “Tearing Into Hell” makes abundantly clear. 

Beloved noise-grind three-piece will only be playing a handful of days for their “Make America Dead Again” tour. 

Friday is for flying rodents. Or NWOBHM supergroups featuring members of Municipal Waste, Volture, and D.R.I. — your choice. 

Say you love Satan. We love Babylon Whores. And Sleep of Monsters have won our dark hearts. 

Here are the songs on Mastodon‘s Hall of Fame nominated album Leviathan ranked from least-rad to fully-rad.

Talking SIEGE and Infest reunion shows with Robert Williams and Chris Dodge.

Spend your summer interning at Decibel? Beats a real job, right?

Mithridatic’s Kevin Paradis unofficially broke the world record for fastest double-kick drumming. And he says he can do it again.

Two of the most respected labels in underground music today — 20 Buck Spin and Gilead Media — have combined their considerable heavy metal firepower to found and curate Migration Fest, a three day celebration of aural boundary-pushers and face-melters set to go down at the historic Capitol Theater in downtown Olympia, Washington this August. The stacked lineup includes Krallice, Christian Mistress, a The Body & Krieg collaborative performance, Thou, Vastum, Mutilation Rights, Kowloon Walled City, Pale Chalice, Vhol, Auroch, and a slew of others. 

Brazilian trio takes thrash beyond their country’s (bloody) roots on “Hostages.”

Vancouver’s Without Mercy is a prime example of how putting in a little bit of elbow grease can result in advantageous outcomes.

Brooklyn noisecore trio replace their instruments with being hilarious. 

Our own Richard Christy looks toward a third consecutive AL pennant for his beloved Royals.

Yes, that’s a music video of the title track of an album with the same name as a full-length film rendition of a novel. And Hideous Divinity‘s is no less complex in practice, so go ahead and press play for some brain food (/and bludgeoning).

Mortiis reveals part one of a three-part short film.

A Gojira-like sledgehammer for your skull. That’s what Fridays call for, right?

Finnish black metallers True Black Dawn have preached the good and blasphemous word since 1992. Check out the premiere for the title track on Come the Colorless Dawn, the band’s second full-length, and first album in 15 years.

It’s been over two years since Creepsylvania miscreants Ghoul have released any new material. Though Decibel enjoyed the beach/surf-themed Hang 10 EP, if you’re like us, we’re guessing you’ve been eager to hear Digestor and Cremator get back to dealing the death/thrash that’s responsible for the majority of Romania’s GDP.  Thanks to Decibel, now you…

The Labyrinth

RIFYL your demos and your steaks rare

dB Rating: 8/10

With the song “Hover” the Brooklyn couple show that they’re louder than love. 

Equal parts bluesy sludge and trudging grind, Musket Hawk bring the slow despondency necessary on the most hungover of afternoons. 

Tune in. Fuzz out. Rock out. Free yourself from the tedium (of boring music). 

Head to the tombs to get, uh, this premiere streaming. 

You might wanna double-check the price on that Purple Rain deluxe reissue.