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

Smash the hell out of that volume knob, it’s time to crank the latest from Metallica, Necrot, Venomous Concept and more!

Contrarian guitarist Jim Tasikas unload a noteful Top 3 Guitar list at Decibel. New Contrarian album out November 20.

Experimental German black metal outsider Fetishism cast their analog spell of malevolence on this week’s Demo:listen.

Morbidly perverse Swedish death metallers Repuked return with a raunchy, new and totally NSFW brutalizer from their forthcoming new full-length, Dawn of Reintoxication.

Watch Deeper Graves‘ “Last Transmission.”

Psych-sludge dynamos color Baroness outside the lines on their Hall of Fame-inducted Red Album.

Austin-based melodic death/doom dawnbringers Hinayana seek enlightenment in a brutalist hellscape on their Death of the Cosmic EP.

Listen to a new track from French rockers, Watertank!

Death metal legends Johansson and Speckmann return to “Take the Lion’s Share.”