A chat with the author and a peek inside of the new book, Tape Dealer 1984-1994: A Decade of Demos and Tape Trading, featuring artwork by Mark Riddick.

Midwesterners Chrome Waves chose to celebrate their new single, “Gazing Into Oblivion,” with an homage to a true ’90s masterpiece by… Stabbing Westward.

Tech metal weirdos Bangladeafy take an industrial turn on their new album, Housefly.

One-man black metal firestarter Omega forms Nubivagant. Agony vocals with hypnotic guitars in new song “One Eye Upon the Grave”. Streaming now at Decibel!

Our cooped up correspondent pecks on new jack old-school death metal and the classic thrash this week.

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.