Take the “Black Challenge” with long-running Richmond blackened thrashers Battlemaster.

Many albums are ‘reamped,’ but what does that mean? Horrendous’ guitarist/vocalist and underground-renowned audio engineer Damian Herring explains the what, how and why of “reamping.”

Rapper Ghostemane goes full black metal.

Storied USBM act Black Funeral dig up ancient Sumerian artifacts on new song, “The Vampyric Rabisu at the Threshold”. Streaming now, only at Decibel.

Do not sleep on the Barrel-Aged Narwhal, which Sierra Nevada is offering in limited release in a four-pack of pounder cans—it is one of the legendary California brewery’s greatest beers ever.

This week’s featured set of new releases includes entries from epic practitioners like Atavistia and Sorcerer, along with crushers like Xibalba.

There will likely be no in-person festivals this year, but Slay at Home, organized by a Metal Injection co-founder, offers an alternative.

Atmospheric and subversive gloomy punk outrider Poison Ruïn storms this week’s Demo:listen.

Get your deluxe Decibel subscription by Monday, June 1 to obtain this HIGHLY LIMITED flexi disc single from death metal killers Necrot.

Earth Crisis‘s vegan straight-edge metalcore landmark Destroy the Machines is inducted into the Decibel Hall of Fame