Farewell to 2018. Here’s hoping for some heavy (and hopefully better) times in 2019 with 5 albums you should look out for early next year.

Make this your most-extreme Christmas ever.

Be the first to hear the destructive new EP from Philly grind/powerviolence trio Bandit.

Our 100th flexi disc is 11 years in the making, but you only have until noon on February 4 to sign up for a deluxe Decibel subscription to secure your copy.

Carcass earn their third Hall of Fame induction.

Watain‘s seminal album, Casus Luciferi is inducted into the Decibel Hall of Fame.

Hear the new album from one-man blackened death metal killer In Shadows and Dust.

Hear a new song from Swedish melodic black metal purveyors Astrophobos.

We put up two new, and extremely extreme, playlists each week at Apple Music; here’s the lowdown on your new favorite eardrum killer.

Laina Dawes, author of What Are You Doing Here: A Black Woman’s Life and Liberation In Heavy Metal speaks about her experience publishing with Bazillion Points.