Bloodshed Across the Empyrean Altar Beyond the Celestial Zenith
Satan is good, Satan is our pal
dB rating: 8/10

To celebrate the Decibel Books release of Black Metal: The Cult Never Dies Vol. 1, we ranked Satyricon‘s five best songs. 

Doom in the here and now.

On this week’s Demo:listen, we bring you a premiere of something completely different from the Deep South’s Hexenkraft. 

If summer camp for metalheads wasn’t already cool enough for you, Shadow Woods Metal Fest is an open air festival built around underground talent and grassroots organization. 

Two nerds enter. Two nerds leave. Choosing Death: The Improbable History of Death Metal & Grindcore author Albert Mudrian and Black Metal: The Cult Never Dies Vol 1. author Dayal Patterson talk creative process, Lords of Chaos, Swedish Death Metal and more. 

In honor of W.A.S.P.’s self-titled debut finally making it into our Hall of Fame, let’s take a detailed look at the album’s songs, ranked from least-this-is-amazing to most-this-is-amazing.

Decibel dedicates an entire issue to the legendary Neurosis. Advance copies are now in our webstore.

For the first time in western Canada in a long-ass time, and for the first time on one stage ever, hoser headbanging heavyweights…

We haven’t got pictures of naked ladies lying on their beds, but we do a have a W.A.S.P. Hall of Fame induction that was YEARS in the making,