A nice fireside chat about metal, hardcore, the early-to-mid 2000s, and the future of extreme music.

On this week’s Demo:listen, we circumvent your expectations to present Oregon’s Felled.

Swedish death dealers Sarcasm are streaming a new song!

Feel Abduction‘s cold wave of depressive black metal on their new release. 

Get to know your Decibel Metal & Beer Fest breweries. We speak with DC area faves Atlas Brew Works.

In which we reconsider Pantera’s final offering, 2000’s Reinventing the Steel.

Former Cathedral, Electric Wizard and Bolt Thrower members join forces and record new With the Dead track for the Decibel Flexi Series.

Today, we’re showcasing Hyborian‘s video for “As Above, So Below,” an introductory interview with guitarist/vocalist Martin Bush and as rad a tour breakdown story as you’ll probably ever hear.

Slayer’s eighth LP of original material, God Hates Us All, stands as one of their most divisive. To some, it appeared to be another record in which the thrash icons failed to diversify their songwriting.

Dust off that space suit, friend: Dayton, Ohio’s intergalactic metal transcendentalists Mouth of the Architect are reissuing a stunning limited remastered edition of the band’s lush beauty-and-the-beast crusher of a debut Time & Withering on Translation Loss Records, which Decibel is pleased to exclusively stream below along with some reminiscences from drummer David Mann.