Primitive Origins: Salem Mass – ‘Witch Burning’

March 9, 2017

Our latest Primitive Origins looks at the strange case of Idaho’s Salem Mass and their sole full-length, Witch Burning.

Track Premiere: The Bug Vs. Earth – ‘Don’t Walk These Streets’

March 9, 2017

“‘Don’t Walk These Streets’ was really written as a reaction to feeling absolutely alienated and set adrift in the surreal manifestation of the American Dream that is L.A,” Kevin Martin says. “It’s a smacked out jazz, fuzzed up trip, into a social void, that I wrote after realizing there is zero safety net in the States for anyone that falls off the gravy train. And as a pedestrian walking a lot around the city in my stay during the recording of Concrete Desert, I attempted to conjure the feeling of sheer dread that I felt wandering across the Hollyweird landscape.”

EXCLUSIVE: At the Gates’ Tomas Lindberg Addresses Split with Anders Björler, Talks New Material

March 9, 2017

After Anders Björler’s departure from At the Gates, vocalist Tomas Lindberg gives Decibel the scoop on new material. 

Track Premiere: Trappist – ‘No Corporate Beer’

March 8, 2017

We present Trappist’s “No Corporate Beer,” a pit-churning blast against macrobrews and the sheep who drink them.

Full Album Stream: Deathwish – ‘Unleash Hell’

March 8, 2017

Deathwish are ready to Unleash Hell with their second full-length on Beer City Records.

Decibel Metal and Beer Fest Brewery Profile: Burnt Hickory

March 8, 2017

Get to you know your Decibel Metal & Beer Fest breweries. Today, we interview Georgia-based Burnt Hickory and discuss their collaboration with DBMF attendees Withered and Richard Christy!

“GET THE KID WITH THE SIDEBURNS”: 90’S METALLIC HARDCORE GREATS REVERSAL OF MAN TALK 5 CLASSIC TRACKS

March 8, 2017

Even judged alongside its contemporaries from those fertile, boundary-obliterating metallic hardcore glory days of the late 90s, the discography of Tampa, Florida’s Reversal of Man — a singularly potent amalgamation of powerviolence, post-hardcore, grind, indie, and impossibly abrasive hardcore — stands out and, in many ways, remains ahead of its time nearly two decades after disbanding.  

Hear ‘N Aid: When Metal Tried to do their own “We Are the World”

March 8, 2017

1985’s “We are the World” became the fastest-selling American pop single in history and featured dozens of the world’s biggest musicians. What you may not know is that same year 40 metalheads and hard rockers tried the same thing, with far less successful results. 

STREAMING: Azarath “Annhiliation (Smite All the Illusions)” + Q&A

March 7, 2017

Azarath, formed by Inferno in 1998, has released an impressive array of technically proficient, religiously fervent (against Christianity) death metal over the course of 16 years. The group’s newest album, In Extremis, yet again proves why Poland, of all Eastern European countries, is at the forefront of the death metal movement.

Get FREE Neurosis, Nails & Immolation vinyl NOW!

March 7, 2017

Special Offer: Get 5 free rare and out-of-print bonus Decibel Flexi Series discs from Neurosis, Nails, Immolation, Municipal Waste and Agoraphobic Nosebleed with this Decibel subscription if you subscribe by Monday.