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. 

Track Premiere: Raise High a “Chalice of Pus” for Extremity

March 7, 2017

Coming straight out the Bay Area, meet 2017’s insurmountable death metal triumphator: Extremity. We’ve secured an exclusive premiere of “Chalice of Pus,” arguably the best track on Extremity’s debut album, Extremely Fucking Dead. So get dead with this exclusive premiere, plus an interview with Extremity’s guitarist/vocalist Marissa Martinez-Hoadley and bassist Erika Osterhout.

Q&A: Arthur Brown On The Roots Of Metal and Art In Times Of Social Upheaval

March 7, 2017

Decibel talked to psychedelic pioneer Arthur Brown about his role in the birth of metal and why art flourishes in times of political and social upheaval.