Our resident birdbrains pecks on new releases from Pallbearer, Ascended Dead and Axebreaker.

Salem’s 1476 have continued to grow their sound and image, reflected in the video for “Winter of Winds.”

If you’ve been holding out getting tickets to Decibel Metal & Beer Fest, you MIGHT wanna rethink that strategy.

A look into history with riffs, solos and screams.

We’re just one week from the start of the Decibel Magazine Tour 2017 featuring Kreator, Obituary, Midnight and Horrendous. Don’t miss out; tickets are still on sale!

On this week’s Demo:listen, we expose the  world to Virulent Specter.

Beer Pressure? Municipal Waste apply it in the Decibel Metal & Beer Fest Issue. The issue is shipping to subscribers now, but civilizations can score the ultimate guide to the ultimate metal and beer weekend here. 

Nathaniel Shannon and the Vanishing Twin premiere another unsettling video addition to their collection in support of Trespasses. 

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

“‘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.”