In which we make contact with the Bay Area’s latest morbid abomination, Funeral Chant.

We caught up with California’s Dan Seagrave-lovin’ Xibalba to talk about their new EP.

Get to you know your Decibel Metal & Beer Fest breweries. We interview Denmark’s Mikkeller’s Danny Lilker. Yes, THAT Danny Lilker.

Rebel Wizard‘s unique sound, self-described as “negative metal,” is an unholy marriage of black, thrash and power metal with a healthy dose of NWoBHM thrown in. Stream their album Triumph of Gloom in full now. 

The sludge-heavy stoner rock of Hark takes on myriad new dimensions throughout the Welsh quartet’s exapansive, high-octane sophomore full-length Machinations, out later this week via Season of Mist. Decibel recently interrogated guitarist/vocalist Jimbob Issac about the brutal and harrowing personal roots of the album’s thematic content, finding the unlikely inspirational sweet spot between Azeaila Banks, S.O.D., Unsane and Stevie Ray Vaughan, and the way playing large, prestigious festivals can expand a band’s sense of what is possible.

Metal and Beer Fest weekend just got even more metal. New York tech death machine Artificial Brain‘s record release show is the official fest pre-party. Find out more! 

As a special bonus to go along with our new Top 100 Metal Tours of All Time special issue, we rounded up members of Exodus, Slayer and Venom to talk about 1985’s Ultimate Revenge Tour for our latest That Tour Was Awesome.

Being inspired by the classics doesn’t mean you can just follow through and pull off something worthy of your forebears. But someone in Portland has unbolted a crypt and unleashed the debut four-song EP Summon Horrendous Destruction by Petrification. 

We talk to synthwave digital god Carpenter Brut about his inspirations and upcoming US tour.

Limited quantities of #150, which include the Obituary flexi disc, featuring the exclusive track “No,” are now available in the dB webstore. Don’t blow it.