What are the Top 100 metal tours of all time? Find out in Decibel‘s new limited edition special issue of 100% previously-unprinted content. 

On this week’s Demo:listen, we burn it all down and rout the incipient resistance in the name of Missouri’s Morbid Rites.

Decibel Metal & Beer Fest performers Falls of Rauros debut new track from forthcoming LP Vigilance Perennial.

Gridfailure reveals the secrets of a “Hostile Alchemist” on the first part of their upcoming EP.

In defense of Testament‘s most melodic album.

Benighted unleash a grinding death metal assault against you on their new album, Necrobreed. 

Can we at least agree that the record’s title, Hyperakusi (a Swedish word defined as “hypersensitivity to everyday sounds”) hits the nail on the head?

Horseneck marry sludge and post-hardcore with a host of other sounds to craft their memorable first record, Heavy Trip. 

Remarkable things are afoot over at the YouTube page of Magic Bullet Records — one of the best, most adventurous independent labels currently in existence, led by the incomparable artist/musician/leader Brent Eyestone whose efforts we’ve previously covered here, here, here, and here — where a series of amazing live performances captured on videotape during various revolutionary heavy music moments of the nineties are now being digitized and posted for posterity.

Get to you know your Decibel Metal & Beer Fest breweries. We interview Indy’s indiest, 18th Street Brewing Company.