It doesn’t take long to say a lot. Case in point is the song “Under the Wave Blanket” by the Austinites Drip-Fed, who pack plenty of pain and hope into 2 1/2 minutes. Though it helps that the music itself is the hooky, hulking kind of punk hardcore that makes you listen over and over until you develop welts.

Get to you know your Decibel Metal & Beer Fest breweries. We interview Charlottesville’s own Champion Brewing.

Pestifer‘s debut album, Execration Diatribes, rips, shreds and thrashes in all the right places. 

The Obsessed sound fresh and energetic on “Razorwire” as they prepare to release their first full length album in over 20 years. 

An exclusive premiere of “Channeling Forgotten Energies,” off Banished from Time, the new album by Portugal’s staunchly necro entity, Black Cilice.

Wear Your Wounds unveil the music video for their eponymously-titled song from their first full-length release.

Vidian have recorded a video for “Pole Shift,” one of the solid-as-hell tracks from the A Piece of the End EP.  Check it out in full here and start your Tuesday right.

Obituary are still churning out kick-ass death metal. Hear their latest single, “Turned to Stone” and catch them on the Decibel Magazine Tour 2017. 

Fen have refined their brand of atmospheric black metal on the first piece of their latest album, Winter. 

Dimmu Borgir’s mainstream metal breakthrough crashes the Decibel Hall of Fame this month.