Zao dish the dirt on the making of their limited edition Decibel Flexi Series track. 

Unsigned bands: here’s your chance to get featured across the Blast Beat Network for a price lower than the record labels pay.

Death metal legends Immolation get their first Decibel cover. Grab a copy here. 

The last time Fides Inversa released a full-length (2014’s Mysterium Tremendum et Fascinans) Ebola was making its way across West Africa, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappeared off the Gulf of Thailand, ISIL begins its terror campaign across northern Iraq, and Pope Paul VI is beatified by the Roman Catholic Church.

Appalling Ascension
Dark matters
dB rating: 8/10

In which our resident birdbrain pecks on new releases Avulsed, Grave Digger and the Drip.

The only guy in the world who called Rousey losing to Nunez, besides Rousey, her trainers, and everyone with a brain. 

A classic Viking metal album to end all Viking metal albums.

“Hope” is black metal change you can believe in. 

“The theme of ‘Baklengs mot Intet’ describes the inner battle, the bottomless despair and endless futility experienced by a walker of the Way.”