Our resident birdbrains pecks on new releases from Superjoint, In Flames and Ash Borer. 

A nice crash-course in the classics.

Metallica return to the cover of Decibel for the first time in eight years. Get your copy now. 

On this week’s Demo:listen, we make contact with a singular entity, something from Canada unlike aught we’ve ever known before, a thing which calls itself Sorguinazia.

Belgium’s Blast were laying down proto-thrash bpms in 1972.

Reunited Swedish death metal gods Entombed get their second Decibel Hall of Fame induction (11 years after their first!) for the classic Clandestine in the December Decibel. 

Groovy, psychedelic doom is the name of the game on The End of Electricity. 

This Saturday (11/12) at the Dark Arts — a Philly-based “collaborative organization made up of like-minded individuals who live and breath all things dark and heavy” — brings a multimedia smorgasbord of malevolence to the City of Brotherly Love with “Black Metal”: In addition to performances by five crazy sick bands — Anicon, Wayfarer, Surgeon, Necroscythe, and Dreadlords — the event will also feature renegade art and readings by dark authors, including current and past Decibel contributors Sean Frasier, Dutch Pearce, and Andrew Bonazelli.

Deathblow Productions director/writer Ryan Oliver revels in B-movie bliss in Child Bite’s “Vermin Mentality” music video.

This three song tour de force is what happens when Full of Hell and Nails join forces for a split 7-inch.