Back to school means it’s time for At the Gates‘ Tomas Lindberg to go back to his other job: teaching. 

Krieg‘s Neill Jameson on the best record stores in Philadelphia, Richmond, Providence and Chicago.

The ‘Witch is Back! And The Apothic Gloom four-track EP features the best material of Skeletonwitch‘s career. Hear it now.

Far more prevalent now than ever before. Decibel flips through the musty pages of history to highlight the Top 5 Norwegian Death Metal Albums Of All Time.

Bloodshed Across the Empyrean Altar Beyond the Celestial Zenith
Satan is good, Satan is our pal
dB rating: 8/10

To celebrate the Decibel Books release of Black Metal: The Cult Never Dies Vol. 1, we ranked Satyricon‘s five best songs. 

Doom in the here and now.

On this week’s Demo:listen, we bring you a premiere of something completely different from the Deep South’s Hexenkraft. 

If summer camp for metalheads wasn’t already cool enough for you, Shadow Woods Metal Fest is an open air festival built around underground talent and grassroots organization. 

Two nerds enter. Two nerds leave. Choosing Death: The Improbable History of Death Metal & Grindcore author Albert Mudrian and Black Metal: The Cult Never Dies Vol 1. author Dayal Patterson talk creative process, Lords of Chaos, Swedish Death Metal and more.