From England to Florida, from Tokyo to Oslo, from Australia to San Francisco, postal workers were the bandwidth by which death metal, black metal, doom metal, and every other underground form of metal communicated. Open a letter and out poured legion! Here’s a tribute to Decibel‘s fave old-school fliers.

Two out of three this week ain’t bad for our resident bird brain. 

Under a Better-Than-Average Moon.

Brujería vocalist Juan Brujo doesn’t mice words on Donald Trump in the cover story of the September Decibel. 

On this week’s Demo:listen, we whip ourselves up into a frenzy listening to Oslo’s Evoke.

“Deride the Wretch” is the first single from Dawn of Demise‘s new album, The Suffering. The album will be out in late August on Unique Leader Records. 

You probably didn’t hear traditional metal powerhouse Damien Black in 1992, so, here’s a second chance.

This August, Portland-based multi-instrumentalist A.L.N. will bring his one-man black/doom metal project, Mizmor, to the stage for the very first time at Migration Fest in Olympia, Washington. We caught up with A.L.N. to talk about the process of transitioning Mizmor into a live band, the challenges that come with creating music by yourself and the finer points of rehearsal room tomfoolery.

The bizarre (yet justified!) worship of Peavey continues in the latest video clip from doomsters Methra.

Larissa Glasser — AKA Thuringwethil — is  best known for her work as the guitarist/vocalist of “witching metal” powerhouse Hekseri and as a rising author of Clive Barker-ian surreal dark fiction found in anthologies such as The Healing Monsters and Procyon. Glasser’s eclectic, disquieting new solo album The Hill was recorded under the moniker Spoorloos, You can hear a track here.