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Mournful Congregation are our Best New Noise.

You’d better hop to it if you want to see At the Gates, Carcass, Mayhem and more at Decibel Metal & Beer Fest. It’s only TWO WEEKS AWAY!

Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the pit… Migration Fest returns…

At the Gates, Carcass, Mayhem, Monster Magnet, Integrity, Pallbearer, Repulsion and all your beers are unleashed in just three weeks. Get your tickets before they’re gone. GO!!!

Stream a new epic track from funeral doom dark lords Mournful Congregation.

Decibel Metal & Beer Fest tickets are moving fast, and you don’t have much longer to get them before March 31 and April 1 arrive!

Stream a new Scorched compilation.

If you haven’t grabbed a two-day “Just Metal” pass for Metal & Beer Fest, you’re about to lose out.

Your Easter Sunday just got 100% more blasphemous.

Former Decibel Album of the Year winners Horrendous have joined what will surely be next year’s most brutal suds-soaked event. Tickets on sale NOW!

Decibel faves Khemmis announce new album to be recorded in January for a late summer release.

Doom metal sensation Spirit Adrift discuss new album, Curse of Conception, along with the bands — like Metallica — who served as influences.

Enslaved, Wolves in the Throne Room, Myrkur and Khemmis unite for metal media leader’s latest North American campaign this February. Tickets on sale Friday, October 27 at 10am local time.

Monster Magnet, Integrity, Repulsion, Spectral Voice and more are all part of the revealed full band lineup for Decibel’s two-day celebration of extreme metal and craft beer. All tickets on sale NOW!

What may be the doom album of 2017 is coming in October, but you can hear a brand new track from it right now.

VBERKVLT have a new Instagram contest happening that involves metal, vinyl, you, and prizes. We caught up with the man behind it all to find out the details.

Poisoned Blood
Like a hell-broth boil and bubble
dB rating: 8/10

Coming straight out the Bay Area, meet 2017’s insurmountable death metal triumphator: Extremity. We’ve secured an exclusive premiere of “Chalice of Pus,” arguably the best track on Extremity’s debut album, Extremely Fucking Dead. So get dead with this exclusive premiere, plus an interview with Extremity’s guitarist/vocalist Marissa Martinez-Hoadley and bassist Erika Osterhout.

Portuguese death metal crew The Ominous Circle are a mysterious bunch, so we caught up with them just before their debut LP drops to try to make some sense out of it all.

Appalling Ascension
Dark matters
dB rating: 8/10

The Ominous Circle are as mysterious as they are impressive. 

Stop what you’re doing and listen to the latest song from from Khemmis‘ forthcoming album Hunted. You can thank us later. 

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.

Lycus’ debut was one of the best doom albums to leak long-form misery over 2013. A disconsolate epic, Tempest is an album that was thrown up around the desolate heart of a funeral doom sound so dense that it has its own bleak gravity hauling influences from black and death metal, drone and krautrock into…

We are well aware that it’s Friday but press pause on the celebratory Van Halen for like 10 minutes or something (some unfortunates have to work the weekend, y’know) because we’ve got some crucial FYI for fans of the noir melancholia of doom, death rock. Atriarch and Alaric have a split out in April 17th…

Spare a thought for all those hardy underground searchlights who’d been holding their breath waiting for Oakland, CA power-trio Brainoil to follow up the riff ‘n’ tumble of 2003’s superlative self-titled debut. They will have been dead and buried now, asphyxiated, gone purple in the cheek from the eight-year stretch when bassist/vocalist Greg Wilkinson, guitarist/vocalist…

Until interviewing Bay Area old-school nasties Vastum for dB #82, I thought metal’s attitude to man’s carnal desires extended just to the more is more philosophy of take it when you can get it, and like Skid Row’s Sebastian Bach was probably right when he said that sex addiction is one of the healthier addictions,…