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Godflesh Added to Final Lineup of Decibel Metal & Beer Fest: LA, All Tickets On Sale Now
August 20, 2018 Albert Mudrian
Godflesh, Pounder and Wolf King complete the lineup for Decibel Metal & Beer Fest: Los Angeles. Schedule announced and all ticket options officially on sale NOW.
The Black Dahlia Murder, Khemmis & Trappist Added to Decibel Metal & Beer Fest: Los Angeles
July 16, 2018 Albert Mudrian
Early bird discounted weekend passes for Decibel Metal & Beer Fest: Los Angeles are ON SALE NOW. Don’t miss out!
Khemmis Drummer/TRVE Head Brewer Zach Coleman Picks His Favorite Beers from the Decibel Tour
June 22, 2018 Emily Bellino
Khemmis drummer Zach Coleman picks the best beers he drank while on the Decibel Tour.
Full Album Stream: Tomb Mold – “Manor of Infinite Forms”
June 4, 2018 Emily Bellino
Graveyard-dwelling death metal quartet Tomb Mold unleash their pulverizing new album, Manor of Infinite Forms.
Album Review: Mournful Congregation – “The Incubus of Karma”
March 22, 2018 Dutch Pearce
Mournful Congregation are our Best New Noise.
TWO WEEKS AWAY: Decibel Metal & Beer Fest Is Almost Here
March 16, 2018 Albert Mudrian
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!
Win or Learn: 20 Buck Spin and Gilead Media Square Up for Migration Fest II
March 9, 2018 Shawn Macomber
Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the pit… Migration Fest returns…
3 Weeks Away: Decibel Metal & Beer Fest is Nearly Here! Need Tickets?
March 9, 2018 Albert Mudrian
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!!!
Track Premiere: Mournful Congregation – ‘Whispering Spiritscapes’
March 7, 2018 Emily Bellino
Stream a new epic track from funeral doom dark lords Mournful Congregation.
Decibel Metal & Beer Fest is Only ONE MONTH Away!
March 2, 2018 Albert Mudrian
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!
Full Album Stream: Scorched – “Excavated for Evisceration”
February 15, 2018 Emily Bellino
Stream a new Scorched compilation.
LOW TICKET ALERT “Just Metal” Tickets for Decibel Metal & Beer Fest Nearly SOLD OUT
February 14, 2018 Albert Mudrian
If you haven’t grabbed a two-day “Just Metal” pass for Metal & Beer Fest, you’re about to lose out.
Incantation to Replace Dream Death at Decibel Metal & Beer Fest
February 12, 2018 Albert Mudrian
Your Easter Sunday just got 100% more blasphemous.
Horrendous to Replace Full of Hell at Decibel Metal & Beer Fest
December 4, 2017 Albert Mudrian
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!
Khemmis in the Studio to Record New Album for Late Summer Release
November 3, 2017 Emily Bellino
Decibel faves Khemmis announce new album to be recorded in January for a late summer release.
Spirit Adrift’s Nate Garrett Talks New Album Plus Metallica
October 30, 2017 Chris Dick
Doom metal sensation Spirit Adrift discuss new album, Curse of Conception, along with the bands — like Metallica — who served as influences.
Seventh Annual Decibel Magazine Tour Lineup + Dates Announced
October 24, 2017 Albert Mudrian
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.
Carcass, At the Gates, Mayhem & More Announced for Decibel Metal & Beer Fest!
October 2, 2017 Albert Mudrian
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!
Track Premiere: Spirit Adrift – ‘Starless Age (Enshrined)’
August 28, 2017 Albert Mudrian
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 Instagram challenge wants metalheads to post their vinyl for prizes
June 1, 2017 Greg Pratt
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.
Witch Vomit
May 30, 2017 Sean Frasier
Poisoned Blood
Like a hell-broth boil and bubble
dB rating: 8/10
Track Premiere: Raise High a “Chalice of Pus” for Extremity
March 7, 2017 Dutch Pearce
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.
The Ominous Circle talk debut album and reasons for anonymity
January 19, 2017 Greg Pratt
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.
Track Premiere: The Ominous Circle – ‘Poison Fumes’
December 1, 2016 Emily Bellino
The Ominous Circle are as mysterious as they are impressive.
Doomsters Khemmis Unveil ‘Three Gates’ & Inch Closer to Greatness
September 8, 2016 Albert Mudrian
Stop what you’re doing and listen to the latest song from from Khemmis‘ forthcoming album Hunted. You can thank us later.
Live and Direct: An Interview with Mizmor’s A.L.N.
July 21, 2016 Matt Solis
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.
INTERVIEW: Jackson Heath of Lycus
November 4, 2013 Jonathan Horsley
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…
PREVIEW || Check out a couple of tracks from Alarich/Atriarch split LP
March 9, 2012 Jonathan Horsley
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…
INTERVIEW: OAKLAND RIFF TITANS BRAINOIL END THE DROUGHT
August 5, 2011 Jonathan Horsley
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…