Celtic Frost

This ultimate edition of Black Metal: Evolution of the Cult includes 120,000 words of new content, over 60 new interviews, an 80-page color section, improved layout & a stunning new cover.

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Extreme music legend Tom Gabriel Fischer on the impact of Venom’s Welcome To Hell on its 40th anniversary.

Dig into some of the most-metal horror movies on streaming services.

Tom Fischer eventually rediscovered how much he loved the music of Hellhammer and became fixated on finding a way to play it again respectfully. He speaks to Decibel about how it happened and what’s next. 

Ranking the songs on Celtic Frost‘s Hall of Fame-inducted masterpiece To Mega Therion from worst to best.

Here are the 39 different beers that “Metal & Beer” ticket holders are entitled to sample this weekend in Los Angeles!

Decibel Metal & Beer Fest: Los Angeles is THIS WEEKEND!

Decibel Metal & Beer Fest: Los Angels kicks off is just over a week, which means it’s time to finalize travel plans and get your tickets. To aid in your planning, Saturday and Sunday set times are now available.

Celtic Frost’s Tom Gabriel Fischer discusses writing Only Death is Real and publishing it through Bazillion Points.

A year ago today, Celtic Frost and Hellhammer visionary Martin Eric Ain died from an unexpected heart attack at 50. To honor his massive and enduring influence on the music we love, we are rerunning our obituary.

We are less than two months from our inaugural Decibel Metal & Beer Fest: Los Angeles. Do you have your travel plans set?

Nicolas Cage wields a Celtic Frost-inspired weapon in psychedelic horror film Mandy.

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.

This is your LAST CHANCE to get the Metal & Beer worm! Discounted early-bird tickets for Decibel Metal & Beer Fest: Los Angeles are available now until Monday, August 20! 

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Discounted full weekend passes – which include access to pours from the breweries all weekend – are available NOW!

Headliners include thrash legends Testament, who will play a special set of both their classic “The New Order” and “The Gathering” records in full, along with the Tom Gabriel Fischer-led Triptykon performing a special all-Celtic Frost set.

Cheap merchandise. Diminishing revenues for labels already under financial pressure. Death metal shower curtains and bar signs. Decibel‘s special report on how online bootlegging is hurting the extreme metal scene.

Five Finger Death Punch bassist Chris Kael ranks his top five extreme metal albums.

Krieg’s Neill Jameson recounts various times throughout history when black metal was falsely pronounced dead.

Spain’s Totengott invoke Celtic Frost on new song “Satan Beside You.”

Don’t call them comebacks. Call them the best reunion albums in metal history.

Our resident birdbrains pecks on new titles from Converge and Malokarpatan and remembers the late Martin Ain.

Martin Eric Ain, a member of the legendary outfits Celtic Frost and Hellhammer, is remembered.

To honor the passing of extreme metal legend Martin Eric Ain, we present the Hall of Fame feature on Celtic Frost’s 1984 debut Morbid Tales in full.

Quantity isn’t quality. Here are five examples of how extreme metal is at its most potent when it doesn’t waste time.

  The extremely limited complete trilogy of Mark Rudolph’s graphic novel tribute series is exclusively available via the Decibel webstore in this limited edition bundle. – Metal Gods: A Tribute to Judas Priest (2017) – Morbid Tales: A Tribute to Celtic Frost (2014) – Satan is Alive: A Tribute to Mercyful Fate (2012) Complete your collection at…

Extreme music icon discusses his struggles with BMG’s Celtic Frost reissues, the possibility of a new Triptykon LP next year and two new books currently in the works. 

We catch up with the author of Damn the Machine, a new book about the history of Noise Records, to get the scoop on why he chose Noise to write about, the rocky relationships between the label and its bands, and much more.