classic metal

The Keening/Exulansis violinist Andrea Morgan candidly discusses high school jobs and homelessness.

The new Icarus Witch track is a “pure riff-driven melodic rocker in the vein of Dio-era Rainbow, Deep Purple, or vintage Whitesnake.”

Hear members of GOZU, Sam Black Church, Worshipper and We’re All Gonna Die rip it old school as Blood Lightning!

We stand up and shout to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Dio‘s heavy metal benchmark, Holy Diver.

Hear a new track from DeathCollector, the band featuring former Bolt Thrower and Memoriam drummer Andrew Whale and Ashen Crown frontman Kieran Scott, then hear from them about it!

Watch a band new video California trad metal heroes Haunt in advance of the new album, Golden Arm, out May 5.

Decibel tracked down Sean Rivera of Coffin Hunters to talk about the art of clean singing and how he learned to sing in his car. Check out the band’s The Fire Knight and Wake the Dead on Bandcamp.

Hear Italy’s Bottomless dive deep for low-end on their self-titled debut album.

A new Judas Priest album, a new Sierra Nevada Double IPA and an unfortunate use of the term “loaded.”

Metallica were wise to wait several years before making their first promotional music video. Having experienced it first hand—waiting patiently for a metal video to pop up so we could capture it on our VHS recorder—we can attest to the fact that the dawn of music videos in the early ’80s was the worst. Especially…

We knew there would be some Decibel dissenters when we bagged on 10 albums that we wouldn’t be celebrating the 30th anniversary of in 2012.

Unlike some of our previous “premieres,” this one is timed just perfectly. Chicago trad-metal quartet, Bible of the Devil, will be releasing their sixth full-length album, For The Love Of Thugs And Fools, today, May, 8 via Cruz Del Sur Music. It’s their first full-length, since 2008’s Freedom Metal and it’s just the kind of…