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Two-day “Metal & Beer” tickets are SOLD-OUT. Don’t despair: We’ve released 50 more single-day “Metal & Beer” tickets. Click here for updates on other ticket options.

We sold out of the first 600 two-day passes on Friday, but we opened up 50 more last night. Don’t blow this second chance to indulge in pours from 20 breweries at Metal & Beer Fest Philly!

Decibel proudly welcomes Gimme Radio to the 2020 Metal & Beer Fest: Philly party.

“Metal & Beer” tickets for Metal & Beer Fest Philly 2020 are guaranteed to sell out in advance—get yours before it’s too late!

All ticket options (including a “Metal & Beer” option already down to 400 tickets, which gives you access to pours from all of the breweries) are ON SALE NOW! For tickets and daily line-ups, click here!

DISCOUNTED early bird discounted weekend passes for Decibel Magazine Metal & Beer Fest: Philly are ON SALE NOW. Don’t miss out!

Headliners Converge, Napalm Death and Pig Destroyer each to perform exclusive special sets in April 2020! Early bird discounted tickets (including beer pours) on sale NOW!

Converge surprise release new four-song EP, Beautiful Ruin.

Converge, Cave In and more to play Caleb Scofield benefit.

The best goddamn producer of scene-documenting live hardcore videos of all time is taking his game to the next level. And you can help.

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

Decibel faves Converge make their SIXTH cover appearance. Get new the issue (or all six in a discount bundle) here!

Decibel caught up with longtime Chelsea Wolfe collaborator Ben Chisholm to talk about Hiss Spun, playing Blood Moon sets with Converge and more.

Converge, Godflesh, Neurosis and more have immortalized their Roadburn performances as live albums.

Remarkable things are afoot over at the YouTube page of Magic Bullet Records — one of the best, most adventurous independent labels currently in existence, led by the incomparable artist/musician/leader Brent Eyestone whose efforts we’ve previously covered here, here, here, and here — where a series of amazing live performances captured on videotape during various revolutionary heavy music moments of the nineties are now being digitized and posted for posterity.

Wear Your Wounds unveil the music video for their eponymously-titled song from their first full-length release.

On its sometimes utterly unhinged, sometimes heartrendingly beautiful E.P. Title Track, Portland quartet Dowager crams a lot of divergent influences, elements, and combustible sonic materials into its atomic artcore reactor with improbable cleverness and success. The subsequent explosion can be mesmerizing, calling to mind American Football and Mineral as much as Orchid and early Converge.

Skip the school book store and hit the Decibel webstore for special back to school deals on shirts, hoodies, dvd and back issues! 

We inducted Converge‘s massive You Fail Me into our Hall of Fame a while back; it’s time to dig deep into the album and rank the songs from least-mind-melting to most-mind-melting.

Earlier this month, Neurosis took up residency at San Francisco’s Regency Ballroom for an epic weekend of shows to commemorate their 30th anniversary. We caught up with vocalists/guitarists Scott Kelly and Steve Von Till to talk about the significance of the event.

In 1982, L.A. synth-poppers Missing Persons scored a minor Billboard hit with “Destination Unknown” (“Has it all been said and done? / I know I’ll leave when it’s my time to go / ’Til then I’ll carry on with what I know”).

The Decibel Magazine Tour has established itself as the extreme music destination of the spring, bringing metalheads a thoughtfully curated lineup that celebrates the genre’s proud and diverse global legacy. The fourth installment is no different, as Swedish melodeath legends At the Gates join forces with U.S. hardcore heroes Converge and U.K. death/doom supergroup Vallenfyre,…

Back in the day there were shiny things called songs. Albums were filled with good songs rather than two or three wankfests. Now, in the hands of the right band long songs can be potent (see: Sleep and YOB). But heavy songs that are infectious with less real estate are also a very good thing….

Christ on a motherfucking crutch do we have a treat for you this morning, loyal readers: An exclusive premiere of a churning, kinetic track off what promises to be a seriously off the hook brilliant upcoming debut album from Mutoid Man, the new collaboration between Stephen Brodsky (CAVE IN) and Ben Koller (CONVERGE). We asked…

The latest inclusion in the Shredder’s Studio was inevitable. Kurt Ballou is no stranger to the Dec-faithful; he played on Hall of Fame and top album of the 00s certified masterpiece Jane Doe; laid down riffs on last year’s best record and helped close out our 100th issue party. Mr. Ballou is writing the kinds…

In case you have been on a spiritual pilgrimage or without an Internet connection in recent months a quick reminder that we had a big party last weekend to celebrate our 100th issue. A bunch of bands that have graced the cover, best of lists or Hall Of Fame (some of them multiple honorees) played….

Welcome to Tales From the Metalnomicon, a new twice-monthly column delving into the surprisingly vast world of heavy metal-tinged/inspired literature and metalhead authors… Gonzo dark fiction author, screenwriter, martial arts sensei, serious connoisseur of heavy metal and hardcore — there’s a lot thrown into the mix when it comes to the literary force of nature…

Often, there is a lot of left over content that doesn’t quite fit the narrative or direction of a story. Case in point #1: Converge for dB #96. Case in point #2: Throughout the interview process, the members of Converge had rad stories to tell, but somehow the quotes never quite made the cut. So,…

On January 19th, Decibel will celebrate a century of extremely extreme issues at Philadelphia Union Transfer in exalted company: four-time cover stars Converge; swine-ablating grindhogs Pig Destroyer; crossover champs Municipal Waste; Repulsion (be still, beating heart); 2011’s AOTY artists Tombs; and funerealy epic doom titans Evoken. It’s the perfect Decibel storm, a line-up of bands…

“How’s the iPhone pit over there,” Converge vocalist Jacob Bannon says at one point midway through the band’s headlining show last week at Slim’s in San Francisco. Good question. It’s hard to figure out who would want to mind meld with their personal device when a trashcan was lobbed into the pit midway through “Trespasses.”…