Editorial

Revisiting Mindrot‘s massive 1998 album, Soul.

Terror‘s Scott Vogel picks his 10 all-time favorite hardcore albums.

The combined run time is less than an hour.

It’s August. It’s really hot outside. So hot that it BURNS. Burning is pretty metal though, right? So here’s ten great songs about burning!

Decibel picks the best singles of 2018 thus far.

Summer days are hot, but the moon is freezing no matter what month it is. So here’s 6 underground black metal bands for you to blast when the sun goes down.

Revisiting the chaotic metallic hardcore of One Eyed God Prophecy‘s self-titled 1996 album.

Ten releases from the first half of the year that kicked ass under the radar.

Revisiting two of Entombed‘s later records, Serpent Saints and Morning Star.

There’s a lot of great underground black metal bands out there among the leather-wearing and corpse-painted multitude. This article features music by Riivaus, Nyctophilia, Atra Vetosus, Antimateria, Ühtceare and Nox.

Revisiting Master’s Hammer‘s much-maligned Slagry.

The guitarist/vocalist of English metal band Svalbard pens a guest editorial about her experiences as a woman in the underground metal scene.

Decibel reconsiders five perfect songs from the “sell-out” age of thrash metal in the ’90s.

J. Bennett remembers his friend and former Cave In/Old Man Gloom/Zozobra bassist Caleb Scofield.

Let’s imagine a world where kids can get lost in records and find themselves again. Let’s imagine a world where the bridge to adulthood doesn’t include fearing for your life.

As a small Leviathan-affiliated record store and screenprinter are being forced out of Portland due to rising rent. Jef Whitehead and Stevie Floyd explain the importance of record stores in 2018.

When people tell you they don’t like metal, they might mean they’re not familiar with it. Here’s a way to think about getting people into music that’s new to them.

In the first installment of our new grindcore series, we take a deep drive into Brazil to check out Hutt, Test, Narayama and Lxs Jugadxs.

Revisiting Saint Vitus‘s much-maligned C.O.D.

Rest in power, A389 Recordings. Here are five times the label ruled.

Judas Priest will hit the road without guitarist Glenn Tipton, but the band remains great in his absence.

Kreator‘s 1992 album Renewal is nowhere near as shitty, or as industrial, as you think. Let’s re-evaluate.

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

Hot Taake coming through from Krieg’s Neill Jameison.

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

In 1991, Assück released one of the greatest grind records of all time, Anticapital . Today, we revisit it.

In 1987, Def Leppard released Hysteria , and metalheads worldwide agreed they had jumped the shark. Time to re-evaluate that.

When it came to mid-to-early 2000s metalcore and heavy post-hardcore, Abacus Records were on fire. Here are five times they killed it.

Every artist eventually faces a bad review of their work. But a very public reaction to that review invites even more negative criticism.

Watain’s upcoming album, “Trident Wolf Eclipse,” is a fantastic explosion of straightforward blackened death metal. This return to form is a good chance to think about why some bands do better experimenting, whereas others should stick to what they’re good at.