High on Fire

Listen to Satyasena‘s debut album, featuring members of Ghoul and Secret Chiefs 3!

Sleep/High on Fire visionary Matt Pike comes out of the pandemic with a solo debut like no other. We premiere the wild first track/video.

Oregon-based heavy masters The Misery Men play devil’s advocate with High On Fire’s Matt Pike in new video for “Devil’s Balls.”

Check out The Art of Self Defense chapter of Head on a Pike: The Illustrated Lyrics of Matt Pike with illustrations by Santos.

After a 21-year run with the metal heroes, Des Kensel is officially out of High on Fire.

Hear High on Fire‘s take on a Thin Lizzy classic.

Mouths of Thieves—featuring members of High on Fire, Yob and Poison Idea—release a cover of Thin Lizzy’s “Opium Trail.”

While this year’s Decibel Tour is very deathly, this month’s Decibel Meter highlights a variety non-deathly genre mainstays like King Diamond, Candlemass, Rotting Christ, Sleep, and High on Fire.

High on Fire cancel upcoming tour with Toke and Year of the Cobra.

Stoner metal kings High on Fire announce new album Electric Messiah and pay tribute to Lemmy on the title track.

UK hardcore riff-rebels Allfather incite revolutions and mosh-pits with their newest single “Citadels.”

Psycho Las Vegas returns for another weekend of doom, fuzz and psychedelic offerings. Check out the first lineup announcement here.

Welcome to New Canaan, where the panics are all satanic and the metals ultra heavy.

The Decibel Magazine Tour has been in full swing for three weeks now, and for Skeletonwitch, it’s been a perfect vehicle to introduce their new frontman, Adam Clemans. We caught up with Clemans and guitarist Scott Hedrick after a blistering 40-minute set at San Francisco’s Regency Ballroom to talk tour stories, album plans, and Facebook etiquette.

The Decibel Tour starts tomorrow. But you can indulge in a new Abbath video today.

Less than seven days out! And we’ve got shirts, posters, and tickets to give away, in addition to other (very metal) recent announcements. 

Extended throughout the tour: win four Decibel Tour shirts!

Win some free dB Tour 2016 gear. 

Missing out on this is sort of like missing out on last call at the bar. If they gave you extra beers at the same price, that is. 

Luminiferous
Blinded by the Light
dB Rating: 9/10

While everyone else is reporting from that East Coast festival this week, we here at Decibel’s Los Angeles Bureau are lazy and don’t like to go further than 43.5 miles from our home base. Fortunately, on May 17, Scion held their annual Rockfest in Pomona, which is exactly that distance. Sweet! I was there, and…

Okay, so this week’s big metal in the movies news has been dominated by former thrashers turned FM rock-metal conglomerate Metallica, who have roped in the wee creepy guy from Chronicle to star as a citizen roadie on a mission across town during a miscellaneously apocalyptic event. Taking its title from one of the many…

Before High on Fire signed to Relapse, the Californians had plenty of buzz. The group’s debut, The Art of Self Defense, along with the cloyingly faddy label Man’s Ruin, sent waves of heshers yammering about the next big thing.

Meet Sandrider, the excellent new stoner rock/metal band of Nat Damm and John Weisnewski of Seattle noisecore heroes Akimbo. By way of introduction, we are streaming “The Corpse,” a standout track from the band’s epic self-titled slayfest available now from Good to Die Records. Though a very different beast musically, Sandrider’s debut, hypnotic and pummeling…