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If you haven’t already, book your plane ticket, line up a hotel room (or the least dirty floor) and make sure the babysitter knows where your kids are, because Metal & Beer Fest Denver is approaching.

You’ve got until Friday, Monday, August 31 to secure an active deluxe Decibel subscription to ensure that a copy of this exclusive single from Boston death rockers Final Gasp is yours as part of the Decibel Flexi Series.

Forest Brienne Cutrer is not widely known in the metal community. She is nonetheless doing some of the most confrontational boundary-pushing black metal today as Bury Them and Keep Quiet.

There are a mere 300 copies of Down‘s first new the new full-length LP in 19 years on Decibel-exclusive Orange and Black Galaxy color vinyl with special embossed gatefold cover. Get one or be forever doomed.

Back in August 2004, the first issue of Decibel was independently published in Philadelphia. Considering the climate at the time, this was a truly terrible idea.

All ticket options for Decibel Magazine Metal & Beer Fest: Denver at the Fillmore Auditorium on December 4-5, 2026 are officially on sale. Don’t wait!

Single-day and regular-priced tickets go on sale on Friday, July 31 at 10am MT, so this is your LAST CHANCE for DISCOUNTED EARLY-BIRD 2-Day and 3-Day passes.

Former My Dying Bride members reconvene as Towards the Sinister to perform classic early ’90s MDB material.

Legendary underground musician and author Eugene Robinson suffers stoke, GoFundMe campaign to offset medical expenses launched.

Legendary Nocturnus AD drummer/vocalist Mike Browning passes away at 62.

Time is running out to save big with North America’s only monthly metal magazine!

GWAR co-founder Chuck Varga talks candidly about his fight against metastatic prostate cancer.

Norwegian legends Enslaved pair with Kevin Kicking Woman, an Elder of the Blackfeet Nation, in a collaboration born from friendship and cultural exchange.

Ahead of Kill Feed’s deep freeze, the cold-school Texans return to discuss survival games, bad internet connections and a little TCG called Magic: The Gathering.

You’ve got until Tuesday, June 30 to secure an active deluxe Decibel subscription to ensure that a copy of this exclusive single from underground heroes Nunslaughter is yours as part of the Decibel Flexi Series.

Mitch Harris pours 30 years of extreme metal touring experience (and over 4,000 shows) into TourFlip, a platform designed to connect artists, promoters, venues, festivals and fans.

Acquire this exclusive new flexi disc single from black metal progenitors Venom before the issue containing discs are sold out for good!

There are a mere 100 copies of Hulder‘s new full-length LP, Verbolgen, on Decibel-exclusive Hardwood colored vinyl. Answer the call of the ancestral fires and forest spirits and pre-order now!

All Decibel subscribers will receive the “A” version of the cover, featuring Optimus Prime, as part of their subscription (along with a Spirit Adrift flexi disc), while the “B” version of the cover, featuring Unicron, is a Decibel webstore exclusive.

There are a mere 200 copies of Chat Pile‘s new full-length LP, Who Loves the Sun, on Decibel-exclusive Coke Bottle Smoke colored vinyl. Get one now or be left in the dark.

After 15 years of silence, the New Jersey-born metal/hardcore heroes Burnt by the Sun reactivate, recruit Bill Kelliher (Mastodon) on second guitar.

Neill Jameson (Krieg) on his family’s struggles in the past year, which are darker and more challenging than anything hinted at on a black metal recording, and the support from the heavy metal community they inspired.

Read an exclusive book excerpt from Sodom: The Official Authorized Biography turns the clock back 40 years to the genesis of the German thrash metal scene, and get a copy of the book, which is out TODAY!

Tom Gabriel Fischer unpacks Celtic Frost‘s comeback album, Monotheist, released 20 years ago this week.

While the grindcore guitarist may be happy to chat with Decibel’s co-nerds, his gaming preferences are decidedly offline.

You’ve got until Sunday, May 31 to secure an active deluxe Decibel subscription to ensure that a copy of the last-ever song from doom lords Spirit Adrift is yours as part of the Decibel Flexi Series.

Between now and Monday at 11:59 PM ET, nearly every Decibel Books title in our webstore, including Born Human, The Scott Burns Sessions, USBM and more, are 5$ off.

Hear and acquire this exclusive new flexi disc single from Scottish black metal speed demon Hellripper before the issue containing discs are sold out for good!

The 13th annual Decibel Magazine Tour kicks off in Worcester, MA TONIGHT! Get your tickets now as we spend the next month trekking across North America!

Single-day “Just Metal” tickets for Metal & Beer Fest Philly this weekend are just $30 starting today! For less than the price of an underwhelming delivery burrito, you can join the party on May 2-3!