Hydra Head Records
Pre-Order ‘Deconstructing Towers: The Story of HYDRA HEAD RECORDS’ from Decibel Books! Read an Exclusive Excerpt Now!
September 18, 2026 Decibel Magazine
Pre-order the massive, over 500-page official story of Hydra Head Records via Decibel Books and read an excerpt on Cave In’s dance with major labels in the early 2000s now!
The Lazarus Pit: Drowningman’s ‘Busy Signal at the Suicide Hotline’
September 29, 2022 Greg Pratt
Revisiting when Drowningman got metalcore very right on 1999’s Busy Signal at the Suicide Hotline.
Radical Sonic Formulas: Swiss Metallic Hardcore Trailblazers Knut Reissue “Leftovers”
December 23, 2020 Shawn Macomber
Knut‘s noisy metallic hardcore “leftovers” are tastier than most extreme music main courses.
Fight Fire with Fire: ‘Human 2.0’ vs. ‘The Inalienable Dreamless’
May 28, 2020 Greg Pratt
It’s Nasum‘s Human 2.0 vs. Discordance Axis‘s The Inalienable Dreamless in the ultimate modern grindcore showdown.
Fight Fire with Fire: ‘We Are the Romans’ vs. ‘Calculating Infinity’
April 2, 2020 Greg Pratt
Botch‘s We Are the Romans and The Dillinger Escape Plan‘s Calculating Infinity go head to head in the ultimate metalcore showdown.
Mare – “Mare”
January 27, 2020 Andrew Bonazelli
Read the making of the “post-” with the most EP from the mysterious Mare.
Retrospective: Mare’s “Mare”
August 1, 2019 Greg Pratt
Mare showed the world how experimental sludge and post-metal should be done with their only release, 2004’s self-titled EP.