Los Angeles

Track Premiere: Max Boogie Overdrive – “Stoned Again”

January 11, 2024

“Stoned Again” is the first single from Max Boogie Overdrive‘s upcoming full-length debut of the same name. It’s set for release on CD and digitally via Future Primitive Recordings on March 29.

Demo:listen: Infested

October 5, 2021

This week’s Demo:listen features L.A.-based xenomorphic carnage bringers Infested.

Demo:listen: Visceral Mass

August 7, 2020

This week on Demo:listen, death metal duo Visceral Mass demonstrate how to live and brutally die in L.A.

Album Premiere: Tyrant – ‘Hereafter’

May 11, 2020

Resurrected heavy metallers Tyrant have a new album, Hereafter, available on May 15. Streaming heavy metal gold only at Decibel

Album Premiere: Keverra – ‘Keverra’

April 29, 2020

Get crushed by the debut full length of calculated and atmospheric sludge from Los Angeles trio Keverra.

Track Premiere: Teeth – ‘Cretin’

September 30, 2019

Their bark is just as nasty as their bite – hear a brand new track from L.A. deathcrushers Teeth.

Dave Mustaine to Appear, Pour Beers at Decibel Metal & Beer Fest: Los Angeles

November 13, 2018

Dave Mustaine Dave Mustaine will appear on Saturday, December 1 to pour samples of A Tout Le Monde, Megadeth’s collaborative beer with presenting brewery Unibroue.

Track Premiere: Athanasia – ‘Cyclops Lord (My Will Is Done)’

January 23, 2018

Stream a catchy new song from Los Angeles-based melodic metal outfit Athanasia exclusively here.

Full Album Stream: Strife – “Live at the Troubadour”

November 21, 2017

Stream Strife‘s Live at the Troubadour, previously unheard since its recording in 2005, now!

Track Premiere: The Bug Vs. Earth – ‘Don’t Walk These Streets’

March 9, 2017

“‘Don’t Walk These Streets’ was really written as a reaction to feeling absolutely alienated and set adrift in the surreal manifestation of the American Dream that is L.A,” Kevin Martin says. “It’s a smacked out jazz, fuzzed up trip, into a social void, that I wrote after realizing there is zero safety net in the States for anyone that falls off the gravy train. And as a pedestrian walking a lot around the city in my stay during the recording of Concrete Desert, I attempted to conjure the feeling of sheer dread that I felt wandering across the Hollyweird landscape.”

Piece By Piece and Friend Or Foe Premiere Songs From Upcoming Compilation

October 19, 2016

The Extermination series of hardcore compilations has featured a top notch roster of bands in the past. Piece By Piece and Friend or Foe join that roster on The Extermination: Vol. 3. 

Hollywood Babylon: Paul Masvidal’s Life in LA

February 5, 2014

Few people have a professional circle that includes Chris Barnes and Alex Webster, sexy pop starlet Terri Nunn and global film star Jim Carrey. One of them is Decibel Hall Of Fame inductee Paul Masvidal (enshrined with his Cynic bandmates for Focus). When Cynic fell apart in the mid-90s, Masvidal relocated to Los Angeles, where…