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“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.

Hear super-charged SoCal punks Daisy Chain (ft. Graf Orlock members) kick out the jams at Mountune motorsports.

Hear L.A. doom trio Behold! The Monolith get deep on their new Ripple Music full-length.

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

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

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

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

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

Yidhra take a cue from Fear for their Christmas carol.

Sate your bloodthirst with Decibel at Beer Belly Koreatown!

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.

Decibel Metal & Beer Fest: Los Angeles just got a lot more extreme.

A West Coast benefit for the late Caleb Scofield will be held in October.

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

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

“‘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.”

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. 

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…