NWOBHM

Tickets are ON SALE NOW for Decibel‘s Metal & Beer Fest official PRE-FEST featuring Satan, Night Demon, Haunt and Sonja on April 13 in Philly.

Tickets are on sale Friday, January 13 at 10am ET for Decibel‘s Metal & Beer PRE-FEST featuring Satan, Night Demon, Haunt and Sonja on April 13.

Counting down five times that the metal gods Judas Priest totally ruled.

Decibel lists the Top 10 Iron Maiden live albums. Which one is number 10? Heavy metal never met a better live band.

Diamond Head guitarist Brian Tatler reveals the origins of the lost ‘Lightning to the Nations’ demos on the newly remastered reissue.

Hear and acquire this Night Demon disc single, featuring an exclusive brand new track, available as part of the Decibel Flexi Series. Hurry, quantities are extremely limited!

Get your deluxe Decibel subscription by Tuesday July 5 to obtain this HIGHLY LIMITED flexi disc single from American heavy metal powerhouse Night Demon.

Revisiting Axewitch’s 1984 album Visions of the Past.

Love may bite, but Tokyo shredders LOVEBITES are here to prove old school heavy metal most certainly does not.

It’s the ultimate NWOBHM showdown when Def Leppard‘s High ‘n’ Dry takes on Diamond Head‘s Lightning to the Nations in today’s Fight Fire with Fire.

Ranking the songs on Angel Witch’s Hall of Fame-inducted, NWOBHM classic self-titled debut from worst to best.

If you’ve got BabyMetal in your sights, watch out for Lovebites.

Heavy Metal lustlords Sacred Leather are back to tease their upcoming LP with the fiery riff-spittin’ new single “Oruku.”

German doom sextet Lord Vigo bring epic balladry and NWOBHM flare to their synth-soaked Blade Runner concept album Danse de Noir.

Hear and acquire this ultra-rare Satan flexi disc single, featuring an exclusive new track written and recorded for the Decibel Flexi Series. Hurry, quantities are extremely limited!

Get your deluxe Decibel subscription by Monday, Feb 3 to obtain this HIGHLY LIMITED flexi disc single featuring a brand new song from NWOBHM heroes Satan!

New Jersey doom n’ rollers Solace channel a career of hard luck into a scorching comeback record.

Louisville leather-fiends Savage Master unmask their newest offering of devilish ragers on their Myth, Magic & Steel LP.

Swedish hell machines Screamer take a leather-clad trad metal joyride on their newest triumphant record, Highway of Heroes.

Wishbone Ash guitarist and founding member Andy Powell regales Decibel about the past, the present, and the future.

Hear a new song from Canadian doom/sludge outfit Seer.

Revisiting and justifying Raven‘s major-label experiment The Pack Is Back.

Untimely Demise nail the death/thrash formula with “Lethal Enforcers.”

Judas Priest‘s Stained Class takes its place in the Decibel Hall of Fame.

Listen to a new song from NWOBHM group Pagan Altar, their last with late vocalist Terry Jones.

British heavy metal luminaries Tank bulldoze their way into the Decibel Hall of Fame. Pick up the August issue (#154) to read the making of Filth Hounds of Hades.

March 1982. Maggie Thatcher lords over a dangerously unemployed U.K. with a hatchet face, a controversial economic policy and “a voice like a cat sliding down a blackboard.” The Falklands War debacle is just weeks away.

We caught up with Pounder’s Matt Harvey to talk about how his new trad metal project is really more similar to his extreme metal bands than you might think.

Rebel Wizard‘s unique sound, self-described as “negative metal,” is an unholy marriage of black, thrash and power metal with a healthy dose of NWoBHM thrown in. Stream their album Triumph of Gloom in full now. 

Saxon‘s NWOBHM building block Wheels of Steel enters Decibel’s Hall of Fame.