Richmond

Something’s rotten in Richmond. Prog-death trio Pyramid Mass offer up a full examination of their new EP, Gargling Rot.

Richmond noise rock heroes City Of Caterpillar discuss their 20-year “hiatus” and the unlikely-awesome new LP, Mystic Sisters.

It’s been a long goddamn while since a hardcore band blasted out of the gate with a sound as feral and kinetic – yet savvily refined in construction – as Guardrails. Hear them now.

Get your deluxe Decibel subscription by Monday, December 6 to obtain this HIGHLY LIMITED flexi disc single from Richmond thrashmongers Enforced.

Check out the new EP and video from Richmond hardcore heroes, Under Attack!

Advance listening of the new EP by these avant-calamity creators!

Join us in celebrating Earthen Tomb, the stunning debut album from Virginian doomsters The Astral Void.

Take the “Black Challenge” with long-running Richmond blackened thrashers Battlemaster.

Richmond devastators Antichrist Siege Machine show their true form on debut full length. Hear Schism Perpetration in all its unholy glory right now.

Travel throughout GWAR‘s history in a new card game.

Lace up those Reeboks and listen to a new Enforced song!

This week’s Demo:listen features Richmond’s hard-hitting and mercurial Omen Stones.

The craft beer and metal worlds team up for a special show this Saturday, April 7, to benefit GWAR’s Balsac the Jaws of Death, aka Michael Derks

See what Strangeways has on tap for Decibel Metal & Beer Fest.

Municipal Waste drummer Dave Witte dishes on all the dishes he’s whipping up at his Go Go Vegan food truck, as well as his latest beer and musical projects.

Stream the new album from Richmond’s Left Cross now.

You can’t purchase the new Municipal Waste album, Slime and Punishment, until June 23, but you can now drink the band’s collaboration, Divine Blasphemer Smoked Porter, with metal-friendly Tampa brewery Cigar City.

Apparently it’s difficult to pull off a good metal video. Richmond’s BAT make it look not only easy, but fun as hell, too, with their new black&white, B movie-inspired thriller, “Beware of the Bat.”

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. 

The Municipal Waste drummer is collaborating with Richard Christy (The Howard Stern Show, Death, Charred Walls of the Damned) and 30 others in Richmond on August 28 on the Shape of Sound. 

In the late 90s, perhaps around 1998, I pulled over at a truck stop about 45 miles outside of Richmond, Virginia. I grabbed a few snacks and went to the checkout line when it occurred to me that the clerk was staring, somewhat horrified. I looked down and remembered why: my entire body was covered…