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TICKETS ON SALE NOW for Decibel’s 20th ANNIVERSARY SHOW Featuring AUTOPSY, IMMOLATION, HORRENDOUS & More!

May 10, 2024

Tickets include All-Ages GA + an extremely limited 21+ VIP option entitling purchasers early entry to the Pre-Show ‘Decibowl’ Reception & VIP Viewing Deck access. (VIP tix are 21+ & limited to 76!)

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Video Premiere: Giant Spider – ‘Exit Plan’

May 9, 2024

NYHC trio Giant Spider make their entrance with “Exit Plan.”

Editorial

Slayer’s Debut “Show No Mercy” Turns 40

December 4, 2023

There was once a metal world without Slayer, as hard as that is to imagine. That world changed forever with this album. Show No Mercy is a giant’s first loud footstep.

Latest Issue

Crypt Sermon

June 2024 [#236]

Includes exclusive limited edition City of Caterpillar flexi disc

Harbingers of Doom! Also: Kerry King, Remembering Blake Harrison, Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats, Pallbearer, the Decibel Hall of Fame: The Making of Exhumed’s Gore Metal and more

Five For Friday: May 10, 2024

May 10, 2024

This week brings us a lot of heavy music from across the spectrum, including the latest from Terminal Nation, SVNEATR and more!

Great Lakes Dungeon Siege Announced in Fort Wayne, Indiana on Oct 18-20!

May 10, 2024

Get tickets to Coniferous Myst, Nest, Cernunnos Woods, DragonKeep and many more fine purveyors of dark dungeon music.

Album Premiere: Red Rot – “Borders of Mania”

May 9, 2024

Red Rot, the project of Luciano Lorusso George and Davide Tiso, formerly of Ephel Duath, present their sophomore record, Borders of Mania, a day before it releases to the world via Hammerheart Records.

Full Album Stream: Markgraf – “Hohenbaden”

May 9, 2024

Go wild with first-wave black metal/heavy metal trio Markgraf and their sophomore album, Hohenbaden.

Track Premiere: Black Mare – ‘Blind One AD’

May 7, 2024

Listen to a reworked version of “Blind One,” a song originally from Black Mare‘s 2013 album Field of the Host.

Blast Worship: Full of Hell

May 7, 2024

The new Full of Hell album, Coagulated Bliss, is out now. Why haven’t you bought it yet?