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Hear the gut-churning sludge and misery of new Chicago duo Stomach.

Take a listen to the new EP by Chicago horror shredders, Necronomicon Ex Mortis!

Hear Chicago thrash crew Bloodletter spin an epic tale on their new concept album for Wise Blood Records, A Different Kind of Hell.

Chicago-based stoner band Psychic Nurse have released a new video, “(Not Your) B!tch,” and you can check it out with us before everybody else.

Hear Chicago crossover vets Aftermath deliver their latest wake up call, “No Time to Waste.”

The legendary Chicago photographer tells tales of shooting the biggest names in metal and punk in the city’s most revered rock ‘n’ roll venue.

The new video from Chicago industrial metal unit Fearsore is no eyesore.

Bang a gong, get it on with an epic track from Chicago’s doomy, atmospheric post-punk collective, Anatomy of Habit.

Chicago’s Nequient distribute Collective Punishment in the form of D-beats and metallic hardcore anger.

An exclusive and early stream of The Crucible, the fearless debut full-length from Chicago-based USBM entity Threshing Spirit.

Chicago doomlords The Skull (featuring ex-members of Trouble) roll out the latest video from their second album, The Endless Roads Turns Dark.

Chicago’s Cardiac Arrest belch new track, “Sodomite,” from new album, The Day That Death Prevailed. Streaming filthily only at Decibel!

Noisy Chicago-based sludge/hardcore trio Of Wolves premiere their new aversion therapy-style video for “Mens Rea (Izaguf)” from their forthcoming new album, Balance.

After 8 long years, God-tier Chicago death/doom trio Cianide have returned with their new EP, Unhumanized.

Unhinged Chicago rockers Mexican Werewolf unleash their full length today. Hear in its entirety right here.

Chicago’s Mexican Werewolf slay violent smash‘n’roll. Check out this exclusive track premiere from their forthcoming debut album, Murder House.

Snow Burial “Sever the Bloodline” with a cut from their upcoming album, Ostrava.

Check out our interview with Adam of The Kreutzer Sonata, a Chicago-based punk band ready to unleash a new serving of noise with “The Rosehill Gates.”

Chicago death purveyors Cardiac Arrest drop new track ‘Professional Victim.’

Stream a new song from The Atlas Moth right now!

Introducing the Decibel Headbangers Bier Hall at Chicago Open Air

Prepare to be “Mutilated and Assimilated” by Chicago death metal outfit Broken Hope. 

In a couple weeks, the Chi-town quartet Arriver will blast their frenetic, exacting noise of death out through your ass, by way of their December 2nd release, Emeritus.  Today, we give you the song “URSa,” as good an entry point as any (though it’s the record’s penultimate track) to the band’s sound.  Don’t let this be your only dip into their pool, though.

Chicago, Illinois has long been home to some of the harshest, ugliest metal sounds, and Polyptych continue the tradition in splendid form.

Dethbeds plays loud and Dethbeds plays fast. Dethbeds has a new album coming out October 11, but you can listen to a (loud and fast) new song now. 

In recent years, Chicago has been home to all sorts of experimental and off-the-path metal. Lest you forget it’s also the hometown of Paul Speckmann of Master, scads of restaurants that serve large racks of meat and tons of old-school goodness. On that note, Decibel is happy to provide an exclusive stream of Scythe’s “Leather…

Unlike some of our previous “premieres,” this one is timed just perfectly. Chicago trad-metal quartet, Bible of the Devil, will be releasing their sixth full-length album, For The Love Of Thugs And Fools, today, May, 8 via Cruz Del Sur Music. It’s their first full-length, since 2008’s Freedom Metal and it’s just the kind of…