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JUST ANNOUNCED: The FULL BREWERY LINEUP for Decibel Magazine Metal & Beer Fest: Philly 2026!

February 11, 2026

Five more breweries join in on the festivities set to go down on May 2-3 with Power Trip, Municipal Waste, Cryptopsy, Kylesa, Cro-Mags and more at the Fillmore Philly! Get your tickets now!

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Lyric Video Premiere: Master’s Ashes – “Defiance Disorder”

February 12, 2026

Featuring current and ex-members of Crisis, Voivod, Dystopia, Crowbar and The Convalescence, Master’s Ashes pulls from the bleak, dystopian heaviness of the early ’90s while sharpening it into something unmistakably current.

Editorial

An Endless Wave of American Darkness: USBM’s Hidden Underground

December 26, 2025

Neill Jameson digs deep into the best that underground U.S. black metal had to offer in 2025.

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Converge

March 2026 [#257]

Includes exclusive limited edition Dead Heat flexi disc

Hardened to Their Core! Also: the Decibel Hall of Fame: The Making of Lethargy’s It’s Hard to Write With a Little Hand, Metal & Beer Fest: Denver 2025 Reviewed, Mayhem, Carpenter Brut and more

Lyric Video: Ape Vermim – “Awakened”

February 12, 2026

Check out a new lyric video for “Awakened” from North Carolina progressive sludge metal juggernaut Ape Vermin taken from their latest EP, Andromedas Colossus, released in 2024.

Track Premiere: Salos – “Sagittarius”

February 11, 2026

Hear Greek instrumental post-metal duo Salos explore the sonic cosmos on new single, “Sagittarius.”

Video Premiere: Hibernaut – “Mark of Shame”

February 11, 2026

Utah doom crushers Hibernaut return with a harrowing new video for “Mark of Shame.” The track appears on the band’s upcoming split LP with Arizona extreme outfit Face Pulp, due March 6 via What’s Left Records.

Full Album Stream: Fossilization – Advent of Wounds

February 11, 2026

Emerging from the abyssal depths of the underground, Fossilization return with Advent of Wounds, a suffocating descent into death metal extremity that sharpens every weapon the Brazilian duo has wielded so far.

Track Premiere: Necrosexual – ‘Kiss the Knife’

February 10, 2026

Get ready to “Kiss the Knife” with a new song from Necrosexual.

Blast Worship: Fulminate

February 10, 2026

Hear Chicago goregrinders Fulminate gurgle and burp their way through 41 minutes of Dead Infection/early Carcass worship.

Video Premiere: Irreversible – “Thoth”/”Esus”

February 9, 2026

Sludgy Atlanta post-metal makers Irreversible return from 11-year absence with two-track crusher, Vessel.

EP Premiere: Bergtagen – In Forests Eternal

February 5, 2026

Hear the the two-decades-in-the-making debut EP, In Forests Eternal from dark atmospheric metallers Bergtagen.