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Confess vocalist/guitarist Nikan (Siyanor) Khosravi is in hiding in Turkey after the band was charged and put on death row in Iran; we caught up with him to get an update.

Germany-based psych-doom purveyors Black Salvation blow minds on new album, Uncertainty is Bliss.

Portugal-based doom metallers Sinistro take on the avant-garde with their filmic new LP, Sangue Cassia.

Fans of heavily medicated prehistoric fauna, today’s your lucky day.

Lee Dorrian discusses his band Septic Tank and the impact hardcore punk had on his life.

Sketchy business practice or a necessary evil? Decibel examines the practice of merch cuts in extreme metal.

Pittsburgh-based dark metallers Deathwhite talk new album, “For a Black Tomorrow.”

Swedish death metal kings Usurpress bestow the strange and the heavy on new album, Interregnum.

Swedish black metal upstarts Avslut issue dire warning on new album, “Deceptis.”

Australian blackened war machine Nocturnal Graves fires off an unholy bullet with new song “Ecdysis, Shedding Weak Flesh.”

Lithuanian post-metallers Erdve are heavy on introspection (and riff) on new album, Vaitojimas.

An interview with Taken vocalist and issue #162 Reader of the Month, Ray Harkins

British doom legends Paradise Lost return to the Decibel Hall of Fame for the first time in 13 years.

Spain’s Totengott invoke Celtic Frost on new song “Satan Beside You.”

Swedish progressive rock upstarts Hällas tell tall tales of high adventure.

Time to listen to some killer Dutch born and bred grind.

Avant-garde black metallers Lychgate destroy boundaries on new song, “Remembrance.”

American black metal sensation Chaos Moon talk the realities of Eschaton Mémoire.

Watch a new video from the explosive God Complex.

Enemy Soil‘s Richard Johnson on the band’s upcoming reunion shows, the possibility of new music and political lyrics in grindcore.

Get lost in space with Italian purveyors of all things psychedelic Heavy Psych Sounds.

Iniquity’s Martin Rosendahl Revisits Serenadium and confirms reunions are dead.

Enslaved‘s Ivar Bjørnson on ByNorse Music, plus what fans can expect on the upcoming Decibel Magazine Tour.

French synthwave specialist Dan Terminus talks gear, popularity, and new album Automated Refrains.

British doom/death metallers raise the dead on new track, ‘Killing Flaw.’

Five reasons to be stoked about 2018 (that don’t include a New Year’s resolution or gym membership).

Cleric draw straight lines (through tesseracts) connecting quantum physics to Stephen King and Thom Yorke.

On this week’s Demo:listen we invite some of our friends to share their favorite demos of 2017, while we count down some demo highlights of the year that—for whatever reason—we never got a chance to feature.

Brazilian percussive drone/noise/punk trio Deafkids rule harder than you might expect.

Rock out with your… sock out.