Interview

Guitarist Juan Garcia discusses EvilDead‘s new album.

Vocalist Tom Englund discusses Theories of Emptiness, the new album from long-running Swedish progressive metal act Evergrey.

Accept guitarist Wolf Hoffmann talks technology, recording with producer Andy Sneap and why he still feels like a teenager.

Stream Deprecipice, the new album from UK sludge/metallic hardcore band Mastiff and read a lengthy interview with guitarist and vocalist James Lee Ross.

Andorran melodic death metal band Persefone discuss their latest release.

Exhumed frontman Matt Harvey discusses the inspirations and recording process behind his new ambient album, Toward the Cold Light.

The Keening/Exulansis violinist Andrea Morgan candidly discusses high school jobs and homelessness.

Job for a Cowboy bassist Nick Schendzielos talks about the new record and the death and rebirth of deathcore.

Philly scumbag kings Eat the Turnbuckle discuss their final show, hardcore wrestling and what it’s like to bleed for a living.

We caught up with Lord Dying guitarist/vocalist Erik Olson to discuss the sludgemongers’ continued legacy via new LP Clandestine Transcendence.

Wayfarer frontman Shane McCarthy crafts a 10-track mixtape of essential songs that shaped his life for our new Last Tape Before Doomsday column

Mammoth Beard Company love their metal; we talked to co-founder Lee Palichuk to get some tips for the longhairs — and longbeards — out there.

Get the skinny on Jarhead Fertilizer‘s new album.

Queen of heavy metal Doro Pesch on her new record and paving the way for women in metal.

Members of Mother of Graves, Phobocosm, Krypts, Astral Tomb and The Munsens talk Metal & Beer Fest Denver as Dec 1-2 approaches.

Boston hardcore legends SS Decontrol (SSD) reissue classic The Kids Will Have Their Say. Guitarist Al Barile talks past, present and future.

Decibel’s nerdiest column digs up how Manipulator the band begat Manipulator! the Game.

Living legend Tom Gabriel Fischer talks the resurrection of Hellhammer classics via Triumph of Death’s live album Resurrection of the Flesh.

Legendary underground cartoonist Reid Chancellor talks hardcore, mental health struggles and GG Allin with Decibel.

Stream the debut album from dark post-punk collective False Fed, featuring current/former members of Discharge, Amebix, Ministry, Soulfly and others.

Michael Freiburger, pillar of the Seattle metal community and leader of Satanik Royalty Records, talks to Decibel about his story and what’s next for the family business.

Xasthur mastermind Scott Conner talks about the heavier sounds of his latest album and why he’s already moving away from them again.

On the eve of its L.A. screening, legendary music documentarian Penelope Spheeris discusses her “lost” Ozzfest ’99 documentary, We Sold Our Souls for Rock ‘n Roll.

You’re not seeing things. Skeletonwitch guitarist Scott Hedrick has hooked up with Dutch noise fiends Dead Neanderthals again on their new LP, Specters.

On the eve of the release of their possible swan song Closure, Dutch atmospheric black metallers An Autumn for Crippled Children grant their first-ever interview

Max Fox, vocalist for crossover legends The Boneless Ones, readies the troops for the group’s first-ever European shows, specifically in front of 20,000 at Dynamo in Holland.

Philadelphia sludge eulogists Quiet Man smash silence with a track-by-track guide to their dark new record, The Starving Lesson.

End Reign guitarist Dom Romeo discusses the band’s debut album and collaborating with new musicians.

An interview with Loud as Hell Fest mainman Geoff Bourrie!

Leon del Muerte talks about self-releasing the album from his avant garde mid-’90s-leaning project Lightbreaker album. Read on and stream Annihilation of the Annealids ahead of its release.