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Decibel Magazine Metal & Beer Fest: Philly kicks off NEXT WEEK, which means you’ve been asking for set times for approximately five months now. Here you go.

Texas grindcore royalty returns to rip again with Terror Corpse.

Experience Persekutor mania via a new single and a spring tour that begins tomorrow with Bewitcher and Deathchant.

There’s no reason to be bummed en masse about Sullen Population, the new ripper from grindforce Human Shield

Glam rock legend Jizzy Pearl talks about his memorable career, what it’s like to front three bands, and why he keeps writing new music.

Montreal/Stockholm progressive metalers Voidchaser, are dropping their latest EP, Trust, on March 7, and they’re sharing it with us first. The record is their follow-up to the 2024 release Solace and comes ahead of a soon-to-be announced tour.

Tis the season for the anxiety-fueled, neo-industrial grindcore of Trauma Bond.

Exodus performs all of their landmark Bonded by Blood album and Dismember deliver a special full set of their classic Like an Ever Flowing Stream and WAY more at Metal & Beer Fest Philly 2025!

Get tickets for Decibel‘s Metal & Beer Fest official PRE-FEST featuring Incantation, Mammoth Grinder, Ripped to Shreds and Walking Wounded on April 3 in Philly.

Hear the latest from Memphis beatdown grindcore maniacs Korroded in advance of their band-spanking new EP, Augment To Kill.

Nearly 150 back issues in the Decibel webstore are on sale now for just $4.00 each! Many of them containing flexis and down to the last copies. Hurry, sale ends Sunday at midnight EST.

We gear up for Darkest Hour‘s 20th anniversary of their melodeath landmark, Undoing Ruin, with a well-deserved Hall of Fame induction.

You’ll turn a shade of deep purple after facing off with Dayton demolitionists Bitchy Rackmore.

Austin bangers Scorpion Child pull off ‘Him and Sisters of Mercy trying to play Judas Priest’ on third LP I Saw the End as it Passed Right Through Me.

You’re gonna have to wait two more years for a threepeat, but you can hear the latest from Belgian blasters Type: Armor Unit today.

Hear surging Oakland grinders Choke grab the genre by throat on their latest release.

New Skeletal Faces frontman Errol Fritz talks formative years and influences ahead of the band’s Decibel Magazine Tour run.

We celebrate the 30th anniversary of Paradise Lost‘s landmark Draconian Times with a Hall of Fame induction.

Philadelphia’s own old-school death/thrashers Spesimin are back with a brand spankin’ new EP full of ghoulish twists and turns sure to make any scuz rocker happy.

Decibel — and the entire metal and hardcore community — mourns the passing of underground show promoter and accomplished artist Rich Hall (1000 Knives).

Get whipped by the hardcore approach to grind of Seattle’s Smearing.

French grinders Civilian Thrower find their inner excellent via a break-neck release schedule.

Your bowl will be less than super after a helping of Septic Excrements.

2024 might finally be over, but that doesn’t mean you don’t want one final mirco list in your life, right? So here are the Top 10 Grindcore/Powervioelnce Albums of the last 12 months.

Congrats to Fu Manchu for entering into the Decibel Hall of Fame. Keep on truckin’ and have a nice day.

Shane Embury’s electronic ambient Dark Sky Burial closes the book on 2024 and looks forward to 2025 with a string of live dates.

Keep spreading that holiday cheer with Haunted Horses’ new video!

All tickets to the 2025 Decibel Magazine Tour, kicking off in March, are on sale now!

The fire at the Gorguts guitarist’s home took place on Sunday, December 15. If you can help, please consider donating to his family’s GoFundMe.

The Decibel Magazine Tour returns to the road in March! Tickets on sale Friday, December 20 at 10am local time.