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Dallas blasterforce Bladda deliver “low IQ-music” in the best way possible on Heinous Methods of Cranial Disposal.

Prepare the Ground announces a stacked initial lineup for the festival’s fourth iteration.

Hear Minneapolis grind vets Deterioration pull no punches on Observe/Target/Eliminate.

News from the Gorgatron camp…featuring all the pertinent adjectives and necessary bluster!

Hear zany Rhode Island blasters Moisturizer get slippery on Second and Mystical their self-released new LP.

Hear blast vets Magnicide and Punished Earth team up on the imaginatively titled Split LP.

Hear the latest “hard to market” single from Dylan Neal’s solo project Thief.

Forest Brienne Cutrer is not widely known in the metal community. She is nonetheless doing some of the most confrontational boundary-pushing black metal today as Bury Them and Keep Quiet.

Watch the new video from Israeli progressive metallers Submasq.

On Sunday, October 4, black belts Danny Katz, David Grossman and Dean Lewis will hold a charity event for Neill Jameson and his daughter.

Hear Peoria powerviolence purveyors Held Hostage take some prisoners on ripper of a debut demo.

There are a mere 300 copies of Down‘s first new the new full-length LP in 19 years on Decibel-exclusive Orange and Black Galaxy color vinyl with special embossed gatefold cover. Get one or be forever doomed.

Anything less than the “tasteful pornogrind” of Jig-Ai would be uncivilized.

Read our interview about The Kave, Kathy Findlay, and the metal and hardcore scene in Maine with Downeast Hardcore: Stories From The Kave filmmaker Ricky Leighton.

Hear Philly’s own Malform drop what maybe the grind EP of the year in I.

Back in August 2004, the first issue of Decibel was independently published in Philadelphia. Considering the climate at the time, this was a truly terrible idea.

Straight outta Saskatchewan, the new video by death/thrashers Pythonic!

Guitarless Leeds powerviolence force Gets Worse are back and worser than ever on No Bones.

Acquire this exclusive new flexi disc single from death metal cult heroes Nunslaughter before the issue containing discs are sold out for good!

All ticket options for Decibel Magazine Metal & Beer Fest: Denver at the Fillmore Auditorium on December 4-5, 2026 are officially on sale. Don’t wait!

Single-day and regular-priced tickets go on sale on Friday, July 31 at 10am MT, so this is your LAST CHANCE for DISCOUNTED EARLY-BIRD 2-Day and 3-Day passes.

Get a double helping of northeast grind from Fed Ash & the HIRS Collective.

Read all about the reformation of Quebec’s tech death legends Martyr and their reissued discography!

Texas death dealers Trench Warfare return with first new material since 2019.

The new wave of extreme hypergoreblast is upon us! Along with it, the new split from face-melters Banzai.

Arizona’s Sex Prisoner provide a new soundtrack to lose teeth to in Cautionary Tale.

Legendary Nocturnus AD drummer/vocalist Mike Browning passes away at 62.

Check out the debut album by Montreal tech-death maestros, Volubilis!

GWAR co-founder Chuck Varga talks candidly about his fight against metastatic prostate cancer.

Pylar dig deep into cosmic horror and the occult with Delyrio.