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All ticket options for Decibel Magazine Metal & Beer Fest at the Fillmore Philly on April 10, 2027, featuring Agalloch, Nevemore, Immolation, Solitude Aeturnus and more, are on sale NOW.

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Think you can get a handle on metallic hardcore bruisers Lockslip via their listening habits?

Hear Tennessee grind titans Woundflower induce a Privatized Collapse.

Agalloch, Nevermore, Immolation, Solitude Aeturnus and more highlight the 10th anniversary of Metal & Beer Fest Philly on April 10, 2027. All tickets on sale Friday, Nov 13 at 10am local time.

Our beloved country of Philadelphia delivers some ripped entrails from (virgins) Shunt.

My War On Wilshire: Black Flag vs. the Wilshire Federal Building…and the Vex photographer Michael Pearson talks about shooting Black Flag and his new Bazillion Points book.

Teardrinker offers a voice of humanity and solidarity in these dark times. Decibel premieres the music video for their song “Hereditary.” It’s the centerpiece of the band’s forthcoming album, I Hope This Hurts.

In which we review Fetus and the ‘Bogg at Emo’s in Austin, TX.

Ahead of the book’s release, Chuck Billy reflects on his career, his decision to venture into the literary world, his spiritual awakening and thoughts on new material and the road ahead.

You’ve got until Saturday, October 31 (BOO!) to secure an active deluxe Decibel subscription to ensure that a copy of this exclusive single from midwest doom-death lords Mother of Graves is yours as part of the Decibel Flexi Series.

Hear Caregiver, the first new LP in decade from Kentucky death metal band Anagnorisis with insight from vocalist Zachary Kerr.

Hear Void Bringer eschew Green Mountain Coffee in favor of Green Mountain Powerviolence.

Ontario’s Bloodshoteye turn back the clock on themselves and one of Canadian history’s darkest moments.

Subterranean Dissonance Festival announces The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza, Cave In, Primitive Man, Inter Arma, Crowhurst and more for its 2027 edition.

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.