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Hear former and current members of Decrepit Birth, Animosity, Akurion, Neuraxis, Augury, Emasculator and more gather as The Conflux Collective.

Boston stoner quartet Gozu bring the riffs on their new album.

Have you no Common Decency? Then start with their new split release with Self Love.

Long Island death metal kings Suffocation earn their second HOF induction via Pierced From Within.

Hear Vixen Maw deliver absolute audio mayhem with Pervertigo.

Wether traveling for the fest or living locally, Doom Bar is the home base for Metal & Beer Fest!

Virginia stoner rock trio Üga Büga fire up the grill on new single, “Divine Slaughter (Backyard Barbecue Bonanza).”

Single-day “Just Metal” tickets for Metal & Beer Fest Philly this weekend are just $30 starting today! For less than the price of an underwhelming delivery burrito, you can join the party on May 2-3!

Here are the 42 different beers (and meads) that “Metal & Beer” ticket holders are entitled to sample at Decibel Magazine Metal & Beer Fest on May 2-3 in Philly!

If you like blast beats with your hardcore, you’d better move to the speed of Richmond’s Killing Pace.

Two-Day & Three-Day tickets for Decibel’s annual festival of suds and thuds at the Fillmore Auditorium in Denver on December 4-5 are ON SALE NOW!

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Hear Chicago duo Brilliant Behemoth deliver a delightful blend of goregrind with neocrust on their new split with Toughguy.

Hear and acquire this exclusive new flexi disc single from capital grinders NO/MÁS before the issue containing discs are sold out for good!

The folks who bring you the Fire in the Mountains Festival discuss the power of music and community.

Hear Chicago blasters Melting Rot deliver endless whirlwinds of early Carcass mixed into a stew of devastating D-beat.

NYHC legend Harley Flanagan on 40 years of The Age of Quarrel, his pain becoming others’ joy and playing Metal & Beer Fest: Philly on May 2.

There are a scant 100 copies of Spirit Adrift‘s farewell full-length LP, Infinite Illumination, on Decibel-exclusive Yellow Smoke colored vinyl. Don’t wait.

Grinders Zero Survive deliver that trademark New England pissed-off-ness on their latest split release.

Hear former Wake frontman Kyle Ball explore even darker sounds with his new black/death/noise project Lysergic.

Apocalyptic brutal slamming death metal entity Onchocerciasis Esophagogastroduodenoscopy (OxE) are premiering their LP Fugue Gnawed from the Scabbed God Cerebrum ahead of its official release on April 3 through Stillbirth/Gore House Productions.

If melodic and power metal is your bag, give a thought to Vancouver’s Hyperspace Metalfest on April 16-18.

Kylesa‘s 2009 psych metal masterpiece, Static Tensions, enters our hallowed Hall.

Dive in face-first and breathe in the stomach-churning atmosphere of California’s Casket Mush.

Decibel reports from Lamb of God‘s crushing Philly pop-up show in support of the release of new LP Into Oblivion.

VOID bassist Chris Stover talks Live 1982, released this month on Outer Battery Records, how it came about and what it’s like to talk about a band that lasted for roughly three years, four decades later.

Fermented Mess‘s ruthless barrage of detuned chromatic guitar onslaught won’t prevent head wounds, but it may cause some.

Listen to Iron Savior take on the ’80s via their new covers album Awesome Anthems of the Galaxy.

Capitol grindcrushers No/Más drop Redefining Darkness debut, No Peace ahead of Metal & Beer Fest Philly appearance in May.

We’ve only got 300 copies of this PICTURE DISC edition LP of The Bestiary, featuring the iconic cover photo from Castle Rat’s October 2025 Decibel magazine cover story.