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Veteran Baltigrinders Triac channel punk fury into metallic bliss on new release Pure Joy – Numb Grief-stricken Animals.

Decibel Records’ inaugural release, Deadguy’s Buyer’s Remorse: Live From the Decibel Magazine Metal & Beer Fest, is released today and now shipping!

In his latest book, Anarchy At the Circle K, Patrick O ‘Neil writes about 80s hardcore in a narrative that’s a combination of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road and Michael Azerrad’s Our Band Could Be Your Life.

Castrator’s long-awaited debut album Defiled in Oblivion is now available for pre-order and Decibel has our own exclusive edition on Hot Pink & Black Galaxy vinyl limited to just 100 copies.

In the latest installment of Health Awaits, a Decibel fitness column, George Clarke & Kerry McCoy of Deafheaven discuss the relationship between sobriety and metal and physical fitness.

Join Funeral Oppression’s bleak and blackened cemetery procession by playing their new single, “Just To Live.”

Hear the unkind grind of Poland’s Suffering Mind.

A deluxe reissue of hardcore legend Porcell‘s early 90s zine “War on Illusion” remains an edifying and subversive document of a searching scene in intellectual as well as musical flux.

Indiana power thrashers Idol Throne brandish bloody steel on their new single “Unholy Warrior.”

The fourth annual Mathcore Index fest will feature such genre stalwarts as gif. from god, Black Matter Device, Frail Body, fallfiftyfeet and more.

In honor of Candlemass’s full-album performance of their landmark Epicus Doomicus Metallicus at Metal & Beer Fest: Philly on June 10, scene royalty reflects on the LP’s impact.

We have a limited number of advance copies of the July issue of Decibel, featuring our exclusive new flexi disc EP from experimental death/grinders Fawn Limbs available NOW!

South Carolina sludge trio MNRVA summon black skies with their doomy debut LP, Hollow. Live deliciously and listen early.

Four years after their first Blast Worship appearance, we revisit DC grind heroes No/Más. Unsurprisingly, they still rule.

This week’s new releases features a group of standard-bearing heroes like Terror, Jungle Rot, Misery Index and more!

Ohio brutal death dealers Mutilatred go for the kill on Determined to Rot.

Death grinders Instigate predict the apocalypse on “Haruspex.” Off their upcoming album Unheeded Warnings of Decay.

This week Demo:listen welcomes the apocalyptic annihilation of Floridian death metal troops Nuclear Christ.

An exclusive early stream of the incendiary second full-length from Seattle black metal manifestation Void Wraith.

French grinders Whoresnation offer anything but a dearth of crushing riffs on their latest LP.

Wolves in the Throne Room has received a long-awaited vinyl repress of their masterpiece Two Hunters and Decibel has obtained an exclusive edition on Moss Green wax limited to 300 copies!

Decibel gets the lowdown from Harley Flanagan on circa 2022 Cro-Mags, the upcoming tour, and how getting beat down on the jiujitsu mat can prepare one for hardcore touring.

Dark ambient project Satanath deconstructs post-metal in the ten-year anniversary reissue of their album Metallized Arena.

Hear Philly death grinders Lorelai‘s debut Concealed Ovulation in advance of its release.

Our smallest vinyl edition run EVER is here with Desolate Shrine‘s Fires of the Dying World. Only 90 copies on Blood Red Galaxy vinyl available for pre-order now!

Berlin-based sludge and post-metal heavyweights Shovel are gearing up for the release of their self-titled, debut album, which drops on May 27 via Argonauta Records. Watch the video for single “I. The Void.”

Death metal duo Somatic Decay dredge “Mutilated Facades” from the cesspit of their upcoming demo. Features two ex-members of Ossuarium.

Australian death/doom undertakers Malignant Aura reveal their sepulchral new single, “…And So It Was That I Lay Down Forever.”

Prague blasters BowelFuck evacuate the gore from their system in favor of grindcore.

Today, Australian industrial icons Kollaps unveil the latest track from their forthcoming album Until The Day I Die, out via Cold Spring Records on June 24. Feast your ears on “The Hand of Death.”