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Bristol, U.K. trio Svalbard didn’t merely make a better record than 2018’s solid It’s Hard to Have Hope, but delivered the first truly great album of their career.

California-based Transcendence LA thrash ’til (melodic) death on new album, Towards Obscurities Beyond. Streaming only at Decibel!

Trust the crust of Napalm Death live guitarist John Cooke’s Corrupt Moral Altar.

Members of Transistor Transistor and Kowloon Walled City unite in killer post-hardcore outfit Strangelight.

Swedish grindcore trio GRID continue Umeå, Sweden’s proud tradition of fantastic outsider art.

Mastodon‘s Bill Kelliher talks, Bill & Ted 3, Brent Hinds’ “Wild Stallyns Bill and Ted Forever” tattoo and the band’s new comp.

Swedish doom trio Laser Dracul lure fans of scuzz and fuzz into the haunted forests of their debut LP, Hagridden.

The latest sonic haymaker from rising metallic hardcore revitalizer Chamber is an eye-opening “Vision of Hostility.”

Heavy metal short film Landgraves conjures suspense from snowstorms and blackened doom. Watch this festival standout now.

Guitarist Willie Adler talks about Lamb of God‘s involvement in the Bill & Ted Face the Music soundtrack.

We have a limited number of advance copies of the November issue of Decibel, featuring an exclusive Hyperdontia flexi disc, available now. Don’t blow it.

Thirty years ago Anthrax released the thrash metal apotheosis Persistence of Time, a timeless record which remains as beguiling and potent as ever.

Bullet-belted deathrashers Evoke race the devil on their debut LP, Seeds of Death. Out September 18 on Pulverized Records.

Polish black/death duo DeathEpoch provide a little demonstration of the sonic warfare that is their debut album Abysmal Invocation.

Texas one-woman grindcore project Pyosisified is, of course, rotten to the gore.

New compilation features new music from 40+ new bands and benefits Movement for Black Lives.

Blackened folk metal rogues Finntroll are back from studio hibernation. Welcome them back by watching the hallucinatory video for “Mask.”

Killer Denver, Colorado horror metal outfit Axeslasher reemerges from the shadows with a wild and nasty new live album.

Canadian death metal executioners Sadistic Embodiment unleash unseen terror with their new single “Phantom Tormentor.”

Peruvians blasters Audiotrauma ride the crushing wave of South American grindcore dominance

We pay tribute to Power Trip’s Riley Gale with our cover story to the sold-out February 2019 issue of Decibel.

Austin-based melodic death/doom dawnbringers Hinayana seek enlightenment in a brutalist hellscape on their Death of the Cosmic EP.

Blood on Black Wax authors Aaron Lupton and Jeff Szpirglas are back with another tome on vinyl soundtrack mayhem, Planet Wax — and we’ve got your heavy metal pairings for it.

Japanese reapers Frostvore flood your lungs with Swedeath gore on their debut LP Drowned by Blood.

Sactown duo Human Obliteration are an ode to early ’90s skate-punk, a la Suicidal Tendencies, except with, you know, blast beats.

Through the Brambles – the inaugural release from SweetWater’s the Woodlands Project—is a stunning blackberry sour aged in oak barrels for 12 years.

Philip H. Anselmo’s crestfallen Southern Gothic collective En Minor unveil the video for haunting album opener “Mausoleums.”

Amongst many other things, former One King Down and Most Precious Blood frontman Rob Fusco discusses his new project, Take Life

Philadelphia riff-slinger extraordinaire Jeff Riddle and writer/director Matthew John Lawrence talk their extremely extreme rock n’ roll gore-fest Uncle Peckerhead.

Eagerly anticipated death metal collective Darkened drag you through a perilous nightmare in their new single “1000 Years.”