Retrospective

In which we celebrate the strangest album in Black Sabbath’s career and the product of their strangest era. Happy 40th birthday, Born Again!

We stand up and shout to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Dio‘s heavy metal benchmark, Holy Diver.

Ten years ago today Slayer’s iconic guitarist and songwriter Jeff Hanneman died. Just days before we were set to go to the print, we scrapped the planned issue and instead printed a nine-page tribute to Hanneman. Here it is.

Unsane guitarist/vocalist Chris Spencer takes us track by track through the noise trio’s newly remastered 1991 debut

Deathevokation frontman Götz Vogelsang preforms zombie ritual reviews of lost death metal classics in his new semi-regular column Reborn in Blasphemy.

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.

Get hyped for Cave In‘s December 11 performance of Until Your Heart Stops at Decibel Magazine Metal & Beer Fest: LA with this Hall of Fame induction from 2007 of the metallic hardcore classic.

Underground metallic hardcore killers Jesuit continue to enjoy a vibrant and murderous life after premature death.

A revelatory new documentary on metal-tinged progressive hardcore outfit Beyond lives up to the band’s moniker.

On the 30th anniversary of Paradise Lost‘s death/doom landmark Gothic LP, we unearth our long lost Hall of Fame induction story. It’s pretty damn moist.

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

Earth Crisis guitarist Scott Crouse talks about the reissue of the epic 2014 animal liberation-themed Salvation of Innocents in this pandemic moment.

On the eve of the Mayhem-headlined Decibel Magazine Tour, Necropolis’ founder provides an in-depth interview on the greatest black metal comp ever, Nordic Metal: A Tribute To Euronymous.

Looking back on two incredible hardcore albums courtesy of Boysetsfire.

Looking back on Benümb‘s 1998 debut, a gloriously unhinged document of power violence and grindcore.

Looking back on Toxodeth‘s 1990 disasterpiece Mysteries about Life and Death.

Mare showed the world how experimental sludge and post-metal should be done with their only release, 2004’s self-titled EP.

Revisiting the brilliant bleak hellscape of crust apocalypse that is His Hero Is Gone‘s 1997 album Monuments to Thieves.

Revisiting Cerberus Shoal‘s 1997 post-rock masterpiece …and Farewell to Hightide.

Decibel revisits Failure‘s criminally-underrated Magnified on its 25th anniversary.

Looking back on Malhavoc‘s strange and excellent Premeditated Murder.

Looking back on the strange case of Extreme Napalm Terror and their 1989 album Impulse to Destroy, which may or may not have been a complete joke.

The legendary guitarist passed away this weekend at age 47.

Looking back on Ace Frehley’s excellent post-KISS band, Frehley’s Comet.

Revisiting Mindrot‘s massive 1998 album, Soul.

Revisiting the chaotic metallic hardcore of One Eyed God Prophecy‘s self-titled 1996 album.

Looking back on Union of Uranus‘s 1995 double 7″ Disaster by Design.

Looking back on the 24 minutes of insanity that make up Acme‘s …To Reduce the Choir to One Soloist 22 years later.

Revisiting Dystopia‘s 1994 masterpiece of despair and extreme experimentalism, Human = Garbage.

In 1991, Assück released one of the greatest grind records of all time, Anticapital . Today, we revisit it.