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Legendary Napalm Death bassist Shane Embury documents his entire journey—from humble beginnings to the life of a road warrior—in his debut biography Life…? And Napalm Death, available this fall through Rocket 88.

Author/podcaster Jason Schreurs is screaming for positive mental health in his new book, Scream Therapy: A Punk Rock Journey Through Mental Health.

Our latest exclusive excerpt from Metal Blade founder Brian Slagel’s upcoming book, Swing of the Blade: More Stories from Metal Blade Records features Amon Amarth.

Read an exclusive excerpt, featuring Killswitch Engage, from Metal Blade founder Brian Slagel’s upcoming book, Swing of the Blade: More Stories from Metal Blade Records.

Read an exclusive excerpt, featuring Armored Saint, from Metal Blade founder Brian Slagel’s upcoming book, Swing of the Blade: More Stories from Metal Blade Records.

We’re drinkin’ and thrashin’ with Accüsed AD vocalist Blaine Cook, who’s put together a new book, Cocktails and Mixed Drinks From the Wicker Bar.

Heavy metal photographer Jeremy Saffer discusses his upcoming photo book of corpse painted nude portraits, Daughters of Darkness.

Uncle Al Jourgensen caught up with Decibel late last month to discuss going through his personal history vault and how self-acceptance comes with aging.

Decibel writer Adem Tepedelen is working on unleashing a collection of nearly 10 years of his “Brewtal Truth” columns.

At the beginning of the year we published an interview with author Peter Bebergal about his excellent new book Season Of The Witch: How The Occult Saved Rock and Roll. Among the topics discussed: why metal has picked up (again) on the occult approach and themes so popular in the 70s: “There’s just something about…

For more than half of Decibel’s decade-long history Mark Rudolph has been a key component of what makes the magazine special. He illustrates the lead review in each issue and has designed covers for all of Decibel’s annual specials dating back to our 100 best death metal albums special. When he isn’t busy with the…

I blame every sobering statistic regarding global literacy on the fact that until now the world didn’t have Heavy Metal Movies, the twisted tome cataloging Mike “McBeardo” McPadden’s infatuation with extremely extreme music and film. With 666+ reviews of headbang-friendly films, McBeardo is your personal Virgil leading you into the underworld of metallic cinema treasures….

There are all kinds of new products popping out of the woodwork in the Decibel Universe right now. You may have heard of this limited-edition 100th Issue Show: The Movie DVD that’s just arrived at dB HQ. Then there’s the Top 100 Black Metal Albums of All Time special issue that’ll be the perfect holiday…

Ah, to be a metalhead on the biggest holiday of the year. We’re imagining that you got a new fleece from Eddie Bauer instead of the rare Xasthur LP you hoped would end up under the tree. Your incontinent grandpa is still asleep on the couch. You are now hiding in your room scanning metal…

All of a sudden thrash’s heyday—it’s nascence—has inspired a bunch of books. Bazillion Points of Light’s Murder in the Front Row provided a photographic document of the California scene that started in L.A. with Metallica and Slayer and then blossomed into something amazing in the Bay Area shortly thereafter. Now UK author Neil Daniels offers…

Randy Rhoads died 10 years before the official guitar tablature for Tribute found its way through my door, subsequently bogarting so many onanistic early-90s teenage years of practising guitar for the edification of no one save for the family spaniel. But the impact of his style—all neoclassical Ritchie Blackmore one minute and kinda like a…

“All one-hundred-an-durty poundsa me dought I wuz invinsubble, and ya had ta think like dat back den cuz Noo Yawk City wuza different place, it wuza jungle.”— John Joseph Cro-Mags singer John Joseph is a continuing topic on the Deciblog and for good reason: Dude is a busy guy with a load of stories. After…