Choosing Death fest

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In anticipation of Choosing Death Fest, get your weird on with Horrendous.

We’ve partnered with f.y.e. to make sure you don’t miss any of the essential extremely extreme, as picked by our staff of relentless metal maniacs.

What’s better than seeing Dying Fetus, Nails, Misery Index, Deceased, Noisem, Horrendous, Derkéta and Taphos Nomos in a single event? 

Seeing them for free in a single event, of course.

Not one to mess around, Dying Fetus drummer Trey Williams gets straight to the matter (of splatter?) at hand in this Top 5. 

Originally printed in our April 2016 issue, get acquainted with death ahead of the big event (Choosing Death Fest, that is). 

Mountain of Doom provides “verba/vox/chants” for Choosing Death Fest “Prehadean Sublithic Death/Doom” squad Taphos Nomos. With such nomenclature, how could we not ask them for something earthy?

Death metal isn’t just for old dudes. 

Decibel’s all about honoring 1991’s 25th anniversary – just check issue #137’s Metal Maniacs design homage and the “Top 30 Albums of 1991” feature. So when it comes to celebrating our favorite album covers from that landmark year, there’s no better place to start than with Dan Seagrave.

Frontwoman Sharon Bascovsky dooms you to death in honor of Choosing Death Fest. 

Guitarist/vocalist Mark Kloeppel goes “off the charts” with this list in honor of Choosing Death Fest.

Guitarists/vocalist Todd Jones is amped. Always. 

Entombed, Morbid Angel, Suffocation artist Dan Seagrave’s Choosing Death cover art gets the cotton treatment. 

Derketa in for Choosing Death Fest. Magrudergrind out. 

In celebration of Decibel Books’ revised and expanded edition of Choosing Death: The Improbable History of Death Metal and Grindcore, we’ve lured eight killer death/grind bands to the one-day extreme music event of 2016