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Hear and acquire this ultra-rare Deathhamer flexi disc single, featuring an exclusive new track via the Decibel Flexi Series. Hurry, quantities are extremely limited!

Hear the first new song in fifteen years from Norwegian death metal institution Cadaver.

Get your deluxe Decibel subscription by April 1 to obtain a HIGHLY LIMITED flexi disc from death/thrash dealers Deathhammer!

From the Vastland is making some of the best black metal out there. Check out our interview catching up with Sina, the band’s founder and chief songwriter!

The best comments angry Youtubers left on the Lords of Chaos trailer.

“Jazz Sabbath” they say? Check out the Hedvig Mollestad Trio and see if you agree.

Obliteration is one of a handful of death metal bands that manage to balance a reverence for the old-school with a desire to carve their own path.

Norwegian post-black metal outfit Sylvaine premieres dreamy new album, “Atoms Aligned, Coming Undone,” on Decibel.

Norwegian black metallers Sjukdom stream new album, “Stridshymner Og Dodssalmer,” in full at Decibel.

Decibel reviews the #100 from Dave Witte-approved brewery Nøgne Ø.

Norwegian black metallers Djevelkult stream new album “Når Avgrunnen Åpnes.”

Stream a new track from Norwegian thrashers Blood Tsunami.

Stream a new song from weirdo rockers Årabrot now.

Watch a new video from Ondt Blod now.

Stream the infectious third album from The Good the Bad and the Zugly.

Experience Æsthetica’s self-proclaimed “true Norwegian doom metal” with a new song.

Listen to a new song from Horizon Ablaze (ex-Nidingr, ex-1349) now.

Emperor‘s Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk is a black metal classic, further cemented by its induction into Decibel‘s Hall of Fame. Now you can own the 20th anniversary Hall of Fame edition album on vinyl. 

Darkness and fire are coming in this music video for “Mylder.”

Get in on the investigation with Virus‘ new song and video.

Jagged Vision punish the listener with thick riffs and aggressive delivery on “Euthanasia.”

On this week’s Demo:listen, we stray from all the bestial bombast and smoky clamor, wandering on and on until we stumble upon Oslo’s Enge Store.

Black Hole Generator get fast and evil on “Moloch.” 

Trolls and demons battle it out with mere mortals in this new video from Nordjevel.

Ah, Mysticum, how you’ve been missed. There was so much talk for so long about the comeback album Planet Satan that we were convinced the record was either a myth or an elaborate troll. But no: Planet Satan was released this fall after decades of speculation, marking the return of a band audacious enough in…

There’s always been a hardcore softspot in Decibel’s metallic heart for the raw and the punk.  This writer admits to rarely getting stoked for such sounds, often preferring to hear artfully concocted studio recordings and leave the unkempt, wild fury on the stage where it’s most powerful.  But somehow Norway’s Shevils buried into these ears…

Norwegian hard rockers Audrey Horne may have a sound that marries Seventies arena rock to a chug/gallop/chug reminiscent of early Priest and Maiden, but the band’s name is all homage to a memorable character from David Lynch’s infamous early nineties crash n’ burn foray into network television. Thus, on the eve of the release of…

When ENSLAVED‘s Grutle Kjellsson and Cato Bekkevold go fishing they don’t fuck around. It’s really not like going down the pond chasing blue gills or Tommy cats; in Norway, even the trout are built super-hench. You might have caught some footage of them catching alligator gar in Texas a few years ago, but you’ll definitely…

We’re just not the types to go flocking to gallery openings and digest culture of a weekend but this is different. From 29th March to 29th April, the beyond-necro Neseblood Records are curating a black metal exhibition at Oslo’s Popsenteret, chronicling the history of black metal. Whether it is the extremity of the aesthetic or…