Decibel Magazine

[...] metal enthusiast and writer Dayal Patterson presented the world with his authoritative document Black Metal: Evolution of the Cult, claiming the dark hearts of literate misanthropes everywhere.  To [...]

[...] Black metal and baby bottles? No, we haven’t employed Anne Geddes as our cover photographer, and no, we [...]

[...] about bands that advertised in the magazine. I was doing 7-inch and cassette demo reviews of black metal bands. I could tell things were going to get ugly the more we pushed against the establishment. [...]

[...] bands, no matter where they’re from. This particular quartet hails from Germany, and their black metal resides in the coldest environs of the Rhineland. You can hear the whole dark story for [...]

[...] In the mood for a serious blastbeating? Sarpanitum have some serious black and death metal for your blasphemous enjoyment. Taking aim at the joys of religious warfare, this Birmingham- [...]

[...] anniversary bash, including three days and multiple venues of high-quality mash-ups of death metal, doom, hardcore and noise.  This year, many of those extremely extreme acts return for [...]

[...] . The group’s new album, With Serpents Scourge, is as violent and (moderately) catchy as death metal can be. It’s like the ancient gods of Death and Grotesque blessed them with Schuldiner’s hand [...]

[...] It’s only been two years since its last slab of blackened death metal, but Hate is back with album number nine in the form of Crusade:Zero. While the LP–which was [...]

[...] band or album? Hurkes: Black Sabbath. It goes straight to the very beginning. Just like heavy metal, the recipe will start from scratch. I’ve also got some other ideas like a Venom “Seven Courses [...]

[...] other you have Nunslaughter. (laughs). That would be pretty interesting. How did you get into heavy metal? The first band that ever spoke to me was KISS. There were other bands like Rush and Van Halen [...]

[...] ** Philadelphia isn’t the hottest bed of heavy metal activity. Not since Cinderella and Britny Fox has the City of Brotherly Love engaged in [...]

[...] September, we played Incubate Festival in Holland, and of the 300 bands, only 30 or so were heavy metal,” Montesi notes. “We enjoy playing our music to a broad variety of people, and feel it [...]

Post-holiday doldrums. The coldest time of the year, especially with climate change. It’s time for your favorite band to get the 30-year-old van out [...]

“We have unleashed our new video upon humanity,” says Incantation frontman/death metal legend John McEntee. “Brought to you by the tireless effo [...]

Australian sludge metal miscreants, Lo! have decided to celebrate the arrival of new vocalist, Sam Dillon by dunking him repeatedly into a vat of what [...]

Boy, it’s easy to get lost in music videos these days. In the latest black-and-white video for Lay Siege’s “Hollow Hands” the English sludge/h [...]

[...] of extreme metal trailblazers Repulsion, whose Horrified LP ranks as Decibel’s #1 grindcore album of all time. Because we know that every reader ever plays guitar, we are bringing his [...]

[...] of extreme metal trailblazers Repulsion, whose Horrified LP ranks as Decibel’s #1 grindcore album of all time. Because we know that every reader ever plays guitar, we are bringing his [...]

[...] of extreme metal trailblazers Repulsion, whose Horrified LP ranks as Decibel’s #1 grindcore album of all time. Because we know that every reader ever plays guitar, we brought his print [...]

[...] of extreme metal trailblazers Repulsion, whose Horrified LP ranks as Decibel’s #1 grindcore album of all time. Because we know that every reader ever plays guitar, we brought his print [...]