Plus: Darkest Hour, Obituary and Code Orange top the week’s radio charts.

Also: is something going on between Goatwhore and Theories?

They will headline the 3-day Boston Calling festival, alongside Mumford & Sons, Chance the Rapper, Bon Iver, The XX, Major Lazer, Weezer, The 1975 and more.

What came first… the music or the misery?

What does it mean for metal — and art in general — when truth is Trumped and everything is a meme?

Harry Shearer, who played Derek Smalls in the legendary movie, is seeking $125 million from Vivendi.

Slayer biographer D.X. Ferris drops some knowledge on the birthday of one of metal’s most important and influential albums.

Listen to all five billion of this week’s heavy new releases from Alcest, Opeth, Suicidal Tendencies, Holy Serpent, Freya, Asphyx, Deathcult, Negura Bunget, and tonnns more!

It’s just as sick and twisted as you’d imagine.

Upcoming live EP is titled Mausoleum and features a girls choir

Check out Decibel‘s first ever Gorguts cover story!

Careful what you wish for!

Are we approaching an era of pure punishment, in which the only fun allowed is sanctioned by media giants, where safe art trumps radical art, and where the audience itself is confused over what “radical” and “interesting” actually means?

Steven Adler has been telling anyone willing to listen that […]

Immortal Non-Beloved

Makes sense.

Instead of one of their classic albums.

The first-ever Decibel Yearbook extols the virulent virtues of all things extreme in 1991.

New cover story gets into the nitty gritty of his split with Immortal.