Metalsucks — Kevin Stewart-Panko is a brave, brave man. Today The Deciblog launched a new weekly column, “Justify Your Shitty Taste,” in which “every Wednesday morning, a Decibel staffer or special guest will take to the Deciblog to bitch and moan at length... more info

Stereogum — Last January we posted a remix of Surfer Blood’s “Swim (To Reach The End)” by Baroness drummer Allen Blickle. Then, this past summer, he recast the Florida crew’s “Twin Peaks.” Surprising? Not really. When I posted Baroness’s “Swollen... more info

Metalsucks — Winds of Plague have released the below Christmas video, which includes a too-brief sample of a new song, “Refining the Fire.” The band is scheduled to release a new album on Century next year. It will be interesting to see how the Decibel Hall o... more info

Metalsucks — Kudos are in order for our friends at Decibel — they’ve been named one of The Twenty Best Magazines of 2010 by Paste Magazine. Yep, apparently there’s a magazine that ranks the quality of other magazines. What a world. ANYWAY, Decibel actually ... more info

Stereogum — John Darnielle writes a monthly column for Decibel, peppers his albums with references to the heavy stuff (see “Marduk T-Shirt Men’s Room Incident,” “The Best Ever Death Metal Band In Denton,” Satanic Messiah, the ongoing interest in Sweden... more info

Metalsucks — In 2010, nobody in music captured my attention more than Watain frontman Erik Danielsson, tireless interviewee and totally sharp dude. In Q&As for Decibel Magazine and Cosmo Lee’s Invisible Oranges, Danielsson set about the thankless task of contex... more info

Stereogum — As illustrated by Decibel’s Top 40 earlier today, ’tis the season for list giving. As far as the non-metal kind go (though they did include the Dillinger Escape Plan), NME wisely included Salem’s King Night and Zola Jesus’s Stridulum II in th... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — DOWNLOAD: Agalloch - "The Watcher's Monolith" (MP3) Decibel has released their top 40 metal albums of the year, abd Agalloch's Marrow of The Spirit landed at #1. That's the art above. Order a copy now (it is great) and check... more info

Stereogum — People had a lot to say about Decibel’s Top 40 Of 2009. I think this year’s list is even more worthy of a debate. As mentioned in the past, I’m a fan of the magazine — besides the New Yorker and the new-look Bookforum, it’s the only publica... more info

Metal Injection — By Atanamar Sunyata Incantation's debut album unleashed a miasmal, doom-drenched vision of death metal upon an unsuspecting world in 1992.  When Decibel Magazine inducted Onward to Golgotha into their Hall of Fame last year, the album received ... more info