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Announcing the Decibel Magazine Tour 2025 Featuring MAYHEM, MORTIIS, IMPERIAL TRIUMPHANT and NEW SKELETAL FACES!

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December 18, 2024

The longest-running heavy metal tour in North America returns with its boldest lineup ever in 2025! The Decibel Magazine Tour resumes this spring with Norwegian black metal godfathers Mayhem headlining Decibel’s 12th continental expedition of the extreme. Tour support comes from countrymate and dungeon synth progenitor… Read More »Announcing the Decibel Magazine Tour 2025 Featuring MAYHEM, MORTIIS, IMPERIAL TRIUMPHANT and NEW SKELETAL FACES!

Full Album Stream: Canis Dirus – By the Grace of Death

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December 18, 2024

Bindrune Recordings is once again bringing black metal’s raw spirit to life with the announcement of By the Grace of Death, the fourth full-length offering from Minnesota’s atmospheric purveyors Canis Dirus. Following 2020’s Independence to the Beast and their 2021 split A Harmonious Union of… Read More »Full Album Stream: Canis Dirus – By the Grace of Death

The Alternative’s Best 50 Releases of 2024

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December 17, 2024

There’s a reason this site is called The Alternative. Our goal has always been, first and foremost, to shine a […] The post The Alternative’s Best 50 Releases of 2024 appeared first on The Alternative.

Full Album Stream: Fatal Embrace – “Hail Down Deep

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December 17, 2024

Swedish melodic black metal group Fatal Embrace made their first run as a band from 1992 to 1998, releasing a couple demos and their debut album, Shadowsouls’ Garden, released on Candlelight in 1997. According to the band, they still had plenty of ideas and went into the studio… Read More »Full Album Stream: Fatal Embrace – “Hail Down Deep

KILL SCREEN 052: Victor Love of MASTER BOOT RECORD and the Humanity of Dehumanization

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December 17, 2024

Ever since the first installment of Kill Screen, Decibel’s co-nerds have sought a consensus among our player characters on the parameters of what makes a game or console “retro”—and have failed miserably. Some have proclaimed that the demarcation for gaming’s modern era started as early… Read More »KILL SCREEN 052: Victor Love of MASTER BOOT RECORD and the Humanity of Dehumanization