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The full Decibel Magazine Metal & Beer Fest: Denver can-crushing band and brewery lineup can finally be revealed!

Southern doom supergroup Down make their first Denver appearance in over 12 years to headline Saturday night (December 5), while crossover thrash metal legends SUICIDAL TENDENCIES will unleash their first Denver headline performance in over eight years on Friday night (December 4).

The already stacked artist bill, presented by blkiiblk, is rounded out by: legendary DMV grind force Pig Destroyer (performing a special 25th anniversary ‘Prowler in the Yard’ set); reunited progressive psych sludge institution KYLESA; New York hardcore legends Cro-Mags (performing a special 40th anniversary ‘The Age of Quarrel’ set); Denver’s own Americana gunslingers Wayfarer; freshly resurrected death/thrash/crust killers Black Breath; progressive sludge crew Intronaut (performing for the first time in over four years); masked mincecore marauders Haggus and Denver doom lords In the Company of Serpents.

An extremely limited number of three-day passes that include tickets to the official Metal & Beer PRE-Fest at Ratio Beerworks (Larimer Street location) on December 3 with clusterfuxdenver, AXESLASHER 🔪🍕📼 and Victim of Fire. Full daily lineups below.

DECEMBER 3 (Pre-fest @ Ratio Beerworks)
Clusterfux
Axeslasher
Victim of Fire

DECEMBER 4 (@ Fillmore Auditorium)
Suicidal Tendencies
Pig Destroyer (special ‘Prowler in the Yard’ set)
Cro-Mags (special ‘The Age of Quarrel’ set)
Black Breath
Haggus

DECEMBER 5 (@ Fillmore Auditorium)
Down
Kylesa
Wayfarer
Intronaut
In the Company of Serpents

The year’s beer lineup is once again presented by craft beer icons 3 Floyds Brewing & includes fan-favorite featured breweries:
WarPigs
XUL
Brimming Horn Meadery
Bear Cult
Odell
Zymos
Mythk
Surly
Left Hand
Ratio Beerworks
+ more TBA!

Single-day and regular-priced tickets go on sale on Friday, July 31 at 10am MT, so this is your LAST CHANCE for DISCOUNTED EARLY-BIRD 2-Day and 3-Day passes!

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Revisiting the last show from Baltimore hardcore legends Pulling Teeth.

Get a double helping of northeast grind from Fed Ash & HIRS.

We’re not only premiering a new track here, “Cuckin’ ’Round,” we’re introducing a new band, Nashville noise mongers, Yammer Jaw.

New Swedish ambient black metalists Grey Shores explore the shades between dark and light on debut track “The Withering Tree.”

Rochester iconoclasts Sulaco are quite possibly one of the best kept secrets in underground metal. Fronted by fret wizard Erik Burke (ex-Brutal Truth, Nuclear Assault, Lethargy and many more), this quintet has been busy obliterating genre lines for over 20 years. We’re so enamored by their technical wizardry that the Decibel Flexi Series is proud to present “Curtains,” an exclusive track only available to our subscribers! Ready to open your eyes and, more importantly, ears to these enemies of the sun? Be sure to sign up for a deluxe Decibel subscription by Friday, July 31 to secure your copy of this essential track. Wait too long and it’ll be drapes for you! Or something.

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Rest in Power, Lou Koller. The world lost one of the best dudes today. Decibel sends our love and support to Lou’s family, friends, Sick of It All bandmates and the countless fans around the world touched by his lyrics and performances. F**k cancer.

This week’s new heavy releases include the latest from Horns of Abomination, MADBALL, Eternal Mourn and more!

My Dying Bride helped birth and later perfect (see ‘Turn Loose the Swans’) the doom/death genre in the early ‘90s. By the late ‘90s, however, the lineup that left a seismic impact on extreme metal began to crumble. The band has admirably carried on since further cementing their legend, even in spite of perhaps their most recognizable member — original vocalist Aaron Stainthorpe — formally departing the band last year.

Now nearly 30 years after they last performed together, former MDB members Stainthorpe, co-founding guitarist Calvin Robertshaw, co-founding drummer Rick Miah, and original bassist Adrian Jackson have reemerged as Towards the Sinister to perform material drawn primarily from the their landmark debut EP ‘Symphonaire Infernus et Spera Empyrium’ through 1996’s ‘Like Gods of the Sun. ‘

“What an opportunity we have ahead of us,” Robertshaw tells Decibel. “To be back in the presence of lifelong friends and musical practitioners who created iconic songs that helped to shape a genre is incredible. The camaraderie is still there and the banter flows like we’ve never had a day apart. This period had a lasting effect on those who first heard these songs and having this chance to perform the classics again will only strengthen our bond and push us to create more in the future.”

While their future remains unwritten, you can be to the first read about it by following Towards the Sinister on Instagram, (Towards The Sinister) Facebook and the band’s official website. Live appearances announcements and info on merch drops will follow shortly. In the meantime, find me in the comments begging them to play “God Is Alone” and the original “Sear Me.”

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