Month: March 2011
Waldo’s Pecks of the Week
March 14, 2011 Andrew Bonazelli
Every other Friday (well, Monday this time), Waldo the African Grey Parrot, frontbird of thrash-grind immortals Hatebeak, will get you caught up on the week’s latest “extreme” releases. Mothersquawkers, whats up? Your boy Waldo here with some new release fresh with birdshit. The Haunted made you do it, again. Unseen is a little experimental for…
Demolish Fanzine Interviews J. Bennett (and Lives!)
March 14, 2011 Jeanne Fury
Photo by Sera Timms Some crazy fool over at Demolish Fanzine had enough formidable fuzz on his beanbag to turn the tables on Decibel‘s very own J. Bennett and make our guy the subject of an interview. Naturally, Brother Bennett delivered intelligent and inimitable answers that—to borrow a phrase he coined—made milk shoot from our…
STREAMING: Assaulter “Slave to King”
March 11, 2011 Chris Dick
What happens when members of Aussie brutes Destroyer 666 and Aussie precision bombers Razor of Occam team up? Assaulter. Is it thrash metal? Yes. But does it have a bit of black metal? Yes. Actually, it’s the very sound replicated in the mid-’90s but with a double-punch to the nuts and noggin. Says Simon Turner…
Lightning Swords Of Death Vinyl Contest, Part 2
March 10, 2011 J. Bennett
Yesterday we gave away a totally sweet double-vinyl version of Lightning Swords Of Death‘s The Extra-Dimensional Wound provided by the fine folks at Canonical Hours. Well, we sort of gave it away. The dude or lady who won has yet to claim his or her prize (Terzijdehorde, where fuck are you?). Nevertheless, we’re soldiering ahead…
Metal Goes Kosher
March 10, 2011 Shane Mehling
After Matisyahu went all hip-hop hasidic, it was time to highlight orthodox Jews who covered some genres that can’t be used for a Sprint commercial. An article entitled “The Secret History of Jewish Metal” from newspaper Forward interviews some bands that are trying to combine discussions of their jewish faith with the heaviest shit you’ve…
Breeding Death…Er, Reading Death
March 10, 2011 Chris Dick
So, you haven’t picked up our cover story [db #77] on the inimitable Death. Yeah, I know. Reading’s hard, but somebody’s got to do it. No, you say? OK, then. You’re missing out on the most exhaustive Death story ever told. Not by journalists (well, there’s one interviewed for the story), but by the ex-members…
Well, Mike Starr is Dead…
March 9, 2011 Shane Mehling
While my last brief obituary concerned the untimely death of a legendary musician, this one is unfortunately a little more timely and much less legendary.
Dez FaFara’s Road Runner A Go-Go, A Tribute to Saturday Morning Cartoons (Final)
March 9, 2011 Chris Dick
By Dez FaFara (DevilDriver) What the fuck happened to Saturday morning kids TV, otherwise known as Saturday cartoons? Honestly, have I grown out of rolling out of bed on a morning, putting on comfy clothes, warm socks, a robe and going downstairs to get a bowl of Capt’n Crunch and putting on Scooby Doo? No. …
Lightning Swords Of Death Vinyl Contest
March 9, 2011 J. Bennett
Remember grade school? Those were the days, eh? Cap’n Crunch in the breakfast bowl and the world at your feet. Sure, there was some reading, writing and arithmetic in there somewhere, but mostly it was just waiting for the bell to ring so you could go home and watch Def Leppard videos. In our case,…
Justify Your Shitty Taste – Slayer’s “Diabolus in Musica”
March 9, 2011 Adem Tepedelen
In which we re-assess Slayer‘s 1998 flirtation with nu metal.
A Billion Blackie Lawlesses, All Wanting to Fuck Like Beasts
March 8, 2011 Shawn Macomber
As a jaded old man who still buys CDs, I’ve never thought much about how the youth of today kill time while ripping digital files off the information superdriveway. Well, some days you really do actually learn something new and thanks to a bit pulled together by the crack investigative journalism team over at Nerve…
Schmier (Destruction) “Day Of Reckoning” track-by-track commentary
March 8, 2011 Chris Dick
Someone in grand old Europe stole our thunder by premiering new music by lauded German thrashers Destruction. So, we fought back by asking lead destructer, bassist/vocalist Schmier, to provide a track-by-track breakdown of new album, Day of Reckoning. Sure, a lot of the old guard have reformed and are releasing new albums with pretty decent…
Virgin America Airlines is Kvlt as Fvck
March 7, 2011 Jeanne Fury
I’m jet lagged and red-eyed to the tits right now, so apologies in advance if this post is incomprehensible. The photo above was taken last night by moi aboard a Virgin America airplane. Instead of having a steward or stewardess go through the whole “what to do in case of an emergency and a dude…
STREAMING: Pentagram “Call the Man”
March 7, 2011 Chris Dick
In many ways, the opportunity to stream new music from legendary rockers/proto-metallers Pentagram is both an honor and a surprise. The Virginians, who have been kicking around in some shape or form since the early ’70s, are, to many, on the same level as British gods Black Sabbath or Judas Priest. Sure, the latter have…
Oscar Dronjak’s (HammerFall) MMA Hammer of Justice, Part 5
March 4, 2011 Chris Dick
What: UFC 127When: February 26th, 2011 Where: Acer Arena, Sydney, Australia Te Huna vs. Gustafsson Sweden’s own Alexander Gustafsson made it onto the Ion broadcast of the prelims, and did not squander the opportunity as he put on quite the performance and defeated James Te Huna by rear naked choke towards the end of the…
The Lazarus Pit: Grief’s Come to Grief
March 4, 2011 Jeff Treppel
Welcome to The Lazarus Pit, a biweekly look at should-be classic metal records that don’t get nearly enough love, stuff that’s essential listening for students of extreme metal that you may not have ever heard of. Stuff that we’re too lazy to track down the band members to do a Hall Of Fame for. This…
Decibel’s Internet Round-Up
March 3, 2011 Shane Mehling
Time for another assemblage of random links that I have dutifully stolen from other much more responsible blogs and nice people. 1. The_Network doing an incredible cover of Deadguy’s “Pins and Needles.” http://www.pinsandneedleszine.com/DL/97N/netp&n.mp3 2. A not yet finished rerecording of a track from Polonium, the band the Austerity Program was before they were the Austerity…
Top 6 Songs That Influenced Maruta
March 3, 2011 Chris Dick
By Mitchell Luna (Maruta) It actually turned out to be a lot more difficult—than I anticipated—to narrow down the list to 10 bands that have greatly influenced Maruta, let alone 5. So, 6 made the cut! These are bands that in our opinion(s) did something new and fresh at the time. They all managed to…
Exclusive: Lecherous Gaze- “Sold”
March 2, 2011 Shane Mehling
Are you drunk? Because Lecherous Gaze probably are. From the whiskey-flavored ashes of Annihilation Time come this group of party rockers that seem to be equally inspired by Thin Lizzy, the Misfits, six foot bongs, wizard staffs and music that sounds best cranked in the garage. Their four track EP is out on March 29th…
Justify Your Shitty Taste: Anthrax’s “Sound of White Noise”
March 2, 2011 Shane Mehling
Almost every band has that album: you know, the critically and/or commercially reviled dud in an otherwise passable-to-radical back catalog. Well, every Wednesday morning, a Decibel staffer or special guest will take to the Deciblog to bitch and moan at length as to why everybody’s full of shit and said dud is, in fact, The…
STREAMING: Vicious Rumors “Razorback Blade”
March 1, 2011 Chris Dick
On rare occasions, it’s best to shut the “Forget You” up and let the music to the talking. I could blab about the last Vicious Rumors album to stay in the collection was 1990’s superlative Vicious Rumors album, but what’s the point? The Californians have, for all intents and purposes, survived every heavy metal trend…
Bring Me the Head Of…
March 1, 2011 Shawn Macomber
So, alright, the G.G. Allin “throbblehead” was cool.