Month: August 2012
Into the Depths: John Tardy of Obituary
August 14, 2012 Shawn Macomber
On the upcoming Carnival of Death tour Florida death metal legends Obituary will shred a “fan-generated” set drawn primarily from the vile trinity of Slowly We Rot, Cause Of Death and The End Complete — including some tracks that have never before been performed live. This seemed like the perfect opportunity to get Obituary vocalist…
STREAMING: Premiere two tracks from Noisear’s “Turbulent Resurgence”
August 13, 2012 Jonathan Horsley
Noisear’s debut Subvert the Dominant Paradigm was one of the finest grind albums to scar the planet last year. It was remarkable: not only was it a nerve-shredding compendium of white-hot dissonance, skronky grind and blast that recalled by-gone genre royality Discordance Axis, but it was written and recorded in little over a day. Maybe…
Aleksi Munter (Swallow The Sun) Interviewed
August 13, 2012 Chris Dick
I’ve often felt STS songs are like album-form movies. At this point, where does the cinematic inspiration come from?Aleksi: Mainly Twin Peaks, it has always been an inspiration, especially to the songs musically, but also lyrically to some extent. On Hope we tried to go for The Shining-type of vibes, but in hindsight that could’ve…
For Those About to Squawk: Waldo’s Pecks of the Week
August 10, 2012 Andrew Bonazelli
Welcome to the dog days of August. Fuck dogs (do not do this – ed.) Uh, there’s a band called GAYTHEIST, and they are releasing a record called Stealth Beats on Good to Die Records. What’s this about? Is it music for gay atheists? Is it music written by a gay atheist? Is it Atheist…
Interview – Warseid
August 10, 2012 Daniel Lake
I’m not much for fantastical lyrics – no matter how brutal the imagined scenery, it seems there’s enough ignorance and atrocity just outside my apartment door to nullify the impact of some invented horrors from galaxies long ago and far away. And I’ll be bumguzzled if I can predict when synth infestation will command my…
Schizoid Wants You to Know He’s Extremely Extreme Too
August 9, 2012 Kevin Stewart-Panko
There’s a good reason we don’t feature a lot of digital hardcore around these parts. That’s because most of it isn’t worth featuring. Dudes, if there was ever a musical revolution that fizzled out like a wet firecracker of disappointment quicker than the one Atari Teenage Riot was supposed to lead into the frenzied future,…
INTERVIEW: The Mylene Sheath’s Lindsay and Joel (Part 1)
August 9, 2012 Zach Smith
We spend a lot of time talking to artists—whether in blog posts or in each month’s issue—and rightfully so. After all, they put their blood, sweat and tears into making the music that brings us together. We haven’t necessarily dedicated a lot of space to the people actually putting out those releases, however, so we…
Full Album Stream: Sophicide’s Perdition Of The Sublime
August 9, 2012 Justin Norton
Working alone from home is often viewed poorly in metal thanks to about 10,000 too many shitty low-fi pornogrind and black metal bands. But sometimes doing your own thing and calling the shots on all aspects of your music is a very good thing. Case in point: Sophicide’s new album Perdition Of The Sublime, streaming…
STREAMING: Pagan Altar “The Time Lord”
August 8, 2012 Chris Dick
Unless you’re heavy metalluminati Pagan Altar, perhaps like stateside and posi-message alter-ego Glass Harp, is an unknown entity. Now, most of the time, unheralded music from the ’70s is unheralded because it sucks. Or, the group never toured and the label folded upon release. Probably a few of those out there, right? Well, UK’s Pagan…
dB Exclusive: Studio Footage From Upcoming Pig Destroyer Album Book Burner
August 8, 2012 Justin Norton
Despite the exhortations of much extreme metal that life isn’t worth living there are things left to get excited about. One of them is the upcoming album from Pig Destroyer, their first since dB’s 2007 album of the year Phantom Limb. News flash: the new album from Relapse is called Book Burner and we’ve secured…
STREAMING: Scott Kelly Solo Album Song Premiere
August 7, 2012 Adem Tepedelen
Although you might remember him from such Neurosis albums as Souls at Zero, Enemy of the Sun and Through Silver in Blood, let’s not forget that guitarist/vocalist Scott Kelly has staked out quite a nice little solo career outside of the band. His latest release, which “streets,” as the kids say, on August 14 (Neurot),…
Wrench Yer Guts
August 7, 2012 Shawn Macomber
This morning we’re premiering a supremely nasty slice of doomed out Mexican death metal from Gutwrench entitled “Meeting with the Dead.” The track is culled from the upcoming Razorback Records debut Mausoleum…To Dwell & Rot In and if it strikes your fancy lurch on over to the band’s Reverb Nation page where other abominations with…
Feel the burn with the Heavy Metal Workout
August 6, 2012 Jonathan Horsley
All right, so metal has always elicited a strong emotional response but rarely (shit, never) has it inspired the abandonment of a sedentary lifestyle in favor of 20 push-ups and a 10km run.It’s like, disco has long had an association with that whole workout gym culture; Lycra, protein shakes, glutes, quads and aerobic dance for…
STREAMING: Dragony “Burning Skies”
August 6, 2012 Chris Dick
If lazy journalism persists in music, it’d be easy to say Austrians Dragony are like the umpteenth band to use the word “dragon” as part of their moniker. Well, that’s just not true. Umpteenth implies like 1 in 5 bands use “dragon”. Like System of a Dragon, Dragon Corpse, Dragon of God, Dragonatonia, or My…
Blut Aus Nord’s Cosmosophy Teaser
August 3, 2012 Daniel Lake
Harrowing, multi-dimensional enlightenment is a fickle beast. You expect it in extreme locales under strikingly improbable circumstances, perhaps while ingesting mind-altering substances… not so much in a well-lit library crowded with suits, police officers, and raggedy internet-moochers. Yet here I am getting a hit of pure dark French terror-bliss, and my mind can’t manage to…
The Lazarus Pit: Rock Goddess’s Rock Goddess
August 3, 2012 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 that you’ve probably never heard of; stuff that we’re too lazy to track down the band members to do a Hall Of Fame for. This week, Girlschool gets sent to the principal’s…
Interview – Night Terrain
August 3, 2012 Daniel Lake
Out of New Mexico’s oft-speculated desert sky flies the darkly evocative Night Terrain. The band members describe their particular style of racket as “equal parts space rock, doom metal, and stoner rock… riffs go from slow, sludgy and droning to uplifting, manic…” On July 24th, Night Terrain self-released their debut album, American Dream, which manages…
Tales From Hardside’s Hardside
August 2, 2012 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Alright, doodz…get your flat-brimmed ball caps out and your buttoned-down plaid shirts to the ready
Isis – “Oceanic”
August 1, 2012 Chris Dick
Formed out of teenage jitters, a can-/will-do work ethic and long-term (possibly unhealthy) exposure to Neurosis, Swans and the Melvins, Boston’s Isis were in many respects different from what the rest of New England had to offer in the late ’90s.
Decibel Magazine Presents: The Biggest Pussies in Metal
August 1, 2012 Shane Mehling
We’re all getting old. The bands we grew up idolizing are slowing down, retired or making geriatric mockeries of themselves. And sometimes we unfairly and harshly lash out at the newest crop of musicians for not being as heavy or “tough” as we were. I was one of those young, doe-eyed metal kids once, who…
Richard Cabeza (Unanimated) interviewed
August 1, 2012 Chris Dick
** The original Decibel interview appeared in issue #58 (HERE), but since the Swedes are slower than Candlemass when issuing albums, we felt it was kinda cool to necro-post the full Unanimated interview. Also, Unanimated claims to be working on a new album without drummer Peter Stjärnvind, who left his stool post in February 2012,…
RIP Dogbane’s David Ellenburg
August 1, 2012 Adrien Begrand
Of all the “traditional metal” albums that have come out in the past year, one that’s snuck up on a lot of us here at Decibel is Residual Alcatraz, the debut by Greensboro, North Carolina’s Dogbane. Not only did the album get a positive review recently, but also we were honored to profile the band…