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BLACK METAL: EVOLUTION OF THE CULT AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER

By: jonathan.horsley Posted in: breaking newz, featured On: Monday, April 29th, 2013

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Black Metal: Evolution of the Cult is a 600-page book by UK author Dayal Patterson that delves deep into the history and development of black metal as an art form and a culture. It is released on November 13th, but is now available to pre-order from Amazon at a discounted price. Published via Feral House, . . . Evolution of the Cult is as comprehensive a take on the black metal scene as you ...

Nader Sadek “Living Flesh” Exhibit, April 22 in New York

By: Dan Lake Posted in: breaking newz, featured On: Friday, April 5th, 2013

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Nader Sadek has penetrated the Decibel psyche in various, um, incarnations over the past few months, and the invasion has been most welcome.  In February, we teamed up with Metal Injection to bring you live performance clips from the Living Flesh DVD before you could buy it.  Now we drop some most righteous news upon your unworthy head, which we ourselves just found out this week:  On Monday, ...

Out-of-Print Decibel Back Issues Now Available in iTunes Store!

By: mr ed Posted in: breaking newz, featured On: Friday, March 8th, 2013

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So, you've been hunting for a specific Decibel back issue, but the webstore says it's sold out. Short of the advent of time travel, we can't help you with procuring a print edition, but now that Decibel is available in the iTunes Store, you can revisit your favorite extremely extreme magazine in digital form. Away from the comforts of your decrepit bathroom? Now you can read dB on your iPhone ...

Decibel Exclusive: Jeff Walker Speaks About the New Carcass Record!

By: mr ed Posted in: breaking newz, featured On: Monday, December 3rd, 2012

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After 17 years of recording silence, death metal legends Carcass have returned to the studio to track their first new LP since 1996’s Swansong. The record, produced by Colin Richardson, will be released sometime in 2013 through a yet-to-be determined label. Bassist/vocalist Jeff Walker exclusively provides Decibel with a few details. Please tell us the full recording lineup. “Bill ...

Rudolph Can Play This Fucking Game: Thrash It or Trash It!

By: Dan Lake Posted in: breaking newz, featured, free, listen On: Friday, November 30th, 2012

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While hordes of old people who still use dial-up are swarming to super-sized retail outlets this season to buy their loved ones' affection, the more tech-savvy among us simply point and click our money away into the bitwise abyss.  Similarly, while the plebes will rely on radio and opinionated journalists to decide which tunes may be allowed to kick their asses, you and I will while away untold ...

Obscene Extreme Sails To America!

By: Dan Lake Posted in: breaking newz, featured, videos On: Wednesday, November 21st, 2012

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For 14 years, extreme hate-thunder has rained down from the blighted Czech sky every July, under the Obscene Extreme banner.  In 2013, the organizers are seriously upping the ante, and we here at Decibel get to formally welcome Obscene Extreme America!  It’s in Mexico!  (Yeah, against the protestations of xenophobes all over the United States, there are actually two whole continents called ...

CONVERGE to Headline Decibel’s 100th Issue Celebration Show!

By: mr ed Posted in: breaking newz, featured, flexi disc On: Friday, November 16th, 2012

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After much fevered online speculation, we're finally ready to announce the headliner of Decibel's highly-anticipated 100th Issue Celebration Show! Four-time cover stars, Hall of Fame inductees for 2001 classic Jane Doe and constant presence in our Top 40 Albums of the Year feature any time they release an album, the mighty Converge will join Pig Destroyer, Municipal Waste, Repulsion, Tombs and ...

Subscribe to Decibel, Get an Exclusive INCANTATION Flexi Disc!

By: mr ed Posted in: breaking newz, featured, gnarly one-offs On: Friday, October 5th, 2012

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Wednesday's Presidential debate wouldn't have been so boring if Jim Lehrer had asked the candidates whether Onward to Golgotha was a top 20 death metal album of all time, or merely top 40. Alas, he choked, leaving it up to your friends at Decibel to nerd out about Incantation history. And honor it on flexi disc. All you old-schoolers know that axemaster John McEntee ripped for tech-thrashers ...

Behold: Decibel 100th Issue Celebration Show Details!

By: andrew Posted in: breaking newz, featured On: Tuesday, September 4th, 2012

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The Mayans were off by a month: The world will officially end on Saturday, January 19 at Union Transfer in Philadelphia, PA, when Decibel Magazine proudly brings you our truly apocalyptic 100th Issue Celebration Show! Faces will be decimated not only by Pig Destroyer Repulsion Municipal Waste Tombs and Evoken but a special surprise headliner that we'll be announcing in November. And ...

Call Of The Wild Song Premiere! “Breaking Shit”

By: frank.lemke Posted in: breaking newz, featured, listen, uncategorized On: Tuesday, August 21st, 2012

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Breaking Shit by Decibel Magazine It's strange to be premiering a song off Leave Your Leather On because I've been blasting the album for weeks. (It pays to be a big-time journalist.) And yes, I know - I guess these guys forgot about that Limp Biscuit song. Who cares? Stuff still has to get broken in 2012. And yes, I know they look like a bunch of hipsters. They're from Brooklyn, so it's ...