Ramblin' gamblin' men. ***As chronicled by Alia O’Brien, singer/flutist/organist for Canada’s finest occult rockers, from their current tour with Kylesa, White Hills, and Lazer/Wulf. Remaining tour dates listed below; preorder their phenomenal new LP, The Eldritch Dark, here Although our highway blowout incident threatened the Albuquerque show, we made the gig and then set course for ...

Your friends at Decibel have teamed up with A Pale Horse Named Death to entertain you this summer. We'll be hosting a blog series for the next five weeks detailing production of a video for their new album Lay My Soul To Waste and premiering the "DMSLT" video at the end. In the first installment, video director Aaron Beaucher gives us the story behind the project. Images follow after the ...

We asked Toronto’s premiere purveyors of “true, unadulterated heavy metal” Cauldron to keep tabs on the havoc and devastation left in the wake of the band’s epic America’s Lost tour and dudes did not disappoint. Part I lives here. Part II is posted below. Purchase the excellent Tomorrow’s Lost here. A handful of remaining dates are posted at the end of this entry. Carrying on from ...

Pre-show vampification ***As chronicled by Alia O’Brien, singer/flutist/organist for Canada’s finest occult rockers, from their current tour with Kylesa, White Hills, and Lazer/Wulf. Remaining tour dates listed below; preorder their phenomenal new LP, The Eldritch Dark, here Many people that we met in New Orleans insisted that the city is alive, and a short stay in America's most ...

***As chronicled by Alia O'Brien, singer/flutist/organist for Canada's finest occult rockers, from their current tour with Kylesa, White Hills, and Lazer/Wulf. Remaining tour dates listed below; preorder their phenomenal new LP, The Eldritch Dark, here Two days and ten degrees (Celsius!) stood between our homes in Toronto, Canada and our first date supporting Kylesa on their Ultraviolet tour ...

We asked Toronto's premiere purveyors of "true, unadulterated heavy metal" Cauldron to keep tabs on the havoc and devastation left behind in the wake of the band's epic America's Lost tour and dudes did not disappoint with the diary below. Remaining tour dates are listed at post's end. Purchase Cauldron's excellent Tomorrow's Lost here. David "Rock" Feinstein We kicked off the tour ...

If you spend enough time on the Internet you begin to think that most readers visit sites just to stir the proverbial shit pot. But occasionally the Web will serve up something so delightful and unexpected that it validates the whole premise of connecting the world and equipping the population with tools to allow them to take a shot at amateur journalism (and art, fiction, poetry, politics, ...

***Rocked out by Sister Sin singer Liv Jagrell during their recently completed tour opening for the metal queen, Doro. Check out their video for "Heart of Cold" HERE, or even better, catch them on their current headlining trek, tour dates HERE. February 2, 2013 – Atlanta, Georgia @ The Masquerade Trying to stay in good shape on the road isn’t always easy; with shitty food ...

As Decibel friend Brian Lew (aka Umlaut) says: the metal Gods work in mysterious ways. So there's no need to tell you how we heard about Jason Statts, a Decibel reader and metal fan confined to a wheelchair after he was robbed and shot leaving his first ever gig about five years ago. The attack -- which required an extensive hospitalization and spinal rehabilitation -- still leaves him coping ...

By Greg Peterson You're probably wondering which records I bought on the morning that Batillus began recording our second full-length album... some Purcell, some Machault, Schiff playing Schubert impromptus, Debussy/Ravel string quartets, some Hindemith, some Schoenberg, some Strauss, Souzay singing Faure and Schubert, and some late Shostakovich quartets. You see, Willi and I have been ...