You know that always-entertaining column at the front of the magazine called Cry Now, Cry Later? The one written by that incredibly tall, incredibly handsome genius who also wrote this month’s Pentagram cover story?  Fuuuuck, that dude rules so hard it’s amazing that he can even walk down the street without being mobbed by the hordes of enthusiastic naked women who comprise his legendary ...

As an ex-Hoosier, it's always nice to highlight bands who are thriving in Indiana. The colossal crew Gates of Slumber are one of those bands dedicated to old school metal that is only concerned with riffs the size of whale bones. Below is "Coven of Cain," the first eruption from forthcoming album The Wretch, slated for a May 10th release on Rise Above Records. It's rocking, muscular doom that ...

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 Shit. Today, devoted Deciblogger Shawn Macomber says woo for Refused's ...

It's no secret Decibel and Napalm Death aren't just Facebook friends but bestest pals. We're the beat to their blast, so to speak. Decibel editor-in-chief Albert Mudrian's favorite band is, well, Napalm Death. The Brummies (that'd be folk from Birmingham, England) were well chronicled in Mudrian's Choosing Death book, were cover stars for dB #53, and now have the first new (it won't be the last, ...

Obliterating everyone in attendance at this year's Scion Rock festival in Pomona, California, British black metallers Anaal Nathrakh appear poised for extreme metal dominance. Though the group's history takes them back to 1998 (debut album, The Codex Necro, landed in 2001), it's the recent output, namely 2009's In the Constellation of the Black Widow, that's set them apart from grim-faced ...

Hello All! Dorian Rainwater and Thomas Romero of Noisear here. We have been asked to give a Top 5 feature by the amazing people at Decibel Magazine. We have chosen to give our main influences in the extreme metal/grindcore genre, which have had a huge impact on us and serve as a key element to the sound and music we create in ...

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.  Actually, that's a lie -- one of the members of this week's entrant also appeared on ...

Our first entry for this darkened covenant is The Moon Tonight Feels My Revenge by Matthew Simmons. It's a fifty-page novella, short enough for even the busiest corpse-painter in the land, and intersperses schizophrenic tales of having fists for fingers and trips to Mars with the author's imaginings of the lives of black metal musicians like Sin Nanna of Striborg and Malefic of Xasthur. It's a ...

ZUFFA PURCHASES STRIKEFORCE: Drunken Hallucination or Impossible Reality? When I first read the news about this unexpected deal, I couldn't believe my eyes! I was at an after party here in Göteborg (HammerFall had just had a listening session for our new album with journalists from all over Europe) and I was just checking the MMA Fighting app ’cause, you know, no matter what I'm doing, ...

Opinions are like assholes: everyone IS one. We've noticed that they tend to spend a lot of time in Hollywood, chortling while you spend perfectly good alcohol/meth/falafel money on the anal fissures of their "imagination." Justin Smith of cinema-grind moguls Graf Orlock will occasionally plumb the depths in Graf Orlock Steadicam Reviews. Hollywood has had years to perfect their ...