What’s up, beak freaks? Here’s all the hate that’s fit to spew. MESHUGGAH release Koloss, and although a lot of peeps seem to like this band, I could never really seem to sink my beak into them. That said, fans of this band will not be disappointed. You know the deal: overcompressed tech guitars play in unknown time signatures with some brutal heaviness. This isn’t my thing really, so ...

We're just not the types to go flocking to gallery openings and digest culture of a weekend but this is different. From 29th March to 29th April, the beyond-necro Neseblood Records are curating a black metal exhibition at Oslo's Popsenteret, chronicling the history of black metal. Whether it is the extremity of the aesthetic or the eternal notoriety of its early '90s protagonists that catches ...

Alright kids, first things first, watch this: While I’m tempted to leave all commentary about Italian death metallers Fomento’s “Necropotency” in the capable hands of our Shane Mehling who, when he watched the video and listened to said tune, was quoted as saying, “Holy cocksucking Jesus,” I decided to do a little digging beyond the ridiculous awesomeness of this song to see what ...

It's only fitting that on the eve of Metal Blade—the home of metal legends like Cannibal Corpse, King Diamond and Gwar—stepping out of its comfort zone to release the new Astra record, we'll now go consecutive weeks mentioning Mahavishnu Orchestra. You see, to celebrate the upcoming release of the San Diego quintet's sophomore effort (which follows up The Weirding, one of yours truly's ...

http://vimeo.com/37255948 Andrew Bonazelli is one of those shitheads who in school would do his homework on Friday so he had his weekend free while you were happy to sweat it out until 1st Period Monday. But that sort of ridiculous work ethic is how the man can be Decibel's managing editor, blog guru, social media bitch, probably a couple other things he's never told me about and still have ...

** Fear Factory's The Industrialist is out June 5, 2012 on Candlelight Records. We spoke to frontman Burton C. Bell about the record's storyline. "I am a being… My existence has value… My purpose right now is to relate my witness, without any bitterness or partiality, the motives of my present reality." We can only print a partial prologue… Is the story top secret or meant to unveil ...

Ever wondered what the Liverpudlian quartet SSS did when they weren't thrashing and crossing over? We did, too. We also just wanted to use the word "Liverpudlian." Weird word obsessions and juvenile humor aside, apparently the folks over at Vice (along with Vans) decided to document 24 hours (more or less) with with the band in the latest installment of their "No Sleep Til" video series. ...

There could have been no better producer for We Are Knuckle Dragger's debut album than Steve Albini: With its discordant, percussive guitars, seething, strained-yelp vocals, rhythmic twists and turns, and minimalist, no-frills recording, Tit for Tat is an aesthetic throwback to the Touch and Go/Kill Rock Stars glory days of clever noise rock -- Rodan, godheadSilo, the Albini oeuvre, etc -- ...

On Friday we brought you the minutes from an interview we were lucky enough to conduct with Triptykon frontman, Celtic Frost/HellHammer mainman Tom G. Warrior while he was on tour with Cannibal Corpse, Enslaved and Job for a Cowboy. Warrior seemed pretty ecstatic just to have the opportunity to play music, and that's something that he mentions again here. But what was hugely interesting to hear ...

OK, Behemoth have the authoritative death-black hybrid thing perfected. Watain has done -- via literal death garb and all sorts of illicit/disgusting ingestion stuff -- for black metal what the Norwegians wanted to do. The Devil's Blood has the whole occult folk-rock-doom triangle on lock, which corresponds somewhat nicely to Watain's own occult aspirations/bloodlust. And In Solitude -- also with ...