If you didn't make it out to Philly for our much-ballyhooed (BALLYHOOED, I TELL YOU) 100th Issue Show, you didn't get a free, limited-edition flexi from that evening's penultimate performers, the mighty Pig Destroyer. Silver lining: It's now streaming right here for your listening pleasure. See, even though you were too cheap and lame to be there for the show of the millennium, we extend our pity ...

Brilliant things happen in the age of the Internet. Like former Pestilence drummer Marco Foddis Googling himself and finding our "in search of Marco Foddis post" so we could induct Pestilence's storied Consuming Impulse album into the Hall of Fame. The issue in which Foddis features is available HERE for the doubters out there. Now, since it worked the first time we put an APB on the Deciblog, ...

There's a lot of business and entertaining reading for y'all to get down to this week. You don't need me gumming up the gears with my special brand of bullshit. Los Angeles-based servants of evil/slaves of Satan, Seven Sisters of Sleep have a new album at the ready. It's called Opium Morals and it sounds like Ol' Nick himself is under the floorboards, pounding back shots of kerosene and killing ...

Welcome to Tales From the Metalnomicon, a twice-monthly column delving into the surprisingly vast world of heavy metal-tinged/inspired literature and metalhead authors... Though the teeming masses may not have caught on quite yet, Dark Discoveries has long been one of the absolute best magazines for lovers of horror fiction/culture, casting an aesthetic net wide enough to snare within its ...

My blog post this week was supposed to feature an interview with…someone. Someone – well, more like some band – who bailed on my exquisite line of questioning at the last minute. Which is fine when compared to the other ass hats who agreed to take their place and assume their position in internet history before going ahead and bailing at an even more critical time and closer to the last ...

Now that the puck has finally been dropped on a (truncated) hockey season, it looks like we're going to have to sit and wait for the esteemed Keith Huckins - he of Rorschach, Deadguy and Kiss it Goodbye fame - to unglue his eyes from the bank of Center Ice Package-equipped widescreens mounted in his secret upstate NY man-cave before we can finally get moving on that She Loves Me, She Loves Me Not ...

Norwegian hard rockers Audrey Horne may have a sound that marries Seventies arena rock to a chug/gallop/chug reminiscent of early Priest and Maiden, but the band's name is all homage to a memorable character from David Lynch's infamous early nineties crash n' burn foray into network television. Thus, on the eve of the release of the band's hard-charging, enlivening new record Youngblood we asked ...

We love us some Weekend Nachos 'round the hallowed corridors of the Decibel nerve centre and its various satellite offices. So, when WN vocalist John Hoffman emailed us earlier this week asking if we wanted to throw up the A-side of the band's new 7", the "DUH!" was positively Richter Scale-worthy. The track originally appeared over at bloody-disgusting.com (which explains all the Bloody ...

"The weak pale in the face of both baking and metal!" Metalcakes proprietor Kathy Bejma declares when asked how she first came to realize heavy metal and cupcakes belonged in the same mixing bowl. "Plus ovens are like little mini hells accepting your sacrifice of unborn chickens, butter, and sugar...Occasionally I'll get the How dare you attempt to reduce the mighty genre of metal to a fucking ...

The Lord Herself knows Zao has kept it super-low on the spotlight front since the release of 2006's The Fear is What Keeps Us Here. The promotional push for Awake? was zilch and the only "concrete" mentions of this supposed new album they have waiting in the wings for 2013 comes via Wikipedia and hardcore fans posting anticipatory messages on the band's Facebook page. So, while the uncertainty ...