Each Gehenna album had different sonic attributes. From the eerie black metal of The First Spell through the death metal disposition of Murder and then back to brutal black hybrid on WW. Do you recall wanting each album to be singular, regardless of genre? Dolgar: We always try not to make the same album twice of course, but still, I do not recall being as conscious about it on the first three ...

Decibel's NYC bureau had a tough decision to make last Thursday. Should we head on up to the west side for a classy evening amongst Lincoln Center elite to catch a special performance by This Will Destroy You? Or leave Manhattan (perish the thought!) for a night of PBRs amongst our metal brethren to get aurally obliterated by The Body & Braveyoung? A tough choice in theory, but one in the end ...

For a dude who has built a revered legacy on the back of playing big biker doom riffs and wailing with Saint Vitus, Scott "Wino" Weinrich's recent output has been super-mellow. There was 2010 acoustic solo record, Adrift, then a Latitudes session recorded in London with German singer/songwriter Conny Ochs, before the pair got together and put out last year'sHeavy Kingdom, an LP that was largely ...

Decibel illustrator and layout guru Bruno Guerreiro is curating his first art show in Philadelphia. Huzzah! Held at Kung Fu Necktie, a neighborhood-centric watering hole/club, Guerreiro is aiming for the highest highs, displaying his illustrations to a backdrop of outer space heavy -- in the form of local astro rockers Rosetta and Restorations, Brooklyn-based doom outfit Batillus, and newjacks ...

The phone just kept ringing out and going to Tony Foresta's voicemail. We tried a few times, on each occasion considering leaving a "horny message" at the beep, as requested by the Municipal Waste frontman. It feels now like an opportunity missed. Ach, no matter, it was all cool. Foresta wasn't dogging the call, obviously, he was busy preparing for a Superbowl half-time show with YouTube cranked ...

Currently tearing across the States with fellow thrash vets Anthrax and Death Angel, Testament will be releasing their tenth album in spring. Entitled The Dark Roots of Earth, Testament frontman Chuck Billy has intimated that it'll go atomic in the pit much in the same fashion as 2008's The Formation of Damnation did. Hmm... Good news for the consensus that argued that the Oakland quintet had ...

Get ready to put whatever trivial bullshit you were planning to bitch and moan over today on hold: The upcoming documentary Jason Becker: Not Dead Yet is imbued with the kind of uplifting against all odds triumph and spellbinding never-say-die persistence that reorients perspective in a serious way. After making a name for himself in Cacophony with a Megadeth-bound Marty Friedman and ...

The band's name may not be familiar to the majority of you and their moniker isn’t going to help them stand out from the crowd, but Toronto’s Nephelium is bound to garner interest solely based on the fact that they originally called Dubai home. And not the “new” Dubai where everything seems like it prolapsed out of reality television’s most audacious and extravagant butthole. When ...

How does the commentary track thing work? Are you talking over the music in real-time or is the commentary track spliced in after it's finalized? Fenriz: Lord have mercy! Just listening to Viking's Do or Die album from ‘87 on vinyl and starting the interview. Well, it works like a commentary track on a movie—I only heard the Futurama commentary, so I figured it would have to be a bit ...

What do you make of Second Ring of Power after all these years? It's getting a second chance at life, so to speak. Jan Kuhanen: All of our albums have been re-released, so Second… is in no way specific. Plus, we have some bonus stuff with all of them except with the first one. Ismo Toivonen: I assume you didn't know about other releases [yes, I did. -- CD], so maybe readers don't either [they ...