Last week LA Weekly used an article on "identity, music and sexual attraction" from the journal Psychology of Music as a jumping off point for a round-up of various congruous research under the header "Can Bad Taste in Music Ruin a Relationship?" The material is mostly pretty thin gruel. (Not to mention manifestly debunked by our Justify Your Shitty Taste feature...) "The kid who wants to ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OG-RNq7oRUM I had a whole stream of bile directed towards everyone’s favorite load of pre-teen pandering, Attack Attack!, when I realized their latest record actually came out like six months ago. I assumed an album was on the horizon and I typed out all these dire predictions about its quality. And a quick Googling showed that my forecast wasn’t far off. ...

Ehow.com, the chubby small town second cousin of Wikipedia has an article on "How to Write Death Metal." I'm sure there are many of you who hang around here waiting for another Cee Lo posting but would like to see how you can get involved in this exciting and ever-changing genre. Well let's see what Ehow.com has to say: (The article's top photo features Eagles of Death Metal) - Pick ...

The man responsible for bringing up the butt-end of every issue of Decibel, John Darnielle, is currently being courted (no pun intended) for a guest-spot on "Law & Order SVU." Kinda. Technically, he's being pimped out to the L&O powers that be by his fans—Darnielle's that dude in that band the Mountain Goats, but that's not important—via a Facebook page. If the Facebook people can get ...

Any Decibel readers out there been feeling a strange, niggling affinity for the Son of Man this week? Do you suddenly empathize with that robed, bearded dirty hippie antagonist of early Slayer records? Is holy water no longer singeing your skin? Are you finally able to consume garlic? Fear not, friends, these are not signs of early onset paranoid schizophrenia. You've likely been touched by ...

Over the past few years, we metallers have seen our special sigil—the goat horn—stripped of its significance (i.e., magical power) by clueless celebrities (Miley Cyrus gets it wrong first then gets it right second) and pop culture junkies looking add ‘edge’ to their persona. That ‘edge’ they seek is, or rather was, ours. True, I’ve seen movie and television stars in Maiden, Priest, ...

Sorry kids, Dani Filth will not be appearing on a postage stamp or sculpted from a five foot chunk of marble in the center of Suffolk. The ceremonial and non-metropolitan British county asked for its most iconic symbol on their tourism website and, like so many older people, they made the terrible mistake of leaving this completely in the hands of the internet. So of course, the internet ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWnJfLFmqmg It's time to ring in the new year with another hall of fame video, this one directed by Rob Zombie. Okay, wait, I seem to have gotten my wires crossed here. This is Jon Zombie, a man who... come on, seriously? Jon Zombie? Is that really the best you could do? But anyways, let's get to the stars of this show- Defiler, a band started by your little ...

A sequel to Lords of Chaos this surely ain't: According to a recent AFP article (which reads more like one of John Darnielle's "South Pole Dispatch" satires than a legit news story), Armenian police have began cracking down on "emo" rock fans: Officers have visited schools, searched pupils whose distinctive clothing marks them out as possible 'emos', and mounted surveillance on public ...

Not a joke. The Icelandic death metal band inked a deal with a Japanese label that has a similar appreciation for lopping off body parts. In other news, Watain signed with Deplorable Man-Stank Records; Metallica signed with Save Our Dignity Records; GWAR signed with Please Don't Point That Thing At Me Records; and Dimmu Borgir signed with "Hey Nice Skirt, Man" ...