Jaz Coleman is known for tackling big subjects in interviews: climate change; the degradation of the food supply; technological singularity and the Renaissance. Spending some time with him in person -- not in a Conga line of press interviews -- is a much different proposition, even if he still hints at his scholarly pursuits. Decibel was lucky enough to get to spend an hour on the bus with ...

Admission of personal bias:  I think Max is awesome, because I've seen Max do Max's thing in Max's band (Exist) and Max's band is awesome.  I once described Exist's music as not metal so much as a rad jazz quartet that decided to plug in and rip it up all loud-like.  Those proggy death-flecked jams got Mr. Phelps hooked up with Cynic's Paul Masvidal and Sean Reinert to augment their band for ...

A few months ago, we (and know that when I say "we," I mean "I") favourably reviewed Matterhorn, the latest by Montreal's the Great Sabatini. For those of you who didn't bother to heed my word and at least check 'em out, here's a sample of how they rock: In that review, in addition to saying stuff like "...these dudes have a 90s alt-rock edge grinding against their love affair with riffs ...

It's going to be a busy spring for Killing Joke. They'll be touring North America and elsewhere and releasing an omnibus of singles from their storied career, which includes a disc of rarities. Super deluxe packages are still available here and the three-disc set is available here. Decibel scored an exclusive peek at "Timewave," an unreleased demo from the Absolute Dissent sessions included ...

Attn: London's Live Evil Festival 2013 has just announced a bunch of bands, and as you'd probably expect from the underground's most, uhh, kvltly curated festival, with 100% of the line-up endorsed by Fenriz's Band of the Week blog, they are all 100% poseur-free and awesome. Legendary Chilean death-thrashers Pentagram will be joined by: Arkham Witch, English doom featuring members of The Lamp ...

If you're a fan of Lightning Bolt's immensely quirky, insanely loud, outsider extreme music, then the name Brian Chippendale is probably very familiar to you. He's the dervish behind the drums, often seen wearing a sock on his head with a microphone sewn into it as he seemingly grows three extra arms so as to hit everything in sight at the highest velocity. Chippendale also has a side ...

As if you needed any more incentive to attend this year’s second annual Decibel Magazine Tour—featuring not only headliners Cannibal Corpse, Napalm Death and Immolation, but rotating openers Beyond Creation, Cretin and Magrudergrind—it gives us great pleasure to announce eight one-off openers for select locations. Blast beats, please: MAMMOTH GRINDER May 10 / Houston, TX / ...

***Rocked out by Sister Sin singer Liv Jagrell during their recently completed tour opening for the metal queen, Doro. Check out their video for "Heart of Cold" HERE, or even better, catch them on their current headlining trek, tour dates HERE. February 2, 2013 – Atlanta, Georgia @ The Masquerade Trying to stay in good shape on the road isn’t always easy; with shitty food ...

Live Evil Festival 2013 will take place on October 18th-20th at the Highbury Garage, London, with two UK exclusive shows from reformed NWOBHM elders SATAN and Ohio slayers MIDNIGHT already confirmed. With bands picked on the condition that they've featured in Fenriz of Darkthrone's Band of the Week blog, Live Evil is resolutely, 100% fundamentally underground. And in lieu of quantum time-travel ...

Plugging a radio show in this day and age seems kinda quaint when you consider that music can be streamed all over the Internet but, with upcoming guest DJs Bill Taylor from Immolation and Esa Linden of Demigod, Metalenema is a special case. Their show’s remit—death and black metal, both classic and contemporary, with “some good old timeworn speed and thrash metal for good ...