Today marks the final installment of Old School hardcore Thrusdays with the members Umea throwback punks, AC4. Check out parts one and two, if you should so desire. This week, I asked bassist Christoffer Jonsson and guitarist Karl Backman to list off the albums they spent as much time longingly staring at back in the day as much as they did listened to. Top Five Old School HC Album ...

There's no introductory preamble necessary for this clip from Maryland Deathfest: The Movie III. You all know that Maryland Deathfest is an obligatory pilgrimage for any self-respecting blastbeat-worshipping Decibangers. And Godflesh are, well Godflesh: The marriage of riff to machine, the sound of urban alienation, of a dead city collapsing in on itself, et cetera. But here's one anyway from ...

We're less than a month out now from the release of Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats' sublime psychedelic doom n' roll tour de force Mind Control, and, lord, does the tranquil-yet-oddly-sinister old school VHS clamshell-esque cover artwork suit the album's messianic death cult lyrical theme and transcendentalist sonic vibe. "The whole album reeks of VHS and low-budget exploitation so I wanted ...

The following home-shot recordings of cult Italian metal champs Dark Quarterer should serve as a how-to for any bands, young or old, who want to marry metal's appetite for epic derring-do and mysticism with a resolutely blue collar work ethic and run with it. You see, epic metal just doesn't magic itself epic after a couple of crude allusions to Greek mythology and Tolkien, with a saucing of ...

Back in April 2010, Decibel pitted Finntroll against Norway's Troll in a brutal troll-off. The segment, brilliantly titled Under the Bridge, can be found here in dB #66 if you're at all curious as to who won the bridge battle. Then, in the winter of the Year of Our (Dark) Lord, the festive Finns in Finntroll debuted new tune, "Blodsvept," to 28,000+ domestic spins and plaudits from the group's ...

The Negator monikor sounds like a Decepticon from Transformers, but musically the Hamburg-based black metal quintet are as vicious as they are obscure. Go on, tell us you're a fan. Anyway, across three well-received traditional full-lengths, Negator has earned a small yet ardent following. Led by frontman Nachtgarm---who also served time in Dark Funeral following the departure of Emperor Magus ...

Courtesy of the good people of Agonia Records, welcome to what is definitely the closest the Deciblog gets to a red carpet event: The Internet premiere of Swedish experimental post-metallers The Moth Gatherer’s video for “Falling Deity”. The track is culled from their forthcoming debut LP, Bright Celestial Light, a dynamic and genre-unspecific album that calls to mind Cult of Luna, ...

To paraphrase my favorite comic, Mitch Hedberg (R.I.P.), Semantik Punk is a Polish experimental punk outfit that people will either love or hate, or think they're okay.  They're hardcore enough to sound like a badly scratched Converge or Dillinger Escape Plan CD that won't stop skipping to random spots on the disc; they're rock enough to focus on writing groove-able songs; they're punk enough to ...

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 ...

There are times when you just want to forget the world around you and just cut a Persian rug. Great rock records were made without worrying what Tom, Dick, and Harriet Tubman were up to and how they perceived a sound, a scene, a recording technique, or a pair of pants. Sweden's Spiritual Beggars have been doing what they want since their inception back in 1992 when Swedish death metal was hip and ...