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May 2008 Features

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    Cover Story

    Children of Bodom

    Decibel travels to Helsinki to interview Finnish metal virtuosos Children of Bodom and returns four days later with a frozen ballbag, a shitty tattoo and a permanent hangover

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    Arsis

    With We Are the Nightmare, technical death dealers Arsis have no more goddamn regrets

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    Cryptopsy

    The Unspoken King Studio Report

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    The Devil and the Sea

    Noisecore will never get old and it will never die

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    Dismember

    How Dismember have managed to keep their death metal old school with three new members

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    Farsot

    Avant garde black metallers break the codex necro

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    George Romero

    Decibel walks slowly, inexorably with the zombie master

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    Graveyard

    Forget claims of false metal or retro-rock; these tomb raiders are the real deal

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    Hour of 13

    North Carolina traditionalists forge a future for the past

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    In Flames

    After exorcising in-band frustrations and getting some much needed R&R, a reinvigorated In Flames return with their most cohesive and mature album to date… and they didn’t even need a therapist 

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    Indian

    Chicago sludge trio is indigenous to frustration

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    J2

    Justin Broadrick and Jarboe give birth to the lush soundscapes of J2

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    Nadja

    Prolific ambient drone duo can't, won't and don't stop

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    Origin

    Technical death metal's not in Kansas anymore

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    Plague Bringer

    Drum machine-propelled grinders scream bloody gore

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