Daniel Lake
Bonin’ the Interhole: Bound by Entrails
August 31, 2012 Daniel Lake
Bands like Gojira and Godflesh might be major brand names ‘round these parts, but mention them to your average Metallica-loving broseph and you’re likely to get a squinty-eyed, the-fuck-you-say? half-nod. But Decibel just won’t quit. We dig deeper, danker, darker and dirtier (though rarely fitter or happier) to turn up a few otherwise overlooked gems….
Bonin’ the Interhole: CAPA
August 24, 2012 Daniel Lake
Bands like Gojira and Godflesh might be major brand names ‘round these parts, but mention them to your average Metallica-loving broseph and you’re likely to get a squinty-eyed, the-fuck-you-say? half-nod. But Decibel just won’t quit. We dig deeper, danker, darker and dirtier (though rarely fitter or happier) to turn up a few otherwise overlooked gems….
Bonin’ the Interhole: Hello Jackie
August 17, 2012 Daniel Lake
Bands like Gojira and Godflesh might be major brand names ‘round these parts, but mention them to your average Metallica-loving broseph and you’re likely to get a squinty-eyed, the-fuck-you-say? half-nod. But Decibel just won’t quit. We dig deeper, danker, darker and dirtier (though rarely fitter or happier) to turn up a few otherwise overlooked gems….
Interview – Warseid
August 10, 2012 Daniel Lake
I’m not much for fantastical lyrics – no matter how brutal the imagined scenery, it seems there’s enough ignorance and atrocity just outside my apartment door to nullify the impact of some invented horrors from galaxies long ago and far away. And I’ll be bumguzzled if I can predict when synth infestation will command my…
Blut Aus Nord’s Cosmosophy Teaser
August 3, 2012 Daniel Lake
Harrowing, multi-dimensional enlightenment is a fickle beast. You expect it in extreme locales under strikingly improbable circumstances, perhaps while ingesting mind-altering substances… not so much in a well-lit library crowded with suits, police officers, and raggedy internet-moochers. Yet here I am getting a hit of pure dark French terror-bliss, and my mind can’t manage to…
Interview – Night Terrain
August 3, 2012 Daniel Lake
Out of New Mexico’s oft-speculated desert sky flies the darkly evocative Night Terrain. The band members describe their particular style of racket as “equal parts space rock, doom metal, and stoner rock… riffs go from slow, sludgy and droning to uplifting, manic…” On July 24th, Night Terrain self-released their debut album, American Dream, which manages…
Black Shape of Nexus Espouse Noisy Doom, Disavow Anger
July 27, 2012 Daniel Lake
I’m pretty sure the guys in Black Shape of Nexus are fucking with me. I mean, I’ve heard heavy music borne out of positive catharsis and even righteous abandon (Devin Townsend, Cynic, et al come to mind immediately), but B.SON sound like they’re coming from a totally different place – specifically boiling out of a…
Interview – Max Côté blackens the Great White North
July 20, 2012 Daniel Lake
It’s nice to have friends introduce us to new music, but in this age of ever flowing information and ubiquitous quick links, we often rely on bands’ personnel connections to lead us to our next aural awakening. Dude in our favorite death metal band also plays on this grind record or in that prog collective,…
Interview – Italy’s ORBE
July 13, 2012 Daniel Lake
Last year, Italian mostly-instrumental quartet Orbe created one of those albums that I listened to with half an ear and then didn’t get back to for a while. Sometimes that’s an indicator of an album without a whole lot of immediacy, and sometimes it simply indicates the laziness of the audience. In the case of…
Interview – Solothus
July 6, 2012 Daniel Lake
In a recent dB article (issue #92), author Jeff Wagner opined that “there are too many death/doom bands out there these days.” Upon reading such a flagrantly deranged statement, I gagged on my mouthful of burrito, my left arm went all limp and tingly, and I blacked out for what might have been hours but…
Interview – Arbrynth
June 29, 2012 Daniel Lake
Nothing unites the metal community quite like a healthy hit of righteous rage. War, complacency, ignorance, religion, technology, the opposite sex, government subsidies – if something pisses you off, someone’s encoding your disgust into guitar riff magic. Any good New Ager Rager knows that nature is very, um, fertile soil for dark musical themes. As…
Interview – Herodias
June 22, 2012 Daniel Lake
Funeral doom can be a most divisive subgenre. Whole groups of well-versed metalheads will split on the merits of a type of music that eschews speed, the associated aggression, and most anything that can be considered technical musical achievement. Of course, this very division might be part of what defines it – a hallmark of…
INTERVIEW – Nolan Cook of Dimesland
June 15, 2012 Daniel Lake
It’s a bit unnerving how many descriptions can refer equally to dB-approved beer and music without requiring any rephrasing at all. Local heroes excite us by infusing familiar styles with their own astonishing personalities. Indie labels tend to raise the product’s allure. Unearthed demo versions from the early nineties are always welcome. Mr. Adem Tepedelen,…
INTERVIEW – North Carolina’s MAKE
June 8, 2012 Daniel Lake
When a few talented dudes out of the American South filter recent faves ASVA, Death Grips, Arbouretum, Demdike Stare, and Wolves in the Throne Room through their long-burning love of Godflesh, Spacemen 3, Lungfish, Darkthrone, Talk Talk, Neu!, and Carcass, said dudes are destined to MAKE something noteworthy. In this case, they actually called their…
INTERVIEW – Aenygmist
June 1, 2012 Daniel Lake
If you listen to Aenygmist, then you’re probably either living in or around southern Quebec, a black/death completist with internet access and no career prospects, or me. If you haven’t heard this female five-piece’s gut-ripping 2010 record Creation Born of Trauma, you can hardly be blamed. Creation is the band’s self-released 2010 full-length, their first and only entry…