Interviews

Now that Venom Inc.’s current trio is about to release this year’s Avé (August 11th on Nuclear Blast), we had the opportunity to celebrate (and anticipate) the upcoming full-length with our Flexi Series. This month (Issue #154, August 2017, Suffocation cover), Decibel brings you a demo version of “Dein Fleisch,” a song that will appear in album form on Avé. While you cruise through the song’s effortless evil, check out bassist/vocalist “Demolition Man” Tony Dolan’s responses to our inquiries about the song’s origins and creation.

There are musical surprises. And then there are musical surprises. Valborg aren’t an easy band to peg. The band from Bonn, Germany have tried the patience of categorization from their inception in 2002. Valborg’s debut album, Glorification of Pain, continues to stupefy, confound, and amaze. That was eight years ago. Since Glorification of Pain, the Germans have made five more stunning, left-of-center albums, the latest of which is the brutal brain scratcher, Endstrand.

Goatwhore frontman Ben Falgoust on new album Vengeful Ascension. 

Progressive sludge/noise rock with comparisons to Neurosis, Old Man Gloom and Amenra? I’m sold!

Broken Hope founder Jeremy Wagner dishes the dirt on Mutilated and Assimilated, the best horror film of all-time, and the current state of death metal.

Tired of Khemmis yet?  Neither are we.  Find out more about Flexi addition “Empty Throne,” this latest addition to the string of Khemmis successes.

Contest alert: Win test pressings of Kreator‘s reissued first four albums plus full Q&A with guitarist/vocalist Mille Petrozza.

Ray Suhy (Cannabis Corpse, Six Feet Under, ex-East of the Wall) has returned with a new solo EP. Decibel talked to the guitarist about expectations and writing an instrumental record.

We asked Bjørnson some questions about his newest baby, and we shared some of his thoughts with you in Issue #153 (July 2017, Integrity cover).  Catch the rest of the interview right here, alongside a few videos that exemplify what BardSpec is really all about.

The last time we talked to Farsot, bassist/keyboardist v.03/170 was fielding our inquiries into the band’s inner workings. The Germans had just released their second album, 2011’s stupendous Insects, and we here at Decibel were obsessed with what made the landmark effort tick. Now, seven years later, we inquire about album of the year contender (my opinion, natch) in Fail-Lure.

The vast expanse of south central British Columbia in a town almost ironically/appropriately called Lone Butte isn’t the first place one thinks of for a female-centric metal fest. But it is.

Exist are your favorite new progressive metal band. 

Shelter. Buried Alive. A Pulling Teeth reunion. Madball. Disembodied. Bloodlet. Leeway. Code Orange. Killing Time. Earth Crisis. Ramallah. All Out War. Terror. Martyr A.D. 100 Demons. 

The list goes on and on. 

Even in the context of one of the greatest, most singular heavy music events on the face of the planet, the extremely extreme 2017 This Is Hardcore lineup is something extraordinary and special.

Get to know groove metal outfit Mind Power, featuring ex-members of A Life Once Lost, Dead End Path and more.

Montreal’s MUTANK – all caps, all the time, I’ve been warned – is a crossover/thrash whose members not only love crossover thrash, but acronyms and plays on words using their moniker as the jumping off point. As the band begins/continues to make farther and wider strides, we figured it was time for an introduction via a short Q&A and a song premier.

Trevor William Church of doom rockers Beastmaker talks touring, bad omens, and Vincent Price.

Check out this candid interview with Belgium’s cult weirdos, Perverted Ceremony—and stream their debut full length, Sabbat of Behezaël, out now on Nuclear War Now! Productions.

If you’re not familiar with the MD/PA soundfuckers Full of Hell, we’re not really sure what you’re waiting for.  They’re restless, they’re fearless and they’re pissed as hell.  Earlier this month, they unleashed their latest mind-mauler, Trumpeting Ecstasy, on Profound Lore Records.  Decibel got vocalist Dylan Walker on the phone a couple months ago.  Find out what he said.

In tribute to the legendary Soundgarden vocalist, here is Chris Cornell‘s full interview from this month’s Ultramega OK Decibel Hall of Fame induction.

We asked doom-mentor Dorrian about how their contribution came about.  Here’s what he said.

Philly doom conjurers Heavy Temple worship at The Dark Tower on psychedelic eye-opener Chassit.

Killswitch Engage frontman Jesse Leach talks to Decibel about the fifteen-year anniversary of Alive or Just Breathing and Killswitch’s new beer collaboration with Cigar City Brewing. 

Decibel Editor-in-Chief Albert Mudrian appeared on Fathoming Heavy podcast to talk about The Decibel Tour, Choosing Death and more. 

We’ve been hitting Soft Kill‘s newest album, Choke, hard for almost six months now. When Choke smashed into winter 2016, it immediately reminded of UK legends The Chameleons (Script of the Bridge is a genuine deserted island-type record), French mopers Asylum Party (whose Borderline album is a must-hear), and Belgian treasure obscure The Names, whose single “Nightshift” went on to inspire contemporary pop-prog outfit like Mew.

The Metalheads Podcast stopped by Decibel Metal and Beer Fest to interview Pig Destroyer, Agoraphobic Nosebleed and Adem Tepedelen.

Hailing from small town British Columbia, Slagduster is the sort of band that, through the lens of 2017, sounds like a tantalizing amalgam of genres that offer a look at where metal (or at least one strain of it) might head towards in the future.

Dream Bloody Gore compiles twisted nightmares shared by members of Horrendous, Ides of Gemini, and Craven Idol.

Get to know underground record label Ultimate Massacre Productions.

Witchbanger, Duel‘s second LP, recalls a different time but is more than welcome today.

In which we thoroughly, perhaps even gluttonously check out Onion Maiden, Pittsburgh’s only “punk-fueled,” heavy metal-inspired vegan restaurant.