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Song Premiere: Priapus Admits That “Everything I Want to do is Illegal”
November 24, 2015 Shane Mehling
You have about 90 seconds to spare, give or take? Because that is all this North Carolina three-piece needs to hyperblast their way into your defenseless heart.
Sami Tenetz (Thy Serpent; KVLT) interviewed
November 23, 2015 Chris Dick
A black metal addendum to our Finnish Metal Issue, starring Sami Tenetz of Thy Serpent.
Encrotchment Week 10, Housecore Edition, with Eddie Gobbo
November 19, 2015 Eddie Gobbo
Your Heavy Metal Guide to the NF FN’ L.
THE NEW ETHIC REVISITED: MEET STAGHORN, BLACKENED POST-ROCK WARRIORS FOR ANIMAL RIGHTS
November 18, 2015 Shawn Macomber
For a bunch of ferns, Staghorn sure knows how to rock the fuck out…
My Favorite Flexi: Torche “Pow Wow” & “80’s Prom Song” (dB015)
November 12, 2015 Shawn Macomber
To commemorate five years of Decibel Flexis we’ve asked Decibel writers to write a review-length tribute to their favorite disc. Today’s installment features two Torche bangers, “Pow Wow” and “80’s Prom Song.”
ENCROTCHMENT WEEK 9 WITH EDDIE GOBBO
November 12, 2015 Eddie Gobbo
The metalhead’s weekly guide to the NFL
Get Your Ivories Tickled with the Keyboard Shredding Math-Prog of Spacebag
November 11, 2015 Shane Mehling
Ex-Rorschach and Asva guys show off their crazy 88.
STREAMING: Grave Pleasures “Futureshock”
November 10, 2015 Chris Dick
“My lyrics deal with us being a post-apocalyptic species, aware of our inevitable demise, quite possibly by our own hands.”
Sacha Dunable & David Timnick (Intronaut) interviewed
November 9, 2015 Chris Dick
** Decibel catches Intronaut wizards Sacha Dunable and David Timnick between mind-blowing jam sessions and trips to Jack in the Box. We kid about the Jack in the Box thing. Anyway, the California group are just days away from issuing their new album, The Direction of Last Things, on the Century Media label. And having spent large sums of time with Intronaut’s fifth full-length, we’re of the opinion that it’s yet again a mind-blower. From the innovative brutality of “Fast Worms” to the slick heavy prog of “The Pleasant Surprise”, The Direction of Last Things is an album that’s immediately incredible, but unfolds untold levels of awesome the more you’re with it.
Welcome Home (“The Distorted Island”): Exclusive Premiere of Feature-Length Doc On Heavy Metal Community in Puerto Rico!
November 6, 2015 Shawn Macomber
The bustling, thriving heavy metal scene in Puerto Rico may have thus far escaped the attention of metaldom writ large, but that is all about to change courtesy The Distorted Island, a fascinating, edifying, perception-altering, due-giving feature length documentary that takes viewers on an inspiring tour of a extremely extreme, beautiful microcosm of creation and trve fandom.
And we’re premiering the entire goddamn thing right here, right now:
New Cuts From A Mortal Scepter
November 4, 2015 Shawn Macomber
Ah, to be young “Infernal Satanic Sinners” playing your “Execution Symphony” as you cry out for “Violent Revenge” and “Death to the False Ones”!
Introducing: Luminous Vault
October 30, 2015 Adrien Begrand
Metal writers have so little time to devote to new music that you think you can win us over by playing up your lack of image, persona, willingness to be antisocial as a way of looking “dangerous” and “mysterious”? Come on.
But then you get one recording in your inbox that compels you to try it out, and lo and behold, it winds up being one of the biggest revelations of the year.
TRANSLATOR OF AURAL DARKNESS: THE DAVID KARON STORY (FEATURING KIRK HAMMETT & SCREAMING GHOULS)
October 30, 2015 Shawn Macomber
The average day at the office for David Karon in the laboratories of KHDK Electronics is, it would seem, not so average.
“Banshees and ghouls and demons,” he tells Decibel. “We pretty much knew from the start of this project we’d be rolling in that realm of evil.”
The effort in question is the Ghoul Screamer, a supercharged, lithe, insanely versatile, more sinister take on the classic tube screamer pedal painstakingly developed and perfected over a period of three years with company cofounder/Metallica lead guitarist Kirk Hammett — and set to be unleashed, appropriately, on Halloween.
ENCROTCHMENT WEEK 7, HALLOWEEN EDITION with EDDIE GOBBO
October 29, 2015 Eddie Gobbo
A Metalhead’s SPOOKTACULAR Guide to the NFL.
Here’s What Megadeth Sounds Like on Violin
October 28, 2015 Shane Mehling
As I told the tipster who led me to Doralice’s Rusted Pieces — a violin/acoustic guitar duet covering five tracks off Megadeth’s Rust in Peace — this kind of shit is a metal website’s bread and butter.
Horrendous
October 26, 2015 Matt Solis
Anareta
Everyone can hear them scream:
Horrendous bring their otherworldly death metal to a new star system
dB Rating: 10/10
Top 5 Atmospheric Death Metal Songs
October 23, 2015 Chris Dick
** Nostalgic types need nourishment. Our days can’t always be filled with blastbeats, dirty riffs, and socio-politico lyrics. We need to feel as if we’re on another planet, in another world, some place not where we are now. To start the quest to spaces unknown, Decibel has compiled five killer atmospheric death metal songs to take you right into the weekend. Now, there’s a fine line between atmospheric death and atmospheric doom/death (or death/doom), but we’re not terribly interested in delineating such a line today. We’re more interesting in the journey itself, the way these songs transport back to times that probably never happened, but they’re as real as today.
Through a Speaker Rumbly: Spells to Ward Off Social Intercourse
October 21, 2015 Dutch Pearce
Relax, reader. Breathe deeply. Inhale through your nose, exhale through your mouth. Smell the corpses. Now blow out the ritual candles.
SOUNDTRACK TO AN ECLIPSE: EXCLUSIVE SUN WORSHIP STREAM & INTERVIEW
October 21, 2015 Shawn Macomber
This morning we’re streaming Elder Giants, the paradoxically ultra-dark debut full-length from German black metallers Sun Worship — a roiling, nasty, multi-layered beast which, already much-beloved in Europe, at long last receives its North American release next week.
Encrotchment Week 6 With Eddie Gobbo
October 15, 2015 Eddie Gobbo
A METALHEAD’S WEEKLY GUIDE TO THE NFL
With the Dead Video Premiere: “Crown of Burning Stars”
October 14, 2015 Andrew Bonazelli
Is there a cooler “supergroup” to emerge this year than With the Dead? We’ll make it easy for you: fuck no.
CHAIN GANG GRAVE OFFERS A CAUSTIC LESSON WITH “WHO TAUGHT YOU”
October 13, 2015 Shane Mehling
Bury Them and Keep Quiet doesn’t result in a pretty situation.
STREAMING: Revocation “Summon the Spawn”
October 12, 2015 Chris Dick
“‘Summon The Spawn’ was one of the first songs that we ever recorded and it ended up being the opening track on our debut demo of the same name,” says Revocation axe-slayer Dave Davidson. “It’s a fast, thrashy song with some weird twists and turns to throw the listener off guard. This one was a bit of a fan favorite in our local scene back in the day and I still hear people call out for us play it on recent tours that we’ve done.”
STREAMING: Nyx “Beyond”
October 9, 2015 Chris Dick
** German black metallers Nyx were formed by Blitz and Vinterbarn. The group’s new album, Home, is an expression of what black metal emotional qualities are rather than its direct spiritual linkage to the Infernal One. With that, Nyx embark on strange and wonderful and perverse journeys on Home. Certainly, Nyx are for fans of Myrkur (not because they’re female either), and first-album Lantlos, with maybe some early Bethlehem and demo-era Empyrium. We interview Blitz and Vinterbarn in preparation for the premiere of Nyx’s “Beyond”!
Stream This: Birds in Row/WAITC Split 10″
October 8, 2015 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Sit back and enjoy a gorgeous, noisy hardcore pummelling from two bands.
Neill Jameson Says Goodbye to Nunslaughter’s Jim Konya
October 8, 2015 Neill Jameson
This week, the metal community lost one of the oldest and most beloved pieces of its backbone, Jim “Sadist” Konya.