Retrospective
Retrospective: Cerberus Shoal’s “…and Farewell to Hightide”
April 4, 2019 Greg Pratt
Revisiting Cerberus Shoal‘s 1997 post-rock masterpiece …and Farewell to Hightide.
Retrospective: Failure’s “Magnified” 25 Years Later
March 8, 2019 Andrew Bonazelli
Decibel revisits Failure‘s criminally-underrated Magnified on its 25th anniversary.
Retrospective: Malhavoc’s “Premeditated Murder”
January 24, 2019 Greg Pratt
Looking back on Malhavoc‘s strange and excellent Premeditated Murder.
Retrospective: Extreme Napalm Terror’s “Impulse to Destroy”
December 13, 2018 Greg Pratt
Looking back on the strange case of Extreme Napalm Terror and their 1989 album Impulse to Destroy, which may or may not have been a complete joke.
RIP Todd Youth (Warzone, Danzig, Murphy’s Law, Glen Campbell, Bloodclot, Fireburn)
October 31, 2018 Shawn Macomber
The legendary guitarist passed away this weekend at age 47.
Reconsidering Frehley’s Comet
October 18, 2018 Greg Pratt
Looking back on Ace Frehley’s excellent post-KISS band, Frehley’s Comet.
Retrospective: Mindrot’s “Soul”
August 16, 2018 Greg Pratt
Revisiting Mindrot‘s massive 1998 album, Soul.
Retrospective: One Eyed God Prophecy’s “One Eyed God Prophecy”
July 19, 2018 Greg Pratt
Revisiting the chaotic metallic hardcore of One Eyed God Prophecy‘s self-titled 1996 album.
Retrospective: Union of Uranus’ “Disaster by Design”
June 28, 2018 Greg Pratt
Looking back on Union of Uranus‘s 1995 double 7″ Disaster by Design.
Retrospective: Acme’s “…To Reduce the Choir to One Soloist”
May 10, 2018 Greg Pratt
Looking back on the 24 minutes of insanity that make up Acme‘s …To Reduce the Choir to One Soloist 22 years later.
Retrospective: Dystopia’s “Human = Garbage”
April 5, 2018 Greg Pratt
Revisiting Dystopia‘s 1994 masterpiece of despair and extreme experimentalism, Human = Garbage.
Retrospective: Assück’s “Anticapital” is 15 minutes of grindcore history
February 8, 2018 Greg Pratt
In 1991, Assück released one of the greatest grind records of all time, Anticapital . Today, we revisit it.
Retrospective: Confessor’s “Condemned” still completely unique a quarter-century later
October 26, 2017 Greg Pratt
Confessor released Condemned 26 years ago and confounded us all at the time. Today, we recognize it’s an unquestionable doom-metal classic.
Retrospective: Thirty Years of Big Black’s “Songs About Fucking”
September 11, 2017 Joseph Schafer
Thirty years ago, Big Black released their final opus, Songs About Fucking. We revisit what exactly made that last album so important.