Tomas Skogsberg Produced These Albums (A Top 5)
May 5, 2014 Chris Dick
Back in the day, the “produced by” byline was a marketing ploy to get heavy metal fans into one band, well, into another. Easy marketing from the ground—a classic record or two—up. Swedish producer Tomas Skogsberg is renowned for his name attachment to several pivotal records throughout the ‘90s before he gave way to fellow…
STREAMING: Vanhelgd “Dödens Maskätna Anlete”
May 2, 2014 Chris Dick
A quick look at the track listing to Vanhelgd’s upcoming album, Relics of Sulphur Salvation, and one might surmise lead Helgder Mattias “Flesh” Frisk has a worm fetish. The word ‘maskätna’ translates loosely to ‘wormy’ and the track title “May the Worms Have Mercy on My Flesh” leaves little to the imagination. Turns out it’s…
Controlled Fire: Sheer Terror Premiere/Lewis Dimmick Essay!
May 2, 2014 Shawn Macomber
Last year we excerpted a couple selections from Lewis Dimmick’s excellent book This Music over at the Metalnomicon.
BREWTAL TRUTH: Drink This Now!
May 2, 2014 Adem Tepedelen
A recent inquiry from occasional Decibel contributor and Slayer biographer D.X. Ferris gave us the idea for this week’s online Brewtal Truth column. Comrade Ferris wanted to know, “Why does bottled Guinness (plain bottles) seem more carbonated to me than canned?” The answer: nitro. The bottled version of Guinness is typically carbonated in the same…
Psychotic Gardening: Video Premiere and Interview
May 1, 2014 Kevin Stewart-Panko
While the moniker may conjure up images of retirees bashing each other over the head with hoes, slashing at their wrinkly skin with hand rakes, Freddy Kruger-ed up gardening gloves and lots of screaming while being chased by gnarly pairs of razor-sharp hedge clippers, Psychotic Gardening is actually a band. You may have made that…
VIDEO PREMIERE: Loudblast’s “Ascending Straight In Circles”
May 1, 2014 Zach Smith
So far as we can tell, Loudblast has never brought its live show to the good ol’ USA despite nearly three decades of extremely extreme enterprises (or if they have, it’s been a long, long time). Fortunately, the French quartet’s video for “Ascending Straight In Circles”–which we’re pleased to premiere–provides a pretty good idea of…
Episode DB007 – Carcass
April 30, 2014 Jesse Chase
Hours before the final date of the third annual Decibel Magazine Tour, your editors sit down with three members of Carcass and special guest Blake Harrison of Pig Destroyer for a predictably contentious and uncomfortable podcast! We never got around to reading our favorite Liverpudlians Waldo the Parrot’s review of Surgical Steel—thank Christ. Featuring:Carcass “Mount…
STREAMING: Cradle of Filth’s “The Raping Of Faith”
April 30, 2014 Justin Norton
It might seem like Cradle Of Filth has been around forever because, well, they have. But even the black metal superstars had their formative period. One of the documents of that time was Total Fucking Darkness, COF’s third demo. Decibel got the first sneak peak of this old but new material, the track “The Raping…
Sucker For Punishment: Go to Hell
April 30, 2014 Adrien Begrand
Like many other metal fans, I’m a longtime admirer of the crew at Banger Films, who in the past decade have raised the bar when it comes to documenting the metal scene with the seriousness of anthropologists and the artistry of filmmakers. From Metal: A Headbanger’s Journey, to Global Metal, to Iron Maiden: Flight 666,…
Scorpions – “In Trance”
April 29, 2014 Chris Dick
For most Americans, the earliest Scorpions song we remember is “The Zoo,” “No One Like You” or mega-hit “Rock You Like a Hurricane.” But the Hannover-based hard rockers had a storied history well before they were MTV and rock radio darlings.
