STREAMING: Purson “Spiderwood Farm”
April 10, 2013 Chris Dick
We’re certainly entering strange space when a band like Purson is beloved by metalheads of sundry stripes and sick permutations. Self-described as “Vaudeville Carny Psych,” Purson—if lines between music styles, genres, and eras mean anything—could be the missing link between Mellow Candle and Black Sabbath. Or, Fairport Convention mixed with iconoclasts Coven. However, you want…
FULL ALBUM STREAM: Pensées Nocturnes’ Nom d’une Pipe
April 9, 2013 Jeff Treppel
Black metal has seen more than its share of weirdos. It’s a genre that seems to attract idiosyncratic loners, especially since Varg proved back in the 90s that you really don’t need more than one person in the band. The French cabaret black metal act Pensées Nocturnes consists entirely of the single-monitored Vaerohn. And to…
Visual Violence: Brent Eyestone
April 9, 2013 Shawn Macomber
Decibel‘s coverage of the debut LP from Richmond, Virginia dark thrash stalwarts Iron Reagan has been fairly comprehensive — last month Chris premiered a stand-out track off Worse Than Dead in this space and there is a short profile of the band in the print issue on stands now — but one aspect of the…
INTERVIEW: Steve Ramsey on keeping the devil out of Satan’s resurrection
April 8, 2013 Jonathan Horsley
That Satan were one of the most slept-on bands of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal because of their name is a cruel irony. For a genre that adopted the devil as chief muse and aesthetic patriarch, Satan should have fitted right in; acceptance should have been instant. But while Satan, too, were a…
Decibel’s Top 5 Death Metal Logos
April 8, 2013 Chris Dick
5. Carcass – Carcass has had a few logos over their storied and infamous career, but none of them evinces the manic, electric quality of the group’s music quite like this iteration. Its angular, slightly italicized letters, the long stems of the two “c”s and “r,” and the near interlocking of the double “s” imparts…
For Those About to Squawk: Waldo’s Pecks of the Week
April 5, 2013 Andrew Bonazelli
Spring has sprung, and so have the new metal releases. GHOST BC release Infestissumam, their second full-length. And while this band maybe loved by some, hated by some, this is pretty blasé and mediocre, really. Calling this metal is a bit of a stretch, as the previously released singles — the “Secular Haze” and “Year…
Nader Sadek “Living Flesh” Exhibit, April 22 in New York
April 5, 2013 Daniel Lake
Nader Sadek has penetrated the Decibel psyche in various, um, incarnations over the past few months, and the invasion has been most welcome. In February, we teamed up with Metal Injection to bring you live performance clips from the Living Flesh DVD before you could buy it. Now we drop some most righteous news upon…
A389 Contest Winners and Free Digital Mixtape
April 4, 2013 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Remember this a couple weeks ago? Well, the horror lovin’, Satan strokin’ dudes in Seven Sisters of Sleep have studiously studied your entries and picked the winning winners. Grand prize goes to: Sam Pickering Three runner-up prizes go to: Mark Thistlewood, Nolan Reed and Xsimon stX Drop A389 head dude, Dom a line at [email protected]…
Decibrity Playlist: Soilwork (Part 2)
April 4, 2013 Zach Smith
Last week, as part of what became an unofficial Soilwork week around these parts, the Swedish sextet’s drummer Dirk Verbeuren gave us a glimpse into his diverse listening habits. As promised, we now present five more tracks from frontman and founder Björn “Speed” Strid, each of which helped meld his musical tastes during his more…
Jim Van Bebber On Metal #1
April 3, 2013 Justin Norton
For three decades, Jim Van Bebber has been one of the most abrasive, iconoclastic filmmakers in the American underground. His debut feature Deadbeat At Dawn was a perfect rendition of 60s biker films shot guerilla style on the streets of his hometown of Dayton, Ohio. His mini-feature My Sweet Satan is an updated retelling of…