Bonus Baseball: Richard Christy on the 2016 Kansas City Royals
May 4, 2016 Albert Mudrian
Our own Richard Christy looks toward a third consecutive AL pennant for his beloved Royals.
Exclusive Premiere: Gorguts Crush Expectations, Standard Metal, and Everything Else into “Pleiades’ Dust”
May 4, 2016 James Lewis
Exclusive. Gorguts. Full-EP premiere. We don’t need to say anything more, really.
Book to Film to Crushing Death Metal Song to Intense Video: Hideous Divinity Premiere
May 3, 2016 James Lewis
Yes, that’s a music video of the title track of an album with the same name as a full-length film rendition of a novel. And Hideous Divinity‘s is no less complex in practice, so go ahead and press play for some brain food (/and bludgeoning).
NSFW: Mortiis premieres “Geisteskrank” video
May 3, 2016 Albert Mudrian
Mortiis reveals part one of a three-part short film.
Talkin ‘Bout Flex: Asphyx’s “Deathibel”
May 3, 2016 Daniel Lake
In this month’s issue of Decibel, we bring you a flexi so close to our hearts that it’s practically a third ventricle. We got Asphyx mouthpiece Martin Van Drunen to talk about his relationship to the magazine and its editor, as well as the way the band put together our most recent edition of the flexi series.
For Those About to Squawk: Waldo’s Pecks of the Week
May 2, 2016 Blake Harrison
Waldo picks a peck of pecking picks, with Wrong, Fallujah, and Grave Miasma.
Lord Ahriman (Dark Funeral) interviewed
May 2, 2016 Chris Dick
** Twenty-two years. That’s how long Dark Funeral has been at it. It, being black metal. It, being the black metal lifestyle. It, being two EPs and six full-lengths, going back to 1994, when black metal wasn’t hip in your neck of the woods (unless it’s Olso, Bergen, or Stockholm). For the past seven years, the Swedes have been writing new album, Where Shadows Forever Reign. They’ve changed vocalists, with Emperor Magus Caligula exiting after 15 years of service to be replaced by Heljarmadr (Cursed 13). New drummer Dominator (The Wretched End) is an inspired blast machine. And bassist Natt (Angrepp) rumbles Lucifer’s great thunder. Reinforced with dark legions, Dark Funeral will take Where Shadows Forever Reign across the globe. Rise… Legions!
Lyric Video Premiere of Heading-Crushing Heaviness from Australia’s Sanzu
April 29, 2016 James Lewis
A Gojira-like sledgehammer for your skull. That’s what Fridays call for, right?
Demo:listen: Temple of Abandonment
April 29, 2016 Dutch Pearce
On this week’s Demo:listen, we pinpoint the location of and investigate, full of wonder and despair, Vancouver’s Temple of Abandonment.
The Rise of an Evil Sun: True Black Dawn Premiere
April 28, 2016 James Lewis
Finnish black metallers True Black Dawn have preached the good and blasphemous word since 1992. Check out the premiere for the title track on Come the Colorless Dawn, the band’s second full-length, and first album in 15 years.