Track Premiere: Syk – ‘The White Sun’
November 21, 2016 Emily Bellino
Syk takes on ideas of society and conformity with groovy riffs.
Q&A: East Bay Ray (Dead Kennedys) on Trump, The Internet And His Revolutionary Guitar Sound
November 21, 2016 Justin Norton
Dead Kennedys guitarist East Bay Ray sat down for a rare interview with Decibel and discussed Trump, his inimitable guitar style and how the Internet breeds fascism.
Track-by-Track Breakdown: Albez Duz – ‘Wings of Tzinacan’
November 21, 2016 Emily Bellino
Occult rockers Albez Duz take us through their album, Wings of Tzinacan, track by track.
Rolling THAC0: A Normal Conversation With Devin Townsend
November 21, 2016 Chris Dick
Devin Townsend needs no introduction. That being said, for sake of formality, we’re introducing Canada’s most inspiring musician as Canada’s most inspiring (and slightly off-kilter) musician. Townsend should’ve never created his newest album, Transcendence. He was already on to something else–namely Casualties of Cool–but then something ordered his brain in Townsend’s general disorder.
Goes Cube
November 21, 2016 Adrien Begrand
Shadows Swallowed the Flood
One more for the road
dB rating: 8/10
Encrotchment Week 11 with Eddie Gobbo of Something is Waiting
November 19, 2016 Eddie Gobbo
The man who is thankful for everything in his life but his Football Team.
Track Premiere: Call of the Void ‘Get In The Van’ With New Lineup
November 18, 2016 Emily Bellino
“Are you fucking kidding me?” is the question Call of the Void are asking on their new record. We’re not kidding that you should listen to “Get In The Van.”
Video Premiere: Aenaon – ‘Earth Tomb’
November 18, 2016 Emily Bellino
Aenaon present an unsettling video that is somewhere between reality and dreaming.
Frédéric Leclercq on Sinsaenum: “I’ve Always Wanted to do This Kind of Music”
November 18, 2016 J. Andrew
United by a desire for death metal.
Music Criticism Has Not Died. But It Must Transform
November 18, 2016 Joseph Schafer
Music criticism, and the reviewing of musical pieces in general, is not obsolete. You’d be forgiven for thinking so, though.