10 Not-So-Obvious Influences on Fight Amp
November 2, 2016 Shane Mehling
All loud things must come to end. And that is why Fight Amp have decided to break up. The band’s own Mike McGinnis offers this eulogy: a list of surprising influences you may not have picked up on.
Video Premiere: Invoking the Abstract – ‘The Summit’
November 1, 2016 Emily Bellino
Invoking the Abstract plays instrumental technical death metal. This is a video of Invoking the Abstract playing instrumental technical death metal.
Everlasting Death: Stream Totten Korps’ Supreme Commanders of Darkness
November 1, 2016 Dutch Pearce
Fall to your knees before this full stream of Supreme Commanders of Darkness, full length #2 by Santiago’s death metal sacrificionados, Totten Korps—who’ve been lurking in the shadowy depths of the underground since ‘89!
Live Review: Gorguts, Intronaut, Brain Tentacles and Horrendous @ Metro Gallery in Baltimore, October 28, 2016
November 1, 2016 Daniel Lake
Amid the noise of a dozen gnarly fall tours this year, Gorguts and friends stand out as a must-see bill with zero filler.
Video Premiere: Tarnkappe – “Winterwaker”
October 31, 2016 Emily Bellino
We hope you brought your hat and gloves today…. you’ll be needing them for this Tarnkappe premiere, in which hypothermia abounds.
Satan’s Little Helpers: An Oral History of The Electric Hellfire Club
October 31, 2016 Justin Norton
Happy Halloween! Get in the spirit with an exhaustive Decibel oral history of The Electric Hellfire Club, the innovative 90s band that blended metal, industrial music, and Satanism. Burn, baby, burn!
Halloween Wishes from Neill Jameson
October 31, 2016 Neill Jameson
“No one even eggs houses anymore because they only want to buy cage free organic eggs and that shit’s expensive.”
Haug Makes Three Floyds Even Heavier
October 31, 2016 Adem Tepedelen
Todd Haug, one of the most important figures in the union of underground beer and underground metal, is joining the ranks of Three Floyds brewing!
Ends of the Earth, A Q&A With Ruins Mastermind Alex Pope
October 31, 2016 Chris Dick
For the past four years, Tasmanian black metallers Ruins have been working on their fifth album, Undercurrent. Without the pressures of most bands–writing, recording, touring–frontman Alex Pope, drummer Dave Haley, guitarist Joe Haley, and bassist Kai Summers were afforded time and space to realize their latest black metal vision.
Anaal Nathrakh
October 31, 2016 Jeff Treppel
The Whole of the Law
Total fucking destruction
dB rating: 8/10