Decibrity Playlist: Starkweather
May 28, 2015 Zach Smith
Back in 2005, I talked to Starkweather guitarist Todd Forkin about his band’s then new album for issue #16. It was one of my first freelance pieces for the magazine after leaving the friendly confines of 1032 Arch. At the time, Croatoan was the band’s third LP and first since 1995’s Into the Wire. While the Philadelphians have dropped another LP and split in the intervening years, April saw the re-release of their first two records via Translation Loss. So 113 issues later, it’s fitting in some way that vocalist Rennie Resmini closes out this little series after the break. To every one who has contributed to or read even one word of these playlists over the last three plus years — thank you.
Full EP Stream: Pyrrhon’s Growth Without End
May 27, 2015 Justin Norton
Pyrrhon caught our attention last year with their excellent album The Mother Of Virtues, which combined technical yet chaotic death metal with frontman Doug Moore’s staccato prose poems. A lot has happened in the ensuing year. The album made many year-end lists but the band split from Relapse and has since teamed with David Hall and Handshake for a new EP.
Justify Your Shitty Taste: Obituary’s “World Demise”
May 27, 2015 Shane Mehling
I am gobsmacked that I’m being asked to defend Obituary’s World Demise, a record that, in my mind, is nothing less than a classic extreme metal record which I assumed was pretty much universally respected.
Seeing Red With Dying Humanity’s “Bloodshot Eyes”
May 27, 2015 Andrew Bonazelli
Always glad to bring you guys a little optimism for your Hump Day: German melodeath monsters Dying Humanity
Death Angel – “The Ultra-Violence”
May 27, 2015 Chris Dick
Most of us were busy keeping our Trapper Keepers shut and our pencils sharpened when the members of Death Angel were woodshedding in drummer Andy Galeon’s garage and recording a legendary demo with none other than Kirk Hammett.
Cattle Decapitation to Make Flexi Series Debut in August Decibel
May 27, 2015 Andrew Bonazelli
The Decibel Flexi Series offers the first taste of new Cattle Decap deathgrind in the form of “Cannibalistic Invasivorism.”
Stream of Consciousness: MRTVI’s “Perpetual Consciousness Nightmare”
May 26, 2015 Jeff Treppel
If your Tuesday afternoon was missing sheer horror, we have the album for you!
Scream, Alucarda, Scream! Demon Lung Make the “Mark of Jubilee”
May 26, 2015 Andrew Bonazelli
Vegas-based doom metal quintet (yes, there is such a thing) Demon Lung are preparing to unleash their sophomore effort, A Dracula.
Punk Sumo: Ex-Corn On Macabre Frontman Billups Allen Inducts Us Into “The League”
May 26, 2015 Shawn Macomber
Ex-Corn On Macabre frontman Billups Allen has expanded his wry, off-kilter take on our collective existence from lyrical couplets into a wonderful new novel entitled The League — almost certainly the only tale to combine a deep dive into the amateur sumo wrestling underground and a Hawaii Five-0-esque murder mystery with a bookworm romance and a Black Sabbath motif.
