Mastodon‘s whale of sophomore LP gets the dB HOF treatment. 

KEN mode’s Shane and Jesse Matthewson have decided to take a step back from being full-time road dogs and focus on their new venture, MKM Management services, which combines their desk job skill set with their rock and roll lifestyle experiences.

Grief Relic
Be like Mike
dB Rating: 8/10

Catching up with Rick Rozz (& bassist/vocalist Michael Grim) to exacerbate our need to hear the debut EP of his new band, The End.

Our own Richard Christy looks toward a third consecutive AL pennant for his beloved Royals.

Exclusive. Gorguts. Full-EP premiere. We don’t need to say anything more, really. 

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).

Mortiis reveals part one of a three-part short film.

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.

Waldo picks a peck of pecking picks, with Wrong, Fallujah, and Grave Miasma.