Full Album Stream: Heaving Earth’s “Denouncing The Holy Throne”
February 2, 2015 Justin Norton
Heaving Earth takes their name from a Morbid Angel song (on the underrated Formulas Fatal To The Flesh). They are from the Czech Republic, where we think some of scenes of Hostel or at least one misanthropic slasher film was set. And they have a new album out on Lavadome called Denouncing The Holy Throne….
Not for Everyone: An Oral History of Metal Maniacs
February 2, 2015 Chris Dick
Europe had Metal Forces, Kerrang!, Metal Hammer and a host of language-specific publications—Rock Hard and Aardschok, for example—for literate longhairs to satisfy their hard, fast and heavy fix. The States, however, had no real unifying print magazine. Until Metal Maniacs. The staff had enough experience under their bulletbelts for it to feel like a veteran…
STREAMING: Moonspell “Extinct” + Fernando Ribeiro interviewed
February 2, 2015 Chris Dick
When Moonspell emerged in 1994 with the Goat on Fire / Wolves from the Fog 7″, there was no indication they’d be killing it two decades later. Initially, their homeland (Portugal) was a strike against the Lisbon-based black metallers. The Iberian Coast wasn’t Norway, Sweden, Finland, Greece, or Great Britain; it didn’t have the Nordic…
Gearified: Seymour Duncan’s Dirty Deed Distortion Pedal
January 31, 2015 James Lewis
Matt Olivo is the founding guitarist of extreme metal trailblazers Repulsion, whose Horrified LP ranks as Decibel’s #1 grindcore album of all time.
For Those About to Squawk: Waldo’s Pecks of the Week
January 30, 2015 Andrew Bonazelli
What up, fools? We got all of the things fine enough (or bad enough) for you to check out or don’t check out. So, let’s just get into it, shall we? Napalm Death release Apex Predator-Easy Meat. Attacking this one for review is a little difficult, as I typically don’t do the “this track, that…
Encrotchment With Eddie Gobbo From Jar’d Loose: Super Bowl Edition
January 30, 2015 Eddie Gobbo
This weekend, yes, the Super Bowl occurs, and our odyssey together ends. There will be one winner. One loser. And more people pissed off than happy regardless of who wins or loses. Erin Go Bragh(less) Before we delve heavily in to this Sunday’s Super Bowl matchup from hell, does anyone remember the Seattle/Green Bay game…
SPOILING OUR READERS: Iron Reagan’s “Spoiled Identity” EP
January 30, 2015 Jeff Treppel
Last June, we gave out a free Iron Reagan flexi disc to our subscribers, because we’re awesome like that. Still, that was free, and booze and drumsticks aren’t, so A389 have figured out a reason to charge you for it! It’s totally worth your hard-earned cash, though. Not only do you get two bonus tracks…
Hic Iacet Dig Up What Lies Buried
January 30, 2015 Daniel Lake
“Mysterious,” indeed. When we heard the sonic sickness belched from Spanish sepsis-spewers Hic Iacet, we dimmed the lights and began casting about for something filthy to rub all over ourselves. And we sought out an interview with the progenitors of these gruesome chords and vokills. We were rebuffed, our request to gain access to the…
Lo! (and Behold) It’s an Interview and Video Premiere!
January 29, 2015 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Australian sludge metal miscreants, Lo! have decided to celebrate the arrival of new vocalist, Sam Dillon by dunking him repeatedly into a vat of what looks like congealed Pepto Bismol in their brand new video, “Orca.” While some may see the video below as evidence of some cruel hazing ritual (whatever happened to the good…
Sons of Drayton Sawyer: Kaliya Serve Up “Human Meat”
January 29, 2015 Shawn Macomber
We’re about a month out from the release of a seriously brutal self-titled full-length debut courtesy underground berserkers Kaliya, but Decibel has an exclusive preview of the Dallas quintet’s tasty grind-infused take on the classic Swedish death metal sound in the form of…”Human Meat.” For more information hook up with Kaliya via Facebook, Bandcamp, and…
