Demo:listen: Turkey’s El Topo
February 5, 2016 Daniel Lake
Every week, Decibel will premiere new material by bands of a heavy nature. There’s no boundaries here, either. Death, black, doom, sludge, progressive, stoner, retro, whatever! It’s all fair game. What’s this section called? DEMO:LISTEN, naturally. This week we take a look at El Topo, an instrumental oddity hailing from Istanbul, Turkey.
Sci-Fi or Die Indeed with Droids Attack’s “Mashenomak”
February 4, 2016 Andrew Bonazelli
Madison stoner trio Droids Attack have been power-riffin’ since 2001, and fourth album Sci-Fi or Die is their most effective strand of heaviosity yet.
Wake Up and Rock Out to a Seven Sisters of Sleep Full Album Stream
February 3, 2016 Andrew Bonazelli
L.A. sludge quintet Seven Sisters of Sleep are poised to drop their third opus, Ezekiel’s Hags, February 5 on Relapse.
Video Premiere: Paradise Lost Achieves “Terminal” Velocity
February 3, 2016 Andrew Bonazelli
The plague keeps spreading.
BLK OPS To Open Austin Date of 2016 Decibel Magazine Tour
February 3, 2016 Andrew Bonazelli
From February 1 until February 12, we’ll be announcing regional openers for select dates of the 2016 Decibel Magazine Tour every day at noon EST.
Shots Fired: Gehennah “Too Loud to Live, Too Drunk to Die” Full Album Stream
February 3, 2016 Andrew Bonazelli
Swedish blackened thrashers Gehennah have given a fuck about one thing and one thing only since 1992: not posing.
Bloodiest On Their Not Very Bloody Influences
February 3, 2016 Shane Mehling
Sometimes you read one of these playlists by a band and, while their choices may be good, you wonder how in the world people with such varied tastes could make such one-dimensional music. This is clearly not true for Bloodiest (ex and current members of Russian Circles, Yakuza and Corrections House), who are so expansive and unorthodox it only makes sense they would be spinning music this eclectic.
Inferion to Open Atlanta Date of 2016 Decibel Magazine Tour
February 2, 2016 Andrew Bonazelli
From February 1 until February 12, we’ll be announcing regional openers for select dates of the 2016 Decibel Magazine Tour every day at noon EST.
Exclusive Premiere: Zhrine’s “Spewing Gloom”
February 2, 2016 Matt Solis
Zhrine is an Icelandic black/death metal band that melds the disgusting atonality of Deathspell Omega with the oppressively frigid atmosphere of Svartidauði (guitarist Nökkvi Gylfason is a member), complete with a fetid dusting of sludge as a sickening after-dinner mint. Check out the exclusive premiere of their song “Spewing Gloom,” off their upcoming LP, Unortheta.
Talkin ‘Bout Flex: Church of Misery
February 2, 2016 Daniel Lake
This month, we talked to Tatsuhito Mikami of Japan’s Church of Misery (and to vocalist Scott Carlson) about their contribution, a special mix of “Confessions of an Embittered Soul” from COM’s forthcoming And Then There Were None record.
