My Favorite Flexi: Evoken “Rotting Misery” (dB026)
November 11, 2015 Dutch Pearce
To commemorate five years of Decibel Flexis we’ve asked Decibel writers to write a review-length tribute to their favorite disc. Today’s installment features Evoken’s cover of “Rotting Misery,” originally by Paradise Lost.
Get Your Ivories Tickled with the Keyboard Shredding Math-Prog of Spacebag
November 11, 2015 Shane Mehling
Ex-Rorschach and Asva guys show off their crazy 88.
My Favorite Flexi: The Gates Of Slumber “The Jury” (dB006)
November 10, 2015 Justin Norton
To commemorate five years of Decibel Flexis, we’ve asked Decibel writers to write a review-length tribute to their favorite disc. First up is the Gates of Slumber’s entry, a remake of their early track “The Jury.”
Duality Gets Strung Up, “Hanged on a Ray of Light”
November 10, 2015 Andrew Bonazelli
Italian outfit Duality ply a trade of progressive death metal that conjures Cynic, Atheist and late-period Death.
STREAMING: Grave Pleasures “Futureshock”
November 10, 2015 Chris Dick
“My lyrics deal with us being a post-apocalyptic species, aware of our inevitable demise, quite possibly by our own hands.”
Have You Heard Heathen Beast?
November 10, 2015 Daniel Lake
At Decibel, we’re always on the lookout for hot new blood or more Iron Maiden, and Indian black metal blasphemers Heathen Beast sate our desire for the former quite well.
Hear a Ton of Songs From Violation Wound’s New Double Album
November 9, 2015 Andrew Bonazelli
Six ragers from Broken Idol/Elimination Time to make your Monday manic.
Sound the Horn for Forn’s New EP
November 9, 2015 Andrew Bonazelli
We were all about sludge heavyweights Forn in 2014, as they turned heads with breakout full-length The Departure of Consciousness. The Boston five-piece just wrapped new 12-inch Weltschmerz (due out on the esteemed Gilead Media), and we’re chuffed to give you the A-side in advance: parts one and two of “Saudade.”
A Great(ish) Interview with Great Falls
November 9, 2015 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Abrasive and prickly purveyors of violently noisy hardcore, Great Falls have a new album out entitled The Fever Shed. Hit the big orange arrow somewhere below and you can have it peel the paint off the walls of whatever asylum you’re presently rotting in.
