There’s Nothing Old-Fashioned About Draconian’s “Stellar Tombs”
October 5, 2015 Albert Mudrian
Effortlessly mixing and matching melodeath, black metal and doom for the last 20+ years, Swedish powerhouse Draconian has a new weapon in their melodic arsenal in the form of vocalist Heike Langhans.
SHRED THE CONCEPT: ARKAIK’S “THAT WHICH LIES HIDDEN”
October 5, 2015 Jeff Treppel
Tech death with a conceptual edge unearths that which lies hidden.
Gearified: Jackson’s Pro Series King V still reigns, bloodily
October 3, 2015 Jesse Chase
**Matt Olivo is the founding guitarist of extreme metal trailblazers Repulsion, whose Horrified LP ranks as our #1 grindcore album of all time. Because we know that every reader ever plays guitar, we brought his print column to the Deciblog. In October 2013 Matt plugged into Jackson’s Pro Series King V, which “still reigns, bloodily.”
Don’t Sleep on Golden Void’s “Burbank’s Dream”
October 2, 2015 Andrew Bonazelli
Do you like epic HD depictions of Mother Nature’s multitude of glories? Who doesn’t? Except Morgan Freeman ain’t narrating this particular collection. It’s Earthless offshoot Golden Void.
WOLFHEART Flexi Is Tip of Decibel’s FINNISH METAL Iceberg
October 2, 2015 Andrew Bonazelli
The Land of the Midnight Sun has always cast a unique pall over heavy metal, so this December, Decibel dives deep into the thousand lakes to extract our special Finnish Metal Issue.
Space Truckin’ With Metal Mary, Derketa’s Resident Mechanic: Freewheel Burnin’
October 2, 2015 Andrew Bonazelli
If you are currently on the road, there’s simply some stuff that you’ve gotta know about the faithful roadhorse that is getting you from city to city.
Encrotchment: Week 4 with Eddie Gobbo
October 1, 2015 Eddie Gobbo
Seemingly every year the NFL creates an all roads lead to Rome story line. The league’s broadcasters will focus in on two different teams, obviously an AFC team and an NFC team, and describe them as on a collision course all season season long.
Get Knee-Deep in the Hoopla With Carved Up’s “We Built Riff City”
October 1, 2015 Andrew Bonazelli
Decibel‘s publisher, editor-in-chief and managing editor are all baseball guys, but our art director quietly maintains an fierce allegiance to hockey — particularly the Flyers — so we’re sure he’s psyched about the very likely unironic image of southeast Pennsylvania noise-rockers Carved Up above.
Weird Tales with Witch Mountain’s Nathan Carson
October 1, 2015 Matt Solis
Metal bands have been using literature as inspiration for decades, but for whatever reason, the two worlds seldom intersect when it comes to actual production…writers tend to stay on one side of the room while musicians stare at them from the other. Shuffling around somewhere in the middle are people like Nathan Carson, drummer of Portland-based doom titans Witch Mountain and published author of short fiction.
Kowloon Walled City Air Surprisingly Moody, Morose “Grievances”
September 30, 2015 Andrew Bonazelli
Noise-rock quartet Kowloon Walled City have gone all-in on slow-burning bad mood.
