INTERVIEW: Sindre Solem from Obliteration
December 30, 2013 Jonathan Horsley
On November 12th, Norwegian death metal atavists Obliteration finally broke their silence with Black Death Horizon, the long-awaited follow-up to their awesome 2009 LP, Nekrospalms. Where ‘psalms spread the gospel of old-school death metal through riffs redolent of Autopsy et al, Black Death Horizon finds Obliteration visiting a new plane of extreme metal. Death metal,…
Top 5 Albums NOT In Our Top 40 Of 2013 List
December 30, 2013 Chris Dick
** Every year we do it. Decibel assembles a list of killer albums based on a secret algorithm. This year, I wanted to add to our Top 40 list (as published HERE). Albums I felt were overlooked on our list. The artists and albums reflect my opinion only and weren’t subject to the secret algorithm….
Celebrate 10 years of Seventh Rule by winning all their records
December 23, 2013 Jonathan Horsley
What with a holiday season to service and a ten-year anniversary to celebrate, the good people of Seventh Rule Recordings have doubled down on the good cheer and offered you the chance to win their entire vinyl discography in their 10 Year Glitch Prize Package Says a dispatch from Seventh Rule’s Portland HQ: “Seventh Rule…
Decibel’s Top 13 Most Metal Holiday Songs Ever
December 23, 2013 Chris Dick
Many of you might have noticed—If you listen to radio that is, but that’s another blog entirely—on Black Friday many U.S. radio stations flipped from their respective formats to Holiday. All across this great (not so great if you follow Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity with any seriousness) land of ours Adult Contemporary and Pop…
TRACK PREMIERE: Monument of Misanthropy’s “Entering a New State”
December 23, 2013 Sean Frasier
If I commissioned a sculptor to create a monument dedicated to the hatred of mankind, it would probably be a metalhead with hair dangling in front of its eyes, carved from black onyx and brimstone, and “Entering a New State” would be blaring in a continuous loop from a speaker tucked inside the statue’s mouth….
For Those About to Squawk: Waldo’s Best Pecks of 2013
December 20, 2013 Andrew Bonazelli
Well, we all know that the year is winding down, so it’s that pesky time for end of the year lists. These are in no PECKticular order, so, you know, these are just some of the releases that are a better than fit to line my cage with. Noisem, Agony Defined: This is thrash played the…
From the Shuman Vault: Nosvrolok’s Maledictum Parasytus
December 20, 2013 Daniel Lake
Years ago, a former non-Decibel coworker caught wind that I was digging into the grimy corners of the blackened underground. This coworker – a Mr. Shuman – immediately targeted my mailbox for blast ‘n’ rasp overload. Data CDs loaded with entire discographies of 3rd tier blasphemers with photocopied cover art, cast-off compilations, and duplicate copies…
BREWTAL TRUTH: Drink This Now!
December 20, 2013 Adem Tepedelen
As far as we’re concerned, this is imperial (or Russian imperial, if you prefer) stout season. This is when it’s time to bring out the big guns, the sipping beers for those dark, cold winter evenings. Dark weather demands dark beers, and these are some of the blackest out there. It’s a fallacy that all…
He Who Laughs Last, Doesn’t Laugh With Beaten to Death
December 19, 2013 Kevin Stewart-Panko
As long as Oslo’s Beaten to Death exists, debate will exist as to whether they’re taking grindcore into uncharted waters and making the world a better place because of it, or whether they just plain suck for the same reason. Personally, their first album Xes and Strokes and newest, Dødsfest! are two of the freshest…
Decibrity Playlist: Enabler
December 19, 2013 Zach Smith
Enabler has had a pretty busy year. Amidst a slew of tour dates (including opening for Rotten Sound throughout the Old World), the group put out two EPs, the most recent of which it dropped last month. As if that wasn’t enough, according to Facebook, the Milwaukeeans are currently tracking their next full-length right now….