electronic music
Track Premiere: Phal:Angst – “Unhinged (Lustmord Version)”
January 5, 2023 Adem Tepedelen
Hear Austrian post-rock quartet Phal:Angst enlist dark ambient pioneer Lustmord to get “Unhinged.”
Video Premiere: Ulver “Russian Doll”
February 14, 2020 Chris Dick
Norwegian electronic music experimentalists Ulver debut new video, “Russian Doll.” Decibel dances with the devil in this controversial video.
Video Premiere: Mitochondrial Sun “Celestial Animal”
December 16, 2019 Chris Dick
Dark Tranquillity guitarist Niklas Sundin reinvents himself in electronic project Mitochondrial Sun. Decibel premieres new song “Celestial Animal” off Sundin’s Argonauta Records debut.
Mortiis: From Black Metal to Dungeon Synth and Beyond
October 16, 2017 Neill Jameson
In perhaps his most in-depth interview ever, Mortiis dives deep into his past as the unwitting progenitor of dungeon synth.
Satan’s Little Helpers: An Oral History of The Electric Hellfire Club
October 31, 2016 Justin Norton
Happy Halloween! Get in the spirit with an exhaustive Decibel oral history of The Electric Hellfire Club, the innovative 90s band that blended metal, industrial music, and Satanism. Burn, baby, burn!
Ex-Carcass Drummer, Current Electro-Wiz Ken Owen Interviewed
April 12, 2016 Daniel Lake
We had the chance to interview Mr. Owen for an article in Issue #136 (Feb 2016, Abbath cover), but we had to cut down our man’s responses to fit in the space available. Now you can read the entire interview, and hearing Owen’s freakish tunes is now only a click away.
Rise of the Machines: A Dark Electronic/Ambient Starter Kit
June 25, 2015 Matt Solis
Heavy metal has been flirting with electronic music for decades now, but the lines between the two worlds seem blurrier today than ever before. Chalk it up to Internet culture—with instant access to all the world’s information comes a vast multitude of subgenres that have enough permutations to satisfy all but the most discerning purists. Add to that the recent popularity of synth-heavy horror flicks like It Follows and numerous electronic artists signing to metal labels (Goblin Rebirth on Relapse, Gost/Dan Terminus/Perturbator on Blood Music) and it becomes pretty obvious: dark electronic/ambient music has pulled off a full-scale crossover!