grindcore
Track Premiere: Lock Up – ‘Desolation Architect’
January 23, 2017 Emily Bellino
Lock Up has a new vocalist but haven’t slowed down with “Desolation Architect.”
Limited Autographed Copies of CHOOSING DEATH & HALL OF FAME Book Available!
January 17, 2017 Albert Mudrian
The next 20 copies sold of Choosing Death (hardcover and paper) and the Decibel Hall of Fame Anthology Vol. II will be signed by Decibel editor in chief Albert Mudrian.
For Those About to Squawk: Waldo’s Pecks of Grind, Death and Power
January 6, 2017 Albert Mudrian
In which our resident birdbrain pecks on new releases Avulsed, Grave Digger and the Drip.
For Those About To Squawk: Waldo’s Pecks Of The Year
December 23, 2016 Blake Harrison
Ulcerate, Whores, Gatecreeper, Full of Hell/Nails, Gendo Ikari and everything else Waldo pecked on in 2016.
Track Premiere: The Drip, “Anathema”
December 7, 2016 Albert Mudrian
On new track “Anathema,” the Drip only grind in drops, but that’s when the hammer really drops.
Full Stream: Nails/Full of Hell Split 7″
November 8, 2016 Emily Bellino
This three song tour de force is what happens when Full of Hell and Nails join forces for a split 7-inch.
Anaal Nathrakh
October 31, 2016 Jeff Treppel
The Whole of the Law
Total fucking destruction
dB rating: 8/10
Top 5 Most Anticipated Sets: Southwest Terror Fest
October 12, 2016 Emily Bellino
Be sure to check these sets out when Southwest Terror Fest goes down next weekend.
Full Album Stream: Venom Prison – ‘Animus’
October 10, 2016 Emily Bellino
Venom Prison‘s debut full length is a pissed off, forceful death metal album.
The Locust – “Plague Soundscapes”
September 27, 2016 Kevin Stewart-Panko
If any band has endured and persevered through extreme music’s potential for divisive conservatism and pedantic nit-picking, it’s the Locust.
It Had To Happen: The Grindfather Interviews The Grindmother
September 26, 2016 Albert Mudrian
In which our favorite DC-area grindcore staple interviews our favorite 67-year-old grandmother who fronts a grindcore band. You’re welcome.
Full Album Stream: Trap Them’s “Crown Feral” Will Royally Blissfuck You Up
September 19, 2016 Sean Frasier
Experience pure sonic violence with Trap Them‘s Crown Feral, then recover from your beatdown with a macabre arts & (darker hand)crafts lesson from vocalist Ryan McKenney.
Track Premiere: Hierophant – “Forever Crucified”
September 15, 2016 Emily Bellino
Italy’s Hierophant unleash a palpable burst of anger on “Forever Crucified” as they prepare to release Mass Grave.
TRACK PREMIERE: UNYIELDING LOVE SHOWS THEIR LUST FOR NOISE-GRIND ON “OF HUMAN GREASE AND ASH”
August 10, 2016 Shane Mehling
The noise grind attack of Unyielding Love will tear us apart.
The Grindmother Covers Sepultura’s “Slave New World” (Video)
July 26, 2016 Albert Mudrian
The Grindmother – the Canadian trio fronted by a 67-year-old grandmother – are back with a Sepultura cover. And Decibel‘s got it here.
Dropdead – “Dropdead”
June 30, 2016 Greg Pratt
It may be the punkest thing to ever happen to an album in Decibel’s Hall of Fame: It was bootlegged after its release by the band themselves.
Justify Your Shitty Taste: Napalm Death’s “Diatribes,” “Inside the Torn Apart” & “Words from the Exit Wound”
June 16, 2016 Greg Pratt
Even Napalm Death had growing pains. Our latest Justify Your Shitty Taste defends that era of the legendary grindcore band.
The Daily Grind: An Interview with Napalm Death’s Barney Greenway
May 26, 2016 Matt Solis
Did you catch Napalm Death in the past couple of months when they rolled through your town? If not, you missed one of the most eclectic tour packages of 2016. We caught up with vocalist Mark “Barney” Greenway ahead of the band’s first of two sold-out shows at Slim’s in San Francisco to talk about how the “Savage Imperial Death March Tour” came about, the logistics of grindin’ for six straight weeks and, of course, the three-ring circus that is American politics.
White Whale Caught: Memoriam/ex-Bolt Thrower Drummer Andy Whale interviewed
May 17, 2016 Albert Mudrian
War master Andy Whale re-enters the realm of chaos for death/grind victory with Memoriam.
Make Your Day a Bit Uglier with this Musket Hawk Premiere
April 26, 2016 James Lewis
Equal parts bluesy sludge and trudging grind, Musket Hawk bring the slow despondency necessary on the most hungover of afternoons.
Los Angeles Murderfest Returns!: Q&A with founder Dan Dismal
March 30, 2016 Albert Mudrian
Making a Murderfest Part III.
Graf Orlock
March 28, 2016 Jesse Chase
Crime Traveler
Whoa, whoa, whoa—you on the list, fuckface?
dB Rating: 9/10
Napalm Death – “From Enslavement to Obliteration”
September 28, 2015 Nick Green
This particular iteration of Napalm Death was notably short-lived, but the sheer amount the quartet was able to accomplish in a two-year run between the summer of ’87 and summer of ’89 is absolutely mental.
Making Napalm: Q&A With Napalm Death Producer Russ Russell
May 6, 2015 Justin Norton
One of the reasons Napalm Death has been so successful is their relationship with producer Russ Russell. Russell has worked with the band since 2000 and will probably be with them when they are making albums in their 70s. He joined us from England for a chat on working with the grind legends.
Danny Lilker’s Short Retirement: Stream Blurring
April 22, 2015 Justin Norton
Last we checked wasn’t Brutal Truth/SOD/Nuclear Assault impresario and longtime Decibel friend Danny Lilker retiring? Well, that didn’t take too long. The guy just put out another grindcore record!
Exclusive: Napalm Death Video Premiere
January 23, 2015 Justin Norton
Folks, that’s an animated Barney Greenway. Consider us chuffed. Napalm Death was recently featured on our cover in conjunction with the release of their massive new album Apex Predator-Easy Meat. In our story last month Greenway told us: “I know it sounds sickeningly upbeat but I’ve never gone into a show and been in the…
Q&A and Album Stream: Boddicker
November 19, 2014 Justin Norton
If you don’t dig deep into the demos reviewed in our print edition you will miss many gems. Case in point: Boddicker‘s nasty little album Crime Upheaval, which reminded us of classics like World Downfall and Misery Index with Brujeria theatrics. Boddicker is actually the name of the villian in the original Robocop so there’s…