New Jersey

Video Premiere: Voidscape – “Grief Eclipse”

March 9, 2023

The view from the new Voidscape video is dull and bleak, but the melodic death metal is smokin’.

Video Premiere: Revenge Beast – “Egregore”

December 7, 2022

There’s a new tech death band in town, hailing from both Boston and New Jersey and dishing out us some classic, heavy brutality, get to know Revenge Beast via their new video for “Eregore.”

Video Premiere: Gematria – “The Elusive One”

November 22, 2022

New Jersey instrumental prog duo, Gematria, turn their new track, “The Elusive One” into a musical game piece.

Q&A: Adrenalin OD’s Dave Scott Schwartzman On His New Book and Becoming The World’s Fastest Punk Band

September 21, 2022

Adrenalin O.D. drummer Dave Scott Schwartzman discusses his upcoming book If It’s Tuesday This Must Be Walla Walla: The Wacky History of Adrenalin O.D., which tells the story of AOD and hardcore’s formative years.

Track Premiere: Come Mierda – ‘Warzone’

August 9, 2021

New Jersey crust crew Come Mierda enter the “Warzone” with their new track.

EP Stream: Putrascension’s “The Obsidian Fog”

January 16, 2020

New Jersey’s Putrascension continues the state’s contradictory nature with their new EP.

Basement Space Travel: An Interview with Green Dragon

September 12, 2018

Green Dragon are your new favorite stoner metal band. Learn about what makes them tick and riff.

Track Premiere: Clamfight – ‘Echoes in Stone’

January 3, 2018

In under eight minutes, New Jersey sludge rockers Clamfight craft an epic tale of one location’s historical and supernatural transformation in “Echoes in Stone.”

Full Album Stream: Get “Necrosexual” with Pink Mass

October 25, 2017

Jersey grind hedonists Pink Mass stream their debut LP Necrosexual and share their vision of a world without sexual repression.

Track Premiere: Paralysis – ‘Life Sentence’

June 26, 2017

Stream the title track from crossover thrashers Paralysis’ first full-length record, Life Sentence.

TRACK PREMIERE: MUSTER UP THE COURAGE TO CHECK OUT COWARDICE’S “ERODING ETHOS”

December 7, 2016

Prefer your doom nasty and crusty as fuck? Well, you’re gonna absolutely love capital-“C” Cowardice then. (Your level of adoration for lowercase-“c” cowardice, on the other hand, is a personal matter, but do feel free to confide what you feel you must in the comments section below…) The New Jersey quintet’s admirably expansive and unpredictable debut full-length Without Condolence strives, roughly speaking, to bridge the gap between early Paradise Lost, Black Sabbath circa Vol. 4, and latter day Gorguts — a perfect backdrop for vocalist John Jones’ feral blackened death shriek-growl-shriek. 

Low Fidelity: Last Shift At The Shore

November 4, 2014

For more than a year, Neill Jameson has posted periodic columns about his life in a New Jersey record store at the Deciblog. They’ve been among the most popular features we’ve run in recent years. Neill recently clocked out for the last time and agreed to give us his thoughts after last shift. Fear not:…

Let Abazagorath Rekindle Your Spirit of Hate For Mankind

September 19, 2014

New Jersey-based brazen black metallers Abazagorath have sprinkled the last six or seven years with splits and an EP, but October 7th of this year will see the release of their first album in ten years.  What does the band have in store for you on their nearly-dawned The Satanic Verses?  How do you feel about…

Low Fidelity: Haunted House Summers

August 6, 2014

Long before he took up residence in a pair of New Jersey record stores Krieg frontman Neill Jameson (aka Imperial) was a kid looking to make a buck during the long, hot East Coast summers. He found a job as a professional ghoul at a boardwalk haunted house in Wildwood, New Jersey. The Deciblog convinced…

Low Fidelty: F*%ck The Halls

December 4, 2013

This summer, Neill Jameson wrote an article for us that more or less took over part of the Internet for a day and even got some love from the late Roger Ebert’s website. Neill — also the creator of one of our 100 best black metal records (for Krieg’s The Black House) has an open…

Low Fidelity: The Reality Of The Record Business, circa 2013

August 7, 2013

Neill Jameson is best known to readers as Imperial, frontman of the excellent USBM band Krieg. Along with Blake Judd, Wrest and Thurston Moore (!) he was also part of the black metal project Twilight. I got to know Neill during an interview about three years ago and we’ve kept in touch since. As our…

Throw Me a Frickin’ Label Hack: Forlorn Path

July 19, 2013

Because every day another band records another song.  Because 83% of those songs are unlistenable and you can’t be bothered to sift through the dreck.  Because metal is about not giving a shit and waking your own personal storm.  Because music is universal, expression is boundless, and even indie labels (whatever that means these days)…

Anchors Aweigh: Clamfight full album stream and interview

January 16, 2013

Clamfight has a much better ring to it than, say, Mollusk Warfare (and we already have Insect Warfare). We’d quickly exhaust our nautical jokes in a sentence or two so we’ll leave it at the headline. Here’s the scoop: for your listening pleasure below is Clamfight’s new album I Versus The Glacier. This writer digs…