Sludge
Everything is Fire: Album Premiere of Mantar’s “Ode to the Flame”
April 12, 2016 James Lewis
Burn everything to the ground.
For those about to Squawk: Waldo’s Pecks of the Week
March 25, 2016 Blake Harrison
Waldo goes talon-to-toe with the latest releases from Graves at Sea, Mantar, and Victims.
CONTEST: Yellowtooth CD giveaway
June 30, 2015 James Lewis
In the event you are enjoying summer too thoroughly, Orchestrated Misery is giving away five copies of Crushed by the Wheels of Progress, the second full-length by Indiana sludge trio Yellowtooth, in order to remind you why everything is terrible.
Izah Stream New Album: Sistere
February 13, 2015 Daniel Lake
Later this month, Dutch sextet Izah will release their first full-length document of sludgy aggression through the always dependable Nordvis Produktion. It represents a major step in a very long road for the band, and its four gargantuan tracks make that point crystal clear. But these aren’t the sprawling teases that some bands employ in…
Ride Wormwood’s Doom Trip: “I’d Rather Die”
October 10, 2014 Daniel Lake
Next week, Magic Bullet Records will force-feed us new bone-scraping sludge from Wormwood, a project dredged from the minds of Doomriders vets Chris Pupecki and Chris Bevilacqua. Born out of a need for yet-unexplored heaviness, Wormwood have retched out 20 minutes of crusty crush that are sure to nod some heads. Check out third track “I’d…
Old Blood Pours From Cold Blue Mountain
October 3, 2014 Daniel Lake
Earlier this week, we suggested that you nod out to the power-pretty sounds of New Zealanders Jakob. Maybe you were into it. Maybe that wasn’t angry enough or sludgy enough or vocalized enough for you (there were, in fact, no vocals). Fine. Let’s throw the malcontents a bone now with a full stream of the…
Read ’em and weep: Will Lindsay of Indian gives us his all-time on-tour reading list
March 24, 2014 Jonathan Horsley
Chicago’s Indian are presently hauling their blackhearted nihilism across the tarmac of the UK and Europe in support of the Decibel-approved From all Purity. It’s a sick record from disturbed men, maybe more noisy, more off-the-chain than anything they’ve cut to record before, and if your record collection exists primarily to harsh your mellow (which,…
Interview: Rick Duncan of Portland bass-and-drum duo Towers talks weird sounds, perfectionism and practice room magic
March 3, 2014 Jonathan Horsley
Towers come from Portland, Oregon, and have this awesome sound that’s a strange brew concocted of low-end bass hum and psych-stoner doom, post-punk and krautrock. There is a lot more in there, too. Putatively, it’s metal all right, but with a center so dark and heavy it can pull in all manner of outré influences…
STREAMING: French sludge-metallers DRAWERS new self-titled album
January 17, 2014 Jonathan Horsley
Ladies and germs, courtesy of the good people of Kaotoxin Records, it is our great honor to host this online premiere of Drawer’s self-tilted sophomore album. Drawers are a five-piece outfit from Toulouse, France, who play sludge or a variant thereof; Drawers is really just big-riffed, amp-worshipping metal. This is sludgish metal. Indeed, calling Drawers…
EXCLUSIVE PREMIERE: Akris “Row of Lights”
September 6, 2013 Shawn Macomber
Decibel invites you to start your weekend off right with this exclusive slab of epic, filthy-yet-strangely-beguiling sludge noise perfection from Virginia’s own Akris. The song, “Row of Lights,” is off the band’s forthcoming full-length debut on Domestic Genocide Records. For further information visit Akris’ official website and/or friend them on Facebook.
Cris Jerue of 16: Confessions Of A Middle-Age Freeloader
July 17, 2013 Justin Norton
For decades, 16 vocalist Cris Jerue has written lyrics about the consequences of bad behavior, bum brain chemistry and addiction. The end result of said behavior is that it’s often tough to find a place to settle down. In his first ever post for the Deciblog, Jerue writes about the natural consequences of said behavior…
STREAMING: STONE TITAN PREMIERE TITLE TRACK FROM “SCRATCH N’ SNIFF”
June 10, 2013 Jonathan Horsley
Courtesy of the good people at Safety Meeting Records, here is some fresh sludge in the form of the title track of Stone Titan‘s forthcoming debut LP, Scratch N’ Sniff. Okay, so those of you who are familiar with the underground scene in South Windsor, Connecticut, may well know all about the trio’s trippy sludge….
Stream new Lair of the Minotaur
May 14, 2013 Shawn Macomber
Superlative sludge thrashers Lair of the Minotaur recently burst back out of the infernal regions brandishing the sick (and extremely limited) new seven-inch single Godslayer. This morning guitarist/vocalist Steve Rathbone chats with Decibel about the latter while we stream the former — the band’s first new material since the excellent Evil Power full-length in 2010….
Kylesa’s Laura Pleasants’ track-by-track preview of “From the Vaults, Vol. 1”
November 12, 2012 Jonathan Horsley
On November 16th, Savannah sludge/metal/psych/punk/other band Kylesa will release From the Vaults Vol. 1 through Season of Mist. It’s been two years since the release of Spiral Shadow, and given you’ll will have to wait until the spring for a follow-up, those of you jonesing for a fix of heavy-and-trippy should check out this out….
LIVE REVIEW | Kylesa w/Circle Takes The Square & Ken Mode – 23rd Feb 2012
February 24, 2012 Jonathan Horsley
Tearing half-empty venues apart with earnest vigor is all just part of the job when you’re KEN mode and opening a three-band bill on schoolnight. But y’know there are worse ways to working your ticket across Europe, spreading at-once fierce and reflective metal/hardcore/noise jams to crowds that might lack the numbers but not the appreciation….
UK extremists The Atrocity Exhibit on fierce riffs and one-take grind
January 9, 2012 Jonathan Horsley
You’ve got to love and admire the optimism of people in the UK. While limited releases are a staple practice in underground music, adding both that exclusivity/collector appeal and some fiscal security, British grind champs The Atrocity Exhibit took it to, uh, extremes and limited the supply of 2011 faceripper Grind Over Matter to a…
INTERVIEW: OAKLAND RIFF TITANS BRAINOIL END THE DROUGHT
August 5, 2011 Jonathan Horsley
Spare a thought for all those hardy underground searchlights who’d been holding their breath waiting for Oakland, CA power-trio Brainoil to follow up the riff ‘n’ tumble of 2003’s superlative self-titled debut. They will have been dead and buried now, asphyxiated, gone purple in the cheek from the eight-year stretch when bassist/vocalist Greg Wilkinson, guitarist/vocalist…
Brief Interviews with nihilistic men, Vol. 1: Jimmy Bower (Eyehategod/Down)
July 15, 2011 Jonathan Horsley
In the hours before an Eyehategod show, finding people lucid enough to begin a sentence let alone finish it is a challenge that someone oughta reward with medals cast in gold, silver and bronze. It’s an Olympian feat to just negotiate past the bodies laying strewn across the dressing room, and this is on the…