Decades in the making, the co-headlining American tour featuring death metal titans Cannibal Corpse and Morbid Angel is now less than one month away and already has one tour member saying, “It’s going to be the biggest Decibel Tour ever.” The annual Decibel Magazine Tour issue of your favorite metal rag has exclusive interviews with these two godfathers of […]
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The official Lords of Chaos movie trailer dropped today—read our full review of the film here—and the internet did not disappoint with its comments. Because the only thing better than black metal is black metal fans reacting to Lords of Chaos, these are the 10 best comments we found on the trailer’s Youtube page. 10. “ready for varg’s […]
Read moreWhat up, foos? This time of year… (I know, I bitch about it a lot), this time of year, the releases really slow down, so I do my best here. So let’s peck it out, shall we? First up is Horrisonous (uhh, what? Is that horrible and poisonous together?) is releasing Culinary Cacophony (uhh, what?) […]
Read moreIf there are rules to writing and performing black metal, Neil Carter wasn’t aware when he entered the studio to record Result of an Iron Age, the debut album from his solo black metal entity 10:13. The progressive project spends its runtime of 11 tracks creating defiant, psychedelic black metal that feels as forward-thinking as it does traditional. It’s […]
Read moreAtlanta’s Dead Register mix up a strange brew. The power trio, consisting of husband-and-wife duo M. Chvasta and Avril Che each on bass-plus-extra duties and drummer Danny Ryann, play a moody and highly melodic kind of gothic doom that has more in common with Deftones than The Peaceville three. At their best, I think they […]
Read moreSwedish black metal duo Blodskam can trace their roots all the way back to 1998, when two brothers initially decided to join forces for purposes of recording and releasing music. But because life happens, Blodskam laid dormant for nearly 20 years until the brothers Aghora and Dödfödd decided to pick up where they’d left off. They recruited drummer Kim […]
Read more“What was supposed to be a year-long progress ended up taking two, as my wife, Mo, died suddenly in August of 2017,” dark fiction writer/editor extraordinaire and Weirdpunk Books owner Sam Richard tells Decibel of the long, arduous journey to get Zombie Punks Fuck Off into print. “After partially clawing my way out of my […]
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As faithful Decibel readers know, YOB guitarist/vocalist Mike Scheidt had a rough 2017. Suffering from a painful intestinal disease called acute diverticulitis, he underwent a grueling series of hospitalizations and surgeries that ultimately saved his life. After a slow and methodical recovery process, Scheidt and his bandmates—drummer Travis Foster and bassist Aaron Rieseberg—recorded what became […]
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Featuring current and former members of hard-hitting heavies like Rammer, Cauldron and Toxic Holocaust, Chainbreaker formed six years ago, during a long Canadian winter. The band came together as a way of coping with said desolation, that is, by drinking and ripping out some Razor covers. At the time, the “band” was just Chainbreaker drummer […]
Read moreA Novelist. The Louisiana-based group emerged in 2015 with their debut album Portraits and have since been working on its follow up, Folie. A Novelist have lost none of their technical prowess, as they demonstrate on new song “Tombeau,” which features one complex riff after another, moving from black metal-esque tremolo-picked flurries to finger-stretching death metal riffs to solos […]
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