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There are a lot of purist black metal bands that hide behind the shield of "keeping it trve" to defend rote, uninspired songwriting, but...
Though these reavers hail from the salty plains of Utah, they worship at the alter of Grand Magus and Manilla Road instead of the...
For those who enjoy labels, this band resembles sounds to include both a deathcore influence, as well as a brutal death metal influence.
Having recently witnessed Generation of Vipers live and in the flesh on their home turf, it’s still amazing and somewhat surprising to know that...
I can’t imagine what it's like to lose a band mate. Riot, a band with five decades of history, has had to deal with...
Katatonia have been in a reflective mood of late. After retooling their 2012 album Dead End Kings on last year's Dethroned and Uncrowned, the...
After the band's initial assembly in 2007, and creating a self-titled full length album, Those Who Bring The Torture then disbanded in 2010. In...
Many of the ideas and riffs go back as far as Entrails’ early '90s salad days and most of these songs have already appeared...
There are few bands as divisive, as utterly polarizing, as Cradle of Filth. Bashing them was second nature from the mid to late nineties...
The theocracy in Saudi Arabia recently gave its penal code a revamping, ostensibly to bring the kingdom’s policies in line with those of Western...
Place yourself in London, 1940–41, during the blitz. Bombs are crashing around you (above you if you’ve taken refuge in the tube), churches and...
We review the powerful new Lamb of God documentary.
Almost any discussion about black metal invariably starts by referencing bands from the second wave of the sub-genre like Mayhem, Darkthrone, Burzum, and Immortal. It's not surprising since...
The Decibel 100th issue show happened at the beginning of this year, and it was a whole lot of fun. I initially wrote my...
Five years between albums is a long time but when you've got a hundred other side projects that's just the way shit rolls. And...
Someone's been listening to their King Diamond. Oh, what the hell… there are so many Venom, Bathory and Celtic Frost clones flitting about – not to mention Sabbath, Slayer and even Blue Oyster...
I went out and got my hipster on Sunday at the Treasure Island Festival. I have not shame in this. However, in the process...
You know how there is a four pm? Did you know there is another 4 in the morning? I'm going to introduce myself to...
By the time that this goes up, I will have just seen Black Sabbath again (writing this Sunday night since I'm seeing them Monday). I...
Horseback are one of those ephemeral one-man projects that flit about from boutique label to micro-indie with an almost defiant hide-and-go-seek mentality. Following a series...
Having been on Victory Records through an entire album cycle now, and with a cover of D.R.I.'s classic "I Don't Need Society" in the track...
As part of Black Metal History Month, we will be spotlighting classic albums that we feel are essential for any fan of black metal. This...
Venomous Maximus – debuting on LP here after an independently released EP earlier this year – are 80's metal children, to be sure, but not...
