Vastum
VASTUM Unveil Exclusive New Track, “Befouled in Self-Salvation,” via the Decibel Flexi Series
December 12, 2023 Albert Mudrian
Hear and acquire this flexi disc single from Vastum featuring an exclusive new song, available as part of the Decibel Flexi Series. Hurry, quantities are extremely limited!
Five For Friday: November 10, 2023
November 10, 2023 J. Andrew
Pretty soon it’ll be time to pre-emptively reveal our Top 40 albums of the year. But before any of you finalize your own list, keep coming here every Friday to see who shuffles in at the last minute.
VASTUM to Release Exclusive New Track, “Befouled in Self-Salvation,” via the Decibel Flexi Series
October 27, 2023 Decibel Magazine
Get your deluxe Decibel subscription by Monday, November 6 to obtain this HIGHLY LIMITED flexi disc single from death metal deviants Vastum
Pre-Order VASTUM’s New LP, ‘Inward To Gethsemane,’ on Limited Edition Vinyl Now!
September 29, 2023 Decibel Magazine
We have only 100 copies available of Vastum‘s new LP, Inward To Gethsemane, on exclusive murky Gray & Black Marbled vinyl. Don’t blow it.
Full EP Premiere: Negative Prayer – “Negative Prayer”
March 9, 2023 Brad Sanders
Hear three death metal D-beatdowns form Negative Prayer, featuring former and current members of Poison Idea, Vastum, Funebrarum and VoidCeremony.
Track Premiere: Acephalix – “Godheads”
August 11, 2022 Daniel Lake
Hear another new banger from deeply deranged death-crust purveyors Acephalix before their long-awaited new LP, Theothanatology, drops on September 30.
Full Album Premiere: Ulthar – ‘Providence’
June 11, 2020 Bradley Zorgdrager
Hear Oakland black/death dealers Ulthar deliver their sophomore LP Providence in full a day ahead of its release on 20 Buck Spin
Track Premiere: Ulthar – ‘Asymmetric Warfare’
October 4, 2018 Emily Bellino
Ulthar offer savage, inverted black/death metal on “Asymmetrical Warfare.”
TRVE Brewing Celebrates 5th Anniversary With Weekend of Metal and Beer
June 22, 2017 Adem Tepedelen
When Denver’s TRVE Brewing celebrates its anniversary every June, you can bet that owner Nick Nunns does it up right, putting on a weekend filled with metal bands and special one-off beers.
Top 5 Records of 2015 That Tied for #41
December 8, 2015 Daniel Lake
Among 2015’s other contenders, five curried nearly enough votes to make it onto our list… but only nearly. Does that mean we shouldn’t spill some love-ink for them? Hell no! Here’s the five records that tied for #41 on our Top 40 Albums of 2015.
No Ifs, Ands or Butts: We Dig Vastum’s “Sodomitic Malevolence”
September 28, 2015 Andrew Bonazelli
Bay Area heavyweights Vastum have detonated a new album every two years, and Hole Below is their exceptional, must-hear third.
Something for the weekend: Vastum’s sexy NWOSDM Q&A, The Redux
July 29, 2011 Jonathan Horsley
Until interviewing Bay Area old-school nasties Vastum for dB #82, I thought metal’s attitude to man’s carnal desires extended just to the more is more philosophy of take it when you can get it, and like Skid Row’s Sebastian Bach was probably right when he said that sex addiction is one of the healthier addictions,…
Raising up the Hammers of Misfortune: (almost) 60 minutes with John Cobbett
July 8, 2011 Jonathan Horsley
Hammers of Misfortune are one of the most slept-on bands to be offering hauté metal compositions that’d sate vinyl gourmands’ appetite for a more adult alternative to power metal and something a bit more compositionally sophisticated than NWOBHM’s greasy denim bark. Like something that’s got all metal’s histrionic chutzpah but doesn’t require an ad hoc…