Decibel Magazine

Contents [No.027]

January 2007

photo by Ross Halfin

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Cover Story

#2 Album of the Year

Battle of Mice - A Day of Nights (Neurot)

Features

#3 Album of the Year

Converge - No Heroes (Epitaph)

#4 Album of the Year

Nachtmystium - Instinct: Decay (Battle Kommand)

#5 Album of the Year

Cult of Luna - Somewhere Along the Highway (Earache)

Album of the Year

Mastodon - Blood Mountain (Warner Bros./Relapse)

Albums of the Year

2006 wasn't just a rough year for Philadelphia sports fans (aren't they all though, really?).

Allhelluja

Italian metal supergroup preach the gospel of death 'n' roll

Anaal Nathrakh

Black metal/grindcore duo provide the icing on the hate

Arsis

With their sophomore album United in Regret, Virginia death metal duo Arsis offer more remorse

Belphegor

Austrian black/death metallers go for the goat on Pestapokalypse VI

Burning Skies

Burning Skies...are teaching Metalcore Ecology 101. Truancy is punishable by death.

Cry Now Cry Later

Dem free-niggers f'um de N'of am sho' crazy. —Mammy, The Birth of a Nation

Deftones/Seemless

Seemless frontman Jesse Leach bros down with Deftones vocalist Chino Moreno

DragonForce

September 30, 9:30 Club, Washington, DC, Support: HORSE the Band, All That Remains

Dying Fetus Studio Report

TBA

Editor's Notes

Decibel presents 10-page Iron Maiden special feature

Full Blown Chaos

NYC hardcore crew practices family values

Glenn Danzig

Decibel has a power lunch with Evil Elvis

He Is Legend

Schuylar Croom is so excited and he just can't hide it

Iron Maiden

How Iron Maiden sidestepped American music martyrdom and salvaged heavy metal through its darkest times for future headbangers

Landmine Marathon

The desert-grind quintet's retro detonation is no mirage

Only Living Witness - Prone Mortal Form

Lost metal/hardcore gem unearthed