Decibel Magazine

Contents [No.055]

May 2009

Cover Story

With Sabbath Mach II back at the wheel, Decibel rides shotgun on the highway to Heaven and Hell

Features

Agoraphobic Nosebleed aren’t just Scott Hull’s other grindcore band anymore

Irish black metalgaze trio’s eyes are decidedly unsmiling

Funeral doom crew is driven like the snow

Earth Crisis’ reigning king of vegan straight-edge gets all militant on Decibel’s ass

Swedish thrashers workin’ on their night moves, head gear

If weed falls in a forest and no one is around, this quintet will still hear it

They’re Georgia peaches, with two drummers, but don’t call Kylesa the Allman Brothers

After nearly two decades of death/doom despondency, My Dying Bride have never felt better

Chicago deathcore dealers try to overcome the hype

Swiss crew gets back to black. Finally.

The Making of Suffocation's Effigy of the Forgotten

Germans juggle zee tech-metal formula

Retro rockers pry our third eye wide open