What rocks? Motherfucking witches do, and skeletons and corpses, weed for sure, and angry little razorback pigs, too. All that shit rocks. Hell yeah. Unfortunately, there’s been no way to make all those things rock together - until now.
This weekend, survival is for losers and thrashing is the only way to go. From Philly to New York, Friday, Saturday and Sunday: die die die. Start with some beers and grind things out with the swine from Javelina (or Atakke on the NY date), really blaze some chronic before/after/and during the Cannabis Corpse set (really), and hopefully when Skeletonwitch hits the stage you can transition your buzz smoothly into a drunken, headbanging stupor. If you can’t have some fucking fun at one of these shows, then sue everybody, sir, we can’t help you.
It’s Managing Editor Andrew Bonazelli’s birthday tomorrow. As we pointed out last year, Bonzo loves audio alchemy. Now he’s a year older, and he still loves mashups, though we’re not sure he’ll be able to handle this one: Daft Punk vs. Slayer vs. Pussycat Dolls vs. Limp Bizkit. It’s mixed by Austrian DJ Schmolli, who also has a pretty fun Ozzy-Bangles mix available for download here and a totally bitchin’ mega-mix that includes Paradise Lost v. Pink and Carcass v. Madonna here.
DJ Schmolli, “Don’t Cha Take A Robot Around South of Heaven”
1) Mr. Pogo: Lets face it. Everything awesome comes from Japan. I’m serious. Look at the facts. They have microwaves that make toast. They have Corrupted, G.I.S.M., and Gauze. You can buy beer out of vending machines on the street. Not to mention, how many American idiots do you know that have a stupid koi fish, wind bars, foo dogs, tattooed on their arm? Read more…
Well, Poison The Well is recording a new album. These dudes are all up in the studio, but their drummer, Chris Hornbrook, had the time to send us this highly amicable, highly informative update. Read it and weep:
Hello, Everyone! Just checking in with a studio update. Things are moving along smoothly, we are almost done with the basic tracking of guitars, bass, and vocals. I finished up tracking drums about two weeks ago at Castle Oaks Studios. It was my first experience there and I have to say it’s become my new favorite place to record drums. It was super easy, quick, and comfortable to get everything done in the limited amount of time we had there. Now I spend about twelve hours a day sitting around on the net or watching movies. Pretty exciting, let me tell you. I really can’t wait to lay down some percussion tracks.
So far, everything is shaping up quite nicely. The material is pretty interesting. All the songs are super dynamic, whether there is a lot going on or it’s just one part continuously driving forward. To me, it’s the heaviest thing we’ve ever done. At times the melodic stuff has a 60’s romantic vibe and the heavy stuff more of a heavy surf rock vibe. Pretty interesting. It’s hard to see how everything will turn out especially once vocals are laid down. One thing is for sure: it’s going to be different than Versions.
We are slated to be finished with all the tracking on December 30th and immediately rolling back to Miami to relax before we head down under to Australia for the Soundwave Festival. That will be starting on February 21st in Brisbane, Queensland. It’s been a while since we’ve been back down there and we are super pumped to go. Anyways, that’s pretty much what’s been going on our end. We look forward to seeing your beautiful faces once we get back on tour with a great, new record. Later!
That festival is named after one of our favorite Transformers, and that rocks. Now we just want to know when Wellwater Conspiracy is going to hit the studio again.
5) It’s not a specific moment. All of us who later turned into bands like In Flames, Dark Tranquillity, At the Gates, Ceremonial Oath, and Tiamat. We were just hanging out, listening to heavy metal, starting our little pre-bands. It was just 20-30 people hanging out, going to beaches, drinking beer, starting bonfires, listening to old thrash and death metal albums. Read more…
We here at Decibel were going to plan an elaborate Deciblog Holiday post. Something in the order of Bergdorf Goodman. But the elves were redistributed from our Holiday Department to Graphics. The layouts for Decibel issues #52 and #53 must be on deadline. And we’re always professionally behind.
From Decibel to you: Merry Shitmas, fuckers!
Audio excerpt courtesy of defunct Swedish thrashers Gehennah. Song title “Merry Shitmas.”
Christmas is another case of human stupidity, an excuse for extended consumerism and a programmed state of “happiness” and joy brought to you by “G.O.D. LTD”. It is a time for drunkards dressed in red and white funny clothing, to mask themselves as the heroes of a new generation of stupid children that are living a lie just for the sake of tradition. Read more…
So it takes two Australians, an associate professor and a research assistant, from the British Medical Journal to come to the conclusion that headbanging isn’t good for neck and head health. Pretty much any concert-going dude into metal could tell you that. He might not be able to tell you scientifically why headbanging causes neck pain and headache, but he’ll tell you nonetheless.
The funniest thing about this research is one of the suggested courses of action is to take a course before you go to heavy metal concerts. Also, watching news anchor Elizabeth Cohen demonstrate the headbang is awesome.
Click here to read the article. WARNING: science content.
