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? (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.
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. (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.
It goes without saying that we here at Decibel think that Seventh Rule Recordings is the bee’s knees. In honor of the Chicago label’s 5th anniversary, head honchos Scott and Cara Flaster have come up with an offer you can’t refuse: from now until December 31st, all CDs in the Seventh Rule online store are only $5 PPD. A small extra charge will apply to shipping for orders outside the US, free shipping within the States. That’s right: You can own every Seventh Rule release currently in print for $50; we don’t need a team of University of Chicago economists to recognize a good deal when we see one. (more…)
In case you haven’t checked this out yet, Robotic Empire is sorta celebrating their near-10th anniversary with a new blog called Robotic Obscurities. Aptly named, it’s full of super-obscure stuff from the label’s past. The blog’s been going since the 11th, so today is the monumental one week anniversary of Robotic Empire starting this thing. And since Andy Low has always had a crazy ear for what rocks, there is exclusively cool shit up, most notably the classic (straight-up antique) Pig Destroyer clips.
It also features detailed play-by-play from Andy himself about the releases , which besides being insightful, is damned funny. For example, while describing the cluster-fuck that was Versoma, he explains: “Jamie Getz is a smarmy bastard. I don’t even remember meeting this guy, but I do clearly recall seeing him and Alexander T near-fighting each other on stage, mid-LICKGOLDENSKY-set at some poorly attended festival in Cleveland years ago. Alexander was clearly mad and just trying to do his frontman thing, but Jamie had a huge grin on his face while he’s playing guitar and simultaneously throwing chairs and water jugs at the vocalist of his band.”
Now, we’re hoping that the robo-guys read our blog writing about how we read their blog. Because then maybe some old-ass Hassan I Sabbah will turn up? Or some Employer, Employee cuts - or some unbridled, uncensored, Ultimate Warriors back-yard wrestling vids?. Or demo shit from The Red Chord, or pre-chuggy/squealy ALOL jams - anything is possible! If you have time to kill on our blog, then you have time to kill on theirs.
