A METALHEAD’S WEEKLY GUIDE TO THE NFL

Is there a cooler “supergroup” to emerge this year than With the Dead? We’ll make it easy for you: fuck no.

Bury Them and Keep Quiet doesn’t result in a pretty situation. 

Deeper Than Sky

Even deeper than pie in the sky

dB Rating: 8/10

“‘Summon The Spawn’ was one of the first songs that we ever recorded and it ended up being the opening track on our debut demo of the same name,” says Revocation axe-slayer Dave Davidson. “It’s a fast, thrashy song with some weird twists and turns to throw the listener off guard. This one was a bit of a fan favorite in our local scene back in the day and I still hear people call out for us play it on recent tours that we’ve done.”

** German black metallers Nyx were formed by Blitz and Vinterbarn. The group’s new album, Home, is an expression of what black metal emotional qualities are rather than its direct spiritual linkage to the Infernal One. With that, Nyx embark on strange and wonderful and perverse journeys on Home. Certainly, Nyx are for fans of Myrkur (not because they’re female either), and first-album Lantlos, with maybe some early Bethlehem and demo-era Empyrium. We interview Blitz and Vinterbarn in preparation for the premiere of Nyx’s “Beyond”!

Sit back and enjoy a gorgeous, noisy hardcore pummelling from two bands.

This week, the metal community lost one of the oldest and most beloved pieces of its backbone, Jim “Sadist” Konya. 

Candy Striper Death Orgy frontman and Nuclear Assault superfan looks back as Dan Lilker & Co. hit the road on their “Final Assault.”

Considering that almost every story on the Pope’s visit was a fluffy feel good feature (with the exception of his visit with gay-hating Kentucky court clerk Kim Davis) we decided to go through extreme music’s vaults and find the most significant songs — or mentions — about the Pope. 

The Land of the Midnight Sun has always cast a unique pall over heavy metal, so this December, Decibel dives deep into the thousand lakes to extract our special Finnish Metal Issue.

Seemingly every year the NFL creates an all roads lead to Rome story line. The league’s broadcasters will focus in on two different teams, obviously an AFC team and an NFC team, and describe them as on a collision course all season season long. 

Battle scenes, H. R. Giger artwork, huge skulls, and pseudo-corpsepaint lead to some confused metalheads. 

Cure your Monday blues with Shumaun’s “Miracles of Yesterday,” a blend of metal, prog rock, and pop that isn’t the typical Decibel fare.  

Your Heavy Metal Guide to NFL FOOTBALL, with Eddie Gobbo.

Austin’s down n’ dirty noise merchants Total Abuse are gearing up for the November release of their hotly anticipated Deranged Records debut Excluded, but this morning we’ve got an exclusive advance stream of a grimy, feral aural salvo dubbed “Scabs” below.

Despite being tasked with copyediting two dozen illiterates and devising approximately 400 metal puns per issue, Decibel Managing Editor Andrew Bonazelli still manages to create an incredible amount of written material on the side. 

Earlier this year Brooklyn duo Psalm Zero released Real Rain, the first of a planned trilogy of special cassette releases called The Birthright Trilogy. Five months later avant-garde stalwart Charlie Looker and guitar genius Andrew Hock (if you read Decibel you know who Castevet are) have returned with the second installation, Hunchback, which will be released September 29 on Black Mass Productions.

Two legendary bands from opposite ends of the extreme music spectrum make November’s Decibel a must-read: Iron Maiden gallops onto their fourth dB cover, and Napalm Death grinds out their second Hall of Fame.  

I’m going to go on the record and say that we’re going to see some compelling football out of the AFC East this year.

Portu-goth institution Moonspell take the unpretentious approach to their video for “Domina.” 

The man behind the art: Shane Mehling has a chat with Bruno Guerreiro, Decibel Art Director and metal illustrator responsible for album covers, gig posters, and shirt designs.  

Just in time for fall:  doom over the world… now available in ones and zeros. 

A year or two ago, I did a ‘Black Label Debutante Ball’ profile on Poland’s EveryDayHate Records.  A couple weeks ago, a massive package of vinyl and CDs showed up at the house and I’ve decided to focus this week’s blog post on all the goodies emerging from EveryDayHate’s Krakow offices.

Eddie Gobbo is back with his first installment of ENCROTCHMENT, your weekly guide through the 2015 NFL FOOTBALL Season. 

An exclusive TASR interview with the two CEOs of Nashville’s Graceless Recordings on their six new tape releases, plus their thoughts on some other tapes currently vying for your hard-earned dinero.

The second coming of Lycia wouldn’t have been possible if main songwriter Mike VanPortfleet didn’t possess the same spark that kicked things off in 1988. Older, wiser, yet still wandering the same lonely plane as all those years ago, VanPortfleet (along with vocalist Tara Vanflower and collaborator David Galas) has released a vibrantly glum album in A Line That Connects. The title is literal, actually. Musically, it’s a nod to all things past Lycia, including the groundbreaking and influential effort, Cold. Read on as the Cold lineup, reunited for posterity, discuss A Line That Connects.

You just got good at hauling off and hitting someone. I wasn’t born and raised to do this — I’m a guy from Northwest. I went to private school. This really isn’t part of my metabolism. But it became it…

So muses Henry Rollins in an particularly epiphanous scene amidst Scott Crawford and Jim Saah’s relentlessly edifying Salad Days: A Decade of Punk In Washington, DC (1980-90) — a documentary those of us who seemingly never tire of listening to Rollins and Ian MacKaye fondly recall Georgetown Haagan Dazs days and night street fights with punk hating meatheads were going to watch regardless, but which also happily proves to be an epic, smart, admiring-yet-not-uncritical and — above all — fresh exploration of a seminal moments in time packed with insights and anecdotes that will likely surprise even those who know both Dance of Days and Banned in DC chapter-and-verse.

Every so often, we take a little time on Mondays to pay tribute to the Muthas! That is, reprinting the adorable metal/maternal Q&As that run in the magazine. Today, enjoy Jeanne Fury’s chat with Michelle Innis, mother of Derek Boyer (Suffocation/Decrepit Birth).

For over 25 years now Brazil’s Krisiun has waged war on death metal for death metal by death metal. To mistake the trio as anything but death metal–and their dedication to the craft–deserves the severest of punishments. Now stronger than ever, the Brothers in Death have a new album out called, Forged in Furty. Still fast as fucking lightning with a cattle prod up its ass yet memorable as a gruesome car crash, Forged in Fury sets alight pretenders and posers with great intensity. Read on as we question Hell’s most notable percussionist, Max Kolesne.