john darnielle

The former Decibel columnist and Bluesky’s current top musician just wants to have fun.

Death metal legend Erik Rutan joins The Mountain Goats for a rendition of their songs “The Best Ever Death Metal Band in Denton” and “Autoclave” in Tampa.

John Darnielle has delighted readers of Decibel since the magazine’s inception with his South Pole Dispatch backpage column, and we are certainly grateful to have his humorous, provocative and thoughtful commentary gracing our pages every month. But Darnielle has a long, colorful history of writing about metal, both as the mastermind behind the long-running Last…