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Album Review: Skeleton – Ordainment Of Divinity [EP]

After a bucketful of EPs, compilations, a live album and a full length debut (2020’s Skeleton, natch), the Austin, TX hardcore-cum-black-cum-thrash trio (also SKELETON) unleashes a peepshow booth’s-worth of grime in the less than 15 minutes of Ordainment Of Divinity. I suppose one could refer to ‘Skeleton – Opening Rites’ as an intro, but, as it’s the second-longest track on the damned EP, it seems rather cheapening. Granted, what we’re given is marching, and also granted, I normally loathe the fuck out of me an intro, but the mental image this rhythmic tread gave me is of films such as […]

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HARAKIRI FOR THE SKY’S NEW ALBUM, MÆRE, IS OUT TODAY

The malicious Mӕre has come to haunt you in your sleep and might be the reason why you haven’t been able to breathe at night for quite a few months now. With their latest album being finally released today, Austria’s blackgaze pioneers HARAKIRI FOR THE SKY perfectly capture the beauty of paralysis and despair and release this fifth studio album right in time for their 10th band anniversary. While Legacy magazine (GER) proclaimed the album to be a “must have release for 2021 “and Scream (NO) praising it to be “so captivating that one doesn’t even notice its massive length […]

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HORNDAL ANNOUNCE NEW ALBUM, LAKE DRINKER; NEW SINGLE, ‘ROSSEN’, OUT NOW

Sweden’s HORNDAL have today announced their sophomore album, due for release via Prosthetic Records on April 9. Titled Lake Drinker, the album tells the tale of the eponymous town of Horndal – and how it is on a cursed path to destruction for the second time in forty years. Alongside the album announcement the four-piece have released the single, ‘Rossen’, named after the lake in Horndal. The accompanying video features a five star tour of Horndal and its many and varied amenities. ‘Rossen’ is available to listen to on Spotify, Apple Music and Bandcamp. Lake Drinker is available to pre-order […]

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UK Thrashers Return to loudly battle homelessness once again with MOSHIN’ THE ROOF ON 2 – featuring 30 bands

“Homelessness in the United Kingdom should be a thing of the past. However it is in reality a plight that incresingly affects peope, with nearly six million people in high-risk housing, 90,000 in temporary accomodation and hostels and at least 5,000 people a night sleeping on the streets, a situation made even more difficult due to the current global pandemic.” – Neil Brannagan-Fuller, UK Thrashers In 2020 the team at UK Thrashers decided to send a call out to the UK thrash community, asking them to come together to help support the homeless charity Shelter. The result was twenty six […]

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Album Review: Sagenland – Oale Groond

Home is where the heart is, even if the heart is black. SAGENLAND is part of that breed of black/folk metal that is tied to a particular place. In this case, it is the Eastern part of Holland near the town of Twente. The gentlemen of SAGENLAND are very close to their homeland, and have dedicated their music to it. On further inspection, I find the Twente area to be a gentle pastoral place of modest fields, forests and rivers, not too different from my own home in Northern Illinois. That automatically makes me more kindly disposed to them. It’s […]

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French Epic Metallers HERZEL Releasing Le Dernier Rempart March 19 on Gates of Hell Records

Quimper (FR) – Epic, unique prog metal from the Brittany region of France, HERZEL will release full-length debut album Le Dernier Rempart March 19 on Gates of Hell Records. The album’s first single, ‘Maîtres de l’océan’, is streaming now at THIS LOCATION On their long-awaited debut album, Le Dernier Rempart, French epic metallers HERZEL not only champion vocals that are sung in their native tongue but they unleash a concept born straight from their native region of Brittany! The Breton language is commonly used in the Brittany region of France. While in decline since the 1950s, Breton still holds sway […]

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Album Review: Ewigkeit – Depopulate [EP]

EWIGKEIT’s been a lot of things over its two decades plus, but predictable has never been one. Taking a break from his apparent goal of reimagining his early works album by album, Depopulate is the second EP of new work released by one Mr. Fog since September and – as expected – it’s a step to the side of his last. Where XXIII was an incorporation of EWIGKEIT’s hazed out/dazed out/phased out ‘70s worship, Depopulate centers around various conspiracy “theories” and the evils (both real and too-real-to-be-imagined) regarding pharmaceutical giants, the sword of biotech, and all who live on what […]

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BELLY UP (SOLANA BEACH) ANNOUNCES THE WHITE BUFFALO Event, “SONGS OF ANARCHY”

The Belly Up is pleased to announce THE WHITE BUFFALO’s “Songs Of Anarchy” livestream concert on February 21, 2021 on bellyup.com. THE WHITE BUFFALO is Jake Smith – singer, songwriter, guitarist, teller of stories, Emmy nominee; an artist whose voice – a timber-shakin’ baritone of gravitas and gravel – seems directly linked to a greater truth; an artist who will not be swayed by fashion or curtailed by genre. THE WHITE BUFFALO returns to Belly Up Tavern in Solana Beach, CA for his first performance since November. In keeping with the spirit of his themed virtual sets, Smith will perform […]

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Album Review: Nopes – Djork

Listening to Djork is like getting bitchslapped by that chick with a nose ring and shaved scalp that’s still kind of hot anyway. It’ll wake you up in a hurry, but confuse you at the same time. NOPES are described as a punk rock band from Oakland, CA, but I think there’s a bit more to them than that simple description. Punk is there for sure, but also tones of that screechy, skronky noise rock of the early ’90s, and even a dose of weirdness reminiscent of early VOIVOD. It’s loose, super raw, abrasive and sloppy, kind of like MC5 […]

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BONGZILLA: new single ‘Sundae Driver’ + album preorder available on HPS Records

Midwest sludge behemoths and all-time weed metal pioneers BONGZILLA unleash their brand new single ‘Sundae Driver’ exclusively on Decibel Magazine. The song is taken from their forthcoming fifth album Weedsconsin, due out April 20th and available to preorder now through Heavy Psych Sounds. Featuring a three-piece lineup of all original members—bassist/vocalist Muleboy, guitarist Spanky and drummer Magma, ‘Sundae Driver’ delivers the kind of hazy, heavy-as-hell doom that BONGZILLA earned their reputation peddling. The riffs on ‘Sundae Driver’ are low and slow, sounding like they originate in a smoke-filled room; paired with a flattening rhythm section, the instruments create the ideal […]

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