At the end of each month, I look back at my three favorite title tracks by K-pop artists. I take my own ratings into account, but there’s a bit of wiggle room as certain songs tend to grow or fade. November 2025 Overall Thoughts Though there’s… Read More »The Top Three K-Pop Songs of November 2025
At the end of each month, I compile my top three K-pop title tracks and list a ton of honorable mentions. In 2025, I thought I’d try something new and add a weekly feature to supplement my monthly round-up. Each Sunday, I’ll offer a compendium… Read More »THIS WEEK IN K-POP: Ranking the New Releases from November 23 – 29
In connection with my desire to fully keep up with the J-pop industry, I’m planning to do a weekly round-up of any new releases that have caught my ear. Some of these may have been covered on the blog already, but my hope is that… Read More »New & Noteworthy J-pop of the Week (November 30, 2025)
After taking a look at K-pop’s biggest agencies, I’d like to turn my attention to the smaller (but still important) players in the K-pop game, three at a time. Disclaimer: As with my write-ups on K-Pop’s biggest agencies, this is written from an outsider’s perspective.… Read More »Grading the K-Pop Agencies 2025: THE BLACK LABEL / CUBE / FNC
Rejoice, ye devotees of sheer, unrelenting destruction and death — for Chile’s Oraculum has arrived on the battlefield armed with an arsenal of riffs, growls and pounding drums. Oraculum has completed work on their debut full-length album, Hybris Divina and has gifted Decibel with the chance to present… Read More »Track Premiere: Oraculum – “Mendacious Heroism”