I remember a time where male idols went off to serve their mandatory military conscription and didn’t (or weren’t allowed?) to promote during this hiatus. Nowadays, it’s common for these idols to pre-record entire albums and videos to dole out while they’re away. The only… Read More »Song Review: Cha Eunwoo (Astro) – Saturday Preacher
Check out the new lyric video from Aittala, “Ill-Gotten Gains,” from their new album Machines, released this past April via Exitus Stratagem Records. The songs on “Machines” were originally written and demoed between 1990 and 1997 on an analog four-track cassette recorder. Now, they have been revived using modern techniques.… Read More »Video Premiere: Aittala – “Ill-Gotten Gains”
Decibel‘s cover story this month digs into GWAR’s 40th anniversary: how it started, how it’s going, and why the band still matters. The piece features more than two dozen interviews and the same painstaking detail as our exhaustive 11k-word oral history on Scumdogs of the… Read More »WORLD PREMIERE: Decibel GWAR Mini-Documentary “Behind the Gore”
When last we heard from girl group VVUP, they were inviting us to their house party — over, and over, and over again. That pre-release promised upbeat sounds for their first mini album and the colorful (and very LOUD) video for title track Super Model… Read More »Song Review: VVUP – Super Model
One of my biggest pieces of advice for any newly debuted group is: don’t give the public time to forget about you. Starship Entertainment seem to agree when it comes to their promotions for IDID. The group actively promoted and performed their debut track for… Read More »Song Review: IDID – Push Back