My Dying Bride helped birth and later perfect (see Turn Loose the Swans) the doom/death genre in the early ’90s. By the late ’90s, however, the lineup that left a seismic impact on extreme metal began to crumble. The band has admirably carried on since… Read More »Old-School MY DYING BRIDE Members Reunite to Celebrate Early Material as TOWARDS THE SINISTER
There are a number of acts who have debuted in the past few decades and have dozens of song ratings on this blog. I thought it would be fun to lay these ratings out in chronological order, line-graph style, and take a macro view of… Read More »THE BOYZ: A Career In Song Ratings
I haven’t done this before, but now that 2026 is halfway over I thought it would be interesting to see how my “top ten” rookies of last year are doing. Any best-of countdown is tied heavily to the time it was written, but the rookie… Read More »Reevaluating 2025’s K-Pop Rookies
Rochester iconoclasts Sulaco are quite possibly one of the best kept secrets in underground metal. Fronted by fret wizard Erik Burke (ex-Brutal Truth, Nuclear Assault, Lethargy and many more), this quintet has been busy obliterating genre lines for over 20 years. We’re so enamored by their technical wizardry that the Decibel Flexi… Read More »SULACO to Release Exclusive New Song, “Curtains,” via the Decibel Flexi Series!
Over the past few weeks, ARTMS have payed around with expectations. Rather than simply debut a video and song as normal, they first dropped pre-release track Born Stunner via an unexpected Instagram reaction video. This is a great way to build buzz and conversation, but… Read More »Song Review: ARTMS – Born Stunner