Though Dødheimsgard dazzled many with Black Medium Current, so much so that it made its way onto our critical Top 40 of 2023, it’s important to look to their contemporaries for further forays into the strange and bewildering in black metal. Featuring two former Dødheimsgard… Read More »Album Stream – Void – ‘Jadjow’
I don’t often write “buried treasure” posts for Japanese b-sides, but I almost made an exception for &TEAM’s Dropkick. As fate would have it, HYBE decided to release the song with its own music video and send the guys to promote it on music shows.… Read More »Song Review: &TEAM – Dropkick
Last year Decibel Magazine released a food-themed issue with Municipal Waste mean-mugging with a human brain entrée on the cover. So when we noticed a culinary parody group called At the Plates we started salivating. Formed by Tony Rouse (guitar, bass, drums) and inspired by… Read More »Track Premiere: At the Plates – “Punish My Waistline”
The Good Prior to the agency undergoing dramatic changes this fall, the entity-formerly-known-as-Johnny’s (seriously, I don’t even know what to call it!) had a solid enough start to the year. Its acts continued to dominate, with record sales numbers for King & Prince ahead of… Read More »Grading the J-Pop Agencies 2023: Johnny’s & Associates / Family Club / (Who Knows?)
From having pet companions to birdwatching, the love for animals unites many of us. Yet there’s an inconvenient truth: not everyone is aware of the impact that pets have on sensitive wildlife populations. For instance, free ranging cats are one of the biggest threats to… Read More »Conserving Biodiversity: Finding Harmony Between Cats and Birds