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killed it, buried it, dug it up, skullfucked it

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Aug 06 #022 CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE Interests grindcore, death metal, thrash, hardcore, doom, metalgaze, black metal (true), metalcore (some), shows, booze, la cinema universal, video games, graphic design, art (sans quotation marks), bad cops, invisible oranges, all things grim and frostbitten, not sweating all those fucking ads masquerading as comments ..

I'd like to meet:

We'd Like to Meetheshers, shredders, wasteoids, longhairs, schizos, freakos, lit majors, palm-muters, finger-tappers, masochists, hedonists, the possessed, the exorcised, the youth gone wild

Music:


Music
Converge, Slayer, Sabbath, Maiden, Priest, Pentagram, At the Gates, Shadows Fall, Withered, Immortal, the Haunted, As I Lay Dying, Neurosis, Pig Destroyer, Isis, Morbid Angel, High on Fire, Breather Resist, Behemoth, Deicide, Opeth, Nasum, Botch, Terror, Obituary, 3 Inches of Blood, Carcass, Brutal Truth, Hate Eternal, Pelican, Bane, Kittie, Black Dahlia Murder, PsyOpus, the Red Chord, Venomous Concept, Mastodon, Helmet, Dillinger Escape Plan, Entombed, Anaal Nathrakh, Caliban, the Locust, Cult of Luna, Meshuggah, Melvins, Megadeth, Agoraphobic Nosebleed, Playing Enemy, Today Is the Day, A Life Once Lost, Unsane, Total Fucking Destruction, Zao, Nile, Cradle of Filth, Killswitch Engage, Most Precious Blood, Reflux, Akercocke, Necro, Lamb of God, Trivium, Darkest Hour, Napalm Death, Arsis, Battle of Mice, Made Out of Babies, Capricorns, Oxbow, Cretin, Jucifer, Celtic Frost, Cryptopsy, Engineer, Enslaved, Khoma, Unearth, Coalesce(see Now Slaying in the actual mag for the embarrassing stuff)

Movies:


Movies
anything by Carpenter, Cronenberg, Polanski, and Nic Roeg. a couple of things by Barker, De Palma, Landis and Miike. nothing by that choad Eli Roth (unless he wants to give us money). whatever Anthony writes about in "Kvlt Status."

Television:


T.V.
Headbanger's Ball '87-'95

Books:


Read

Once you officially score a disparaging Jeff Walker autograph on this bad boy, you might want to pick up some David Rees. And, like, um, whatever Isis and Mastodon read.

Heroes:


Heroes
Tom Savini, Emperor Palpatine, Mary Shelley, Elizabeth Short, Yul Brynner, Dennis Cooper /tr

My Blog

plowin’ the fields of sorrow

The esteemed Scott Hull of Pig Destroyer recently pointed out that one could glance at the cover of Decibel 45 and deduce that Mikael Akerfeldt of Opeth is "death metal's first transgender artist." Er...
Posted by Decibel Magazine on Thu, 05 Jun 2008 06:40:00 PST

super troopers

Pumped as we were to have a grown Finnish man in a do-rag and backwards baseball cap guzzling vodka as our primary picture, the months move on, and now we present& well, we won't spoil J. Bennett's de...
Posted by Decibel Magazine on Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:05:00 PST

blooddrunky kisses

that’s indisputably the worst subject heading we’ve ever concocted for one of these trying-yet-necessary meatspace updates--ironically for one of our raddest issues in a long time. in no p...
Posted by Decibel Magazine on Mon, 07 Apr 2008 07:33:00 PST

the devil and mr. benton

remember the scene in "eastern promises" when viggo mortensen extinguishes a cigarette on his tongue? he was a bad motherfucker, all right. but he was only a bad motherfucker mark II. the original art...
Posted by Decibel Magazine on Tue, 04 Mar 2008 08:48:00 PST

the face of eli’s fears

we know this is kind of trivial in the wake of yesterday's historic event (no, silly, not the patriots' undefeated season eating a log of petrified shit: p.o.d. announcing a collaboration with page ha...
Posted by Decibel Magazine on Mon, 04 Feb 2008 11:44:00 PST

do you like cocaine?

you do? FALSE! the preferred drug of choice for the extreme community is... Aleve chased with RC Cola. (We have too many 11-year-old friends for me to finish that one.) Luckily, anyone who watches our...
Posted by Decibel Magazine on Fri, 04 Jan 2008 07:01:00 PST

work your ass off, win book

Oxbow frontman / Decibel contributor/ Renaissance man Eugene S. Robinson wants you to read all about ass-kicking in his new book Fight. An early review of the book in The Boston Phoenix hailed Robinso...
Posted by Decibel Magazine on Thu, 06 Dec 2007 07:30:00 PST

fire walk with pig destroyer

i wouldn't count myself as a david lynch fan-with-a-capital-F, really. the editor-in-chief probaby would--he actually saw the man introduce "inland empire" at the same DC screening scott hull attended...
Posted by Decibel Magazine on Tue, 04 Dec 2007 06:47:00 PST

ire of the tiger

I've written some pretty bad puns, but that may be the worst. I mean, it barely makes sense in *any* context. Like, duh, we're based in Philadelphia and the Dillinger Escape Plan's new album is called...
Posted by Decibel Magazine on Mon, 29 Oct 2007 01:49:00 PST

OMG CAPS LOCK IZ STUK MEET THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER THURSDAY

Lucky you, if you live in the Philadelphia area (and trust us, that's not a statement we utter with any regularity): On Thursday, October 4, current Decibel cover studz the Black Dahlia Murder will ch...
Posted by Decibel Magazine on Wed, 03 Oct 2007 08:05:00 PST