#decibel flexi series

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Denver death/black metal battalion Glacial Tomb return with their first new song in four years via the Decibel Flexi Series! "Pale Usurper" is a brand new banger -- tracked during the sessions of Glacial Tomb's forthcoming second LP (out later this year) -- and exclusive to our floppy serialization.

Want to make sure you don’t miss out on this necessary flexi? Be sure to have a deluxe Decibel subscription by Monday, February 5 at noon ET. Don't get frozen out, subscribe now!

LINK: tinyurl.com/decibelsubs

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ENFORCED Drop Intense New Single 'Casket' – Dark Dive into the Dangers of Alcohol Abuse

(Photo credit: Jacky Flav) ENFORCED, the renowned metal band that shook the music scene with their explosive album War Remains, is back to stun their fans once again. This time, they unveil their latest single, “Casket,” originally part of Decibel’s Flexi series in January 2022 and now being formally released on all streaming platforms via Century Media. Watch the visualizer for “Casket” HERE or…

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SEPTIC TANK Share New Track Via Decibel Flexi-Series

SEPTIC TANK Share New Track Via Decibel Flexi-Series

(By Pat ‘Riot’ Whitaker, Senior Writer/Journalist, RiffRelevant.com)

SEPTIC TANK is the long dormant crust-punk/thrash project of Cathedral’s Lee Dorrian and Gaz Jennings, along with Repulsion’s Scott Carlson and drummer Jamie Gomez Arellano. (more…)

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Graf Orlock // Violent Ultimatum at the Local Dojo 

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Undeath Streams Rare Track “Diemented Dissection”

Undeath Streams Rare Track “Diemented Dissection”

Death Metal rising act Undeath has shared a new-ish track – “Diemented Dissection” via Decibel Magazine online. The track originally featured as  part of Decibel’s Flexi Series. The track is the bands first new music since their 2020 debut full length – Lesions of a Different Kind (Prosthetic Records). The band, now a five-piece, kicks off their new tourdates this week accross North American tour…

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Full of Hell: Thundering Hammers (JK Broadrick Remix)

Recent Decibel covers stars Full of Hell have long been a logical fit to join the Decibel Flexi Series. Prone to adventurous collaborations and EP- and single-format releases, it was only a matter a time before something like a, say, original new track remixed by Godflesh living legend Justin Broadrick was submitted for the Series. And here we are! You can jam “Thundering Hammers” (JK Broadrick remix), which will appear in its original version on FoH’s new album, Weeping Choirs, below. But don’t hesitate, because soon, the hammer falls, as we only have an extremely limited number of issues containing our 101st installment in the Decibel Flexi Series are available here. Do it!

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Gatecreeper also just shared a new non-album track for the Decibel Flexi Series.

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Full of Hell - Thundering Hammers Flexidisc (Decibel Magazine’s flexi series).

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STRIGOI Stream Exclusive New Single 'The Construct of Misery'

Photo credit: Hal Sinden @ Eulogy Media Ltd. Blackened death doom outfit STRIGOI, the brainchild of Greg Mackintosh (PARADISE LOST, VALLENFYRE) and Chris Casket (VALLENFYRE), have teamed up with Decibel Magazine for the exclusive release of their brand new song, “The Construct of Misery,” via the Decibel flexi series! Decibel Magazine is now offering an exclusive stream of the new single, which…

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6 January 2022: “From the Gutter”/“To the Grave,” Gravesend. (Decibel Flexi Series, 2021)

New year! New rules! I was so woefully behind on this page—16 months behind—that I would never catch up if I continued to try to post everything I’d purchased between then and now. I acquired over 300 records in 2021 alone, and at the rate I post things it was certain that I’d be behind forever. So, I’m beginning anew with current purchases starting on January 1 of this year; what a concept! And what a first thing to have to post. My goodness. Perhaps the most uncharacteristic purchase I’ve made in recent years, if not ever, was the 2021 album Methods of Human Disposal by NYC black metal/grindcore band Gravesend. In a moment of particular openness I watched one of the long weekly videos posted by Siren Records in Monterey, California, in which one of the proprietors reveals new arrivals and picks of the week. These videos sometimes verge on 20 minutes, so I don’t watch them often, but they’re just about the best in the business. For a while the woman’s son (I believe it’s her son, at least) appeared with her. He has since moved away to college, but he was a smart and articulate young guy with a wide range of tastes. I’ve never met Lorain, the woman, but I did meet the son (I believe his name was Cass) on a trip to Monterey. Anyhow, one of his picks that particular week was the Gravesend album I mention above. 

I was taken by the striking cover: a photocopied-looking, spooky photograph of a nun on a graffitied NYC subway car reading a paper with the headline “POPE SHOT” taking up the entire front page, her face completely obscured and a middle finger supporting the newspaper. This is not my usual milieu, but I was impressed by the none-more-metal name “Gravesend,” and in the age of two-clicks-and-you-can-hear-it, I had to see what this was about. Gravesend isn’t just a made-up metal name; it is a far-flung neighborhood in New York City. Whereas much black metal seems to depict frozen Nordic wastelands, Methods of Human Disposal is if Taxi Driver’s Travis Bickle led a grindcore band—the subject here is the depravity, violence, and terror of the Big Apple, what a notorious 1975 pamphlet, meant to warn tourists, described as “Fear City.” I thought this was a spectacular thing for a black-metal album to take on, especially as the genre typically seems to take place on frozen Nordic wastelands.

After getting intrigued, I started listening to the album on Bandcamp, always on headphones so I could hear it loud. I did this multiple times, and eventually decided I wanted to own the album. And now, here I am buying a copy of a heavy-metal magazine to get a Gravesend flexi! Decibel includes flexis in their subscription copies, and if there are any left you can buy them via mail order. (Newsstand copies do not include the flexis.) They’ve released literally hundreds of flexis over the past ten years. Everywhere I look, this two-song flexi is referred to as an EP. It’s barely five minutes long (though that is a near eternity for two Gravesend songs—the average track on their full-length runs 1:48). This strikes me as an example of the irritating way that record-collecting terminology has gone out the window in recent years. From people calling labels “record middles” to thinking a five-minute, two-song single is an EP, you’d think a lexicon hadn’t existed for the past 50+ years. Anyway, I wanted this thing and, EP or not, here it sits! Both of the songs here are new and don’t appear on the album.

Above we see two views of the single-sided flexi, which is nearly impossible to photograph without massive reflections. It’s also impossible to keep this thing clean! Look at all the dust on it! Below is the December 2021 issue of Decibel from whence it came.

The cover photo of the band Khemmis capitalizes on the glowering serioso vibe that so many metal bands try to purvey, but flipping through the magazine you quickly see that the scene is full of regular, nice people. There’s a column that appears to be a monthly feature where they interview a metal musician’s mother. There is an article about what pumpkin beers are the best this year. There are even comic strips—including one about an eBay flipper who plans to hoard as many copies as he can of the next Gravesend record when it comes out, so he can re-sell them for inflated prices, and the Grim Reaper comes and chops him up and throws him in the river!

I won’t be taking out a subscription to Decibel, and I don’t plan on investigating more of the black-metal world, but it will be interesting to see what Gravesend does next. The songs on this flexi are particularly brutal, even more so than the album. The concept of that first album is so compact and perfect that I don’t know if they’ll continue to interest me, whether they try to do more depictions of NYC’s underbelly or if they go in a different direction. The NYC concept really doesn’t seem like one that can last for very long. If I directed the universe, Gravesend would be done after this flexi, which already seems like it’s stretching things a bit too far.

Last, here is the cover of Methods of Human Disposal that got me started on this unexpected path. (The image is of the CD booklet removed from the jewel case.)

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AMORPHIS Share Exclusive Single For Decibel Mag's Flexi Series; Vinyl Re-Issues Of Classic Albums Coming Soon

AMORPHIS Share Exclusive Single For Decibel Mag’s Flexi Series; Vinyl Re-Issues Of Classic Albums Coming Soon

(By Pat ‘Riot’ Whitaker, Senior Writer/Journalist, RiffRelevant.com)

AMORPHIS have premiered a new single, “Honeyflow“, that is an exclusive track for the Decibel Magazine Flexi-Disc series. (more…)

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Nachtmystium stream previously unreleased song "Chemical Catharsis"

A previously unreleased Nachtmystium track titled “Chemical Catharsis” has surfaced via Decibel’s routine flexi disc series. If you would like a physical copy of said flexi disc, you can get it with the August 2021 issue of the publication here. Nachtmystium bandleader Blake Judd officially disbanded the group last year. Decibel Magazine · Nachtmystium “Chemical Catharsis” (dB128)