FEAR, EMPTINESS, DECIBEL: LISTEN TO THE NEW UNSANE FLEXI DISC!!!
Before there were blogs there were these things called magazines, and the only metal magazine we still get excited about reading every month is Decibel. Here’s managing editor Andrew Bonazelli…
A couple weeks ago, I came around these ungodly parts and nailed theses to the cyberdoor extolling Unsane’s 1995 breakout Scattered, Smothered and Covered, our newest Decibel Hall of Fame inductee. As usual, when we go steady with a band, we treat them like the little princesses (OK, in this instance, blood-lusting noise-rock psychotics) they are—hence the latest inductee in our flexi series is the New York trio’s coruscating “Grind.” I don’t have the lyrics handy, but I’m pretty sure they’re talking bone with a mortar and pestle, not blast beats. It was recorded just before they took to the studio for hot-shit comeback Wreck (Alternative Tentacles), and is a raw, throbbing, gristly reminder of how to do this music right. Take a hard listen right here:
The black-on-yellow vinyl is, as always, for subscribers, but there are a limited quantity of this issue with the flexi available in the Decibel webstore now.
-AB
The July 2012 issue of Decibel also features Baroness, Nile, Fear Factory, and a Dying Fetus Hall of Fame, and can be ordered here. But why not just get a full subscription to ensure that you never miss an issue?
