FEAR, EMPTINESS, DECIBEL: WHICH BANDS WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE INCLUDED IN THE NEW DECIBEL FLEXI SERIES?
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.
Axl was rad enough to mention it on Tuesday, and many of you have probably seen our newsletter already, so we’ll just reiterate the basics super fast:
- The Decibel Flexi Series will commence unlubricated face-decimation with the January 2011 issue (out in early December).
- Flexis are clear vinyl incorporated into the actual magazine.
- Every month a new band will drop never-before-heard awesomeness on said flexi.
- “Never-before-heard” means unreleased tracks, covers, liveage, demos, alternate takes or re-recordings. Who knows, maybe even a skit like the kind Type O used to open albums with. I’m sure, like, Pig Destroyer have been dying to cover “Skip It.”
- Brutal Truth are doing the first one. Enslaved are doing the second.
- Only subscribers get to handle these super collectible, extremely limited, most brutal of truths.
That much you probably already know. As for the future, trust us, there’s no shortage of bands being considered for this series. But right now that’s mostly just in-house fantasy draft stuff. Now would be a good time to hear from you guys: Who would you like to see in this thing? Got any dream covers? Know of anything crazy-rare that would blow minds if it just finally fucking got out there? Please tell us, in the spirit of Ludacris and weak-ass gamer puns, what’s your vinyl fantasy?
P.S. A particularly badass one might be Incantation smashing through Golgotha live, which you can check out for yourself on their Decibel Hall of Fame mini-tour , which kicks off tomorrow at Reggie’s Rock Club in Chicago.
-AB
Like the man said, the only way to get these awesome flexi discs is to subscribe to Decibel, so get off your tuchus and do that. You can also buy the flexi-less-but-still-killer December 2010 issue here.
