The Decibel Magazine Tour 2025 – with Mayhem, Mortiis, Imperial Triumphant, and New Skeletal Faces at The Vogue on Wednesday, March 19, 2025!
Mayhem
Mayhem’s 40th anniversary shows promise to be a once-in-a-lifetime experience for fans, featuring a setlist that spans their illustrious career, from the groundbreaking debut album, Deathcrush, to present day. These concerts will celebrate the band’s legacy over four decades of musical evolution and boundary-pushing performances and will include rare footage and iconic photos.
Formed in 1984 in Norway, Mayhem has been at the forefront of the black metal scene, known for their controversial history, groundbreaking music, and unparalleled live performances. Over the years, they have cemented their status as one of the most influential bands in extreme metal, continually pushing the boundaries of the genre.
Now, as Mayhem reflects on their 40-year legacy, they celebrate their triumphs over tribulations and tragedy with a-never-before-seen performance, featuring their biggest production yet and other special surprises!
Mortiis
After Mortiis left Emperor, the Norwegian black metal band he was part of starting, in late 1992, he started Mortiis as a solo project and released several solo records between 1993 and 1999. Reinvented as a proper band, Mortiis released The Smell of Rain in 2001. Followed by The Grudge in 2004, and the remix record Some Kind of Heroin in 2006.
Disenfranchised by the brutality and hypocrisy of the record industry, Mortiis did not release a new album until 2010, when the band self-released the album ”Perfectly Defect” – as a limited edition CD, and as a free download through their own website.
The next record, The Great Deceiver, was completed around 2013, but did not see the light of day, until 2016 due mostly to events beyond the band's control. Mortiis' personal mental health is one of them. The Great Deceiver was finally released in March 2016.
In the fall of 2016, work started on remixing The Great Deceiver. The result was “The Great Corrupter” and features over 20 reworks/remixes of material from The Great Deceiver, by artists as diverse as Godflesh, and Die Krupps. In Slaughter Natives, Godflesh, Chris Vrenna, John Fryer, Prurient, Apoptygma Berzerk, PIG, and many more. The release date was set for April 21st, 2017.
Mortiis has toured consistently for the past 15 years and has shared the stage with a variety of artists and bands spanning genres ranging from black metal, to punk to industrial and EBM. Some of the bands Mortiis has toured with are Danzig, Behemoth, Apoptygma Berzerk, Combichrist, Christian Death, The Genitorturers, Deathstars, etc.
Mortiis has recently made a "return" to the Era 1 style of music, and starting in November with the "Cold Meat Industry" and "Messe des Morts" festivals, will perform a solo "2017 reinterpretation" of the 1994 album "Ånden som Gjorde Opprør."
Imperial Triumphant
Imperial Triumphant is a metal band that embodies the dissonant duality of life in New York City, from its gilded towers of luxury and sparkling promise of success to its rotten, greedy, rat-infested underbelly. Formed in 2012 by vocalist/guitarist Zachary Ezrin and later joined by bassist Steve Blanco and drummer Kenny Grohowski, the band takes an avant-garde, jazz-inspired approach to death/black metal – a deeply unique and confrontational sound made made even more menacing by the malevolent gold masks of the ancient gods Apollo, Baal, and Hecate worn onstage by the three members. In pushing the boundaries of both extreme metal and jazz, they have collaborated with musicians like Trey Spruance (Mr. Bungle), Tomas Haake (Meshuggah), Denis "Snake" Bélanger (Voivod), Alex Skolnick (Testament), and legendary saxophonist Kenny G. The band has brought their frenetic sound to countless festivals all over the world, including multiple performances at Roadburn, Hellfest’s mainstage, Brutal Assault Festival, and Damnation Festival’s “Cult Never Dies” stage as well as tours with Behemoth, Zeal & Ardor, and Immolation. They have performed on stages in hundreds of cities across the globe.
New Skeletal Faces
It’s been 7 years since New Skeletal Faces arrived on our planet and embedded themselves in the seedy outlying corners of the Southern Californian music scene. Formed in 2017 New Skeletal Faces present themselves as a cosmic abomination that tote the genre lines between all manners of darkness in music. With an aesthetic as sketchy as their sound, NSF cast the black light onto the long dormant corpse of Deathrock, shattering the mirror of modern Heavy Metal into fragments that reflect back a fresh new take on a sound that time was never told to forget. It’s been with us all along, this darkness… the world can now pretend it always knew.
Their upcoming Peaceville debut further pushes towards the darkest crevices imaginable. Recorded in the shadowy recesses of Hollywood, California, it was tracked, mixed, and mastered by producer/engineer Bill Metoyer (Slayer, Wasp, DRI) and has a sound authentic to dark periods of the past bringing you 7 new haunted tracks as well as a reimagined take on Bathory’s “Raise The Dead”.
Of the recording, Bill Metoyer said “It was a pleasure working with New Skeletal Faces. A band who not only chose to NOT follow recent songwriting trends of so many other newer metal bands seem to do nowadays, but also the trends in the SOUND of their record. They prefer to sound more old school metal than like most newer metal bands seem to lean towards as of late.”
Their live shows have been the main source of light that attracts all the human insects who come in contact. These performances showcase their wild and untamed personalities and tend to be infectious, finding the band gaining more and more steam with each transmission.
New Skeletal Faces are like listening to the 1980s Sunset Strip in an alternate universe from hell. This Fall experience the re-genesis of Southern Californian Metal and Deathrock!
MAYHEM'S DECIBEL MAGAZINE TOUR 2025
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19, 2025
21+
THE VOGUE THEATRE
INDIANAPOLIS, IN
TICKETS AT THEVOGUE.COM
PLEASE NOTE:
THIS SHOW IS GENERAL ADMISSION AND SEATING IS NOT PROVIDED. YOU MUST BE 21+ TO ENTER THE VENUE WITH A VALID FORM OF IDENTIFICATION. ALL TICKETS ARE NON-REFUNDABLE. TWO FORMS OF IDENTIFICATION MAY BE REQUIRED FOR ENTRY.
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The Vogue Theatre in Broad Ripple is one the most popular and storied (21+ only) music venues in the Midwest. The Vogue opened as a movie theater in 1938 and through the next 3 decades was one of the premier movie houses in the Midwest. In 1977, The Vogue opened as a nightclub and has never looked back. Today, The Vogue is the best place to see and hear live music in Indianapolis and has continuously been considered the top nightspot in Indianapolis.
