Metal Cosmos (#2) (download, 46mb)
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We get very few bands through here with enough personality and attention to reality to express something more than wanting to be in a band as “cool” as Death and Opeth, so it was a rare treat when the Dissidence Seven Corpses Impaled slide across our desks.
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Unholy mackerel! I ventured to the post office box today, figuring that everything was going to suck ass because it is a Saturday and the normies are out but also they are in some kind of state of panic over some kind of war somewhere, which means mass confusion.
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Blending old school melodic Swedish death metal forms and the faster styles of New World underground metal like Mortem or Krisiun, Dissidence builds on its roots of melody with abrupt but precise riffs that project an atmosphere unique to the band.
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Death metal thrived from 1985 to 1994. The early material of the proto-underground nature — Sodom, Master, Possessed, Bathory, Hellhammer, Slayer — solidified its metal/hardcore roots into something much more expressive by 1985, and then it was simply a matter of creating the classics.
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It no longer makes sense to speak of “heavy metal” because the genre has its own identity. It is metal music, and “heavy metal” is now the kind of stuff that people listened to after Boomer rock lost its oomph, probably ending with the first Metallica album.
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When #ChuckSchuldinerDiedOfAIDS, the entire death metal community came together to support research into this devastating disease. As the government cuts funding, it is time to raise our hands together for Chuck Schuldiner!
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In the early days of the millennium, Evil Incarnate thundered across the land as bass-heavy pounding old school death metal, but with its newest incarnation, the band explores thunderous doom as well as a faster flowing tremolo style of death metal that evokes the oldest sounds of the genre.
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This evening featured a great podcast with Aureus Press on death metal, Plato, and the art of living well.
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International Day of Slayer XX dawns upon us this June 6, thrusting aside lesser commemorations as we embark on a singular quest: boycott society, play Slayer.
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