Almost no one understands what made speed metal great, looking from the outside-in as any time after the era tends to do, nor what made those transitional bands like Slayer, Rigor Mortis, and Destruction so powerful.
1 CommentTags: death metal, Mortuary
For fans of traditional sweeping but slower-paced black metal in the style of Enslaved and Graveland, but with a homebrew twist that calls to mind the most abstract of death metal structuralism, Armophophallus Titanum delivers an album of saturating experiences.
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This four-part documentary manages to convey a few things, one being that the suspect (who has since pleaded guilty) is nuts, and second that most of the people involved with publicizing the case are nuts.
4 CommentsTags: cinema, documentary, rex heuermann, serial killers
Legendary speed metal band Slayer — a proto-underground coven of wizardry like Sodom, Rigor Mortis, Hellhammer, and Bathory — introduced Reign in Blood four decades ago this month.
35 CommentsTags: proto-underground metal, slayer, Speed Metal
Black metal is its own religion: Darwinism + naturalism + consequentialism + transcendence. You will recognize this as the formula that most ancient societies used because it worked for tens of thousands of years.
14 CommentsTags: Black Metal, death metal, Grindcore, metal cosmos, radio, War Metal
Breaking free from both the funderground and the hybridized emo-black subgenres, Jan Kruitwagen returns to the years of later Darkthrone and Burzum with an ambient offering that happens to use guitars called “DeathIsTheMasterOfThisWorld.”
19 CommentsTags: Black Metal, kaeck, sammath
We knew many of the newer metal fans were absolute wankers, but an Austin masturbator wearing a Darkthrone shirt has hit the news:
38 CommentsTags: austin, darkthrone, masturbation
Black wizard Varg Vikernes has released his most recent project, Hyperborea Rising, with an initial recording Halls of Stone designed to reflect the experience of dwarves.
33 CommentsTags: Black Metal, burzum, dungeon synth, progressive, varg vikernes
Fleshcrawl, which is basically original member Bastian Herzog with a new batch of musicians, continues its path of making melodic but intense death metal within the older style with some modern hints to the rhythm.
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New release from Finnish ambient doom-death squad Desecresy, The Secret of Death, drops on May 21st. Sounds to be like a hybrid between the last two albums, hitting trademark Desecresy techniques and themes with more old school grinding vibe.
3 CommentsTags: death metal, desecresy
