The review queue this year has shifted, being both worse than ever before and having a higher number of promising options, which means that Sammath faces an underground which is gathering strength, which is why the band chose to reveal this intriguing video for “Last Gasp of the Dying.”
106 CommentsTags: Black Metal, sammath, War Metal
Death metal legends Cadaver, who recently have been experimenting with modern metal, release their new hybrid in the style of recent Obituary works that features verse-chorus composition and simplified, punk-like death metal riffs that use harmony like a prog-ish band.
149 CommentsTags: cadaver, modern metal
Raging martial black metal band Sammath has streamed its latest album, Grebbeberg, for a new generation of fans to appreciate the approach that combines old school dynamics with timeless melody to create a sensation of unending Nietzschean struggle and Promethean aggression.
33 CommentsTags: Black Metal, sammath, War Metal
At some point, one must admit that all religion is the same at its core: you either believe in some divine force underlying life and pushing it toward good, or not. Everything else is grafted-on control methods to fit the culture that produced the religion in order to keep it healthy.
93 CommentsTags: agnosticism, christian metal, christianity, metal philosophy, Religion, smr
Back when Dissection and Sentenced were the only bands to pick up on the hybrid of speed metal and death metal that Merciless pioneered and then add more Iron Maiden harmonized guitars and melody, Sacramentum stood out as having a darker aesthetic and more melancholic but aggressive spirit.
39 CommentsTags: Black Metal, sacramentum, tour
Yet again we gather to worship the metal of death with the National Day of Slayer, an answer to the National Day of Prayer which posits that we should enjoy life and do what is logical instead of wallowing in distinctions of “good” and “evil.”
64 CommentsTags: death metal, National Day of Slayer, slayer, Speed Metal
All post-metal is basically a ripoff of what Godflesh did on Streecleaner mixed with what bands like Ras Algethi pioneered, and when you combine post-metal and modern metal — a hybrid of speed metal and death metal with influences from late hardcore — you end up with something like Static Abyss.
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Death metal combined the reductionist musical mechanics of hardcore with the mythological-historical view of epic heavy metal, resulting in a through-composed phrasal narrative which shifted context to reveal new implications of its parts with both grandeur and raging realism.
26 CommentsTags: ascendency, death metal
One wonders why even try. It seems like everything in the world has gone into the abyss and is being sucked down by a human refusal to see the obvious. Left and Right, Christian and atheist, corporate stooge and basement NEET seem to agree. So why bother?
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For death metal fans, this will be less exciting because as usual with humans, they melded the extremes and formed a new hybrid average generalist, “modern metal,” which is as much emo, late hardcore, indie, and alternative as metal, and like most bands with labels Cadaver is trying to “stay current.”
10 CommentsTags: cadaver, modern metal
