Imagine combining gauzy mystical Brit-pop with Gothic sensibilities and stoner doom riffs that pick up the tempo enough to avoid a post-pizza slowbrain groove, and you have the basics of the Crone Visions approach: pop songs over surging but laconic riffs and occasional psychedelic lead guitar.
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Approaching Swedish death metal as a hybrid of Dismember and Dissection, Imperishable begin songs with tightly-socketed riffs that correspond directly to each other, then build up to melodic riffs that are equal parts Iron Maiden and classic death metal, adding an air of mystery and a shifting ambience of emotion to their songs.
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In the past, the DLA/DMU refused to review utter garbage, which is generally the right decision except when that garbage is the default for the subgenre chosen by market inertia. In other words, when it is what most people see under the $subgenre label at stores.
3 CommentsTags: Black Metal, funeral mist
On December 13, we celebrated the twentieth anniversary of Chuck Schuldiner dying of AIDS. While early Death was some solidly good music and the band remained quality through Human, Chuck turned from the metal philosophy of nature-worship to a modernist ideal of humanism, and lost his soul in the process.
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Former Republican Bob Dole has gone to the great free market in the sky, reminding us of back when he specifically mentioned the horrors of death metal and Cannibal Corpse:
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by Ton Basileion
Working within the flutterstrum-tremolo tradition of early death metal, Savage Deity rip and tear through several anthems to violence on their latest release. Songs follow the “skeleton” of death metal established by Slayer, with an introduction followed by alternating verse and chorus riffs, then give way to variations in the second half of each piece before returning to the initial themes. This in turn creates the kaleidoscopic effect that the best of death metal is (in)famous for.
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Long-standing Canadian technical speed metal band Voivod announced their latest album, Synchro Anarchy, for release on February 11 of next year. The label issued the following statement:
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Chaos and Hell Productions and Death in Pieces Records intends to release an album of Terrorizer covers in tribute to the iconic grindcore band and its most prominent album, World Downfall. This will be out December 22.
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by Ton Basileion
Putridarium create tunneling melodies that foster the sensation of exploring a vast network of caves. These songs use trudging, chugging power chords to add a sense of violence to the foreboding. The effect resembles the deepening evil on Blaspherian’s EP Allegiance to the Will of Damnation.
3 CommentsTags: death metal, putridarium
When in the hands of a band accomplished at songwriting, you know it immediately regardless of genre; Death Angel make handily coherent and cogent songs out of a few hardcore and heavy metal riffs, but with a focus on the listener, have made these into enjoyable songs that avoid the amorphous fungible state of most metal releases.
3 CommentsTags: death angel, Speed Metal
