Often the demo speaks louder because ideas remained at their core, instead of becoming infiltrated and confused with aesthetics, market positioning (including the market of popularity among the underground), label demands, technicalities, and other confusions.
20 CommentsTags: Black Metal, sacramentum
As detailed in articles about how to smoke a pipe and general pipe-smoking knowledge, the “breath-smoking” method provides optimum enjoyment and safety.
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Melodic atmospheric black metal band Wiking 1940 releases its latest album, W, on April 28, 2020, but has allowed one track, “Acquainted with the dead,” to escape in advance. This solitary song shows a melodic yet recursive style similar to Infamous or Rotting Christ.
12 CommentsTags: Black Metal, wiking 1940
Panic continues among the unpunished herd. They know, in their guts, that humanity has grown too large and with no qualitative controls, so now we have a vast army of locust-like human morons consuming everything they can reach, leaving behind dystopian idiocracies run by cynical shopkeepers.
6 CommentsTags: coronavirus, nicotine, pipe smoking, tobacco
Quarantine descended on the West just at the point when the madness seemed too much to bear. Tax sheep in the crucible of tedium, we found that spinning plates just to keep the GDP high had lost its gleam, and now we could see life as the endless procession of documents, obligations, and smiles with gritted teeth that it was.
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Inspired by recent events, Texas thrash/crossover band released a song from a demo cut in 2016. This song, “Separate Corners,” points out that we cannot all get along, and maybe humanity should just take a time out in its respective corners by religion, class, race, special interest, etc., until at least some of us get our shit together.
14 CommentsTags: birth a.d., Crossover, Hardcore Punk, Thrash
When death metal first came about, people believed it would never make it into the mainstream “culture” of our trend-based, democratic society. It turned out that industry just made an emo/metal hybrid and called it “technical death metal” so that neckbeard fedora barista hipsters can now claim they, too, listen to “outlaw music.”
12 CommentsTags: cloudflare, lee holloway, mainstream culture, opeth
Ambient music can mean anything. To most people, it means floaty electronica; in a more analytical sense, it means music which operates by a principle of sonic texture and layering, with lead voices disconnected from percussion so that melody leads the composition, allowing a new flexibility in composition.
1 CommentTags: Abyssum, Ambient, atmospheric, el nigromante
Antisocial and violent black metal band Sammath unleashed a video of the band playing in Moscow, using the track “Ferocious Mortar Fire” from Across the Rhine is only death as the canvas for a newly elitist and intolerant sound. Expect all of the violent of war metal, with the precision of death metal, and the melody of black metal.
10 CommentsTags: Black Metal, death metal, sammath, War Metal
Voivod guitarist Dan Mongrain cut a tutorial video to cover the playing of the solo to Voivod “Obsolete Beings,” a track from the 2018 album The Wake. Follow along to pick up some technique and appreciate the melodic structure of a good solo.
No CommentsTags: Speed Metal, Voivod
