Percussive speed metal and death metal hybrid Exhorder is cruising around the states for a late summer tour. You can catch them at the following dates.
27 CommentsTags: Exhorder, Speed Metal
Mekigah – To Hold Onto A Heartless Heart 2024
Underground metal grew in part because it was unselfconscious. Its bands expressed notions both idiosyncratic and subconscious, so it was evocative at a level below the rationalizing mind. Mekigah attempt to resurrect that observational weirdness with a Godflesh, post-metal, and doom metal hybrid.
7 CommentsTags: Ambient, Doom Metal, Industrial, mekigah, post-metal
K.K. Null & Joel Gilardini – Psychic Drones 3 (2024)
Noise gets less attention than it did back in the 1990s when everyone wanted to try new sounds with new gear that escaped the tyranny of notes and scales, but it remains a powerful force for voicing a union between texture, rhythm, and the basics of melody. K.K. Null has developed it into a voice of its own.
8 CommentsTags: joel gilardini, k.k. null, noise
Doomraiser – Cold Grave Marble (2024)
Doom metal probably does not qualify as a genre, more as a descriptor, since doom stretches between old school heavy metal all the way through melodic death metal and even grindcore, but it requires a certain mood: a slow ominous urgency with a sense of gravity bearing down the futility of all existence.
23 CommentsTags: Doom Metal, doomraiser
Sadistic Metal Reviews: Preparing For The Inevitable Cannibalism Edition
We talk often here of how form-over-content/means-over-ends thinking has predominated in Late Heavy Metal. That is, people got good at the mechanics but forgot what the music was supposed to express, so now heavy metal is wallpaper to signal anger and partying for normies.
125 CommentsTags: fisting, smr, Transcendence
Desultory – Darkness Falls (The Early Years) (2024)
Before melodic death metal became a new way to rebrand Iron Maiden style heavy metal with death vocals, a few bands explored the idea of applying melody to death metal, and Desultory distinguished themselves early on with a speed metal influenced variety of heavy metal that used a lot of death metal technique.
112 CommentsTags: death metal, desultory, Heavy Metal
Happy International Day of Slayer XIX!
Metal music stood against its time by endorsing the mythological-historical view of our world instead of linear progress driven by technology, metaphysical dualism, and peer pressure. As such it is the ultimate minority voice calling for realism among the blur of human emotions and fears.
87 CommentsSlayer Haunting The Chapel Hits 40th Anniversary
When we look back at the present era, we will separate out stuff that was aligned with the mainstream illusion from material that tried to discover an inner truth paired with external reality. Anything outside of the bourgeois Consumerist, Communist, and Christian social bubble will endure.
15 CommentsTags: cold war, death metal, Satanism, slayer, Speed Metal, underground metal
Sentenced – Death Metal Orchestra From Finland (2022)
As death metal has matured into an income-producing property, a series of really informative compilations have emerged, with Sentenced Death Metal Orchestray From Finland joining the movement as the latest to show us the origins of death metal.
85 CommentsFrom Hades to Valhalla: Bathory The Epic Story by Jose Luis Cano Barron (2024)
By the time black metal and death metal made it back, the actual inspirations — Slayer, Hellhammer, Sodom, and Bathory — were almost forgotten in a rush toward the new style that was birthed from combining their approaches. Now the history fleshes itself out a bit.
115 CommentsTags: Bathory, Black Metal, book, jose luis cano barron, pagan records
