Some of the best musical genres consist of styles that are easy to imitate but hard to do well, and ambient music generally qualifies, but power electronics doubly so. You never know when you are listening to a carefully-plotted work or air conditioner feedback, but Institution D.O.L. have been at home in this genre for a quarter century.
1 Comment
Creating a version of black metal determined to go back underground, Ascète combine influences from melodic black metal, epic black metal, and the simple but energetic melodies of Oi, using song structures at the edge of randomness to develop strongly anthemic themes.
5 CommentsTags: ascete, Black Metal, oi
Coming from an old school death metal background, Drawn and Quartered make a messy version of the heaving and battering style of percussive but primitive death metal that early Immolation and Cianide explored, mixing almost raw noise into thundering metal.
18 CommentsTags: death metal, Drawn and Quartered
Merge dungeon synth with industrial and you get atmospheric industrial music that drives itself with sound samples and gently intermingling keyboard riffs at a glacial pace, perfect for creating an enduring mood but perhaps not the jarring expressions that metal refines.
2 CommentsTags: dungeon industrial, dungeon synth, hasufel, Industrial
In an age of deathcore, 3rd War Collapse presents us old fashioned deathgrind from the later Suffocation school, charging ahead with high-speed pounding drums and a festival of angular riffs piled on top of each other in a cascade which produces a victorious synthesis of themes.
3 CommentsTags: 3rd war collapse, death metal, deathgrind
Ever notice that reviews here skip the backstory on bands, simply because a cool backstory is how you sell stuff in the social media era? The Sombre makes late 1990s style doom metal, meaning that each song has a predictable progression and slowly unveils a contrary and pleasant melody.
2 CommentsTags: Doom Metal, the sombre
Written very much in the flowing style of middle period Darkthrone with an emphasis on varied structure that might have come easily from a Celtic Frost work, this band trudges and powerdives its way through riffs that are cut from similar cloth rhythmically but remain distinctive through fragmentary melody.
2 CommentsTags: Black Metal, necralant
Our world changed a great deal between the early and mid-eighties: technology expanded, media control arose, and music rose against the nascent New World Order and its social environment composed of both “I got mine” style mercantilism and precious snowflake post-hippie ego-adornment. The quest was on to make crossover music that combined the alienation of punk with the archaic futurism of metal.
2 CommentsTags: death metal, necrophagia
Speed metal effectively died once Sepultura mixed it with nü-metal and punk on Roots, but that also uncovered a new style by revealing that speed metal mixes well with tribal, folk, and classical influences, something Aztlan explores on Legión Mexica, a feast of Spanish- and Mexican-themed folk styles mixed with Pantera/Metallica style bouncy speed metal.
8 CommentsTags: aztlan, folk metal, mariachi, Speed Metal
Sadly, it looks like Jon Schaffer from Iced Earth is going to jail for the Capitol riot:
25 CommentsTags: iced earth, jon schaffer, late stage democracy, Speed Metal
