Moving through the underground without noticing Deceased over the past three decades would prove difficult, and many of us know this band as an early effort to bring heavy metal technicality to death metal at a time when the genre was still considered primitive.
Like the maniacs they are, Deceased have continued on since their founding in the 1980s and have a new album, Children of the Morgue, due to hit the streets this year on August 30. King Fowley was kind enough to take the time to chat with us about the past, present, and future of Deceased.
Deceased has racked up a prodigious output over the past thirty-eight years. How do you write songs?
It comes from many angles. I get ideas when we go into new records let the guys know the vibe, for example I told them “the next record is called children of the morgue and it’s a concept of death and all the things that come with it from the person dying, the loved ones they are leaving behind, and where they might be going after they pass away.” The guys get that vibe in their mind and we try to write riffs that are fitting of this. Music and lyrics matching in their delivery is the biggest thing for me as the arranger of the songs. It doesn’t always work as well as you would like but when it does its a great feeling. A record is “done” when it is. No time restraints or deadlines; we go ’til it feels right. There’s time of doing it and life around that stuff. If everyone is settled it can move a bit quicker, but if someone’s got other things heavy in their life from work/family at times it is put into the equation too. We jam, we write, we rewrite, arrange, and rearrange all the way up to the stack of songs for a record. When time comes for recording them we break it all down for everything to be the best it can be every song every time.
That great Doomstone album Those Whom Satan Hath Joined sounded more like traditional heavy metal, but was much heavier, and had a doom metal style atmosphere. Has Deceased tried to work in more of that approach over the past decade or so?
Honestly I doubt Doomstone had much influence on us at all. I mean we did that for fun and just had a good batch of tunes when it was done. That was a fun project that I put a good amount of guitar riffs into as well as the guitarist Dennis (a great pal) and Les from Deceased as well. Deceased has just kept doing our thing and the topics have gotten darker and more genuine horrors of the world, it used to be “grave robbing” or “end of the world” stuff, by the books stuff. It has become real world horrors like Alzheimers, mental illness, child abuse, and more. So it wraps around the subject matter as it seems fit for some pretty dark topics.
How important was tape-trading to your success? Has the internet changed how you sell albums and how many you sell? Is there an equivalent to tape-trading now?
Tape trading was big for us. We gave our first demo away for free and over 2500 people took us up on it. We became “that band that sends out free demos.” It showed we weren’t about the mighty dollar but the music and the unity of the underground music world. The internet has made people smarter and dumber. It’s all right under everyone’s nose. You used to have to tape a tape mail the tape with a letter, then wait for a reply to it, and that could two to three weeks. Now you put your product on the internet and hit a button and there it is. The replies to it are right there too. Tape trading now is more just people putting stuff on YouTube or on sites that pass on the music. It saves everyone a lot of time and envelopes that’s for sure.
Early Deceased often got compared to Voivod, but it sounds to these ears as if there is a great deal of the classic heavy metal of the 1970s including both NWOBHM and home-grown varieties, including the bluesy but angular soloing. How much were these bands an influence?
We grew up on so much stuff from the under current in our brains of The Beatles to Kiss to Black Sabbath to Iron Maiden and right into the Venoms, Slayers, Mercyful Fates, and Voivods of the underground. We all grew up on radio and hearing relatives’ and older friends’ records which included the Led Zeppelins and Deep Purples and Uriah Heeps of the time; it’s all in our thinking process so i’m sure that floated in too. In the mid-80s we were kids, teenagers on drugs who just wanted to write crazy, fast, weird music while spirited in the power of heavy metal, and that’s kinda what fueled it on.
Children of the Morgue seems almost like you are cooking up your own genre, with the energy of heavy metal but the moods of doom metal and gore-drenched grindcore, with a backdrop of death metal riffing. Are you inventing a new type of metal?
We are just doing whatever comes into our brains at a given time. No math to it, just whatever comes out it is. We aren’t afraid to say we love Repulsion and Queensryche in the same sentence, or Voivod and Kiss. We could care less what anyone thinks of what we do. We’re proud of what we do and we just do it for us. Any cheers from others is just added “bonus.” I do think Deceased has our own sound a bit after all the years doing it. To those that really know metal music I think most would agree, while a kinda by-the-numbers metalhead might just pick a riff or section and say “they sound like maiden” cuz of a guitar melody they heard in one of our songs. So sure, if we are the Boston or The Cars with kinda our own sound thing going on works then right on to it.
It seems to this observer that many metal bands lose quality of output because of the cycle of releasing, promoting, and touring. Has this been a difficulty during your nearly four decades of creating music?
I am proud to say and mean it that our newest record feels very strong musically and we took our time and created the best we had in our hearts. We don’t cut corners or rush records. It’s our epitaph and it stays on the planet forever long after we are all gone. If you have the passion to do it year in and year out there is no falter. Speaking for myself, I am 110% into playing metal and creating metal music as much now as I was forty years ago.
In your view, what makes metal — heavy metal, death metal, maybe even grindcore if we go for hybrids too — different from normal music? Do people need to see the world differently to get into metal?
Not really. Humans are humans. To some music is background noise, to others its everything to them. People can approach any music how they do. We all have our own names to be ourselves. The outlandishness and intensity of metal music and its genres might call to some wild souls and I’ve also seen mellow of mellow types with a passion for say Impetigo. It’s really a bit of everything.
What is your take on the post-hardcore metal of the 2000s onward, such as metalcore, post-metal, sludge, melodeth, and techdeth? Are these part of your world, and how do they carry on the metal tradition, or to what degree do they carry on the metal tradition?
I don’t listen much and when I hear it it doesn’t do much for me at all. Most music I’d say from the 90s on has lost the catchiness of the decades before it. i can listen easily to say a radio station only playing 1950s music and love it, 60s , 70s, and 80s as well. But something in the 90s changed in a lot of music. The hooks were gone. The creativity seemed more forced and praised than genuine happening and a lot of highly spoke of stuff from lots of artists of then didn’t get me excited as a fan of music. Maybe it’s just me or maybe it really happened.
When I met you at the Milwaukee Metalfest some aeons ago, a dude I know took me aside and said, “don’t try to out-party that guy” and pointed right at you. What was he talking about?
I haven’t done drugs since I was nineteen and haven’t had alcohol now in twenty-two years. I used to be the wildest fucker in the room. Whether I’d chug a quart of motor oil or do eighty lines of cocaine in a row I had to be an extremist. At that phase of Milwaukee Metalfest partying you mention, I’m sure it was the booze era and yeah I probably was drinking twenty shots of 151 and sniffing up some gals dress. Gals and booze was my party time then, day-in and day-out 24/7. It got to me and wore me down. Now whenever asked by those that don’t know I retired that stuff, I say “I dont need that stuff, I already have a personality.” So cheers to those who still do and cheers to those who don’t. I did my call of duty!
What old school death metal bands do you still listen to, and which do you find the most influential?
Death metal stuff is what it is. Still dig the first Entombed and Unleashed records as well as early Autopsy mainly for that style. But its classic metal for me really: Iron Maiden, best metal band ever. Still love my old Anvil records. Saxon records. Venom. All of it. The Metal Blade early catalog, Mausoleum Records, Neat Records. That’s my era. It’s all so influential from getting me to now to influencing me to create then as well as now on the music part of it.
How has the internet changed metal, in your view? It seems like not just vinyls but CDs are selling again; do you think this is people changing how they listen to music?
I listen to music at least fifteen a day. I’m talking music, I dont shut up about it. It’s my drug of choice. The internet lets folks test drive any band’s tunes. If it works some will buy it and build their shelves with the music they love. Others will download it or listen to it on YouTube in lesser quality for free; it is what it is. The internet has its charms as well as its cons. Stupidity runs rampoant all over earth and since most of earth is on a computer these days the internet is where you see their asses hanging out.
For the final word, can you tell our readers how they can stay in touch with what you are doing, whether you are touring, and what to expect in the future from Deceased?
Email me kingdoomstone@yahoo.com or find me on Facebook under Kingsley King Fowley. We got the new record out Children of the Morgue on August 30th through Hells Headbangers records. We will be gigging labor day weekend at RPM Fest in Massachusetts. Book of Armageddon fest in Brooklyn as well as a record relasew show at Songbyrd Club in DC that Friday-Saturday-Sunday holiday weekend. Then we are off to Hawaii to play a fest and then look for more East Coast dates in December and then March a tour announcement and then in May a few more fests and a run to the northern states. Forty years in 2025 so we are out and about with an anniversary 2CD set with tunes from all the records as well as a couple new ones, a couple covers, and a couple redos on the early demo stuff. Cheers for the interview and wishing you well and stay wild! Up the tombstones!
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Nice score of an interview with the legend himself, King Fowley. These guys have a unique approach, in my view. Hails.
Certainly. But is it death metal?
“For me, art is the ultimate questions, the ultimate thoughts, how to deprogram yourself. I believe that everyone is programmed from birth and that is unhealthy, and the artist is the inheritor of the tradition of wise people, shamen and priests, the ritual side of the social animal, there to expiate psychic and philosophical problems. That’s what art is meant to be about, is rescuing people from the fear of death and the fear of life. And that’s a very thin line. And it’s also a line which our society doesn’t even accept is there anymore, the reinforcement of the idea of there being status quo and socially acceptable behavior is the norm, and I believe the artist is there to question and to destroy and cut up and reposition and collide any possibility that they see in order to try and save people from being dead while they’re alive. Now that inevitably is going to cause conflict with authority.”
Genesis P-Orridge
The media is going to call anything with death growls “death metal’ but Deceased alwasy struck me as more trad heavy metal, a lot like Master, and never fully made the leap to death metal.
First 2 are
No school like the old school
The old school only got cooking 1990-1993, then fizzled with limp pizzle.
1989 really birthed death metal but 80s bands like Morbid Anel, Master, Sepultura, and Deicide got the bawl rolling. Sinister, Baphomet, Massacra, and Sadistic Intent too.
1989 is where Death Metal confronts the danger of Formalization, which does take down much of the Classic OSDM. That’s why only a handful of ’90s albums manage to surpass the Apotheoses of 1980’s Death Metal Triumvirate ( TMTherion, RiBlood & SoSickness ).
Symphonies is already a step towards formalization from the anarchy of Reek. Reign In Blood is great but Slayer ushered in death metal on Hell Awaits. To Mega Therion is probably the only seminal record from your trilogy.
-Symphonies is an Ideal Coming into Flesh for a soul ( Reek ) that was begging to be incarnated.
-Both HAwaits & RiBlood contain mistakes. The debut is their only through and through flawless, but it’s Heavy Metal.
-TMTherion gets even better with post-brit-grind drums & vocals, but, as of 1985, those aren’t available.
Reek of Putrefaction is the only Carcass I can listen to these days, and it is clearly grindcore. Were we going to mention Repulsion and Terrorizer here? Of course Blood was from the same era, and Carbonized really made something of it before Pathologist made the Carcass record that Carcass wishes it had made.
The core of death metal, per the FAQ, is the post-Discharge fusion of Hellhammer, Sodom, Bathory, and Slayer. This was 1983 and stepped beyond what metal and punk had done before. Reign in Blood was like a template of techniques as the genre evolved, but this was the same year that Morbid Angel and Sepultura unleashed some classics.
×Reek is devastating upon impact but long-run shows its shostcomings.
×That Symphs uses some old fashioned tools to perfect the potential of the Debut doesn’t hurt it.
×That Pathologist record is nowhere near Symphs. I’ll give it a re-listen though.
×There is no Grind. There is Punk & there is Metal. Carcass 1-2 are Death Metal.
×Repulsion is punkmetal, with lots of early blackdeath. If it is This, it’s the best punk in existence. If it is That, it levels most, if not all, Möt/Dis style death & black albums.A decade highlight, and a record l can’t live without.
×Terrorizer is less than great, same as Slaughter.
×Blood’s debut is the death version of 1st Suitends, slightly bests it too.
×RiBlood is only great, not “The First” in anything.
×The Cookie Cutter did creep in in the eighties already. Death, Pestilence, Autopsy etc. Morbid Angel’s Abos and Sepultura’s celticfrost album are leagues above these. They don’t make it into My Triumvirate, cause there’s only 3 in a threesome..
Violent disagree on grind. Grind is the inheritor of thrash. There’s DRI and Cryptic Slaughter in every single band. Convicted is the genre template, almost entirely contiguous with records from Terrorizer and middle Napalm Death.
No love for Terrorizer? That’s impossible given the strength of the debut. You mistakenly listened to your air conditioner instead (which is as good as that second Carcass album which is all hipstered out, unlike the first which is actually musical).
Dunno, lots of the 1990-1994 releases stick with me but after that the metal output rapidly falls off. Formalization occurred when bands started competing to be “technical” or “brutal,” and prompted a lot of me-too culture.
Nineties do overall beat Eighties, yes.
Wasn’t the first Sinister album in the late 80s?
Hellhammer, Slayer, Bathory. That is the first wave, not really death metal. 1986 is Cryptic Slaughter, Morbid Angel, Repulsion. By 1988 you have Pestilence, Deicide, Sinister, Incantation, and everydrone else . . .
Bathory put black/death in stone in 1984. There was a few projects out in ’82-’83 already, it was Forsberg that got there 1st.
Not just first. He mixed Motorhead, Discharge, and Black Sabbath but turned on the Christians and consumerists. He made the new style work before anyone else, and only a year after Slayer and two after Discharge.
Armageddon is one of those songs I can listen to on a loop all day. It’s a perfect embodiment of what metal was born to become: Beast and Machine in one. The album as a whole is as clumsy as you’d expect from teenagers, much like kill ’em all, but the core intention bleeds through unhinged.
Lack of the Corpse is standard formalized beginner’s Death Metal, with a very satisfying, all their own, approach on it. The Blueprints for Madness takes one strand of Speed Metal ( the one that “wants” to become bestial D.M. ) and leads it to both its intellectual and practical near perfection. I listen to these two b2b quite often, the 2nd being their Crowning Achievement. Their later stuff don’t appeal much here.
Sheeitt… the legendary DECEASED comes out of the shadows yet again…
G e t A J o b
A sit-down with Fowley should be a mandatory rite of passage for anyone into this music. The man is a force of nature.
There needs to be a Firing Line for death metal.
Perhaps President Harris will appoint him First Secretary of Death Metal.
Still sounds like Voivod with W.A.S.P. riffs
Mercyful Fate + Cradle of Filth?
thanks for the support! cheers, king fowley
Verse+chorus, static riffs, bluesy solos? Sounds like Iron Maiden dude.
You sound like a fucking accountant lol
Do you want me to sound like a burgerflipper or janitor so I can be a humble citizen of the republic, comrade?
It’s bad to know things. ACAB!
sounds like youre getting head from your dog
It’s not surprising, Fowley is pretty open about Maiden being his favourite band. He even praises drivel like book of souls and senjutsu.
Adrian McCoy sucked a spics dick who looked feminine but still invented these genres ha!
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Any chicks love to pee naked? Or bottomless?
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can’t help but wonder what the Founders would’ve thought of “Hawaii”
G e t O u t !
I’m not reading all of that
Short and sweet just like you
I’m pretty sure people don’t taste sweet dude
They do if you cook ’em right.
W o r k W I l l F r e e Y o u
Deceased! Surreal Overdose was one of those records that led me onto metal while I was still in high school. It’s not just the music for me; the stories told in the lyrics are also captivating, songs like Dying in Analog, Dark Chilling Heartbeat, Morbid Shape in Black, Unwanted Memories, In The Laboratory of Joyous Gloom, Unhuman Drama. When death metal bands that don’t sell out continue their output the run they risk of becoming formulaic if the do not consolidate their style as something that can evolve. I think Deceased have succeeded in this. Awesome band, glad to see them get respect around here.
Huh, I always figured the demographics of this site, and metal in general, were far too old for Surreal Overdose to have come out when they were in high school.
Not necessarily. Plenty of us around, I was listening to Vader in 2010 and must have started reading anus.com in as late as junior year, had a Rhea Riley look-alike friend who I would drive around with blasting stuff from Blasphemy Made Flesh. Beats listening to groove metal in my opinion.
Even most of the boomers here weren’t sentient when Deceased started out. Zoomies turn up at Deceased shows and metal is more socially acceptable in the USA now than it was in the late 90s.
The crowd bants in Deceased’s “Up the Tombstones!!! Live 2000” are a hoot. Something like “we’ve been doing this fifteen years, we’ll be doing it for another fifteen!!” Can you imagine, those old-timers still being active in the far future of 2015? King also thanks Relapsed for all their support (lol) and calls out a dude who made a comment about his Krokus shirt, Krokus of course being an ancient outdated band from fifteen years ago who nobody listened to anymore.
And now fests are headed up mainly by senior citizens and Gen Zs turn up in Demilich shirts. Not an entirely healthy state of affairs, but doesn’t look like metal’s going anywhere in the foreseeable future.
Demilich shirts are haute couture.
Death metal is eternal
True. Did some research a while back, there is a gap among generations that disturbs me. If you look at metallum you’ll notice that most bands released their best records between the ages of 18 and 23: Enslaved, Demilich, Carcass. This is common. Sometimes outliers like Sinister, Crpytopsy, At The Gates, Immolation, Voivod and Judas Priest either had some growing up to do before they would release their best songs or they had an older band member while most of the ensemble consisted of early 20s.
Took time to see if this is the case with 2000s bands like Pathology, Aborted and Kronos and it’s also early 20s that these bands began releasing albums. The pattern is similar until 2010 which is when fans started replacing old members, it happened with Crpytopsy and Vital Remains who hired 20 year olds in 2012 or so, and I’m sure it keeps happening with other bands. Please take this as hearsay and not conclusive research but from 2010 onward it was no longer teens starting bands at all, let alone bands like Deceased. In my area it was never really metal save for one or two bands but even those people were fragmented and were not driven to create something new. And if ever a creative project began it would be abandoned for more projects with more familiar sounds. Keep in mind that these bands were early 90s births, while mid 90s barred themselves completely from creative projects, a generation of inaction who only innovated how to not create. Bands that are popular with post-95 births are all pushing 40 themselves right now, even Batushka’s founding members are not 90s births, same with Mgla, Deathspell Omega; Imperial Triumphant are an exception as one of them was born in 1990 according to metal-archives but still all these bands were formed before 2010. Post-metal or post-rock or post-whatever ambient djent nonsense is probably the death knell for metal, for one simple reason: the mind is a sponge and it recreates outside stimuli inside, djent is already a deconstruction of riffs, “metal” escaped having to deal with black metal by partaking in more deconstruction and eventually ran out of audible combinations. So a cowardly troupe entertained a naive audience and it is what killed metal. Black metal died because the guy investing in it died. An alternative possibility is that old guard bands and labels are ignoring new artists but I like to think I’d know about these new bands regardless. Perhaps it is a bit of both scenarios, if we consider how grind emancipated itself from metal to a point at which one could tell a guitar player friend to play grind, it would sound more like Dillinger Escape Plan than Terrorizer, doubt that said guitar player knew or would listen to Terrorizer at all but he nonetheless listened to what he thought was grind. Don’t blame people, Terrorizer was just never in said guitar player’s way and marketers promoted another product. Culture is amnesiac, forgetting history constantly, living on lies and hoping we can be like bumblebees who fly despite their wings not being built to support their heavy builds. Emphasis on production value and technique are also at an all time high, and unless one of these virtuosos is the next Liszt and is not just on that level but also manages to grow out of being a Malmsteen (Or Azagthoth) wannabe it’s not looking good for people’s ears.
So if all could be done, next would be: avoid being butt rock, cubicle grind, “indie” or a modern equivalent of such ridiculous styles. I wouldn’t care who does it as long as it’s good, Euronymous came from (I assume) a nice family, private school, trust fund so I guess a self respecting alt bro with free time could step out of his gated community and do something that transcends his friend group’s base wants. It sucks because internet promised knowledge but few actually even know what to type on a search bar. Most schools don’t teach about romanticism or any art movement at all and it is visible with how the arts have degenerated. I never cared about counterculture, art rock, mainstream, it’s not my jam; last decade’s youth was strictly about not creating I feel bad for whoever wanted to start a band, good luck with that basement project, you fucking NEET.
TL;DR It’s over. Just look at who people’s idols are!!!!!!!!!
18-23 is when most bands are on top of their skills but not yet sucked into the label/commerce vortex. The problem with metal now is that no one has bothered to figure out the WHY.
References to Saturn’s influence aside… Millenials who did Nothing push the literal worst shit because they do not understand nor want to underdtand it, it’s fuckery for posturing, all pretense. It’s the 30 somethings on metallum reviewing the hottest garbage and giving it 90% and I’d say the only place remotely metal adjacent where you’d find ’96s and younger is in bands like Vulvodynia. Make of that what you will. I’m speaking from experience, I was certainly not on top of my game by 23 but then again I’m not Terrance Hobbs, before then I recall musicians around me becoming increasingly interested in gear, would ignore riff ideas I’d send; also some less metal inclined types I jammed with would be critical to the prospect of recording a jam session; Still did anyway. Have hardly met metal guys who just jam by the way. If I were to have a band today, I’d say it’s ok if nerds and obsessive mages are only audience for something new that people actually share, fuck ideology its all pretense fuck nu metal and fuck hipster elitism and da common man. I wonder what labels exist that would market stuff like what was discussed in earlier articles, I know Profound Lore have been known to ship certain rock bands but I guess they know their clientele (clientele!!!)
The internet fucked things a lot, and I reiterate: culture is amnesiac. To me these caverncore and “transcendental” bands from last decade basically ape the ROI band Shub Niggurath but I’m not sure they ever listened to them. When it comes to distribution. At least King Fowley and his band had demo casette tapes to give to people who owned Sony walkmans, I’ll bet most people can’t be fucked in the ass well enough to click on their friends’ bandcamp links today. I think a restrained use of noise could compliment soloing; effects too, being the best at metal is good but I wouldn’t set out to be a ‘metal musician’ because I think the pipeline to instagram from there is very wide and I’ve seen it happen with people I know. Better to do your best at what sounds come from you than latch onto a sound that your skillset disparages. You talk about ends over means thought here often and I’m aware that such thought is inherent to being rational and it might be the way for the underground after black metal. The problem is songwriters are often smart but not rational, they can play and compose within what ends they know but never venture to find new ends. Something else the internet ruined: people’s sex lives for sex can be for its own sake something that leads to pleasure, reproduction and attainment but if it’s not good (good being: opportune, consensual and communicative) then its purpose is changed to something unnatural. Everything one does bears one’s signature, whether how one dresses, cleans, plays the drums, fucks. Failing to see the purpose in things makes them become means to ends which are not foreseen…and thus suffering.
The other biiig issue is the attempts at attributing too much sophistication to things we like even on an ideological basis (to echo my earlier commentary on reviewers on metallum giving certain bands good scores) and I think today’s youth is compromised to all this, compromised to trap music, dsbm, mental “”health”” (and thus treating art as art therapy rather than a form of intellectual mortification) progressive politics, sleazy ideologues, mallcore revival. For the first time it seems like the youth LIKE AUTHORITY. Talk about demoralization no wonder people choose rabm, rac, nsbm, dsbm, tech death, noise for the sake of noise. All these already exist on someone else’s terms, it’s crazy to me that instead of being any band’s follower and maybe be influenced by them in one’s own project, one would choose to be said band’s bottom bitch and do the exact same thing “but different” which is a very commonplace principle for meme videos even nowadays. e.g “Bee Movie but sped up”
So yeah I’ve ranted again, I don’t think the underground is in need of accelerationism, but I think the soil is fertile but the farmers are inept.
Up the Tombstones!!!
There are some surprisingly developed narrations within Deceased’s songs. They are conducted with great efficiency and are able to remain vivid and to never lose their flows of energy.
Deceased gathered quite a catalog of covers throughout the years. Albums such as this are completely superfluous and often embarassing, but because of great variety and sheer ratio of good renditions, Cadaver Traditions is the best of this kind of releases. Fowley’s range is unbelivable. From female vocals and King Diamond’s wailing, to NYHC and death and black rasps and growls.
Any albums of 2024 worthy of note? Or shall I resume listening to the latest Sammath and Kaeck albums on repeat?
Cruciamentum which this site avoids for some reason, Rotten Tomb, Chapel of Samhain, think that’s it but with every listener being in a band who knows what is being missed anymore and there is not way to backtrack without patience. No one is going to go back through all this metal like they did with the past, so the 2000s repeated for an eternity?
The authors here appear to have enjoyed Doomraiser, Mekigah, and Condemner.
Answer: everyone will come here and pimp the shit that he and his friends think are cool, 99% of them are outright wrong and stupid, and most of them are just weak which is why they are doing this. It’s hard to devote time to this genre since it has been overrun by parasites and now there is a flood of 20+ releases a week in the underground category alone, 99.999% of which are the same exact thing.
Departure Chandelier
Unholy Craft
The CHP
Mauisaurus prime raprockzilla
Medieval metal murder hornets
Hate all hip hop
All men
All feminists
All Jews
All blacks
All latinos
All retards
But I love Austria Hawaii Japan wasps china Korea Greece Maori death metal hahaha
Fuck diversity hahaha
Jews are gay gays are gay Hitler’s plan needed adjustment send the Jews to Hawaii boy freaking do the stink hehehe
I bet kat dennings bleeds like crazy jewhehehehe
Equality sucks fuck the Dems trump twenty four hehehe
Jesus raped AOC last night hahaha
D e n y W h I t e M a n’ s C h a ri t y
Is it actual charity, or just bribes so the white man continues to own the blaumen?
It may be Ransom.
i paid for a chrome tape of the Nuclear Exorcist demo at the Day of Death in Buffalo, it was blank.
I sent it back to him to get it copied
the fag sent it back on a super cheap normal cassette
he’s a gawdamn homo, fuck that asshole
Hi. Its Steve Cefala from Dawning. Am looking to retire Dawning for the normal reason essentially. Goodbye Riny Midget.
The Tiny Midget lives on forever in all our hearts.
Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats, Vektor, Kyuss, Loudness. I feel like I don’t belong here.
Cirith Ungol, Eternal Champion, Sumerlands, Green Lung. If you’ve abandoned all hope for black and death metal, I believe you’ve come to the right place.
Ever watched Repo Chick?
Dr. Disrespect is back, and truth be told, it doesn’t matter if he was guilty or not – everyone was already guilty by being entertained by him.
Even so with Michael Jackson, he may or may not have done funny things, but good content is still good content.
Morality is for pussies.