Northern Indiana resonant death metal band Adversary remastered and reissued its first album, The Winter’s Harvest, with new cover art and liner notes for those who are interested in the interstitials and nuanced crevices of the death metal organism.
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Our first indication that the world had a hidden underlying order was the Poisson Distribution, which showed us that what we saw as random was in fact ordered and somewhat pre-determined, as if Plato and Prometheus had triumphed over B.F. Skinner and Jéhováh.
73 CommentsTags: blaspherian, death metal, imprecation, nuclear war now! productions
Classic innovative death metal band Demlich will ride on vinyl and CD again with the 2025 reissue of its classic Nespithe, joining a flurry of post-1990s interest in this once-overlooked but essential slab of death metal weirdness.
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Following a massive US tour and rising interest in its latest full-length, Grebbeberg, Dutch-German war metallish black/death band Sammath unleashes a re-issue of its 1997 demo “De Ruïnes Fluisteren” via Docs Production.
95 CommentsTags: Black Metal, docs production, sammath
The dubious Rock ‘n Roll Hall of Fame is holding a popularity contest — sorry, democracy event — to select who gets included on the rolls of the famous, and this year, Joy Division has been nominated. You can vote here for this post-punk/new-age/proto-industrial band.
46 CommentsTags: joy division, new wave, punk, rock 'n roll hall of fame
Aggressive black metal and war metal hybrid Sammath will release its latest offering on seven inch vinyl in early 2025 on WolfKult Religion. With artwork by Dylan Humphries, the disc features one new track and an exclusive track for this release.
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Nature is healing. Beherit will be touring North America — New Yawk, Houston, Chitcago, Denver, Portland, probably SF, Los Angeles, and Mexico City — in 2025, delivering to black metal fans the resurgence of ancient spirit and sci-fi futurism that the genre has always proclaimed.
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Way back in the early 1990s, Niko Skorpio helmed a zine named Hammer of Damnation in addition to handling vocal duties in Thergothon.
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Since the late 1980s, all culture has been crypto: it hides in plain sight, it uses its own language and symbols, and it builds itself against the dominant contrarianism that took over in the 1960s and turned rock into propaganda and advertising.
32 CommentsTags: degeneration, lyrics, melody, metal, music
Century Media has taken a classic album and improved it by giving it production more like the first Sacramentum full-length. From the teletype:
23 CommentsTags: Black Metal, death metal, sacramentum
