Varg Vikernes released another black metal history video on his ThuleanPerspective Youtube channel. Want to know about the Satanic practices of Mayhem, Satyricon, Immortal, and Burzum? Let’s find out:
61 CommentsTags: Black Metal, burzum, mayhem, metal history, norway, Satanism, varg vikernes, youtube
Death bobble-heads, Abbath shower curtains, now Dismember leggings! Dismember t-shirts sold out quickly so now Dismember have branched out to women’s sportswear with Like an Ever Flowing Stream leggings! Will Fred Estby be the next Michael Kors? Will Fred Estby make his mortgage payment on time this month?
34 CommentsTags: cash grab, Dismember, Like an Ever Flowing Stream, merch, merchandise
Enslaved‘s debut 1994 album Vikingligr Veldi is out on vinyl for the first time for all the crazy collector hipsters out there who need a CD on wax courtesy of Norse Music. The 2x LP comes in a gatefold sleeve and features a new layout designed by Zbigniew Bielak (Mayhem, Zom, Ghost).
55 CommentsTags: Black Metal, Enslaved, Norse Music, norway, reissue, Vikingligr Veldi, vinyl
Continuing a prolific streak of distinct and high-quality recordings, Sardinia’s Infamous summons up the dormant spirit of black metal on this recently released and apparently untitled split album with Gratzug from Bavaria.
9 CommentsTags: Black Metal, gratzug, infamous, rac/oi, sardinia
Death Metal Underground constantly receives new batches of rock music masquerading as “blackened death metal” for the scenester, “buy everything” market. We microwave these promotional materials inside the homes of people we hate.
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Article by Anton Rudrick.
One clear sign that a band’s direction is compromised can be seen through unity of style. In this case, we see Gorgoroth lacking a clear voice of their own, in place of which Instinctus Bestialis offers three main ways of constructing sections and a rather pop-oriented way of building whole songs. The first is a bare bones neoclassical melodic method using two guitars, which is an interesting addition to traditionally more modal and harmonically chromatic genres such as death and black metal. Due to the foreign nature of these, the incorporation can be quite delicate and ought to be treated with the utmost care. The second is a collection of standard modern metal tropes ranging from the rhythmic intonations of deathcore with a low-string chug riff, probably inherited from the most prosaic speed metal. Last is the most important of the three in a rather unexpected choice in anthemic heavy metal, which happens to be the customary choice for commercial metal acts which have become barren of inspiration and direction.
19 CommentsTags: 2015, deathcore, gorgoroth, Heavy Metal, Instinctus Bestialis, mainstream metal, modern metal, pop metal, review, stadium metal
Dead Congregation‘s Sombre Doom EP is coming out October 20nd on CD from the band’s own Martyrdoom Productions label. The EP will be available for purchase on their upcoming European tour. From Dead Congregation’s Funbook page:
3 CommentsTags: dead congregation, death metal, EP, greece, Martyrdoom Productions, Sombre Doom, upcoming release
Varg Vikernes uploaded another black metal history video to his ThuleanPerspective Youtube channel. In A Fatal Acquaintance (Euronymous, April 1991 – August 1993), the Burzum creator summarizes his relationship with Euronymous prior to their fatal fight on August 10th, 1993. Varg explains how the Mayhem guitarist was a fat Communist who stole the money used to preorder Burzum records and sunk it into his money pit Helvete record shop in Oslo.
25 CommentsTags: Black Metal, burzum, Euronymous, mayhem, metal history, norway, varg vikernes, video, youtube
Huge metal distro Hells Headbangers now has Brett Stevens’ Nihilism: A Philosophy Based In Nothingness And Eternity in stock. Hells Headbangers has DHL shipping so those who want to read it in countries without a local Amazon affiliate may obtain the book more easily now.
23 CommentsTags: book, brett stevens, Manticore Press, Nihilism, Philosophy
Article by Anton Rudrick.
Now that a thorough overview of Sodom’s career has been completed, and a short analysis from that overview has provided us with new insights, we can be more confident in our evaluation of their new album, Decision Day, in a way that allows us to tentatively explain the origin of its strengths and faults. This becomes especially useful with an album displaying averageness on all levels, showing no prominent ideas that distinguish it neither in the abstract nor the actualized, and furthermore, certainly not being more than the sum of its parts. The situation is one in which all that remains are the references that these streamlined and pre-fabricated pieces meant in their original contexts, and how this commercial product attempts to play on them for maximizing revenue.
Sodom has earned a solid reputation among the metal crowd through the years. Most fans of the metal underground will probably have heard about Sodom, or that of Tom Angelripper, and will express respect at the mere mention of either name. Their newest album displays traits which one would associate with their own brand of speed metal (a.k.a. thrash metal, incorrectly dubbed), but these seem filtered through mannerisms borrowed from styles acquired over the last two decades and a half while Tom Angelripper explored the mainstream side of metal. Decision Day is catchy, and every step and turn is a hook optimized for comprehensibility and mass consumption.
18 CommentsTags: 2016, decision day, German Speed Metal, hard rock, mainstream metal, pop metal, review, sodom, Speed Metal
