Former Bestial Evil (USA) guitarist Kevin Rucker made waves recently when he criticized the Shadow Woods music festival for including bands with members who were possibly associated with the survivalist and allegedly white nationalist group Wolves of Vinland.
24 CommentsTags: baltimore, kevin rucker, mary a. spiro, paul waggener, shadow woods fest, sjws, wolves of vinland
Brett Steven’s Nihilism: A Philosophy Based In Nothingness And Eternity sold out quickly at Hells Headbangers’ metal distro so Hells Headbangers has just restocked it! You know you want it hard. Now you can get it hard fast again with DHL international shipping! Believe in nothing and take it like man! How do you expect to reach emptiness without mentally climaxing into the vortex? Are you man enough?
124 CommentsTags: book, brett stevens, hells headbangers, Nihilism, Philosophy
Article by David Rosales
Marduk has never, with the exception of the laudable Opus Nocturne, boasted of a deep mystical aura imbuing their music and has rather been known for the sonic onslaught which is their music. The present work sees a band that appears to have long settled for a style and seem content to reproduce it for the benefit of an expecting audience. That is, a very palpable pop mentality has settled in, even if the music has not completely degenerated in form. The artistic vision nonetheless has affected, as is the rule, the manifested aesthetic of the music, and will predictably continue to corrode its quality as it has been doing for the past twenty years or so.
12 CommentsTags: Black Metal, Frontschwein, marduk, pop metal, re-review, review, War Metal
The leading representative of Swedish industry around the world, Ikea, sells furniture of styles from a dozen nations. It has a housewares section, a full-service cafeteria, a donut shop and a grocery store. You can pick up electric lights, tools, houseplants and home decor there.
But conspicuously absent are the most important items from Sweden in recent memory: Swedish death metal and black metal.
16 CommentsTags: ikea, Sweden, Swedish Black Metal, Swedish Death Metal
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.
11 CommentsTags: alternative rock, Atanor, black 'n roll, Black Metal, Bolzer, Chhinnamasta, Cross Vault, crypto-indie, Heavydeath, Hero, hipster bullshit, Iron Bonehead Productions, metalcore, Mouth of Madness, Phrenelith, sadistic metal reviews, Spectral Voice, stoner doom, Temple Nightside, Verberis
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
