Father Befouled, one of the only even semi-competent Incantaclones, have announced on their Funbook page that they will be releasing a new album, Desolate Gods, next year on Dark Descent Records. Hopefully the band has progressed beyond straight imitation of Incantation, Profanatica, and Havohej.
1 CommentTags: dark descent, dark descent records, death metal, Desolate Gods, Father Befouled, upcoming release
Death/speed metal hybrid band Deceased‘s Fearless Undead Machines has been reissued on CD by Transcending Obscurity Records.
5 CommentsTags: compact disc, death metal, deceased, reissue, Speed Metal, transcending obscurity
Kaeck released another live video from their set at the Under the Black Sun 2016 festival outside of Berlin this time with slow motion! The cleaner sound than on the record is much appreciated but the band needs to perform live with Oovenmeester instead of one of the mooks from Mad Max: Fury Road.
3 CommentsTags: Black Metal, kaeck, live, music video
Relapse Records posted a new track, “Loathe”, from Obituary’s upcoming Ten Thousand Ways to Die album their Bandcamp page. It’s quite bland I assure you.
8 CommentsTags: doom-death, new track, obituary, relapse records, upcoming release
Metal — in any meaningful version of the word — has been dead for twenty years, but the death keeps accelerating, as if trying to achieve absolute zero of interest for people with souls. This has prompted a number of long-standing metal bands to explore hybrid genres, so they can carry on the spirit of metal in another form.
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The problem with seasonal beer from breweries that do not normally brew in that style is that their product tends to be a half-assed mess marketed to draw sales away from the better brands. Shiner Bock is a decent beer when it’s on sale but this pitiful attempt at a Marzen is barely better than Yuengling. Shiner Oktoberfest tastes shockingly similar to Sam Adams Boston Lager but watered it down with a strange chemically bitter finish instead of hop bite. I would not be surprised if this was brewed with condensed syrups, concentrates, and extracts shipped to the brewery in oil drums rather than from barley malt and dried noble hops. While not disgusting enough to pour out as libations for the sewage treatment facility, Shiner Oktoberfest is still a Hungry Man TV dinner knockoff of a Marzen beer at an import price.
Quality: 2/5
Purchase: 1/5
Tags: beer, lager, marzen, shiner, shiner oktoberfest
We recently reviewed the 2015 EP from Undead entitled Blood Enemy. This underground metal release combines the best of late 1980s speed metal with the architectural song transitions of Swedish death metal. Fortunately, the band were on hand to answer our questions about their music, approach and the art of death metal.
51 CommentsTags: death metal, Speed Metal, Undead
Murder Construct recently released as a single their contribution to the Undead: A Tribute To Disrupt album of cover songs honoring this well-known crust band. While this is a faithful cover, it adds a few layers on top of the original that keep it from becoming boring and inject the personality of Murder Construct into a standard for the post-1980s punk movement.
3 CommentsTags: crust, Crust Punk, crustcore, disrupt, murder construct
Riffless war metal/noise punk trolls Conqueror are having their only album, War Cult Supremacy, repressed on LP and CD by Nuclear War Now! A bonus live DVD is included too.
10 CommentsTags: conqueror, Hardcore Punk, hipster bullshit, idiots, noise, nuclear war now! productions, War Metal
Carcass are touring the US again in November. This time with Deafheaven since Carcass are all about the cash:
No CommentsTags: carcass, deafheaven, Grindcore, mainstream metal, nuclear blast records, upcoming tours, US tour
