Manowar are apparently planning a farewell tour.
6 CommentsTags: hard rock, Heavy Metal, manowar, news, power metal, tour, upcoming tours
Demonic Slaughter – Dark Paths to Catharsis (2015)
Article by David Rosales.
Dark Paths to Catharsis an album clearly intended to be atmospheric black metal, perhaps even a little too intentionally. Its method is of the so-called ‘melodic’ type, describing long, simple melodies played with tremolo picking, a backing power chord guitar, supporting bass, and mid-paced double-bass drums. The vocals are not entirely screeches though, being more a sort of angry dad-rock that is only mildly raspy in style. There are two major problems with the orientation and the structure-building method in Dark Paths to Catharsis: first of all, it is style-oriented; second, it replaces order with feeling.
15 CommentsTags: 2015, atmospheric metal, Black Metal, Dark Paths to Catharsis, Demonic Slaughter, modern metal, review
Desaster North American Tour
Teutonic blackened speed metal band Desaster are coming to North America to play a few show starting tomorrow.
2 CommentsTags: beer metal, Black Metal, Desaster, German Speed Metal, news, Speed Metal, tour, tour dates, upcoming tours, US tour
Unleashed – Where No Life Dwells Vinyl Reissue
Unleashed‘s debut and most coherent album, Where No Life Dwells, is being reissued by Century Media Records.
5 CommentsTags: century media, century media records, death metal, news, reissue, Swedeath, Swedish Death Metal, Unleashed, vinyl, Where No Life Dwells
The Three Types of Melodic Death Metal
Article by Ludvig Boysen.
There are three different kinds of music that are popularly called “melodic death metal”. Each is distinct and none even belong to the same metal sub-genre.
13 CommentsTags: amorphis, At the Gates, Deicide, Legion, melodeaf, melodeath, Melodic Death Metal, metalcore, musical analysis, Slaughter of the Soul, The Karelian Isthmus
Irkallian Oracle – Apollyon (2016)
Article by Corey M.
Irkallian Oracle make a conscious effort to sidestep many death metal conventions on Apollyon. They have been paying attention to the state of death metal over the last twenty years and noticed how many bands have traveled down the dead-end paths of “tech” and “slam” in pursuit of ever-more-extreme brutality. Irkallian Oracle eschew the brutality while trying to retain the creepy, morbid expression.
11 CommentsTags: 2016, Apollyon, Black Metal, blackened death metal, boring, death metal, Irkallian Oracle, nuclear war now! productions, nwn, review
Traversing the Underground: Exploring Ancient Mythos
Article by David Rosales.
Ancient myths are the remnants of an age when oral traditions were the main way by which humans preserved and passed on knowledge. This may be the reason why multi-layered symbols and complex relations in stories awkwardly designed to fit differing messages into a form that we may now consider silly. Differing schools of scholarship have developed distinct theories when compiling, reconstructing, and interpreting these messages. Many keep their own “updated” versions which have morphed on their own into the age of the text when the written word defined the transferring and preservation of human knowledge.
10 CommentsTags: crimson relic, Donald Alexander Mackenzie, Forbidden Rites, franz berwald, merciless, Mythology, mythos, Purgatory's Reign, Richard Kieckhefer, Serpent Ascending, The Awakening, The Enigma Unsettled, underground metal, underground music
Master’s Hammer Publish Samples from Formulæ
Master’s Hammer have uploaded samples today from their upcoming album, Formulæ, on their website.
5 CommentsTags: Black Metal, Czech black metal, experimental, Experimental Metal, Formulæ, intelligent dance music, Master's Hammer, news, upcoming release
Memoriam Release New Track “Resistance”
Memoriam, the band with former Bolt Thrower veterans Karl Willets and Andy Whale, has uploaded a new track from their upcoming 7″, The Hellfire Demo.
6 CommentsTags: Andy Whale, Bolt Thrower, Cosmic Key Creations, death metal, karl willets, memoriam, news, upcoming release
Root – Zjevení (1990)
Article by Lance Viggiano
Root’s Zjevení updates Merciful Fate from Halloween to haunt by exorcising the clownish camp while maintaining their high degree of theatricality. A textural treatment gives speed metal riffs a spectral significance that allows for it to have expressive power in dreary dungeons at midnight lit only by a faint moon that is slowly swallowed by black vapor. Tonally and thematically, Root sets the stage for later Greek acts such as Varathron and Rotting Christ to further develop this music through melodious – relatively speaking – ambience which expelled punk’s poltergeist.
14 CommentsTags: 1990, Black Metal, Czech black metal, Root, Speed Metal, Zjevení
