We knew heavy metal birthed itself from the intersection of UK guitar rock, nascent punk music, and progressive rock, and Sarcofagus shows us with this re-issue of an album from 1980 just how much early metal borrowed from the progressive side of things.
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Possessed created songs using death metal riffs in speed metal frameworks, but Laceration follows Immolation and Demigod in using speed metal riffs within atmospheric death metal songs, allowing the momentum of the song to merge with the mood, in which the different riffs tell a story through complement and contrast.
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When bands do something well, this summons all of the weaker voices against them to demand that they do something else, namely whatever is trending at the moment. Ideally, talented bands would be bought by kings and sequestered in monasteries to keep doing what they do well.
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As war metal matures, it becomes more like the grindcore that inspired it, basically fast-paced chromatic rhythm riffing that expands into melodic conclusions, following that bands as varied as Terrorizer, Trench Warfare, and Death Siege have been doing in recent years.
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For those who follow the legends of early proto-black metal, the name Sarcófago conjures up a vision of the ultimate boundary: barely in time, barely musical, and yet intensely creative and focused, this band open the door to a new world.
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Early progressive death metal experimenters Sadist, who began when besides At the Gates, Pestilence, and Atheist there were few options, plan to introduce their ninth full-length album to the world with Firescorched in 2021.
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Coming at black metal from the same chaotic rendering that propelled both later French and Polish scenes, Lycopolis make muddy, distorted sound sing with lengthy riffs enwrapped in cascades of feathery but harshly distorted vocals, and from this world they create a ritual.
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As all of the newer forms of metal exhaust themselves, classic heavy metal has made a return in its 1970s glory, undimmed by the 1960s soy-fruit rock and the rather unmusical rhythm-oriented music coming after. Cauldron Born embrace the guitar and the human voice as objects of power and beauty.
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Classic NWOBHM band Iron Maiden, part of the DNA of all metal to follow like Motorhead and Judas Priest, recently posted a documentary about the band originally released as DVD extras. Watch below for the gritty details.
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