People like what is mentally easy because it requires the least amount of risk, since they want to avoid change, which carries with it the risk of misreading reality and therefore failing. Of all the sad cries of humans, “look for the lost diamonds of the past” may be the saddest, simply because it is mentally lazy.
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These antiquated tapes came out of an ancient closet, were remastered on modern equipment, and serve as interest only to Beherit fanatics who want to see how this band grasped for a clue about songwriting during the early days.
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Certain releases provide useful waypoints, or nodes on the mesh through which history navigated a path, and Necronomicon with its self-titled shows us where 1986 had left the underground edge of metal: adopting technique from the new proto-underground, but still keeping a foot in bouncy speed metal land and unwilling to go fully to the tremolo style of Slayer or the epic song structures of Hellhammer.
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Since no one else seems to be able to do much of anything in this world, it falls on us to make sense of it all here at Death Metal Underground. Very few can actually think — a process both analytical and creative, realistic and abstract — and so almost everything published is gibberish.
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Perhaps you can imagine a band that takes a Nunslaughter approach to riff writing, adds the spidery melodic leads of early technical death metal, and slashes it out at a Sadistic Intent pace of mid-paced riffs alternated with fast chromatic shredding; then, you would roughly have Sadistic Drive.
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Sentenced burst into existence like a moment of drunken exuberance but then vanished just as quickly, appearing with Shadows of the Past in 1991 to ride the Demigod and Darkthrone style of dark mid-paced death metal to its conclusions, then peaked with the magnificent North From Here two years later, but by the next album, became some kind of gothic hard rock that drove away death metal fans in droves.
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In my observation, humans screw up on both sides of the Bell Curve: the dumb pound out repetitive emotions, and the intelligent do everything right like good A+ students according to what they see around them, making a repetition of what already exists.
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No one quite knows what to call this new genre. Take stoner doom, add in Sisters of Mercy and Killing Joke, then modulate it with small amounts of black metal, shoegaze, and atmospheric punk music and you get deathrock, a spacy style that reduces focus on vocals to let guitars dominate but aims for ambience more than a repeatable, definable message.
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We might call this cultural heavy metal to distinguish it from the party metal like Motley Crue and Pantera, since it aims to produce an atmosphere and changing sonic adventure which hopes to reveal something in us that parallels what is discovered outside, more than entertain the lost.
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Back in 2019, Carcass released their first single in under five years with “Under the Scalpel Blade,” followed by a four-song EP entitled Despicable in late 2020, laying the groundwork for the release of their next full-length, Torn Arteries later this year.
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