Carrying forward the old school energy with an idiosyncratic voice of its own, Sépulcre aims for a mid-paced, shifting texture of riffs which culminate in the expansion of melody, producing both a bounding exuberant energy and a dark ambiguous mood which swallows up the rest of each track.
1 CommentTags: death metal, sepulcre
Clearly influenced by the latter half of Swedish death metal and Norwegian black metal, Towards Obscurities Beyond keeps itself grounded in American-style relentless death metal, with its churning tremolo riffs interrupted by atmospheric melodic riffs to great effect.
No CommentsTags: death metal, Transcendence
This basic but energetic death metal comes to us from a time before the full differentiation of the style, when grindcore and basic song structure death metal could coexist in the same band, sort of like what Master, Cianide, Massacre, and Benediction did.
1 CommentTags: death metal, kriegszittern
Solfernus succeed at what many bands did after the collapse of black metal, which was to reintegrate the genres of metal from the early 1980s onward into a hybrid style. In this case, they focus on the era of speed metal with black and death metal influences from the late 1980s.
No CommentsTags: solfernus, Speed Metal
Attempting to use Carnage/Nihilist style d-beat old school death metal as a sponge in which to absorb melodic metal influences, Symbtomy achieve the first stages of the holy grail of death metal, namely songs where all the parts relate to each other and a general theme emerges.
No CommentsTags: death metal, symbtomy
Welcome to that odd point, thirty years after the genre formed, when your favorite music has become if not universally socially accepted at least recognized as part of the landscape, which means that you, too, can go to expensive festivals in far-off urban wastelands.
9 CommentsTags: concert, live, mass destruction, metalfest
It’s that time of year again. Celebrate the International Day of Slayer (a riff on the National Day of Prayer) by blasting Slayer loud all day and all night with a new live set and 1983 demo from Slayer for download.
16 CommentsTags: National Day of Slayer, slayer
Exploring a modern side of metal that keeps one foot in the past, the latest Pestilence will draw comparisons to Testimony of the Ancients, but to my mind goes back to Malleus Maleficarum even more, balanced with metalcore, progressive metal, and jazz fusion.
No CommentsTags: metalcore, pestilence, Speed Metal
Listening to the review queue, it strikes me how few bands write songs with any unifying patterns to them. Most piece together riffs around a form, like those paper cut-outs seamstresses use to make dresses, and when it all seems to work, cut tape and call it a day.
No CommentsTags: assault, Melodic Death Metal, Speed Metal
Ornate funeral doom metal band Skepticism announced the release of their sixth full-length album, Companion, via Svart Records on September 24, 2021. The first single, “Calla,” indicates a more lush symphonic approach perhaps influenced by Empyrium.
1 CommentTags: Doom Metal, skepticism
