Legendary abrasive hardcore band Cro-Mags releases its new EP, 2020, on Friday December 11, 2020, and published the single of the same name recently to announce this new recording. The single reveals a new technical metal, emo, and metalcore influenced edge to the classic Cro-Mags sound.
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The official narrative in all things exist to sell people products, whether ideological or commercial, and so always consists of half-truths, namely some things that are facts, but carefully leaving out others to let your mind fill in the rest as is convenient for the sellers.
10 CommentsTags: andres segovia, Classical, classical guitar, rock
Garage-level bands are usually condemned to the usage of the same rudimentary forms which causes their music to be dominated by the distorted guitar which constitutes the common ground for metal, hardcore, grind and oi. But at the same time there is often a struggle to somehow project desired message into those almost universal, objective structures with only small variations, just as Hellhammer was struggling with confinements of the form, despite being wholly avant-garde in its visions. And it seems that if there is truly a will, it will successfully color those rudimentary structures with desired character.
1 CommentTags: Black Metal, lord of evil, nsbm
Trailblazing Finnish black metal and ambient pioneer Beherit unleashed its latest creation, Bardo Exist, on November 12. Given the complete autophagy of black metal, this redirection of the genre shows it how to continue as itself in spirit while the carcass decays.
26 CommentsTags: Ambient, beherit, Black Metal
Most of the “new wave” of underground metal has focused on achieving a singular mood, such that you descend into it and then ride it until it stops; these two bands aim for a new yet more traditional version where songs develop in two steps, a descent and an arrival, then stop.
7 CommentsTags: Black Metal, hadopelagyal, thorybos
Pandering to the aging millennials who still blight the black metal scene, USBM: A Revolution of Identity in American Black Metal attempts apologize for writing a book about “racist and misogynist bands” while simultaneously attempting to celebrate the same “racist and misogynist” bands. This baffling move should ensure that both USBM fans and SJW posers alike take a hard pass on buying a book that hates the very scene it features while also hating the values it claims to propagate.
20 CommentsTags: Black Metal, social justice, USBM
Russian label Satanath Records found out the hard way that American politics have spilled over into cyberspace when Facebook removed its label page for supporting extreme traditionalist black metal band Burzum.
17 CommentsTags: burzum, censorship, facebook, satanath records
Crushing death metal band Asphyx announced their intent to release their tenth full-length album, Necroceros, on January 21, 2021 via Century Media.
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Amebix always had something that other crust bands lacked, a sense of the mystical or something existing beyond the consumerist, political, atomized, and individualistic modern world. It seemed to be connecting to something both ancient and futuristic.
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Trendy albums age poorly, but those written for eternity tend to maintain their stature even as people gain more experience and cynicism over the years. Finis Malorum stands up to time with a new edition that includes the “Sedes Impiorum” demo, two covers, and an early track.
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