For those of us who have never been Deep Purple fans, the following analysis of their roots shows us the utility of classical music in making great heavy metal:
11 CommentsTags: Bathory, burzum, Classical, classical music, deep purple, Heavy Metal
Deison / K.K. Null – Yugen (2019)
Another collaboration from K.K. Null shows us the immense flexibility of the almost pure music he creates from manipulated sound, with Deison providing what sounds like a techno/necrowave framework over which ominous, haunting, and disturbing noise hangs like a funereal curtain.
1 CommentSabrewulf – Mala Suerte (2019)
Swedish death metal left a massive impression on the metal underground because it both created a sound from intense distortion and d-beat punk swept up in primal death metal and also gave a voice to this music with a viewpoint that was simultaneously energetic, ancient, and anarchistic. Sabrewulf add to this a raw spontaneity and give it a different path.
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Xtreem Music Re-Issues 1992 Pyrexia Demo As Liturgy of Impurity
Back in 1992 or so, Suffocation was the hot commodity and pretty much everyone in the death metal community wanted more of that sound. Ironically, it borrowed as much from Bay Area speed metal as death metal, using the percussive muted strum in ways faster than Exodus or Metallica could have imagined.
32 CommentsTags: death metal, Pyrexia
Demon Head Signs To Metal Blade Records
We cover many of the tangents and background nodal points around death metal here, and Demon Head fits right into those categories. Basically 1970s rock filtered through Danzig with a lot of Iron Maiden but played with a modern stoner doom approach and hard rock pace, Demon Head brings back the weird, enjoyable, and unsettling in rock.
12 CommentsTags: AOR, demon head, hard rock, stoner doom
Draconis – Anthems For An Eternal Battle (2020)
In order to defend our authorship, we have to point out that the Draconis press release came with the following text:
9 CommentsTags: brutal records, draconis
Japan Invents Robot To Rob Automated Convenience Stores
Following the successful rollout of the first automated convenience store, Japan has broken yet another barrier by fleshing out what Nakatomi Corporation calls “the convenience store ecosystem.”
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Interview With Necrophiliac
We were fortunate enough to grab a few words from Necrophiliac as they wandered by in a blue twilight neon haze of cyberspace, and caught vocalist Bongo in a mood to reveal the secrets of this dark and primeval death metal sect.
10 CommentsTags: death metal, Necrophiliac, xtreem records
GNAA Brings Libyan-Style Government To America
Having seized the city of Portland after 52 days of rioting, the CHAZ/CHOP collective adopted the Libyan model of leadership seen in the Government of National Accord (GNA) and launched an American equivalent, the Government of National Accord of America, or GNAA.
No CommentsMinneapolis Destroyed In Nuclear Explosion After “White Lives Matter” Banner Found
Defense Secretary Mark Esper invoked the Seventh Trumpet protocol by which United States government figures communicate directly with the population over radio, television, and internet channels simultaneously to announce that, after the discovery of a “White Lives Matter” banner in Minneapolis, the city was erased by a nuclear explosion.
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