Inspired by recent events, Texas thrash/crossover band released a song from a demo cut in 2016. This song, “Separate Corners,” points out that we cannot all get along, and maybe humanity should just take a time out in its respective corners by religion, class, race, special interest, etc., until at least some of us get our shit together.
14 CommentsTags: birth a.d., Crossover, Hardcore Punk, Thrash
From the squirrely sub-sub-genre of death metal that made us of flowing tremolo riffs as well as Slayer did, joining compatriots like Massacra and Vader, Deteriorate issued forth its first album, Rotting In Hell, to distribution in North America by J.L. America back in the hazy days of maturing underground metal.
6 CommentsTags: death metal, deteriorate
Record companies continue digging in their vaults to release rare material and actual remasters from classic underground metal bands, bypassing the tendency for ProTools “remasters” that amounted to compression of tracks ripped from the existing CD, in an effort to appeal to Generation X as they head toward five decades.
4 CommentsTags: death metal, earache records, morbid angel
Despite starting out as a powerful fusion of German and American speed metal, Ripper continues progressing into Voivod and Pestilence territory with their latest EP, Paranormal Waves, released digitally on March 30, 2020.
4 CommentsTags: progressive metal, ripper, Speed Metal
Vampyric/Ooccult black metal veterans Black Funeral released a single entitled “Kassaptu Lemuttu (Incantations of Zaqiqu-Demons of the Underworld)” in preparation for their upcoming album entitled Scourge of Lamashtu, set to be released on July 3rd throughIron Bonehead Productions.
2 CommentsTags: black funeral, Black Metal
Mexican death metal band Cenotaph forged a unique style of Central American death metal much as Sepultura did for Brazil, and influenced all New World old school death metal bands to follow.
No CommentsTags: cenotaph, Chaos Records, death metal
When death metal first came about, people believed it would never make it into the mainstream “culture” of our trend-based, democratic society. It turned out that industry just made an emo/metal hybrid and called it “technical death metal” so that neckbeard fedora barista hipsters can now claim they, too, listen to “outlaw music.”
12 CommentsTags: cloudflare, lee holloway, mainstream culture, opeth
Ambient music can mean anything. To most people, it means floaty electronica; in a more analytical sense, it means music which operates by a principle of sonic texture and layering, with lead voices disconnected from percussion so that melody leads the composition, allowing a new flexibility in composition.
1 CommentTags: Abyssum, Ambient, atmospheric, el nigromante
Independent and smaller heavy metal labels and suppliers may be beginning to feel the pinch of the ongoing Coronavirus pandemic. Dread Records, a label devoted to re-issuing underground classics on cassette, has notified its fans and customers that although they will continue to ship in stock items available on their website that all upcoming releases have been suspended including a re-release of Demilich-Nespithe.
No CommentsTags: dread records
Antisocial and violent black metal band Sammath unleashed a video of the band playing in Moscow, using the track “Ferocious Mortar Fire” from Across the Rhine is only death as the canvas for a newly elitist and intolerant sound. Expect all of the violent of war metal, with the precision of death metal, and the melody of black metal.
10 CommentsTags: Black Metal, death metal, sammath, War Metal
