Coming from a pair of death metal community veterans, new documentary The Growl looks into death metal as it was, and whatever is left as Generation X and newcomers try to continue the tradition.
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Cro-Mags Slot New Album In The Beginning Release For June 19, 2020
From Mission Two Entertainment (the successor to Tony Brummel’s Victory Records) comes the first Cro-Mags album in two decades, featuring the new lineup of Harley Flanagan on bass/vocals, Garry Sullivan on drums, and Rocky George and Gabby Abularach on guitars.
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Profanatica Attacks Nu-Black Poseurs For Fear Of COVID-19
Paul Ledney of Profanatica/Havohej presents one of those personalities who navigate the world by gut instinct but generally uncover more than they know at the time. Much as in his black metal career, in his role as cultural critic of the black metal scene, Ledney put his finger on the rot at the heart of the community with recent comments on the COVID-19 panic or pandemic.
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Gore House Productions Releases Sampler With Proceeds Going To St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
Extreme music label Gore House Productions released its Decade of Demise sampler early this morning featuring 42 tracks of grindcore, death metal, deathgrind, goregrind, and metalcore-influenced death metal, with all proceeds going to St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital.
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Comparing Demo Versions To Album Versions
Often the demo speaks louder because ideas remained at their core, instead of becoming infiltrated and confused with aesthetics, market positioning (including the market of popularity among the underground), label demands, technicalities, and other confusions.
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More Evidence For Breath Smoking As The Original Method Of Pipe-Smoking
As detailed in articles about how to smoke a pipe and general pipe-smoking knowledge, the “breath-smoking” method provides optimum enjoyment and safety.
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Disfear Re-Issues Soul Scars On Vinyl For 25-Year Anniversary
Swedish crust punks Disfear have announced that their debut record Soul Scars will be reissued on vinyl LP on May 8th, 2020. The band, famous for their hybrid of d-beat hardcore, grindcore, and Swedish style melodic death metal introduced the most complete form of their sound on that album.
7 CommentsWiking 1940 Unleashes “Acquainted with the dead” From W
Melodic atmospheric black metal band Wiking 1940 releases its latest album, W, on April 28, 2020, but has allowed one track, “Acquainted with the dead,” to escape in advance. This solitary song shows a melodic yet recursive style similar to Infamous or Rotting Christ.
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How Tobacco Can Save Us From The Coronavirus
Panic continues among the unpunished herd. They know, in their guts, that humanity has grown too large and with no qualitative controls, so now we have a vast army of locust-like human morons consuming everything they can reach, leaving behind dystopian idiocracies run by cynical shopkeepers.
6 CommentsTags: coronavirus, nicotine, pipe smoking, tobacco
Kill or Be Killed! – The Warfare Behind Deeds of Flesh’s Mark Of The Legion
Guest Article by Svennerick
Deeds Of Flesh’s music is known for breaking from the conventional, but unlike many other bands who resolve to untypical instruments or gimmicks, Deeds Of Flesh portray their own variety of death metal through the war that rages within their song structures and riffs.
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