Century Media Records has announced its intention to re-issue all three full length records from Swedish death metal veterans Unanimated.
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Metropolitan Opera Streams Live Wagner Operas All Week
As most of the West hunkers down in fear of Chinese lung AIDS, online providers are conjuring up things to keep us all occupied, including the Metropolitan Opera in New York which will be streaming live performances of Richard Wagner operas this week each night at 7:30 PM EST.
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Archaic Modernism: The Art of Christophe Szpajdel Released
We have all seen his logos: Christophe Szpajdel illustrated the branding for much of classic black metal and rose to prominence as the genre exploded in the late 1990s. Heavy Music Artwork honors him in part of its book series on hard rock and heavy metal artwork with Archaic Modernism: The Art of Christophe Szpajdel, now available for pre-order.
4 CommentsThe Greatest Idiot Riff : Bolt Thrower’s “World Eater”
Master’s Paul Speckmann is known for taking an idea and squeezing everything he can from it through repetition and then utilizing the most direct route to return to that idea. Though this mentality would fail many bands because the riffs didn’t have the necessary urgency and creativity to work. Bolt Thrower on the other hand took this approach and pushed it to the logical extreme as each individual riff became the central focus while narrative development was relegated to an afterthought despite somehow still being present. What made Bolt Thrower so intriguing was that they possessed powerful riffs that were caveman like and more often than not completely idiotic yet the band managed to soar where others failed miserably.
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Infamous / Ordo Sanguinis Noctis Split Released
In the midst of the coronavirus devastating Italy, melodic Sardinian black metal act Infamous recently released a new track entitled “Forza e Onore” on a split with Ordo Sanguis Noctis entitled Strength and Honour/ Consecration of Mossy Sanctuary. With “Forza e Onore” mastermind S.A. explores familiar melodies with perhaps a greater sense of violence and urgency than those tracks which appeared on the previous full length.
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Coronavirus Mainly Killing Off Soy Fruit City Dwellers And Leftists (Darwin Chuckles)
Metal exists in part to explain an insane world in a way that will not drive us insane, with starts by acknowledging that everything that groups of humans think is order is chaos, the “chaos” of nature is in fact an intense order, and that we are not insane for noticing that humanity is insane and needs a 2×4 to the head to wake up.
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Sadistic Metal News: Post-Black Metal Band Batushka Contracts Coronavirus
Krzysztof “Derph” Drabikowski from post-black metal band Batushka is the first infected person in his region, supposedly due to touring in the Western Europe.
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Metal Blade Records Re-Issues Anacrusis Titles Suffering Hour, Reason, Manic Impressions, And Screams and Whispers
Metal Blade Records reissued the first four records from overlooked technical speed metal act Anacrusis during the last quarter of 2019. Hailing from St. Louis, Anacrusis incorporated crossover elements infused with familiar speed metal tropes, and later added more accessible progressive heavy metal elements while remaining musically astute.
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Dodging Coronavirus, Corvus Corax Stream Concert Worldwide
As the world shuts down because of the COVID-19 pandemic, German medieval necrofolk band Corvus Corax have opted to stream a live performance through the internet so people can attend from within their shelter-in-place auto-quarantine nests.
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