Perhaps you can imagine a band that takes a Nunslaughter approach to riff writing, adds the spidery melodic leads of early technical death metal, and slashes it out at a Sadistic Intent pace of mid-paced riffs alternated with fast chromatic shredding; then, you would roughly have Sadistic Drive.
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Sentenced burst into existence like a moment of drunken exuberance but then vanished just as quickly, appearing with Shadows of the Past in 1991 to ride the Demigod and Darkthrone style of dark mid-paced death metal to its conclusions, then peaked with the magnificent North From Here two years later, but by the next album, became some kind of gothic hard rock that drove away death metal fans in droves.
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In my observation, humans screw up on both sides of the Bell Curve: the dumb pound out repetitive emotions, and the intelligent do everything right like good A+ students according to what they see around them, making a repetition of what already exists.
3 CommentsTags: aethyrick, Black Metal
No one quite knows what to call this new genre. Take stoner doom, add in Sisters of Mercy and Killing Joke, then modulate it with small amounts of black metal, shoegaze, and atmospheric punk music and you get deathrock, a spacy style that reduces focus on vocals to let guitars dominate but aims for ambience more than a repeatable, definable message.
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We might call this cultural heavy metal to distinguish it from the party metal like Motley Crue and Pantera, since it aims to produce an atmosphere and changing sonic adventure which hopes to reveal something in us that parallels what is discovered outside, more than entertain the lost.
1 CommentTags: Heavy Metal, yoth iria
Back in 2019, Carcass released their first single in under five years with “Under the Scalpel Blade,” followed by a four-song EP entitled Despicable in late 2020, laying the groundwork for the release of their next full-length, Torn Arteries later this year.
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Pummeling speed metal band Vio-Lence return, with Overkill guitarist Bobby Gustafson on the team, with a new variation on their death metal tinged Bay Area assault metal, planning a new EP named Let The World Burn for release during early 2022 on Metal Blade Records.
2 CommentsTags: Metal Blade, Speed Metal, vio-lence
With the latest At The Gates album, metal migrates into its 1970s roots with a combination of proto-metal, avantgarde jazz, and progressive rock, eliminating the complex structures of death metal for the winding thematic forms of 1960s adventurous rock.
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During the past decade, industrial and metal have converged with synthpop to form darkwave, dungeon synth, and related genres, and from the middle of this wave comes Master Boot Record, a desktop-based project that mixes synthesized metal riffs with progressive-style lead rhythm keyboards.
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Imagine that someone went back to that brief period of time when music like Merciless, Devastation, and Sarcofago hovered between speed metal and the underground metal to come, and then approached it with the high-intensity styles of war metal and black metal.
2 CommentsTags: nuclear revenge, Speed Metal
