Merge dungeon synth with industrial and you get atmospheric industrial music that drives itself with sound samples and gently intermingling keyboard riffs at a glacial pace, perfect for creating an enduring mood but perhaps not the jarring expressions that metal refines.
2 CommentsTags: dungeon industrial, dungeon synth, hasufel, Industrial
Alongside Hellhammer, Bathory, and Sodom, Slayer helped invent the raw sound of death metal, which combined the literality of hardcore with the imaginative atmospheres of heavy metal and the structural composition of progressive rock and classical.
10 CommentsTags: death metal, jeff hanneman, slayer
Today in our studies of entropy, we look at how humans in groups motivated by self-interest will tear down anything good. As a case for study, Wormwood Nattarvet shows us how cruft and the desire to be unique leads to a reversion to the mean, in this case the 70s rock from which black metal distantly emerged.
6 CommentsTags: Black Metal, easy listening, wormwood
Famed for being a crypto-realist who lives in a world of imagination, Glenn Danzig laid out the brutal truth about political correctness:
6 CommentsTags: glenn danzig, kafkatrapping, political correctness, punk, sjws, the misfits, woke politics
In an age of deathcore, 3rd War Collapse presents us old fashioned deathgrind from the later Suffocation school, charging ahead with high-speed pounding drums and a festival of angular riffs piled on top of each other in a cascade which produces a victorious synthesis of themes.
3 CommentsTags: 3rd war collapse, death metal, deathgrind
Longstanding death metal band Pestilence, attempting to hybridize its musical core through the vision of Patrick Mameli with a new generation of metal, has released the first track from its upcoming album Exitium named “Morbvs Propagationem.”
12 CommentsTags: death metal, pestilence
Ever notice that reviews here skip the backstory on bands, simply because a cool backstory is how you sell stuff in the social media era? The Sombre makes late 1990s style doom metal, meaning that each song has a predictable progression and slowly unveils a contrary and pleasant melody.
2 CommentsTags: Doom Metal, the sombre
Written very much in the flowing style of middle period Darkthrone with an emphasis on varied structure that might have come easily from a Celtic Frost work, this band trudges and powerdives its way through riffs that are cut from similar cloth rhythmically but remain distinctive through fragmentary melody.
2 CommentsTags: Black Metal, necralant
Legendary artists Darkthrone, who began in death metal before embarking on a black metal period that ended with Total Death, now begin to show signs of their punk-influenced era moving into something more like the epic rock and metal that inspired them back in the day.
28 CommentsTags: Black Metal, darkthrone
Every time possesses its own culture, since culture exists in transparent layers based on who you are and where you are. Your civilization, often an empire, is the lowest layer, but then you add nation, social class, religion, general life philosophy, and any elective layers like enjoying death metal.
8 CommentsTags: Ambient, ambient music, cycles of music
