Graveland bolts back and forth between its styles reflecting the composition of black metal, namely soundtracks plus cosmic ambient and underground metal. On Hour of Ragnarok, Graveland ditches the complex arrangements for sawing guitars and punk riffs worked into classic black metal themes.
2 CommentsTags: Black Metal, graveland
As discussed here before, the real question to a reviewer is, “Would you buy this?” My answer to Eight Headed Serpent might be no, but I would certainly stream it.
7 CommentsTags: Black Metal, impaled nazarene
This band claim a laundry list of influences, but to my ear, this sounds more like a fusion of early Gorguts and later Adramelech, possibly with Voivod in the wings: a tribute to classic death metal rhythms and patterns which manages to be just playful enough to avoid the pretenses of emulating the past.
2 CommentsTags: death metal, nihilanth
Some of the best musical genres consist of styles that are easy to imitate but hard to do well, and ambient music generally qualifies, but power electronics doubly so. You never know when you are listening to a carefully-plotted work or air conditioner feedback, but Institution D.O.L. have been at home in this genre for a quarter century.
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Creating a version of black metal determined to go back underground, Ascète combine influences from melodic black metal, epic black metal, and the simple but energetic melodies of Oi, using song structures at the edge of randomness to develop strongly anthemic themes.
5 CommentsTags: ascete, Black Metal, oi
Coming from an old school death metal background, Drawn and Quartered make a messy version of the heaving and battering style of percussive but primitive death metal that early Immolation and Cianide explored, mixing almost raw noise into thundering metal.
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Classic flowing black metal band Graveland has returned, modifying their swing toward folkish soundtrack metal with more rigid, hardcore-style riffs in idenfiably metal songs spanning the black metal, death metal, and heavy metal genres.
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Ambient death metal band Desecresy recently released three teaser tracks, presumably from an upcoming album. These show the band venturing into some indie rock technique while attempting to dominate it with death metal structure and aesthetics.
8 CommentsTags: death metal, desecresy
Excoriating black metal band Sammath has unleashed a new crop of patches for your kutte or battle jacket, or maybe the sails on your yacht; these can be found from the Sammath direct merchandising site.
20 CommentsTags: Black Metal, merch, sammath
Although Death Metal Underground, as a site run by veteran free-speech activists who crossed over from Leftism to Nihilism, has opposed “cancel culture” — a variety of “political correctness,” itself just another version of humans attempting to control reality through appearance and emotion — for some time, not only Glenn Danzig but now John Joseph from the Cro-Mags are speaking up:
32 CommentsTags: cancel culture, cro-mags, Hardcore, john joseph
