History will not remember war metal well, since it took aspects of black metal and intensified them but in doing so, missed the point of the atmosphere and sense of a world changing in parallax, where it drifts backward as time thrusts us forward, that black metal captured.
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Despite appearing to be from the Carcass school of grind, this band contains more death metal and modern metal than 1980s grind, although it mixes in a fair amount of bounding, aggressive grindcore from the Repulsion, Terrorizer, and Napalm Death early 1990s model. Nonetheless this band possesses its own style.
3 CommentsTags: Grindcore, putrid offal
The press release that came along with this album described it as being similar to Opeth, but a leisurely listen with one of my Connecticut wrapper mild cigars that taste like Nilla wafers reveals a more distant ancestor: Queen. This is theatrical rock music that borrows some metal riffs, but not metal in any meaningful sense.
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Progressive-styled metalcore band Oceans Of Slumber announced recently that its latest album, entitled Oceans of Slumber, will be released on September 4, 2020, via Century Media Records. This follow-up to their 2013 album Aetherial, the 2015 EP Blue, and 2016 album Winter continues their merger of prog-rock stylings, hard rock riffs, and lush instrumentation.
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Newer generations of death metal influenced heavy metal tend to adopt more of a simplified power metal approach, focusing on strong verse-chorus repetition with a few variant themes toward the end of the song, as if to make the music video more interesting. Firespawn comes to us from the same place as recent Slayer.
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After a dozen years, French independent underground metal label Deadlight Records has ceased operation. The label released the following statement:
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As of yesterday, Reddit has deleted both the Havohej and Profanatica channels, or “sub-reddits,” with the following cryptic notice:
No CommentsThis subreddit was banned due to a violation of Reddit’s content policy against harassing content.
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As a teaser to forthcoming album Dawn Of The Damned set for release later this year, Necrophobic plans to issue its Mirror Black EP on July 17, 2020, featuring the brand new track “Mirror Black” and a live recording of an older song, “Darkside.”
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Legendary Mexican old school death metal band Cenotaph re-issued its classic demo “Tenebrous Apparitions” this week in digital format so that new waves of metal aficionados can bathe in its doom-laden morbid glory. During the early 1990s, this band explored a style of basic riffs in journey-oriented compositions and defined a national sound for Mexico.
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Xtreem Music has struck again by selecting the 1989 Asphyx demo “Crush the Cenotaph” as one of their upcoming Ten Inches of DeathCult series re-releases.
3 CommentsTags: asphyx, death metal
