Swedish crust punks Disfear have announced that their debut record Soul Scars will be reissued on vinyl LP on May 8th, 2020. The band, famous for their hybrid of d-beat hardcore, grindcore, and Swedish style melodic death metal introduced the most complete form of their sound on that album.
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Melodic atmospheric black metal band Wiking 1940 releases its latest album, W, on April 28, 2020, but has allowed one track, “Acquainted with the dead,” to escape in advance. This solitary song shows a melodic yet recursive style similar to Infamous or Rotting Christ.
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Panic continues among the unpunished herd. They know, in their guts, that humanity has grown too large and with no qualitative controls, so now we have a vast army of locust-like human morons consuming everything they can reach, leaving behind dystopian idiocracies run by cynical shopkeepers.
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Deeds Of Flesh’s music is known for breaking from the conventional, but unlike many other bands who resolve to untypical instruments or gimmicks, Deeds Of Flesh portray their own variety of death metal through the war that rages within their song structures and riffs.
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Quarantine descended on the West just at the point when the madness seemed too much to bear. Tax sheep in the crucible of tedium, we found that spinning plates just to keep the GDP high had lost its gleam, and now we could see life as the endless procession of documents, obligations, and smiles with gritted teeth that it was.
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Thrashing Madness Productions recently re-released both Betrayer “Necronomical Exmortis” and “Forbidden Personality” demos as a single Necronomical Exmortis / Forbidden Personality CD. Full length Calamity remains planned for the future.
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Inspired by recent events, Texas thrash/crossover band released a song from a demo cut in 2016. This song, “Separate Corners,” points out that we cannot all get along, and maybe humanity should just take a time out in its respective corners by religion, class, race, special interest, etc., until at least some of us get our shit together.
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From the squirrely sub-sub-genre of death metal that made us of flowing tremolo riffs as well as Slayer did, joining compatriots like Massacra and Vader, Deteriorate issued forth its first album, Rotting In Hell, to distribution in North America by J.L. America back in the hazy days of maturing underground metal.
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Record companies continue digging in their vaults to release rare material and actual remasters from classic underground metal bands, bypassing the tendency for ProTools “remasters” that amounted to compression of tracks ripped from the existing CD, in an effort to appeal to Generation X as they head toward five decades.
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Despite starting out as a powerful fusion of German and American speed metal, Ripper continues progressing into Voivod and Pestilence territory with their latest EP, Paranormal Waves, released digitally on March 30, 2020.
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