Vampyric/Ooccult black metal veterans Black Funeral released a single entitled “Kassaptu Lemuttu (Incantations of Zaqiqu-Demons of the Underworld)” in preparation for their upcoming album entitled Scourge of Lamashtu, set to be released on July 3rd throughIron Bonehead Productions.
2 CommentsTags: black funeral, Black Metal
Mexican death metal band Cenotaph forged a unique style of Central American death metal much as Sepultura did for Brazil, and influenced all New World old school death metal bands to follow.
No CommentsTags: cenotaph, Chaos Records, death metal
When death metal first came about, people believed it would never make it into the mainstream “culture” of our trend-based, democratic society. It turned out that industry just made an emo/metal hybrid and called it “technical death metal” so that neckbeard fedora barista hipsters can now claim they, too, listen to “outlaw music.”
12 CommentsTags: cloudflare, lee holloway, mainstream culture, opeth
Ambient music can mean anything. To most people, it means floaty electronica; in a more analytical sense, it means music which operates by a principle of sonic texture and layering, with lead voices disconnected from percussion so that melody leads the composition, allowing a new flexibility in composition.
1 CommentTags: Abyssum, Ambient, atmospheric, el nigromante
Independent and smaller heavy metal labels and suppliers may be beginning to feel the pinch of the ongoing Coronavirus pandemic. Dread Records, a label devoted to re-issuing underground classics on cassette, has notified its fans and customers that although they will continue to ship in stock items available on their website that all upcoming releases have been suspended including a re-release of Demilich-Nespithe.
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Antisocial and violent black metal band Sammath unleashed a video of the band playing in Moscow, using the track “Ferocious Mortar Fire” from Across the Rhine is only death as the canvas for a newly elitist and intolerant sound. Expect all of the violent of war metal, with the precision of death metal, and the melody of black metal.
10 CommentsTags: Black Metal, death metal, sammath, War Metal
Voivod guitarist Dan Mongrain cut a tutorial video to cover the playing of the solo to Voivod “Obsolete Beings,” a track from the 2018 album The Wake. Follow along to pick up some technique and appreciate the melodic structure of a good solo.
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As the arc of history yet again becomes a circle, we find out that only certain bands and subgenres make the cut because everything else consists of artistically simple but aesthetically complex variations on the Same Old Thing that humans create whenever groups of them try to make music in order to be popular.
27 CommentsTags: death, death metal, relapse records
When life first took over planet Earth, its initial goal was to spread until it covered every square mile of the globe. Then, it began to specialize, since all of the major variants — fish, birds, worms, beetles — had become apparent, and those now divided into different varieties to flesh out ecosystems.
6 CommentsTags: death metal, Savage Annihilation
A Fine Day to Die Records will re-issue the classic album Impergium and corresponding EP Towards Judgement by Niden Div. 187 as a limited cassette release, and is currently taking pre-orders.
3 CommentsTags: Black Metal, niden div. 187
