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
Pioneering and prolific black metal act Graveland announced that an official video clip for the track Possessed by Steel will appear exclusively on the D.R. Silesia YouTube channel sometime during April 14th, 2020. This track will adorn the upcoming album Hour of Ragnarok to be released in autumn of 2020.
4 CommentsTags: Black Metal, graveland
Animate Records announced plans to re-release Master Let’s Start a War on a six-panel digipak. Attempting to mix the Master “sound” with a greater heavy metal and sludge sensibility, some of which appeared on Faith is In Season, Let’s start a War might best seen as a transition record for a band trying to find its voice but also portended what would become the later and tighter manifestation of Master.
5 CommentsTags: death metal, master
Eucharist A Velvet Creation straddled the line between the metal of old and the “melodic death” metal that would ravage the Scandinavian scene. Intelligently the band still remained enough grit and the compositional maturity of the better genre while not being afraid to integrate an overt admiration for Iron Maiden and the occasional rhythmic tool. “Alone and Wounded” is a bonus track that manages to shape Melodic Death metal into what it should have been. The opening sequence however is so remarkable that it merits a closer look.
7 CommentsTags: a velvet creation, death metal, eucharist, riff analysis, wounded and alone
