As promised, here’s Sammath‘s promised video of “Thrive in Arrogance” off the most excellent Godless Arrogance.
3 CommentsTags: Black Metal, festivals, jan kruitwagen, live, ruud nillesen, sammath, video, wim van der valk
Morbid Angel – Kingdoms Disdained (2017)
There are twelve notes. There are twenty-six letters. We can form them into combinations/patterns. The ones that stay with us are the ones that communicate. This takes us above the level of riff (metal), harmony (jazz/rock), and into the realm of melody, which uses phrase and harmony as means of strengthening the expression of a melody, or a unique combination which resembles the psychological sensation of a certain experience.
21 CommentsTags: cash grab, death 'n' roll, death metal, Heavy Metal, inside-out, morbid angel, outside-in, review, Steve Tucker, trey azagthoth
Sammath “Thrive In Arrogance” Live Teaser
Sammath‘s current lineup just played their first show. Here’s a snippet of “Thrive in Arrogance” off of Godless Arrogance. A pro shot live video will come soon.
6 CommentsProscriptor To Perform Vocals for Zemial
Absu vocalist and drummer Prosciptor McGovern will be performing vocals for Greek Bathory lovers Zemial for Zemial’s 2018 tour dates. Hopefully Zemial will not be so boring anymore.
No CommentsTags: absu, Black Metal, Greek Black Metal, news, proscriptor, zemial
Necrophobic – Mark of the Necrogram Coming February 2018
Necrophobic announced on their Facebook page that they have a new album called Mark of the Necrogram coming out next year.
5 CommentsTags: Black Metal, century media, century media records, cocaine, necrophobic, news, Sweden, Swedish Black Metal, upcoming album
Blood – Inferno (2017)
Continuing the path of a storied band, Inferno mixes re-recorded versions of older tracks with new material in what seems to be a band redefining itself. Blood started as a grindcore band with more of a death metal attitude, then adopted an outlook closer to black metal for its opus O Agios Pethane, but since then has struggled by being caught in the middle of three genres.
43 CommentsTags: 2017, blood, comeback, death metal, German Death Metal, germany, Grindcore, inferno, review, thrash metal
Morbid Angel – Kingdoms Disdained (2017)
It has been twenty years since Formulas Fatal to the Flesh first graced record store shelves, which still existed back then. That comeback album was the strongest statement from Morbid Angel after their initial surge of genre-defining creativity. It may have also been their high-water mark because everything since has shown a downward trajectory.
9 CommentsTags: 2017, boring, cash grab, kingdoms disdained, morbid angel, rehash, review, Steve Tucker, trey azagthoth, wanking
Vouïvre – Au Gouffre (2017)
Vouïvre has published their EP which was announced a year and a half ago with a neat teaser. Au Gouffre is a result of one-time collaboration between (among others) members of Peste Noire and Malsaint, grounded in more humane individual experiences that were shaped by black metal ideas.
5 CommentsTags: 2017, black 'n roll, famine, france, peste noire, review, vouïvre
Choose Your Own Black Dahlia Murder Adventure, Chapter 3
Brett Stevens and the Black Dahlia Murder were drinking in Brett’s white van. Brett’s book signing for Nihilism: A Philosophy Based In Nothingness And Eternity had gone well. However the hour grew late…
2 CommentsTags: Bolt Thrower, brett stevens, cheetos, deathcore, hamm's, homoeroticism, homosexuality, jolt cola, meta, Nihilism, pipe smoking, poseurs, the black dahlia murder
Reactor – The Tribunal Above (1991)
Review by Jon Browning.
Reactor came from the caveman, skull-crushing school of death / speed metal hybrids. After the way too long intro, the first track “Deformed Personality” is a riff maze of Slayer and Hoffman brothers style riffing that’s a little repetitive and too verse chorus verse but makes you wish kicking prostrate prisoners’ heads off with a running football kickoff was a widely used execution method. They rip off a Sarcofago riff there so you know that would be some sick ancient Mayans playing basketball with human heads sporting execution stuff.
3 CommentsTags: 1991, death metal, demo, mosh, reactor, switzerland, the tribunal above, vic records
