Review contributed by Seth Berg.
The only available demo from their brief term in black metal, Myrkskog managed to make a simple homage to In the Nightside Eclipse era Emperor whilst infusing it with their own distinct, though simple, mode of expression.
13 CommentsTags: 1998, apocalyptic psychotica, Black Metal, demo, emperor, myrkskog, norway, Norwegian Black Metal, review
War Art Productions is reissuing the first three Immortal albums – Diabolical Fullmoon Mysticism, Pure Holocaust, and Battles in the North, – on cassette.
28 CommentsTags: Black Metal, compact cassette, hipster bullshit, immortal, news, norway, Norwegian Black Metal, reissue, reissues, war arts productions
Article contributed to Death Metal Underground by Alan Nestorius.
Legion, Deicide‘s second and best album, turned twenty-five this year. Legion is the among the most aggressive metal albums of all time. Deicide went directly from the horse power of Deicide to jet engines on Legion. This served to emphasize their style of twin tripleted and tremolo picked chromatic riffs linearly progressed forward to machine gun percussion.
45 CommentsTags: anniversary, article, death metal, Deicide, Legion, world war ii
Metal interview blog Bardo Methodology interviewed Finnish occult zine and underground metal label The Sinister Flame.
No CommentsTags: bardo methodology, domains, Left Hand Path, news, occult, Occultism, order of nine angles, Satanism, the sinister flame, zines
Incantation released a music for the track “Messiah Nostrum” off their sure to be lame upcoming album Profane Nexus which comes out on Relapse Records later this year on a date I do not care enough about to Google or read the description of the Youtube video for. Neither should you as you absolutely should not pay money for this excuse to tour.
8 CommentsTags: boring, death metal, incantation, modern metal, music video, new track, relapse, relapse records, techdeaf, tek-deth
Clockwise: David Herrera, Mark “Blaash” Michelson, “Jenoside”
Mark “Blaash” Michaelson, known for Where’s My Skin zine and playing drums in Bahimiron, has died. A lively spirit imbued with a fatalistic sense of self-destruction, Michaelson was nonetheless an affirming personality who enjoyed life to the fullest and never let anyone tell him what to do. Our condolences to his family, friends, bandmates and all who were touched by his life.
I met Mark back in the early 2000s when Bahimiron was just starting up and was immediately impressed by his grasp of the spirit of metal. While for him it took a suicidal black metal type of path, he nonetheless understood the more triumphant aspects of metal and affirmed them with vicious but elegant music. He was always a good person to query about the relevance of anything going on in the community.
Celebrate his life through music:
16 CommentsTags: bahimiron, blaash, mark michaelson, mark michelson, where's my skin
Desecresy premiered a music video for the third track, “Percussive Necromancy,” off his upcoming excellent fifth album, The Mortal Horizon, which Xtreem Music is releasing on CD August 14th.
21 CommentsTags: Black Metal, death metal, desecresy, Finland, Finnish Black Metal, Finnish Death Metal, minimalism, minimalist, music video, new track, xtreem music
Middling Finnish death metal band Purtenance have an four track EP titled Paradox of Existence (sounds like Ripper‘s Experiment of Existence a bit too much?) coming out on September 12th on Spanish underground label Xtreem Music.
12 CommentsTags: death metal, EP, Finland, Finnish Death Metal, new track, purtenance, upcoming release, xtreem music
Harley Flanagan (Cro-Mags) is currently recording upcoming material with his new band HARD-CORE according to his Facebook page.
13 CommentsTags: Crossover, crossover thrash, hard-core, Hardcore, Hardcore Punk, Harley Flanagan, news, recording, Speed Metal, thrash metal, upcoming release
Morbid Angel are touring Europe this fall. The dates and locations are on the flyer.
5 CommentsTags: death metal, Europe, morbid angel, news, Steve Tucker, tour, tour dates, trey azagthoth, upcoming tours
