Tommi Gronqvist of Finnish death metal band Desecresy was interviewed by French webzine Mithra! Templezine this week. Tommi explains how Desecresy arose from the ashes of Slugathor, the cohesive songwriting, his homegrown production techniques, the role of those cryptic blackened lead melodies, and how Jarno Nurmi (Serpent Ascending) writes the lyrics.
3 CommentsTags: Black Metal, death metal, desecresy, Finland, Finnish Death Metal, interview, mithra templezine, tommi gronqvist
Vader are touring North America this year in support of their mediocre new release, The Empire. Hopefully Vader will play a good amount of material from their better, older releases such as The Ultimate Incantation and De Profundis. Tour dates and the press release are after the jump.
No CommentsTags: death metal, poland, Speed Metal, tour, tour dates, upcoming tours, US tour, vader
The first batch of bands for the Fall of Summer 2017 festival in France were announced in an overenthusiastic press release for a decent but not great lineup. Blasphemy, Demolition Hammer, and Bulldozer are playing along with a bunch of dumb hipster bullshitters and stoner doom idiots. Check it out if you’re nearby and want to deal with a bunch of drunken beer metallers.
5 CommentsTags: blasphemy, Bulldozer, Demolition Hammer, festivals, france
French black metal band Ende, who made the mediocre half of Les Puits des Morts split with Sorcier des Glaces last year, have announced their upcoming third album, Emën Etan:
1 CommentTags: Black Metal, Ende, france, upcoming release
Most excellent drummer Craig Smilowski has joined Disma. Smilowski drummed on the first two Immolation albums, Dawn of Possession and Here in After, and will be an excellent addition to the band. Will social justice warriors and the Deathfest organizers burn early Immolation records now as Smilowski joined Craig Pillard‘s band? Let’s find out!
4 CommentsTags: Craig Smilowski, death metal, disma, new drummer
An album judged some of The Best Underground Metal of 2016 but hitherto had yet to receive a dedicated review.
Kshatriya‘s Vsque ad Sidera Vsque ad Inferos is a black metal album celebrating the prehistoric conquest of everything from Ireland to India by pastoral Proto-Indo-European peoples from their urheimat located in the northern reaches of the Pontic-Caspian steppe in what is now Russia and Ukraine. The Indo-Europeans were a martial race among the first peoples to domesticate horses, worshiped the sky father Dyeus Pater, and spoke antecessor of most European languages.
28 CommentsTags: 2016, Black Metal, eremita produzioni, Italy, Kshatriya, review, vsque ad sidera vsque ad inferos
Compact cassette music sales rose 140% over last year. Wow, noise, and flutter! How quaint. Hipsters have declared their love for a format that, unlike the vinyl LP, does not even sound particularly good. The most commonplace Dolby noise reduction systems in most cassette decks cause immense loss of high end detail. Most hipsters collecting cassettes can’t even find a player with a properly aligned tape head. Most will probably be using ghetto blasters or Talkboys as they were six in 1992 when Home Alone 2 came out.
16 CommentsTags: compact cassette, hipster bullshit, hipsters
Memoriam posted the first track and track list for their upcoming death ‘n’ roll album For the Fallen. Hear Karl Willets sound tired and rip off himself on “Reduced to Zero” over riffs that make Benediction‘s The Grand Leveller sound like a peak of death metal in comparison. I’m so excited! Let’s find out what this single sounds like!
7 CommentsTags: boring, death 'n' roll, karl willets, memoriam, new track, nuclear blast records
Lord Wind quietly released a new demo late last year for free download on Bandcamp. The Graveland side project’s last album, Ales Stenar, was one of the best of 2012. Hopefully a new record will follow soon.
13 CommentsTags: Ambient, demo, dungeon synth, folk, lord wind, pagan, poland, rob darken
Rob Darken posted his own account to the Graveland website of how anti-fascists and communists shut down the Messe des Morts VI festival in Montreal late last year. As readers are probably aware, the local police eventually shutdown the festival and forbid Graveland from taking the stage.
5 CommentsTags: canada, censorship, graveland, messe des morts, metalgate, montreal, rob darken
