Immolation and Vader have been booked to play next year’s Bristol Deathfest. Immolation are still great live and Vader should be at least fun. The rest of the lineup is unremarkable at best. Check out Immolation play if you live nearby.
3 CommentsTags: bristol deathfest, death metal, festivals, immolation, united kingdom, upcoming shows, vader
Immortal are recording a new album next month. Demonaz will be the primary songwriting for the first time in almost twenty years. Will the KISS of All Shall Fall continue with Abbath kicked out of the band for refusing to kick drinking and drugs? Will Demonaz continue from March of the Norse or Blizzard Beasts? Let’s find out!
4 CommentsTags: Black Metal, Demonaz, immortal, nuclear blast records, recording, upcoming release
New Zealand war metal band Heresiarch are set to record a new album in February of next year according to a recent post of the band’s in the Nuclear War Now! Productions forum. Death Ordinance will be released by Dark Descend Records.
No CommentsTags: Black Metal, dark descent, dark descent records, death metal, death ordinance, heresiarch, new zealand, upcoming release, War Metal
A cultured human being should pursue a good hobby. It’s somewhat more interesting if said hobby involves a mild vice or foible. The hobby should also develop skill and produce a satisfactory end product. It should make the person somewhat unique amongst a group of peers and allow them to develop camaraderie with their fellow hobbyists. It becomes a Schelling Point so to speak.
9 CommentsTags: alcohol, beer, homebrewing, the good life
Ananku is a term from the Tamil language describing the otherworldly and awesome power of sublime natural places and objects to overwhelm mankind into submission to their will by merely the perception of them. Jarno Nurmi of Serpent Ascending accomplishes this musically on his album of the same name by composing harmonized heavy and black metal style leads atop a death metal rhythmic basic into occult blackened narratives. Riffs are phrased and repeat to numerologically unfold, revealing profound and novel melodic leads as if the petals of a flower gradually blooming into gnostic truth when bathed in unconquered light.
24 CommentsTags: 2016, ananku, Black Metal, death metal, Finland, Heavy Metal, i voidhanger records, Jarno Nurmi, review, Serpent Ascending
A complete compilation of Cynic‘s demos, Uroboric Forms, is coming out next year from Century Media. Keep an eye out for it.
9 CommentsTags: anthology, century media, cynic, death metal, demos, jazz fusion, progressive metal, Speed Metal, upcoming release
The CD version of Tarnkappe‘s Winterwaker has been delayed to around the new year according to a post of Hammerheart Records on Facebook:
2 CommentsTags: Black Metal, compact disc, Dutch black metal, tarnkappe, the netherlands, upcoming release, winterwaker
Article by Lance Viggiano.
Veneror create long, flowing, compositions in the style of Sacramentum which carry a melancholic but sinister emotive pallet through melodious arpeggiated twin guitar harmonies. Structurally these songs cycle in between two or three motifs yet eschews a sense of heightened dynamics while coarse vocals ride atop giving a sense of continuity rather than circularity. This is further reinforced by the chromatic development which carries itself into reprieves which close each section with sparsity before jaunting into the next. The resultant unbroken sequence of phrases is not unlike what Revenant would use to great effect on their infamous and only full length album.
22 CommentsTags: 2013, Black Metal, Italy, percussimus foedus cum morte, Revenant, review, sacramentum, veneror
Former Morbid Angel frontman Evil Diamond Dave Vincent formed a Morbid Angel cover band, I Am Morbid, with the last Morbid Angel drummer, Tim Yueng, to tour South America with. Apparently the whole country music, honky tonk bar band schtick hasn’t been working out for Evil D. The transition from Necromonicon to NASCAR failed to bring fruit financial rewards.
15 CommentsTags: cash grab, covers, Dave Vincent, david vincent, facebook, i am morbid, internet drama, morbid angel, trey azagthoth, upcoming tours
Article by Lance Viggiano
Darkthrone have spent the records FOAD through The Underground Resistance regressing into their pre-Celtic Frost influences. Sensing their customers’ growing unpopularity with this black ‘n’ roll approach, Fenriz and Nocturno Culto try to save face on Artic Thunder by regressing into their own work. The upshot is that nobody but Miller Lite Throne can sell mediocre riffs in cyclical songs as well as these two. The downshift is that they cannot muster enough enthusiasm or energy to play their own ideas with the dedication of a devoted bar-tier cover band.
29 CommentsTags: Arctic Thunder, beer metal, Black Metal, boring, cash grab, darkthrone, peaceville, peaceville records, review
