Martyrdoom Productions posted more information about their long awaited reissue of Infester‘s To the Depths, In Degradation on their Facebook page this week. Hopefully the audio will be from the master tapes and not simply the original CD’s Redbook audio compressed and limited.
8 CommentsTags: Black Metal, compact disc, death metal, Infester, Martyrdoom Productions, remaster, to the depths in degradation, vinyl
Arghoslent are working on new material according to their website. Hopefully the “melodic death metal” band’s extended downtime has allowed them to refine their material into something not merely a collection of riffs and heavy metal wank like their last few records.
29 CommentsTags: Arghoslent, Heavy Metal, Melodic Death Metal, Speed Metal, upcoming release, virginia
Article by Lance Viggiano.
Norma Evanglium Diaboli announced a new EP from crusty noise rock band Teitanblood. Accursed Skin consists of two lengthy tracks: “Accursed Skin” (14:28) and Sanctified Dysecdysis (11:46). Writing riffs is hard because it requires some modicum of actual creativity when you aren’t bashing power chords or lifting material from others. That’s why Teitanblood quit trying immediately after the mediocre Seven Chalices and let itself be carried by presentation and aesthetic to a greater degree than that record was on Death. Accursed Skin will be the second instance of this band using already released material to pad out the run-time of an EP as they cannot conjure up enough static, lukewarm grind/crust riffs and cool vocals to fill a release with new material.
27 CommentsTags: accursed skin, boring, crust, EP, funderground, noise rock, norma evangelium diaboli, teitanblood, the ajna offensive, upcoming release, War Metal
Infester‘s To the Depths, In Degradation is being reissued early next year by Martyrdoom Productions on vinyl LP and CD. The black and death metal classic has been long out of print with the original CD going for high prices on the secondary market.
35 CommentsTags: Black Metal, compact disc, death metal, Infester, Martyrdoom Productions, reissue, to the depths in degradation, vinyl
Master’s Hammer are playing the Brutal Assault 2017 festival in the Czech Republic. The set will be their first live gig in over twenty five years and feature their early material from their demos and first two albums, Ritual and The Jilemnice Occultist
11 CommentsTags: Black Metal, brutal assault, Czech black metal, festivals, Master's Hammer
Lame duck United States president and affirmative action baby Barack Obama said that the media needs a “curating function” to get rid of all the “fake news” popping up on various media outlets. A New York Post editorial correctly pointed out that this is an attempt by the leftists, communists, and the Democratic Party establishment to censor the real news and media flow from online outlets and Fox News that publicly supported president elect Donald Trump and questioned the neoliberal social narrative the left has been forcing down the throats of everyone from birth over the last half century.
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Webzine Bardo Methodology interviewed Dead Congregation guitarist and frontman Anastasis Valtsanis. AV touched upon Dead Congregation‘s imitators (even though they worship Immolation and Incantation), record labels forcing bands to conform to release schedules, the decline of Greek black metal in the mid 90s, how most “lost gems” are mediocre, and why the accessibility the internet affords along with the decline of the music industry revenue genericizes metal bands into pedestrian products.
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German one man doom/black metal band The Ruins of Beverast have a new EP coming. How fucking boring will this be? Based on Blood Vaults, probably pretty fucking boring. Hopefully The Ruins of Beverast manages to tie his few interesting riffs together into meaningful compositions that don’t wear out their welcome and make me punch the stop button. He hasn’t been successful with that so far.
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When one traipses through the country outside of the lock-step conformist big cities, it behooves the pipe smoker to look for those varieties of tobacco favored in the less “civilized” areas of the world. This might bring one to Brenham, Texas, where the Brookshire Brothers grocery store offers up a unique and wonderful American tradition: the drive-thru Tobacco Barn.
7 CommentsTags: brookshire brothers, burley, cotton bowl twist, pipe smoking, pipe tobacco, pipe tobacco blends, texas, tobacco, tobacco barn
Ukranian blackened heavy metal/”flowing black metal“/black ‘n’ roll band Nokturnal Mortum posted a teaser of their new album, Істина (“Verity”), on Youtube. Will Verity match The Voice of Steel or will it be tripe worthy of only throwing at a homeless Eastern European alcoholic pestering you for change to buy Polish potato vodka that tastes like rubbing alcohol that a cat vomited in? Will Nokturnal Mortum blend the folk and heavy metal into effective compositions or will Verity suffer from lame breakdowns for Cossack line dancing? Let’s find out!
7 CommentsTags: flowing black metal, Heavy Metal, melodic black metal, nokturnal mortum, Ukraine, upcoming release, verity
