Rob Darken of Graveland and Lord Wind most graciously agreed to answer our staff’s questions:
58 CommentsTags: Black Metal, conservatism, graveland, interview, lord wind, nationalism, poland, Polish Black Metal, rob darken, tradition
N.W.O.B.H.M. Survivors
The New Wave of British Heavy Metal was the simultaneous, sudden emergence of hundreds of heavy metal bands in the United Kingdom in the late 1970s and early eighties. The NWOBHM was prompted by the collapse en masse of earlier hard rock bands and heavy metal originators. Led Zeppelin and other blues-based riff rock bands had collapsed into meandering stadium rock with only a couple listenable songs per record at best (“Achilles Last Stand” on Presence). Black Sabbath fell flat on their faces after Sabotage, making the meandering duo of Technical Ecstasy and Never Say Die. Punk declined from almost-progressive works as the The Stooges’ Fun House to boy bands such as the Sex Pistols playing radio pop. Deep Purple regressed to playing what their former guitarist Ritchie Blackmore termed “Shoeshine music.”
21 CommentsTags: Angel Witch, black sabbath, Heavy Metal, iron maiden, judas priest, metal history, motorhead, NWOBHM, Satan
Horgh Finishes Tracking Drums For New Immortal Album
Immortal drummer Horgh has finished tracking the drums for the upcoming Immortal album with Demonaz back as the primary songwriter for the first time since Blizzard Beasts according to the Immortal Facebook page:
4 CommentsTags: horgh, immortal, nuclear blast records, recording, upcoming release
Rotten Copper Unleashes “Live Among The Ruins” From The Toxic Wasteland Jams
Collapse rock band Rotten Copper emits small blips of its chaos live recording The Toxic Wasteland Jams through obscure pathways. Most recently, the video for the song “Live Among The Ruins” has touched down with a new video. In the video it is the year 2035. The world has crumbled. Only skaters and metal-heads remain. And they are threatened by not just a civilization in decline, but something not entirely human lurking among the dark places of the earth.
7 CommentsTags: collapse rock, hard rock, music video, roadhouse rock, rotten copper, steve cefala
Molested – Blod-draum Remix Released
Dark Symphonies has finally reissued Molested‘s debut album, Blod-draum on CD. A remixed version from the original multi-tracked studio analog tapes is included with the original master from the Digital Audio Tape on one CD. Jump on it.
No CommentsTags: Black Metal, compact disc, Dark Symphonies, death metal, molested, norway, Norwegian Death Metal, reissue, remaster, remix
China Bans VPNs
The People’s Republic of China banned the virtual private networks that hundreds of millions of the 730 million mainland Chinese citizens connected to the internet use to bypass the Communist Party’s “Great Firewall” and obtain truthful information. The Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology announced this crackdown on the use of unsupervised internet connections earlier this week. The Ministry said they would be monitoring all mainland internet service providers, content deliverers, and data centers for “illegal information”. Communists once again are attempting to be thought police as otherwise they would not be able to maintain power.
9 CommentsTags: censorship, china, communism, internet
Cirith Ungol to Headline Defenders of the Old Fest IV
Cirith Ungol are headlining the fourth annual Defenders of the Old heavy and speed metal festival in Brooklyn, New York. Also playing are Frigid Bich, Sumerlands, Nekromantheon, and Night Demon.
16 CommentsTags: cirith ungol, defenders of the old, festivals, Heavy Metal, Nekromanteion, night demon, Speed Metal, sumerlands
Trump Appoints Corporate Stooge to Head FCC
President Donald Trump, who nixed his predecessor Barack Obama’s transfer of American wealth to rice paddy waders for the benefit of plutocrats through the Trans Pacific Partnership, followed Obama’s example and appointed a corporate stooge for the telecommunications industry to head the Federal Communications Commission. Ajit Pai replaces the retiring Tom Wheeler who was head of both the the National Cable & Telecommunications Association and the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association which both previously lobbied on behalf of large telecommunications providers against net neutrality, one of the founding principles of the internet. Ajit Pai sat on the board and has opposed all regulations and rulings in favor of consumers, supporting the right of internet service providers to censor and throttle content to their customers’ connections.
13 CommentsTags: barack obama, censorship, donald trump, fascism, fcc, internet, internet drama, net neutrality, politics
Demoncy – Within the Sylvan Realms of Frost Reissued
Demoncy‘s Within the Sylvan Realms of Frost has been quietly reissued by Nuclear War Now! Productions on CD as part of their series of Demoncy reissues. Within the Sylvan Reams of Frost is the most Norwegian sounding recording of Demoncy’s work and is a nice point in-between the classic Joined in Darkness and the controversial, almost Gothenburg, Empire of the Fallen Angel. Nuclear War Now’s remaster of Faustian Dawn last year sounded great so check this out if you’re a fan of Ixithra’s earlier material.
No CommentsTags: Black Metal, compact disc, demoncy, nuclear war now! productions, nwn, reissue, remaster, within the sylvan realms of frost
Bolt Thrower, Carcass, and Morbid Angel Vinyl Represses
Earache Records is repressing the vinyl LPs of Bolt Thrower, Carcass, and Morbid Angel from the original tapes due to popular demand and inflated Ebay and Discogs prices. I reviewed the “Full Dynamic Range” remaster of Altars of Madness last year which sounded great. All are available for pre-order from Earache’s webstore and digital versions of most are on Earache’s Bandcamp page.
14 CommentsTags: Bolt Thrower, carcass, earache records, morbid angel, repress, vinyl
