War Master previewed another new track today from their upcoming LP:
1 CommentTags: death metal, houston, new song, new track, texas, war master
Hate Mail (#6)
Arktogäa took issue with our review of their feeble attempt to glue nongermane hardcore to black metal using Nazi samples:
21 CommentsTags: Arktogäa, beer metal, Hardcore, Hardcore Punk, Hate Mail, idiots, metalcore, modern metal, national socialism, national socialist black metal, nazis, Nazism, neo-nazis, nsbm
Ghoulgotha – To Starve the Cross (2016)
Article by Corey M.
To Starve the Cross sounds like the result of having chopped up a dozen good death metal songs and pasted the bits back together in such a way to eliminate any sense of continuity. Ghoulgotha is obviously made up of experienced and skilled players including the drummer of Ascended Dead and the guitarist from Father Befouled and Decrepitaph (among several other projects).
No CommentsTags: dark descent, dark descent records, death metal, Doom Metal, Ghoulgotha, modern death metal, modern metal, review, To Starve the Cross
Morbid Angel – Altars of Madness Full Dynamic Range Edition
Morbid Angel recorded what was supposed to be their debut album in 1986. Compositionally excellent and novel, Abominations of Desolation was a Manhattan project of death metal as a truly musically distinct sub-genre. However, band leader Trey Azagthoth and then producer Dave Vincent were unhappy with the recording. Azagthoth quickly fired drummer/vocalist Browning and bassist John Ortega, and shelved the album, which Ortega later released as a bootleg. Vincent and Azagthoth had a point though: Browning’s drumming was shaky and he sounded like a wimp. His drumming lacked power, never making use of blast beats while his vocals could have come out of a whiny fourteen-year-old.
12 CommentsTags: Altars of Madness, death metal, earache records, full dynamic range, loudness war, morbid angel, reissue, trey azagthoth
Morbid Angel Booked to Headline Maryland Deathfest 2017
Morbid Angel have been booked as one of the headliners for Maryland Deathfest 2017 despite having only two members in Trey Azagthoth and Steve Tucker. The crusty, SJW-infested parking lot festival announced the initial round of bands this week on their Fuckbook page:
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Akercocke (UK) – Exclusive U.S. appearance!
Autopsy
Behexen (Finland) – Exclusive U.S. appearance!
Brodequin
Decrepit Birth
Dopethrone
Embalmer
In The Woods… (Norway) – Exclusive U.S. appearance!
Iron Lung
Kerasphorus
Macabre
Morbid Angel (with Trey Azagthoth and Steve Tucker)
Nightbringer
Nordjevel (Norway)
Sargeist (Finland) – Exclusive U.S. appearance!
Siege
Terrorizer (World Downfall set)
Usurper
Tags: acid king, autopsy, baltimore, behexen, Embalmer, maryland deathfest, morbid angel, siege, Steve Tucker, terrorizer, trey azagthoth
War Master Premier “All Light Devoured” Off To Live Suffices To Conquer
War Master clandestinely premiered a new track from their upcoming second album, To Live Suffices To Conquer, on their sold-out Japan only compilation CD. The new track abandons most of the Bolt Thrower influence in favor of the Carnage and Dismember ones introduced on the Blood Dawn EP. Enjoy it now on Youtube:
2 CommentsTags: carnage, death metal, Dismember, new song, news, upcoming release, war master
Profanatica’s The Curling Flame of Blasphemy CD Released
The CD version of Profanatica‘s minimalist The Curling Flame of Blasphemy is out now on Hells Headbangers. The LPs and digital downloads will be released in late July.
No CommentsTags: Black Metal, compact disc, death metal, hells headbangers, minimalism, minimalist, paul ledney, profanatica
Absurd’s Der fünfzehnjährige Krieg Reissued
Absurd‘s Der fünfzehnjährige Krieg CD of old tracks rerecorded by the current line up is being reissued by Hammer of Damnation for everyone who wishes Absurd’s older material had a sterile metalcore production. Hopefully the reissue is better than the horrible Asgardsrei one.
2 CommentsTags: absurd, German Black Metal, germany, hammer of damnation, Hardcore, Hardcore Punk, national socialist black metal, nsbm, reissue, rerecording
War Master 2016 European Annihilation Tour
War Master are coming to Europe this July. Continental headbangers can check out one of the best modern death metal bands.They sure know how to throw bolts and tear audiences apart.
3 CommentsTags: death metal, Europe, houston, houston texas, texas, texas metal, tour, tour dates, upcoming shows, upcoming tours, war master
The Mythic and the Mystic
Article by Lance Viggiano.
Burzum and Beherit each represent two summits of black metal’s many perspectives – in particular its looking back to look ahead ethos. The work of Laiho is exploratory and spiritual while the work of Varg is seeking and religious. Each composer followed a similar trajectory of mapping this landscape through metal first, then ambient. Each phase reveals strengths and weakness in each of their aims which results in a somewhat complementary synthesis between two highly individual bodies of work.
12 CommentsTags: Ambient, ambient music, beherit, Black Metal, burzum, composition, musical analysis, mystic, mysticism, mythic, mythic imagination
