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Extreme Metal: Blood, Fire, Death: The Swedish Metal Story by Ika Johannesson and Jon Jefferson Klingberg (2018)

by Brett Stevens on June 28, 2020

Blood Fire Death: The Swedish Metal Story
by Ika Johannesson and Jon Jefferson Klingberg
240 pages, Feral House, $19

As we get past the glory years of underground metal — roughly 1987 to 1994 — more histories are emerging such as Blood Fire Death: The Swedish Metal Story which came out two years ago and presented itself as a history of Swedish underground metal. It achieves that and more, but falls short of its ultimate mission, which is to explain Swedish death metal and black metal, world-renowned for their intelligence and intensity.

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Tags: Bathory, entombed, mayhem, Sweden, Swedish Black Metal, Swedish Death Metal, swedish metal, underground metal

Seven Inches Metal Records Re-Issues Derketa Premature Burial EP

by Enda Miller on June 28, 2020

Seven Metal Inches Records is re-issuing the 1990 Derketa EP Premature Burial as part of the label’s “Unearth The Underground series Pt. III” series of classic underground metal back in print.

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Tags: death metal, derkéta, Doom Metal, doom-death

Monstrosity Millennium: The Pinnacle of Technical Death Metal

by Guest Contributor on May 15, 2020

Guest article by Svennerick

Released in August of 1996, Monstrosity’s second effort Millennium is an album I personally hold in very high regards, considering I nearly spent eight months listening to it multiple times a day. This is an addictive album and each new listen made it clearer why this album stands head and shoulders above anything released under the term “technical death metal.”

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Tags: analysis, death metal, millenium, monstrosity, Technical Death Metal

Interview With Paul Ledney About COVID-19 And False Metal

by Enda Miller on May 12, 2020

After the recent social media kerfuffle where Paul Ledney called out weaklings for their fear of the media hype over the COVID-19 pandemic, I reached out to the man to see where he stood on these comments and what he meant.

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Tags: covid-19, paul ledney, profanatica

Imminent Documentary Film The Growl Explores Death Metal

by Enda Miller on May 3, 2020

Coming from a pair of death metal community veterans, new documentary The Growl looks into death metal as it was, and whatever is left as Generation X and newcomers try to continue the tradition.

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Tags: documentary, the growl

Mocking Human Panic, Heavy Metal Record Labels Promote COVID-19 Sales

by Brett Stevens on April 5, 2020

While most of the world drools in panic at the fear that nature has finally engineered an appropriate comeuppance for humanity (namely, drowning in mucus) heavy metal and underground metal record labels have offered to keep our economy minimally functional through a series of sales on evil and antisocial metal music.

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Tags: covid-19, sales

Sadistic Metal News: Post-Black Metal Band Batushka Contracts Coronavirus

by Max Schoenbach on March 19, 2020

Krzysztof “Derph” Drabikowski from post-black metal band Batushka is the first infected person in his region, supposedly due to touring in the Western Europe.

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Tags: Batushka, coronavirus, covid-19, krzysztof drabikowski, post-black metal

Metal Blade Records Re-Issues Anacrusis Titles Suffering Hour, Reason, Manic Impressions, And Screams and Whispers

by Enda Miller on March 18, 2020

Metal Blade Records reissued the first four records from overlooked technical speed metal act Anacrusis during the last quarter of 2019. Hailing from St. Louis, Anacrusis incorporated crossover elements infused with familiar speed metal tropes, and later added more accessible progressive heavy metal elements while remaining musically astute.

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Tags: anacrusis, progressive metal, Speed Metal