Tom G. Warrior gave an interview to Zero Tolerance magazine where he shed light on why Celtic Frost and most other death and black metal bands do not own the rights to their own music, his problems with Noise Records, what was changed for the 2017 reissues that BMG recently put out, and why he eventually pulled his liner notes and endorsement.
7 CommentsTags: bmg, celtic frost, censorship, interview, news, noise records, reissues, remaster, tom g. warrior, zero tolerance magazine
Grindcore guitar god Takafumi Matsubara (Gridlink and Mortalized) has a new band now, Retortion Terror. They have recorded a split with an American grind band called Invidiosus. Both bands are currently seeking labels to print and distribute the release on CD, cassette, and LP.
8 CommentsTags: compact cassette, compact disc, Grindcore, Heavy Metal, invidiosus, Japan, news, retortion terror, split, Takafumi Matsubara, upcoming release, USA, vinyl
Satyricon announced a new record, Deep Calleth Upon Deep, which is coming out September 22nd on Napalm Records.
18 CommentsTags: black 'n roll, crap, Napalm Records, news, norway, satyricon, upcoming album, upcoming release
Article by Linus Douglas.
As these Observer posers speed past 2017’s halfway point, they present a selection that is indeed a dumpster fire representative of the shit pool that their mainstream metal listening provides them with. Only those who need to be eradicated (rapists, communists, child molesters, serial killers, hipsters, etc.) genuinely think that stoner rock and boring, slow heavy rock bands are examples of heavy metal. Their piss-poor “culling” (badass, huh?) from the “metal cauldron” of mee-maw’s recipes was as follows:
7 CommentsTags: 2017, AIDS, artificial brain, aseethe, brandon seabrook, cinema cinema, endon, GRID, hipster idiocy, john frum, kelly moran, luminous vault, metalcore, observer, poser metal, posers, poseur metal, poseurs, sadistic metal reviews, screamo, stoner rock, techdeaf, tek-deth, toby dive
Autarcie could be easily dismissed for being assembled from the elements we expect from narcissistic yet generic post-black metal or “modern metal.” Instead, it presents to us a transition between black metal and either assimilation or a new form which is organic and local, and yet while the band does more with the elements of modern metal than that genre, its failure to conquer the modern mindset within precludes it from achieving the ancient sensibility and sensation of black metal, leaving it as identifiably “post-metal” in spirit but second-wave black metal in form.
4 CommentsTags: article, autarcie, Black Metal, disco, france, Les Légions Noires, modern metal, peste noire, post-black metal, post-metal
Sadistic reviews by Linus Douglas.
Sadly apart from Sammath, some other Dutch metal, and reissues, Hammerheart Records appears to publish many moronic releases produced by poor excuses for neurons in hopes of flooding shelves like every other larger metal label.
10 CommentsTags: 2017, brutal unrest, cirith gorgor, dead head, ereb altor, exoskelett, funeral twilight, hammerheart, hammerheart records, metalcore, mourners lament, sadistic metal reviews, stinking shit, the monolith deathcult, trinitas
Punk webzine Antihero Magazine interviewed vocalist Rob “The Baron” Miller and guitarist Andy Lefton of Tau Cross recently.
2 CommentsTags: andy lefton, antihero magazine, Crust Punk, d-beat, Heavy Metal, interview, rob miller, Speed Metal, tau cross
Norwegian black metal turned alt-rock band Enslaved finished mixing and mastering their as yet untitled upcoming album for Nuclear Blast Records.
5 CommentsTags: alternative rock, boring, Enslaved, norway, nuclear blast, nuclear blast records, rock, upcoming album, upcoming release
Interview conducted by Max Bloodworth.
There has been a lot of interest surrounding the Hoffman brothers after their departure from Deicide. After some time under the radar, they reformed Amon with Jechael on bass and vocals to once again make death metal. Amon’s album, Liar in Wait, sounds like a mixture of old and later era Deicide with a different vocalist. Judging by how Deicide has pretty much rendered themselves irrelevant after the Hoffman’s departure, the potential for good death metal is in the Amon camp more than the Nu-Deicide camp. Below is an interview with Jechael, the bassist and vocalist of Amon.
22 CommentsTags: amon, death metal, Deicide, eric hoffman, extraterrestrials, Glen Benton, interview, jechael
Black Sabbath are releasing an upcoming splatter vinyl box set of their entire original first run of albums with Ozzy Osbourne performing vocals. Sound quality does not seem to be the name of the game for The Ten Year War as everyone with any experience listening to LPs on a big boy turntable setup knows that splatter vinyl almost always sounds terrible. Rather The Ten Year War is a collectible for obsessive-compulsive Sabbath maniacs and hipsters who will play and probably ruin the not very high-fidelity splatter discs on some cheap turntable from Amazon or Target.
4 CommentsTags: anthology, black sabbath, cash grab, Doom Metal, Heavy Metal, mqa, ozzy osbourne, scam, vinyl
