Heavy metal was born in very late 60s and early 70s as a merger of heavy rock, proto-punk, horror film scores and progressive rock, carving out a new form of dark music that spelled out longer phrases than rock by using moveable power chords in complex riffs.
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Master’s Hammer have been booked to play next years iteration of Maryland Deathfest.
16 CommentsTags: baltimore, Black Metal, festivals, maryland deathfest, Master's Hammer, news, upcoming shows
Review contributed by Jon Browning.
Whoredom Rife are exactly what is wrong with modern “underground” “metal”. All these posers do is take a bunch of riffs from records over twenty years old, chop them up, and randomly attach a few of them together to make… a track.
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Slayer are booked to play The Tonight Show hosted by Jimmy Fallon this Thursday, July 27th.
6 CommentsTags: news, slayer, Speed Metal, television
Sandwiched between keyboard compositions which attempt to sound random while hiding a simple progression in notes that initially seem like tangential harmony, Silencioso Dolor Que Aniquila consists of moderately successful compositions using the language of Hellhammer but a sensibility more like a late speed metal band.
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Demilich is making patches according to a post mastermind Antti Boman made on their Facebook page:
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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
Reviews contributed by Norma Angelina Dagostino.
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Slayer‘s Kerry King dished out his top ten favorite metal albums to Rolling Stone as part of the geriatric soft rock magazine’s imbecilic Top 100 Metal Albums list.
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Morbid Angel pulled out of all of the European festival dates they were supposed to play in July and August due to visa issues according to their Funbook page.
6 CommentsTags: cancelled tour, death metal, Europe, festivals, morbid angel, news, Steve Tucker, trey azagthoth
