Metalcore commode Toilet Ov Hell saw our staff’s report on their recent cry-in over how we are actually critical.
25 CommentsTags: communism, communists, cultural marxism, homosexuality, metalcore, news, socialists, toilet ov hell
Tom Warrior Sheds Light on BMG’s Celtic Frost Remasters
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
Retortion Terror & Invidiosus Record Split
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
Blaspherian 2017 European Tour
Blaspherian, one of the best contemporary underground metal bands, are touring Europe this September and October with Incarceration opening.
2 CommentsTags: blaspherian, death metal, Europe, news, tour, tour dates, upcoming tours
Incantation – Rotting Spiritual Embodiment Live Album Out Now
Necroharmonic Productions released an Incantation live album, Rotting Spiritual Embodiment, featuring a remastered live recording of the band from 1991.
3 CommentsTags: compact disc, death metal, incantation, live, necroharmonic productions, news, upcoming release
Satyricon Announce Deep Calleth Upon Deep
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
Änglagård – Hybris (1992)
Those of you who despair about the lack of good contemporary metal music take notice –- it could be worse. One striking example is progressive rock which, after five years of unprecedented creative activity in the early 1970s, blew all of its fuses and left only pale imitations of a glorious past in its wake.
9 CommentsTags: anglagard, hybris, neo-progressive, progressive rock, review, Sweden
Psycho Survivors – Alive From the Grave (2017)
Many have noted the rise of the music in the intersection between martial industrial, synthwave, dark ambient and dungeon synth which has produced a number of offshoot genres. Coming to us from China, Psycho Survivors (失常幸存者) attempt to meld death metal and synthwave music into a new form that has the techniques of industrial with the compositional sensibilities of death metal.
16 CommentsTags: china, demo, psycho survivors, review, synthwave
Metal Molester 2017 So Far SMR
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:
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Ripper – Experiment of Existence LP Repress
Ripper’s Experiment of Existence, one of the best recent speed metal records for whatever that is worth, is being repressed on vinyl courtesy of Dark Descent Records.
4 CommentsTags: dark descent, dark descent records, news, repress, ripper, Speed Metal, vinyl
