Review by Linus Douglas.
Heresiarch is the only band to have made so-called ‘war metal’ into something that was not just head bashing and blood splattering nonsense.
38 CommentsTags: 2017, dark descent, dark descent records, Grindcore, heresiarch, new zealand, review, Thrash, thrash metal, War Metal
Long deceased heavy metal vocalist Ronnie James Dio (Rainbow, Black Sabbath) is “touring” again as a hologram just like American rapper Tupac Shakur and probable pedophile Michael Jackson.
17 CommentsTags: cash grab, Dio, Heavy Metal, hologram, mainstream metal, necrophilia, news, Ronnie James Dio, tour, upcoming tours
Death metal legends Immolation are touring Europe this fall to promote their rehashed new album Atonement.
1 CommentTags: death metal, Europe, immolation, news, tour, upcoming tours
In a Facebook post, Vincent Crowley (Acheron) attacked the special snowflakes whining about metal and the funderground social justice warrior promoters who refuse to book his new thrash metal band Infidel Reich due to their Third Reich imagery and anti-Islamic lyrics.
29 CommentsTags: anti-islamic, drama, facebook, funderground, infidel reich, internet drama, nazis, news, regain records, shills, sjws, social justice warriors, special snowflake, trends mosh core fun, vincent crowley
Suffocation are touring Europe to promote their lame new album …Of the Dark Light that was “Put together right on the spot.”
5 CommentsTags: death metal, Europe, news, suffocation, tour, tour dates, upcoming tours
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.
60 CommentsTags: 1973, article, composition, hard rock, king crimson, lark’s tongues in aspic, metal history, music theory, narrative, progressive, progressive rock, proto-metal, review, robert fripp, through composition
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.
13 CommentsTags: black 'n roll, dommedagskvad, funderground, melodeaf, metalcore, modern metal, norway, poser metal, posers, poseur metal, poseurs, rehash, review, scenesters, terratur possession, terratur possessions, trash, trends mosh core fun, whoredom rife
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.
8 CommentsTags: Black Metal, Guatemala, malicia, review, silencioso dolor que aniquila, Speed Metal
