Only the flames can purify these rehashed and generic sinners.
17 CommentsTags: Advermix, Black Metal, Daat, metalcore, modern metal, sadistic metal reviews, Speed Metal, ThrOes
Sadistic Metal Review: Blliigghhtted – Into the Cunt of the Witch (2016)
Article by Lance Viggiano.
Into the Cunt of the Witch is grainy fatalistic pap embellished with agonizing atonal voids where music should exist. When the haze clears just enough for a melody to become audible it possesses a character of passivity and reception but is always intensely grating in its pointlessness. The tired corpse of speed metal and heavy metal drags lethargically through chromatic sections that form the locus of this work. Lightly struck syncopated rhythms are relied too heavily upon and flatten into a sterile ticking that results in a pure time keeping effect not unlike a distraught prisoner tallying his cell wall; tracking his sentence until his song merely ends – a fair metaphor for the experience of this record. Individual songs are parts of four whole works and do not stand well on their own; ending abruptly without proper conclusions before jumping into the next section in a greater cycle. Vocals operate in two essential modes: an apathetic crooning within artificial caverns as well as a faux-distraught occult street preacher reminiscent of contemporary orthodox/occult black metal.
30 CommentsTags: 2016, Black Metal, Blliigghhtted, female vocals, hipster bullshit, Into the Cunt of the Witch, modern metal, sadistic metal reviews, women in metal
Sorcier des Glaces – Snowland MMXII
Artistically bankrupt metal bands typically rerecord their early material after milking the revenue streams dry through reissues, remasters, anniversary tours, and boxed sets. While the original recordings typically aren’t pristine productions, all charm is lost in the sample-replaced, quantized, digitally-reamped, and phase-butchered retreads shat out by an obsessive tinkerer’s digital audio workstation. All enthusiasm in the performances is butchered by years of alcohol abuse and aging journeyman musicians collecting just another paycheck, e.g. Sodom’s The Final Sign of Evil, Manowar’s Battle Hymns MMXI, and Bolt Thrower’s “World Eater ‘94”. Snowland MMXII is one of the few exceptions to this rule of rehash.
5 CommentsTags: 2012, Black Metal, rerecording, review, Snowland MMXII, sorcier des glaces
Sadistic Metal Review: Sovereign – Nailing Shut the Sacrosanct Orifice (2014)
Article by David Rosales.
More Ghost Scooby-Doo music mixed with random Deathspell Omega retardation than cohesive and nuanced terror, Sovereign Nailing Shut the Sacrosanct Orifice presents yet another example of the many failures of modern black metal: pretentious in lyrical orientation, vacuous in concrete musical content, mediocre in the putting together of structures that form an intelligible narrative. The lyrics themselves, in any case, will appear cursorily written, superficial, and sensationalist for anyone that has delved semi-seriously into the subjects.
1 CommentTags: Black Metal, hipster bullshit, modern metal, Nailing Shut the Sacrosanct Orifice, poser metal, posers, sadistic metal reviews, sovereign
Internet Dumpster Fire Reddit Has Meltdown Over Orlando Shooting Censorship
As it becomes clear that censorship is rampant on social media, Reddit is the latest company to stumble when its news channel censored all mention of the Orlando Pulse gay nightclub terrorist attack. According to users, the site removed all conversation about the event — including requests for a blood drive.
37 CommentsTags: censorship, facebook, gamergate, metalgate, reddit, social media, twitter, you have aids lol
#Metalgate and Hate Mail (#2): Shawn Wright of Bestial Evil Cease and Desist Email
Shawn Wright of Bestial Evil USA sent Death Metal Underground a cease and desist email:
44 CommentsTags: baltimore, bestial evil, bestial evil (usa), Hate Mail, meta, metalgate, news, shawn wright
Remembering The Past
A long time ago, in a (mental) universe far far away, the Death Metal Underground was part of a collection of pages known as the American Nihilist Underground Society, which itself was a continuation of a series of dial-up bulletin boards from the previous decade and the hacker/trouble group that emerged from them.
14 CommentsTags: american nihilist underground society, apocalyptic funhouse, dead animal pickup, flyer, Nihilism, turd
Nokturnal Mortum & Graveland – The Spirit Never Dies (2016)
Article by David Rosales.
Splits are usually revealing for reasons the bands do not intend. By allowing their music to be placed alongside that of another band in a way that listening to them one after the other is not only encouraged but, in metal culture, almost mandatory, they make comparisons and judgements based on performance differences inevitable. The aim might be to publish a few tracks more efficiently and getting the music to more people since people who know one of the two bands will listen to the other band out of curiosity. The more zealous metal fans, however, are bound to make harsher judgements of anything that is placed too close to the band they follow.
8 CommentsTags: black 'n roll, Black Metal, flowing black metal, folk, folk metal, graveland, neofolk, nokturnal mortum, review, split, synth neofolk
#Metalgate: Shawn Wright Threatens to Extort Death Metal Underground to Fund Bestial Evil National Tour
Baltimore social justice warrior Shawn Wright threatened to extort Death Metal Underground through a defamation lawsuit to fund his crappy crustcore band Bestial Evil USA‘s national tour in the comments section of our recent news article covering his latest whining.
25 CommentsTags: baltimore, bestial evil, bestial evil (usa), crustcore, metalcore, metalgate, news, shawn wright, sjws
Barefoot Wine & Bubbly – Barefoot Pinot Noir (2016)
Surely somewhere Bacchus flicks this wine from his table with an irritated grimace. Making decent wine is not hard, but this is the updated version of plastic jug wine from the 1990s but given the “California sheen” of a unique label and hip, exciting, and different backstory.
7 CommentsTags: barefoot wine & bubbly, pinot noir, red wine, wine
