#MetalGate pointed out the unsaid obvious: that “social justice” is destroying metal from within. Today we further explore this fertile (and obediently ignored in the media) topic with a small update on Baltimore-area SJW deathpunk band Bestial Evil, who recently fired and then rehired their drummer for his association with naturalistic and possibly right-wing civilization renewal group “Wolves of Vinland.”
17 CommentsTags: bestial evil, metalgate, sjws, tire fire
Article by Lance Viggiano.
Blood Incantation give birth to a star which rapidly dissipates its vibrant material into a pale dwarf by exhausting concise songwriting early in its lifecycle to leave only the raw core of extended jam sessions which cause the dead to be grateful for their passing. Each proper song begins with a clear objective but rapidly loses focus through descents into ill-fitting random pastiches of mosh riffs, doom, beer horn ready chug or atmospheric atonal ambience. By and large, the latter half of these songs are used to adroitly drift in the vacuum of purpose wherein it makes its residence. Unlike Altars of Madness which similarly abuses the listener by stretching the limits of tolerance towards virtuosity, this group lacks the voracious songwriting that is necessary to avoid wandering by achieving focus to force the captive into loving punishing bouts of self-indulgence.
14 CommentsTags: 2016, beer metal, blood incantation, dark descent, dark descent records, death metal, modern metal, review, Starspawn, techdeaf, timeghoul, wanking
Article by Corey M. Apparently, our staff ate too many tacos this weekend.
2 CommentsTags: Black Bleeding, Cryptic Realms, death 'n' roll, death metal, groove, hard rock, Hidden Pride, modern metal, novelty metal, Pekla, piece of shit, sadistic metal reviews, Speed Metal, wanking
Acanthrophis has completed its debut, Twilight of the Vanquisher’s Reign, of blackened death metal in the style of Dissection with NWOBHM and progressive metal influences. The album will be available to the public in physical form at the first show the band will play, which will be June 25, 2016 in Milwaukee, WI with House of Atreus and Khazad Dum.
4 CommentsTags: acanthrophis, blackened death metal, jerry hauppa, jim becker, joe getse, NWOBHM, progressive metal
More mass murder of the unworthy.
7 CommentsTags: 2016, al-namrood, Black Metal, Centinex, Darkestrah, deathcore, diamond head, Forteresse, gothenburg metal, hard rock, metalcore, novelty metal, pseudo-progressive, quebec, Québécois, random, sadistic metal reviews, saudi arabia, sludge, stinking shit, Sweden, War Metal
Article by David Rosales.
A legendary time and place for underground metal, the Norway of 1993 is an esoteric landmark (1994 being the exoteric) in time and space in black metal history. It saw the rise of a mythology of its own, the mythology of black metal, and an eventual catastrophic demise worthy of a saga of its own.
25 CommentsTags: 1993, Black Metal, burzum, darkthrone, Det Som Engang Var, gorgoroth, norway, pentagram, Under a Funeral Moon
Greyhaze Records is reissuing Sarcófago‘s 1989 Rotting EP on CD in digipack format this September.
No CommentsTags: beer metal, Black Metal, Brazil, Crossover, crossover thrash, death metal, digipak, EP, Greyhaze Records, reissue, sarcofago, Speed Metal, thrash metal
Article by Jon Faugustus.
Poser power metal band Rhapsody of Fire made history on July 10, 2016, by playing their first concert in Tel Aviv, Israel. This took place at the traditional ‘Rock the Havana Club’ and probably attracted many a power metal connoisseur from the deconstructionist school.
14 CommentsTags: false metal, homosexuality, Israel, news, non metal metal pop crap, poser, posers, poseur, poseurs, rhapsody, rhapsody of fire, stinking shit, symphonic power metal, vocal driven power metal, vocal-based power metal
Article by Jon Faugustus.
Adagio, the French progressive metal band lead by Stephan Forte, has announced a fundraiser campaign to record and produce their fifth album to be titled Life. Throughout their history, the band has evolved from a mystical power metal band with contemplative overtones, to a decent but understated prog metal surpassing the likes of Symphony X, to a progressively more obvious selling out with pop songs covered with their dark progressivisms.
3 CommentsTags: Adagio, crowdfunding, glam metal, homosexuality, news, non metal metal pop crap, pop metal, poser, poseur, poseurs, pseudo-progressive, scam, stinking shit
Article by Lance Viggiano.
Hostile Terraforming is the result of a lot of instrumental practice and absolutely no artistic or even musical ambition. Every moment is technically precise in the pursuit of puritanically banal phrases which fake variation by playing the same motif in a higher octave. Cyclical song structures allow the players to shred freely while never needing to establish an emotive core. The EP lasts only as long as it takes for the musicians to run through every show-off-in-a-public-space rite of passage stylistic flair which is recited in the most obsessively canned manner – essentially a musical diet of Doritos and Pepsi. Like all such outfits, the drums are produced to resemble a typewriter thus ensuring maximum clarity so the listener can hear every soulless tap and click as the performer slavishly follows the guitar around like a gimp-clad submissive. Yes, there are musical pauses to give the bass guitar its obligatory solo which has no purpose within a greater melodic arc of the song; not that the drunk dive bar crowd notices or cares.
7 CommentsTags: 2014, death, EP, Hostile Terraforming, sadistic metal reviews, techdeaf, The Sound of Perseverance, wanking, Xoth
