Let us review how we got here, how things are going, and where we are going.
122 CommentsTags: Heavy Metal, history of metal, sadistic metal reviews, smr, spirit of metal
Cemetery Urn – Suffer the Fallen (2023)
Coming from the part of the old school that focuses on producing dark cryptograms from the most basic robust and straightforward riffs it can conjecture, Cemetery Urn makes music that sets up a dominant rhythm trope like Immolation or Sinister and then spins contrasts until the theme gains a new weight.
57 CommentsTags: cemetery urn, death metal
Desecresy – Deserted Realms (2023)
On the surface, Desecresy grafted Bolt Thrower into periodically ambient underground metal like Asphyx and Demoncy, producing a sense of exploring catacombs and labyrinths in darkness while pursuing or being pursued, producing a mood of contemplative calm in the midst of intensity.
3 CommentsTags: death metal, desecresy
Rock För Kropp Och Själ: Swedish Alternative Music in the 1960s / 1970s
Alternative rock got a bad name in the US because it was basically not an alternative, and just mixed a little metal and punk into Morrissey and Bruce Springsteen, making the whiniest genre ever created. These days we laugh about “alternative facts,” but maybe alt-rock had something to do with this.
136 CommentsTags: alternative music, alternative rock, progg, progressive music, progressive rock, Sweden
Dismember Re-Issue Amazing First Album and Some Other Stuff
Old school Swedish death metal stalwarts Dismember represented one of those moments where the heavens, Earth, and natural kingdoms align to produce a window into the world beyond the immediate and physical, unleashing possibility through an embrace of realism and a pursuit of quality in life experience.
36 CommentsTags: death metal, Dismember, Old School Death Metal, Swedish Death Metal
Organic Working on New Material, Going into Studio
Some of you remember Organic Infest, who terrorized the world with Penitence, a slab of iconoclastic death metal that observed the world in fine attachmentless detail.
71 CommentsTags: death metal, organic, organic infest
Sadistic Metal Reviews (July 14, 2023)
We live in an inauthentic era because we have no reference points in common except mass culture, therefore most of what we do consists of throwing a dozen aesthetics in a blender, coming up with a unique combination, and using it as the basis for our careers, health of the genre be damned.
80 CommentsTags: marie kondo, Norwegian Black Metal, smr, swedish death cleaning
Transgressor – Beyond Oblivion (2023)
Imagine a ship sailing through oceans comprised of memory and dreams of those stranded in a time of decay and pointlessness, and you get the general idea of this mixed-genre band who makes death metal and grafts in other metal genres to contrast the mood.
25 CommentsTags: death metal, transgressor
Desecresy Releases “Dark Chambers” From Deserted Realms
One-human Finnish death metal band Desecresy plans to release its eighth album, Deserted Realms, on September 26th through Xtreme Music. To that end, the band has released the tracklist, cover, and first single, “Dark Chambers.”
31 CommentsTags: death metal, desecresy
Sammath Posts Video For “Last Gasp of the Dying” From Grebbeberg
The review queue this year has shifted, being both worse than ever before and having a higher number of promising options, which means that Sammath faces an underground which is gathering strength, which is why the band chose to reveal this intriguing video for “Last Gasp of the Dying.”
106 CommentsTags: Black Metal, sammath, War Metal
