Some reviews you can write like people in rom-coms from Hollywood. You set up your MacBook on the rear veranda, overlooking the pool and the palm trees of Los Angeles, or maybe the soft lush vegetation of Martha’s Vineyard or the Riviera. Then you pour a glass of wine, and write quite happily in your own little bubble.
10 CommentsTags: progressive metal, timeghoul
Having release their last album eight years ago, Naglfar seemed senescent but has introduced its latest effort, Cerecloth, for release on May 8, 2020, via Century Media Records. Recorded and mixed at Wolf’s Lair Studio and mastered by Dan Swanö at Unisound, the album promises to follow previous Naglfar melodic black metal efforts.
5 CommentsTags: Black Metal, naglfar
Post-Molested Norwegian blackened death metal band Borknagar joins avant-jazz / heavy metal hybrid Rotting Christ for a North American tour in 2020 named “Devastation on the Nation,” including guests Wolfheart, Abigail Williams, and Imperial Triumphant.
No CommentsTags: Black Metal, borknagar, rotting christ
The case of Rob Darken is a symptomatic one. He is undeniably the most important (and enduring!) metal musician from Poland and Eastern Europe in history. And yet, when black metal or folk is concerned, even on his own soil he is overlooked in favor of others, like Behemoth or Percival Schuttenbach respectively, solely on basis of some external attributes of their music. It seems that for some time now Darken is trying to gain at least a bit of the recognition he deserves: the exposure in Nergal’s biography, playing live with both Graveland and Lord Wind, and now the changes in the very formula of Lord Wind on The Forest Is My Kingdom.
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Slayer showed us the prototypical underground metal band, fusing together melodic heavy metal (Iron Maiden, Mercyful Fate, Judas Priest) and high-speed hardcore to make a new voice for metal. It kept the metal spirit entirely, and turned up the volume on that, but also gave the music the voice of desperation amid dystopian decay where everything is broken and wrong that made hardcore so apocalyptic.
14 CommentsTags: ambient metal, nocturnal metal, slayer, south of heaven, subconscious
One can find much to like on this later grindcore release, but it never quite gained traction in the canon. One wonders why, since it has Bolt Thrower and Carcass styled thunderous fairly technical grindcore, guttural vocals that sear ears and hope simultaneously, and carefully paced songs which accelerate for choruses.
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To Make Rotten was initially released in 1991 by the band Sepsis and only seventy handmade copies existed at the time. La Caverna records have re-released this record twenty eight years of its initial release. While many expect another band that is rediscovered uniquely for existing at the right time and having a certain “spirit”. Sepsis put these claims to rest with a good demo that shows untapped potential.
2 CommentsTags: Grindcore, la caverna records, sepsis
During the 1990s, which was when we got the first inkling that the postwar liberal democratic order was going out the way of the Soviets, just more slowly, black metal bands made a name for themselves with an orgy of violence, with a dozen dead and almost a hundred churches burned across Europe.
26 CommentsTags: Black Metal, church burning, holden matthews, vodka vultures
From the ancient archives, an English translation of Det Svarte Alvor (1994), resurrected in the bowels of the Old Internet:
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Ripping extreme metal band Perdition Temple (ex-Angelcorpse, Immolation, and Ares Kingdom) has released its latest blast of high-speed terror with “Desolation Usurper” from the upcoming third album of the band, Sacraments of Descension, due out sometime this year.
14 CommentsTags: angelcorpse, ares kingdom, Black Metal, immolation, perdition temple, technical metal, War Metal
