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Vocal Analysis: David Vincent VS Steve Tucker

by Guest Contributor on January 23, 2019

article by Svennerick

An often underrated trademark of Death Metal music is the use of vocals as an instrument for their often inhumane force and sound which enhances the message behind the dark lyrics and the right way to provide them. Outsiders often consider them to be indistinguishable, although everyone who has spent some time exploring the genre will realize that many vocalists have certain characteristics or techniques.

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Tags: Altars of Madness, blessed are the sick, Covenant, david vincent, Formulas fatal to the flesh, gateways to annihilation, Genitorturers, heretic, Illud, morbid angel, Steve Tucker

A Guide To Electronic Music

by Tyrell Dahlstrom on January 22, 2019

One genre which often attracts the admiration of Metal musicians is Electronica. When musicians from Germany, France and elsewhere began experimenting in the third quarter of the 20th century with various newfound technologies in order to create monumental landscapes of synthetic psychedelia with cosmic scope, the uncanny wave of influence unexpectedly resulted in the arising of everything from the modern club scene to many of your favourite Black Metal bands.

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Tags: 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, Ambient, ash ra tempel, ashra, brian eno, canada, cinema, classical music, conrad schnitzler, Cosmic, drugs, edgar froese, electronic, electronic music, electronica, film, film score, france, futuristic, germany, greece, jean-michel jarre, keyboards, Klaus Schulze, kraftwerk, krautrock, manuel gottsching, michael hoeing, michael stearns, progressive rock, Romanticism, science fiction, sinoia caves, Soundtracks, space, steve roach, surrealism, synth, synthesizers, synthpop, tangerine dream, terry riley, UK, USA

Cult of the Horns – Chapter I – Domination

by Nicholas Vahdias on January 21, 2019

Cult of the Horns are a French one man band from Bordeaux with one full length released to this day. The band’s aesthetic is that of the typical NWN “goat-something” band but beyond the corpse paint and cheesy titles lies an honest combination of Death and Black metal which unique band member Mephisto makes an honest attempting at fusing both genres and though this record fails at times, there are a lot of interesting particularities, making this an above average listen.

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Tags: Belphegor, Black Metal, Chapter I - Domination, Cult of the Horns, death metal, Death/Black, Deicide, morbid angel, Norwegian Black Metal

Overview On Creativity : The Plasticity-Divergence-Convergence Model

by Ioannis Metaxas on January 18, 2019

On the Black Mirror episode Bandersnatch, the young programmer protagonist, under the instructions of an Aldous Huxley inspired game developer, has the option of picking up a record by Tangerine Dream – Phaedra. As the young programmer and the viewer struggle with paradox in order to finish his game, we find a chance to do a casual DMU reflection on the parallels between metal and game programming, madness and the collapse of western civilization by substituting learning for entertainment.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URssLwPXkVk

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Tags: Bandersnatch, Black Mirror, cannibal corpse, convergence, Creativity, cryptopsy, de mysteriis dom sathanas, Dead, divergence, Euronymous, gorguts, Jon Levasseur, Luc Lemay, mayhem, Phaedra, plasticity, psychology, tangerine dream

Streaming, Record Sales, and Illusion: The State of Music in 2019

by Robert de Sandford on January 17, 2019

If you were active on any social media platforms last month you likely saw the bands you’ve been following celebrate the number of Spotify streams they had in 2019. Just as Myspace plays and Facebook likes were once important metrics used in the industry to determine the success of an artist, the number of plays on a streaming service is now the new standard of how popularity and fan size will be evaluated. But along with these changes in music statistics we must also consider the lessons of the past in how such statistics have been deceitfully manipulated. For there is a dark side to the validity of music streams in 2019 and the very real power held by those who can successfully master their mysteries.
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Tags: A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie, abazagorath, abigail williams, Billboard, deception, fake streams, music business, Record Sales, scam, spotify, streaming, Threatin, tidal, youtube

SMR – Ihsahn’s Couch Edition

by Ioannis Metaxas on January 16, 2019

Taking a brief look at the marketing tropes of the funderground in 2018 and having some fun in the process. Some bands are okay. Some others not so. Most are not even metal by any standards.

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Tags: Antaeus, Arghoslent, At the Gates, behemoth, dissection, house of atreus, ihsahn, neckbeard deathcamp, Philip H. Anselmo & the illegals, primordial, Sleep, The Armed, The Sciences, Ulver, watain

Hardcore Heavyweight Exposes, Humiliates the Blastbeat Network

by Robert de Sandford on January 15, 2019

A storm is brewing against the BlastBeat Network and its founder, Ben Umanov of MetalSucks. While the tabloids of MetalSucks and Metal Injection have long lost journalistic credibility and have become known as little more than an obnoxious joke, they’ve in recent months made a reckless overreach that has sparked a number of vicious uprisings against them. In threatening Behemoth front man Nergal, they provoked a pre-emptive strike that saw legions of Behemoth fans come against them (in a rare move, they refrained from publishing the story). Their direct involvement de-platforming of Elegy Records and other labels has turned Elegy into a martyr and free speech icon, featured in Breitbart News and drawing the ire of many on the radical right. And now they find themselves again on the receiving end of a brutal savaging, this time from a very well known name in hard/grindcore – Todd Jones, who has performed in Nails, Terror, and the outstanding Boston-style hardcore band Knife Fight.

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Tags: advertisor boycott, behemoth, ben umanov, blastbeat network, elegy records, Knife Fight, Metal Blade, MetalSucks, nergal, nuclear blast, Rivers of Nihil, Terror, todd jones

Satan – Cruel Magic(2018)

by Ioannis Metaxas on January 14, 2019

Few bands manage to sustain their passion and efforts as they mature; Satan is one of those few. Although the Ophidians are shedding off their bland metallic skin on this album to add a more progressive element that nurtures the double guitars and the vocals, their evolution is logical and enjoyable and programmatic romanticism vindicates itself.
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Retrospective : Intestine Baalism – An Anatomy of the Beast

by Nicholas Vahdias on January 13, 2019

Intestine Baalism are a Death metal band formed in the suburbs of Tokyo in 1991, their first full length only came out in 1997, having only released a pair of demos featuring songs that ended up on this album, it is safe to confirm that Intestine Baalism is a latecomer to a genre that had already seen it’s apex and was now slowly descending into Brutal and Technical Death metal territory. Anatomy of a beast takes advantage of the power of hindsight to successfully fusion the works of Carnage,Dismember and Suffocation against the more Heavy metal derived melodies of Sentenced, bringing to life a potent record that is at times just as peculiar as the band’s name.

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Tags: An anatomy of the beast, Black Metal, carnage, death metal, Dismember, Intestin Baalism, Like an everflowing stream, sentenced

NECROM – The Light Has Never Been Here (2019)

by Tyrell Dahlstrom on January 12, 2019

From the mid-90’s throughout the 21st century, the Ukrainian Black Metal scene has received the attention of listeners across the world. The Metal music coming from this nation (and particularly the Kharkiv region) has been defined by many noteworthy bands which expanded upon the keyboard-heavy “Symphonic Black Metal” stylings of bands like Emperor to include elements of 70’s prog rock, thrashing hardcore riffing, and the traditional Slavic folk music of their ancestors to create an iconic “epic” sound which combines the appeal of classic melodic Heavy Metal music with the folkish mystic fury of “second-wave” Black Metal.

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Tags: 2019, Arthur Merbuntov, Black Metal, death metal, drudkh, dub buk, hate forest, Izverg, Khaoth, Kharkiv, Khors, Mutanter, Necrom, nokturnal mortum, OSDM, Roman Saenko, Ukraine, Varggoth

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