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
By the Hammer of the Gods, the time has come to round up those contestants who dared to volunteer themselves as subjects to the perennially stern yet perspicacious judgement of the DMU Lords! Let us see who shall emerge from this round victorious, rising unchained while their compatriots be left to live among the ruins!
With all that said, let the judgement commence!
1 CommentTags: 2019, alternative rock, Black Metal, death metal, ferriterium, five minutes hate, france, germany, hungary, iron flesh, Italy, mallcore, meghistos, needless, prog metal, saturnus terrorism, song contest, voldt
Decibel Magazine and Albert Mudrian have long been known as poseurs and shills.
6 CommentsTags: albert mudrian, alternative rock, blast beat network, crypto-indie, decibel, Enslaved, hipster bullshit, indie rock, khemmis, Myrkur, news, non metal metal pop crap, poseurs, shills, stoner rock, tour dates, upcoming tour, US tour, wolves in the throne room
Okoi Jones, guitarist and vocalist of Swiss black ‘n’ roll alternative rock band Bolzer, declared on the band’s Facebook page that he and Bolzer are in no way racists, sexists, fascists, or Nazis in response to Paul Resnikoff’s apparently libelous virtue signaling:
28 CommentsTags: alternative rock, black 'n roll, Bolzer, censorship, crypto-indie, cultural marxism, digital music news, funderground, hipster bullshit, metalgate, news, okoi jones, paul resnikoff, sjws, trends mosh core fun
Tau Cross regress from playing Motorhead and Killing Joke influenced crust punk and heavy metal on Pillar of Fire to mainstream 1990s alternative rock similar to Amebix‘s Sonic Mass swansong. Boredom awaits.
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Tags: alternative rock, crustcore, dumbing-down, hard rock, pillar of fire, Post-Punk, relapse, relapse records, review, rob miller, tau cross
Norwegian black metal turned alt-rock band Enslaved finished mixing and mastering their as yet untitled upcoming album for Nuclear Blast Records.
5 CommentsTags: alternative rock, boring, Enslaved, norway, nuclear blast, nuclear blast records, rock, upcoming album, upcoming release
Sell-out formerly black metal band Enslaved has finished recording another indie rock album for Nuclear Blast Records. Expect every fat guy in flannel with neck pubes to love it almost as much as he loves the smell of putrid mayonnaise that gets stuck in the beard like little white dingle berries.
4 CommentsTags: alternative rock, Enslaved, hipster bullshit, indie rock, new album, norway, nuclear blast, nuclear blast records, sell-out, upcoming release
Hipster alternative rock band Bolzer announced the various editions that their godawful debut album Hero will be available in on their Facebook page. The diehard LP version will exclusively be available in colored vinyl. Bolzer call the color “semen/copper burst“. Inspired by what ends up in Bolzer’s toilet when they forget to use an enema, Hero shares the same color as the mushy results of vigorous, unprotected anal sex.
20 CommentsTags: alternative rock, anal sex, Bolzer, false metal, Hero, hipster bullshit, homosexuality, Iron Bonehead Productions, piece of shit, vinyl, worse than shit
Hipster alternative rock band Bolzer was decried for their low-self esteem fueled blow up at Death Metal Underground’s damning review of the preview track from Hero by Old Disgruntled Bastard, the writer of one of the few readable metal blogs, on Funbook:
38 CommentsTags: alternative rock, Bolzer, hipster bullshit, MetalSucks, Old Disgruntled Bastard
Hipster alternative rock band Bolzer blew up at Death Metal Underground on their Funbook page for telling the world what the first preview track, “I AM III”, from their upcoming album Hero actually was: vocal harmony focused alternative rock with generic riffing in the middle for no reason other than to pretend that their random music is metal and to “connect” two unrelated rock parts. Our staff’s commentary is after the jump.
59 CommentsTags: alternative rock, Bolzer, crypto-indie, death metal underground, facebook, hard rock, Hero, hipster bullshit, hipsters, Iron Bonehead Productions, nu-metal
