Picking up in the divide between funderground wargrinding and melodic but insipid mainstream black metal, Xibalba take the style they unleashed on their “Demo 2010” and push it further with racing primitive riffs overlaid with melodic lead rhythm guitar.
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Necrotic war metal and black metal hybrid band Sammath bring inner melody to battering relentless martial metal, and now premiere the first track from their latest album, Grebbeberg:
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Taking up the task of reassembling the ruins of black metal, Fourth Monarchy mix Southern European mystical black metal with Swedish melodic death metal to create a descent into lush internally contrasting waves of harmony for a nocturnal restless atmosphere.
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Sammath has always had two bands inside: one that writes subtle melodic music, and another that wants full-on pounding rhythmic warfare like early death metal. On Grebbeberg, Sammath unites its Gemini-like two halves with the aggression of Dodengang mixed into the melody of recent works.
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Graveland has signed a contract with No Colours records for recording of an EP The Temple of Infernal Fire which is dedicated to the Polish black metal underground and will contain covers of Veles, Legion, Infernum, and Thunderbolt.
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Continuing their journey into the hybrid of black metal and war metal, Sammath mix in a little more grinding classic death metal for their seventh full-length album, Grebbeberg, to be released on Hammheart/Napalm records on June 16.
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Founding member of Greek cult black metal band Necromantia The Magus, formerly known as Magus Wampyr Daoloth, who recently cowrote a book that might be the most interesting assessment of metal in recent years, took the time to answer some of our questions and provide fresh mysteries for those who want to understand this cryptic and mythological subgenre.
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Most popular music memoirs fall into either criticism or worship of the phenomenon of popular music itself, focusing more on the fan response and megalomania of musicians than the reasons behind the creation of this music. The Serpent and the Pentagram takes a different approach.
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While still retaining some of the aesthetic elements of 2016’s sleeper-hit Aṇaṅku, Serpent Ascending has adopted a flowing form of riffing on this latest album comparable to some Norwegian black metal. This has both an upside and a downside, in that the longer melodies can reach a greater degree of intensity at times, but there is also less contrast within individual songs.
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