We should talk about dark organization in metal: whenever humans set up something thriving, it dies from within because individuals defer to the will of the herd, and also, under cover of that, individuals act against the goals of the group in order to advance their personal power interests.
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Skull-smashing Dutch war metal and black metal hybrid Sammath unveils the second track from its latest album, Grebbeberg, with a look into the dark spirit of humans engaged in conflict against hopeless odds.
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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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