black ‘n roll

Nokturnal Mortum – Verity (2017)

by Daniel Maarat on May 14, 2017

With Verity, Nokturnal Mortum continue down the more commercial path they started embarking on The Voice of Steel and their half of last year’s The Spirit Never Dies split with Graveland: commercialized rock-constructed music with Ukrainian folk and power metal aesthetics. On the inferior half of the The Spirit Never Dies, Nokturnal Mortum abandoned the use of the progressive rock techniques with speed, power, and Gothenburg metal riffs to craft compositions similar to the extended, droning flowing black metal compositions of past greats. Verity continues the slide down into Wacken fare.

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Tags: 2017, black 'n roll, folk, folk metal, folk rock, metalcore, nokturnal mortum, review, Ukraine, verity

Havukruunu – Kelle Surut Soi (2017)

by Daniel Maarat on May 7, 2017

Havukruunu, despite their Burzum like cover, worship Bathory‘s Blood Fire Death and 1980s synth pop on Kelle Surut Soi. Havukruunu attempt the folk choruses, epic atmosphere, and melodic solos as Quorthon did in his successful attempt at mixing black and speed metal. Unfortunately for my ears, Havukruunu are not so successful on Kelle Surut Soi.

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Tags: 2017, black 'n roll, Finland, funderground, glam metal, havukruunu, kelle surut soi, naturmacht productions, review, synth pop, synthpop

Burial – Unholy Sedition (2016)

by Guest Contributor on May 2, 2017

Review contributed to Death Metal Underground by Rainer Weikusat.

Burial is a hipster/ bald beardo band from Manchester, England who claim to play black metal. Unholy Sedition‘s tracks are all pretty short, staying within the radio rock “about 3 minutes” window. Thus all of the songs are arranged like radio rock songs rather than in death metal riff mazes or black metal melodic narratives. Burial do not even try to actually play those genres of music; only to imitate the aesthetics of prior imitations in a poorly done Khyber Pass Copy constructed in a cargo-cult fashion by primitive tribesmen in a pathetic attempt at idolization.

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Tags: 2016, black 'n roll, burial, review, united kingdom

Cirith Gorgor – Bi Den Dode Hant (2017)

by Daniel Maarat on April 29, 2017

Cirith Gorgor try to apply the technical musicianship of the best death metal to black metal as Demonaz did on Immortal‘s heavily Morbid Angel influenced last gasp, Blizzard Beasts. However Cirith Gorgor’s songwriting on Bi Den Dode Hant cannot even hope to approach the level of the Norwegian greats and best death metal bands of the early nineties; Cirith Gorgor sound more like Hate Eternal or any other generic rock band recorded by Erik Rutan‘s Klingon forehead trying to be Mayhem as black metal is cool with the kiddies now due to them reading on Facebook that Varg stabbed Euronymous in the face over twenty years ago.

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Tags: bi den dode hant, black 'n roll, cirith gorgor, death 'n' roll, EP, hammerheart records, progressive rock, review, techdeaf, the netherlands, wanking

Sadistic Metal Reviews: Inquisition of the Unworthy

by Staff on April 23, 2017

Burn them all!

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Tags: a cunning man, acranius, AIDS, artificial brain, ash and coal, axis of despair, beartrap, black 'n roll, black habit, cowards, curse of denial, daycare for jedi, death 'n' roll, desert kingdom, diktatur, dreamslain, faces of the bog, faggots, fags, foetal juice, förgjord, grave plague, hate unbound, HIV+, hour of penance, hummingbird of death, hypocras, Inquisitor, karl willets, keitzer, memoriam, metalcore, mortanius, naddred, obsolete incarnation, persefone, pillorian, raise the black, sadistic metal reviews, Sauron, sinastras, skeletal, Speed Metal, technickill, the brood, the parasite paradise, ululatum tollunt, underdark, vielikan

Sadistic Metal Reviews: Flush ‘Em All

by Staff on April 8, 2017

Blood must be shed to atone for the sins of these mostly horrific recordings. Every single person who thought releasing these was a great idea should attempt to give themselves a self-swirlie while under the influence. Banging their head on the porcelain toilet tank lid will knock some sense into them or crack their skulls open. Hopefully the latter.

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Tags: acod, AIDS, beer metal, black 'n roll, carpatus, ctulu, cvinger, deathcore, ethmebb, hyperion, kforkill, krampus, maldoror, mustan kuun lapset, nyktophobia, orwellian, quintessenz, raise the black, sadistic metal reviews, sail, servus, starlit woods, viles vitae, wormhole

Sadistic Metal Reviews: 3-24-2017

by Daniel Maarat on March 24, 2017

Will every single one of these bands eventually get AIDS? Let’s find out!

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Tags: AIDS, aksaya, Ambient, black 'n roll, Black Metal, comatose, conceived by hate, death 'n' roll, death metal, drone, emo, haxxan, hereza, inexorable, insanity cult, Lorn, morbid messiah, sadistic metal reviews, screamo, todesstoss, tome of the unreplenished, ur

Sadistic Metal Reviews: 3-21-2017

by Daniel Maarat on March 21, 2017

Some bands have promise; these have veered off the road and are currently charring in a gasoline fire. Will they crawl out? Let’s find out!

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Tags: Ascended Dead, barrow wight, beer metal, black 'n roll, black magick ss, chain, eternity's end, hetroertzen, hipster bullshit, nan elmoth, pop, sacrificial massacre, sadistic metal reviews, trends mosh core fun, tuman, tymah, Туман

Sadistic Metal Reviews: 3-9-2017

by Daniel Maarat on March 9, 2017

The Death Metal Underground staff subjects themselves to countless nights of toilet diving in order to bring you gems crapped out by the dessicated undead corpse of the music industry. These are what we left in the latrine.

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Tags: AIDS, black 'n roll, crustcore, d-beat, dimension terror, endalok, evenline, extermination angel, fall of carthage, fraser edwards, imha tarikat, immolation, liturgy of decay, martyrdöd, metalcore, sadistic metal reviews, second horizon, shit, Speed Metal, suicide, trauer, War Metal

Solitvdo – Hierarkhes (2016)

by Staff on February 4, 2017

Article by Lance Viggiano.

Solitvdo are yet another epic sounding sing-along, rootin’ tootin’, arm swingin’, marble-pilled good time with yer ole partner melancholy. Think Vikinglider Veldi with riffs about a quarter of the length, half the inspiration and none of the thoughtful placement. Riffing on Hierarkhes is mostly inspired by nu-Rotting Christ but with triumphant melodies echoing swords and sandals epics, song structures are mostly sing-along vocal driven black ‘n’ roll about the Romans, culminating in solos by someone just learning to play whose guitar god is not Jupiter Optimus Maximus but Slash from Guns ‘n’ Roses.

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Tags: 2016, black 'n roll, Black Metal, boring, drone, drone metal, eremita produzioni, Italy, marble pill, review, solitvdo

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