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Sadistic Metal Reviews 3-15-2017

by Staff on March 15, 2017

Tags: aethyr, arkhaeon, battle beast, blaine rohmer, boring, coldborn, crurifragium, Cryptic Realms, diktatur, doom's day, durr metal, evil priest, gloson, grimmd, hessaja, ic rex, idiots, kratornas, lacerated and carbonized, maloic, maze of sothoth, messaja, metalcore, mordant, nephilim, Ónefnt, Óreiða, ride for revenge, sadistic metal reviews, season of arrows, self-hatred, swine soul, teramobil, the descent, the flight of sleipnir, tomb mold, tygers of pan tang, ulalatum tollunt, wrath of echoes

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

Memoriam Snore Through “Reduced to Zero”

by Daniel Maarat on January 13, 2017

Memoriam posted the first track and track list for their upcoming death ‘n’ roll album For the Fallen. Hear Karl Willets sound tired and rip off himself on “Reduced to Zero” over riffs that make Benediction‘s The Grand Leveller sound like a peak of death metal in comparison. I’m so excited! Let’s find out what this single sounds like!

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Tags: boring, death 'n' roll, karl willets, memoriam, new track, nuclear blast records

Obituary Announce Obituary

by Daniel Maarat on January 12, 2017

Obituary announced an upcoming self-titled album out May 17th on Relapse Records. Prepare for boring mediocrity and probable Sadistic Metal Review fodder. The preview sounds terrible.

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Tags: boring, death 'n' roll, death metal, modern metal, obituary, relapse records, upcoming release

Darkthrone – Arctic Thunder (2016)

by Staff on December 21, 2016

Article by Lance Viggiano

Darkthrone have spent the records FOAD through The Underground Resistance regressing into their pre-Celtic Frost influences. Sensing their customers’ growing unpopularity with this black ‘n’ roll approach, Fenriz and Nocturno Culto try to save face on Artic Thunder by regressing into their own work. The upshot is that nobody but Miller Lite Throne can sell mediocre riffs in cyclical songs as well as these two. The downshift is that they cannot muster enough enthusiasm or energy to play their own ideas with the dedication of a devoted bar-tier cover band.

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Tags: Arctic Thunder, beer metal, Black Metal, boring, cash grab, darkthrone, peaceville, peaceville records, review

Teitanblood Announce Accursed Skin

by Staff on December 10, 2016

Article by Lance Viggiano.

Norma Evanglium Diaboli announced a new EP from crusty noise rock band Teitanblood. Accursed Skin consists of two lengthy tracks: “Accursed Skin” (14:28) and Sanctified Dysecdysis (11:46). Writing riffs is hard because it requires some modicum of actual creativity when you aren’t bashing power chords or lifting material from others. That’s why Teitanblood quit trying immediately after the mediocre Seven Chalices and let itself be carried by presentation and aesthetic to a greater degree than that record was on Death. Accursed Skin will be the second instance of this band using already released material to pad out the run-time of an EP as they cannot conjure up enough static, lukewarm grind/crust riffs and cool vocals to fill a release with new material.

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Tags: accursed skin, boring, crust, EP, funderground, noise rock, norma evangelium diaboli, teitanblood, the ajna offensive, upcoming release, War Metal

Metallica – Hardwired… to Self-Destruct (2016)

by Guest Contributor on November 19, 2016

Review contributed to Death Metal Underground by the Peckerwood Boys. The audio review may be heard here.

Yep, just me here. A new Metallica album of all 45 rpms of pure American metal! 180 grams, limited to 500 copies. I’m gonna spin this bitch like NASCAR!

Lookin’ under the hood here, you got your Black Album riffs, you got your Pantera, and that sir, that’s gonna get you over to your cousin’s house faster than her boyfriend so you can propose to her. Now this album right here has really got me saying, “I’m glad, I’m glad it was Cliff!” That Master of Muppets there album had a lot on it I couldn’t understand in it. It was like tryin’ to make sense of one of them pieces of paper with scribbles on it, them black scribbles man.

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Tags: 2016, boring, burzum, Dave Mustaine, hard rock, lynyrd skynyrd, mainstream metal, metallica, slayer, Speed Metal

Futile Exercises in Futility

by Staff on October 15, 2016

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Article by Anton Rudrick.

Mgła provides us with a perfect example to round a trio of examples that together shape the main misunderstandings as to what black metal is through their misrepresentation of it in either carelessness or ignorance. While modern Watain plays a completely undefined mixture of incoherent tropes around a stomping heavy rock that never condenses into anything original, and modern Behemoth is a shock rock outfit with sterile tekdeaf (modern technical “death metal”) techniques, Mgła is the one that closest comes to black metal by its purposely limited form closely resembling it. However, at best it could be said that they are a musically poor black metal band devoid of the traditional character that fuels the adversarial music, and at worst it could be classified as a post metal band experimenting with close variations on a very simple theme.

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Tags: 2015, Black Metal, boring, exercises in futility, Mgła, poland, post-hardcore, post-metal, re-review, review

Sadistic Metal Reviews: 8-7-2016

by Staff on August 7, 2016

Article by David Rosales.

Perfection is in the balance and in the details! These works possess neither balance nor detail.

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Tags: Abigail, boring, crypto-indie, glam metal, sadistic metal reviews, stoner rock, The Final Damnation

Irkallian Oracle – Apollyon (2016)

by Staff on May 24, 2016

Article by Corey M.

Irkallian Oracle make a conscious effort to sidestep many death metal conventions on Apollyon. They have been paying attention to the state of death metal over the last twenty years and noticed how many bands have traveled down the dead-end paths of “tech” and “slam” in pursuit of ever-more-extreme brutality. Irkallian Oracle eschew the brutality while trying to retain the creepy, morbid expression.

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Tags: 2016, Apollyon, Black Metal, blackened death metal, boring, death metal, Irkallian Oracle, nuclear war now! productions, nwn, review

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