Century Media has taken a classic album and improved it by giving it production more like the first Sacramentum full-length. From the teletype:
22 CommentsTags: Black Metal, death metal, sacramentum
Slayer Launches “Slaytanic Verses” Museum
Since the band is no longer active, Slayer has turned its focus toward preserving its place in history as arguably the most powerful and interesting metal band of all time. To that end, the band has launched the “Slaytanic Verses: Live Assaults 1981 Through Today” website.
47 CommentsTags: death metal, slayer, Speed Metal, Thrash
Suffer – Global Warming (1993)
In the idiosyncratic anomalies of metal, Global Warming stands out for being a death metal album with thrash vocals and occasional heavy metal influences which come from the more confrontational side of that genre instead of the groovy, relaxed side.
9 CommentsTags: death metal, suffer, Thrash
Lord of Plague – Passage to None (2024)
The first track here must be the first song the band ever composed, because it’s a bad indicator of what the bulk of material on this demo has in store for the listener. After a brief foray into a low-tech take on early Morbid Angel, Lord of Plague then launch into two pieces that bring to mind the churning music of Floridian acts such as Monstrosity, Malevolent Creation, or Resurrection.
27 CommentsTags: death metal, lord of plague
Laceration – I Erode (2024)
Another promising act relinquishes its potential to the roar of the crowd. Laceration released one of the more note-worthy albums of 2021 with their debut, Demise, taking the deft, speed-metal influenced rhythms of early death metal and placing them within the context of a dark ambiance reminiscent of Demigod.
9 CommentsTags: death metal, laceration
Interview with King Fowley of Deceased
Moving through the underground without noticing Deceased over the past three decades would prove difficult, and many of us know this band as an early effort to bring heavy metal technicality to death metal at a time when the genre was still considered primitive.
74 CommentsTags: death metal, deceased, doomstone, Heavy Metal, hells headbangers
Sadistic Metal Reviews: WWIII and Regime Change Edition
As the world continues to burn itself through human arrogance, we turn to metal because we need a voice of an apocalypse that we would like to make triumphant. In destruction of the weaker, the stronger stands revealed. But first we have to remove the weak metal, which is why we have SMRs.
26 CommentsTags: Black Metal, clones, control, death metal, Nihilism, ramones, sadistic metal reviews, smr, social darwinism, sodomy
Vader – Reborn in Chaos (1997)
Although this album recently got released, the Committee got ahold of it and mucked up the production and changed the tracks. You want the original 1996 version which compiled demos from Vader in the years leading up to The Ultimate Incantation.
34 CommentsTags: death metal, vader
Condemner – Male Patratis Sunt Atra Theatra Parata (2024)
Condemner offers us the most bare-bones death metal possible. We hear only a straightforward guitar. Simple, slow battle drums that press on the same emphasis points of the guitar riff. Traditional death metal vocals round off the bare minimum arrangement, with the occasional higher-register growl doubling for demonic effect at tactical points.
41 CommentsTags: condemner, death metal
Desultory – Darkness Falls (The Early Years) (2024)
Before melodic death metal became a new way to rebrand Iron Maiden style heavy metal with death vocals, a few bands explored the idea of applying melody to death metal, and Desultory distinguished themselves early on with a speed metal influenced variety of heavy metal that used a lot of death metal technique.
112 CommentsTags: death metal, desultory, Heavy Metal
