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Onward to Golgotha: The Deepest Death Metal

by Daniel Maarat on May 5, 2017

Incantation‘s debut and best work, Onward to Golgotha, remains the deepest death metal album I have ever experienced a quarter century after its release as of today. With material (“Unholy Massacre” and “Profanation”) dating back to the initial founding of Incantation by guitarist John McEntee and drummer Paul Ledney, Onward to Golgotha was a record influenced as much by Bathory and Beherit as it was Morbid Angel and Autopsy.

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Tags: 1992, anniversary, Black Metal, craig pillard, death metal, incantation, jim roe, john mcentee, miran kim, onward to golgotha, paul ledney, progressive, relapse, relapse records

Demoncy & Profanatica Headlining Mass Destruction Metal Fest

by Daniel Maarat on May 4, 2017

The Mass Destruction Metal Fest to be held in Atlanta, Georgia on November 3rd and 4th announced a great lineup this year with Demoncy and Profanatica among the headliners. Also playing are Acheron, Macabre, Nocturnus AD, Deceased, and Brutality. The festival should be a great chance for headbangers in the southeastern United States to experience two of the best American black metal bands live.

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Tags: acheron, Black Metal, brutality, death metal, deceased, demoncy, festivals, macabre, mass destruction, nocturnus, profanatica, upcoming shows

Lantern – II: Morphosis (2017)

by Daniel Maarat on April 30, 2017

Lantern take the Finnish black and death metal and move it back in time towards eighties speed metal to better appeal to a funderground hipster audience who never bothered to listen to Beherit or Demigod. The production of II: Morphosis is clean but slightly cavernous and vocals that sound like Per Boder of God Macabre help deceive inattentive millennials that Lantern are quality death metal and not Finnish Pantera.
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Tags: 2017, dark descent, dark descent records, death metal, Finland, funderground, II: morphosis, lantern, review, Speed Metal, wanking

Infester – To the Depths, In Degradation Reissue Review

by Daniel Maarat on April 27, 2017

Martyrdoom Productions, run by Dead Congregation frontman A.V., reissued Infester‘s long out of print classic To the Depths, In Degradation on CD and vinyl LP earlier this year. I purchased a copy of the CD version myself to review for our readers benefit. The record was never originally released on vinyl and being over fifty minutes long, the LP reissue will have compromised sound quality due to narrower groove spacing and all the limitations of the vinyl format such as the compression of the cutting lathe, high and low pass filtering, and mono bass.

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Tags: Black Metal, censorship, compact disc, dan lowndes, death metal, Infester, Martyrdoom Productions, political correctness, reissue, remaster, review, to the depths in degradation

Profanatica & Cianide Playing Destroying Texas 2017 Festival

by Daniel Maarat on April 13, 2017

Profanatica and Cianide are playing the 2017 iteration of the Destroying Texas festival along with a bunch of shitty scenester bands like Black Witchery. Check them out if you live nearby; Profanatica are still great live despite the last album, The Curling Flame of Blasphemy, being a turd. Tickets are available from EventBrite.

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Tags: Black Metal, black witchery, cianide, death metal, destroying texas fest, festivals, houston, houston texas, profanatica, texas

Thirty Years of Morbid Visions

by Daniel Maarat on April 13, 2017

Sepultura‘s Morbid Visions is my favorite thirty year old album. Released in Brazil on November 10th, 1986, Morbid Visions saw Sepultura slither past the primitive Hellhammer, Celtic Frost, and Sodom worship of their initial Bestial Devastation extended play (included as a bonus on almost all CD versions of Morbid Visions) and into ultraviolent, progressive but still primitive, death and black metal.

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Tags: 1986, anniversary, Black Metal, Brazil, death metal, igor cavalera, jairo tormentor, max cavalera, morbid visions, progressive, progressive metal, sepultura

Upcoming Unaussprechlichen Kulten Album

by Daniel Maarat on April 11, 2017

Unaussprechlichen Kulten have a new record, Keziah Lilith Medea (Chapter X), coming out on Iron Bonehead Productions June 2nd. Baphomet Pan Shub-Niggurath was good so this is one of the few death metal releases this year that Death Metal Underground is looking forward to. Hopefully our staff won’t stick the CD in the toaster upon hearing the new Sammath record.

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Tags: chile, death metal, iron bonehead, Iron Bonehead Productions, new album, unaussprechlichen kulten, upcoming release

Heresiarch Death Ordinance Album Release Show

by Daniel Maarat on April 8, 2017

War metal band Heresiarch are playing a show in Wellington, New Zealand on July 1st to celebrate the release of their debut album, Death Ordinance.

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Tags: Black Metal, dark descent, dark descent records, death metal, heresiarch, new zealand, upcoming shows, War Metal

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

Retro Review: Morgoth (DE)

by Johan Pettersson on March 23, 2017

As part of our Retro Reviews series, DMU looks into one of those classic bands that was on every Gen X death metal fan’s shelf, but probably never made it out for repeated playing after the early 1990s. Some bands just seem to fade… into the background.

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Tags: century media, death metal, germany, morgoth

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