Imprecation, Mephitic Corpse, Necro Blade
Saturday, April 26 – Doors at 8pm
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Tags: death metal, imprecation
Cadaver …In Pains Remaster 2025
In the early days of death metal, some contributions got overlooked because people were more interested in what was developing at the time. For example, brutal death metal overshadowed a lot of other bands, and when the audience caught up with American death metal, much European death metal got overlooked.
11 CommentsTags: cadaver, death metal, Earache
Interview with Adversary (2025)
Time comes like waves, and your wave bounces off the shore and then heads out to sea while others follow it. You stay on your path, but now there are many more paths, and they may coincide with yours briefly, but you have to pursue your destiny, which is what the underground has done as metal bloats around it.
44 CommentsTags: adversary, bob burns, cursed productions, death metal, ed finkler, jack botos, jules seifert, metal curse, ray miller
Interview with Progressive Death Metal Band Sadist (2025)
In the early days of death metal, when it was a hybrid of heavy metal and hardcore punk, it was widely viewed as technically incompetent especially by the jazz, rock, blues, and emo punk audience that was dominating record stores at the time. A few death metal bands set out to prove them all wrong, including Sadist, who kindly agreed to an interview for our readers, many of whom are Sadist fans.
257 CommentsTags: death metal, interview, Progressive Death Metal, progressive rock, sadist
Adversary The Winter’s Harvest Remastered
Northern Indiana resonant death metal band Adversary remastered and reissued its first album, The Winter’s Harvest, with new cover art and liner notes for those who are interested in the interstitials and nuanced crevices of the death metal organism.
17 CommentsTags: adversary, death metal
Imprecation – Vomitum Tempestas (2025)
Our first indication that the world had a hidden underlying order was the Poisson Distribution, which showed us that what we saw as random was in fact ordered and somewhat pre-determined, as if Plato and Prometheus had triumphed over B.F. Skinner and Jéhováh.
104 CommentsTags: blaspherian, death metal, imprecation, nuclear war now! productions
Demilich Nespithe Reissue 2025 Moves to Pre-Order
Classic innovative death metal band Demlich will ride on vinyl and CD again with the 2025 reissue of its classic Nespithe, joining a flurry of post-1990s interest in this once-overlooked but essential slab of death metal weirdness.
15 CommentsTags: death metal, Demilich, svart records
Hammer of Damnation 1991-1996 Zine Anthology
Way back in the early 1990s, Niko Skorpio helmed a zine named Hammer of Damnation in addition to handling vocal duties in Thergothon.
5 CommentsTags: death metal, hammer of damnation, zines
Sacramentum Releases The Coming of Chaos Remaster
Century Media has taken a classic album and improved it by giving it production more like the first Sacramentum full-length. From the teletype:
23 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
