Guest article by Svennerick
Released in August of 1996, Monstrosity’s second effort Millennium is an album I personally hold in very high regards, considering I nearly spent eight months listening to it multiple times a day. This is an addictive album and each new listen made it clearer why this album stands head and shoulders above anything released under the term “technical death metal.”
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Xtreem Music continues to unearth the past via their 10 Inches of Deathcult Series, and has announced plans to re-release the 1990 demo entitled Demo #1 by longstanding death metal veterans Incantation. Demo #1 features early versions of classic tracks that would eventually find their way onto Onward to Golgotha and features Mortician founder and vocalist Will Rahmer on vocals.
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Every now and then, someone says (or writes) something so inane that the only proper response seems to be to quote the archly disturbing rant sampled in Necrophobic “Unholy Prophecies” from their 1993 melodic Swedish death metal album The Nocturnal Silence which goes something like this:
16 CommentsTags: covid-19, dean koontz, death metal, i believe in the dark lord, necrophobic, Satanism, the nocturnal silence
Second-wave Swedish death metal band Hetsheads sees their solitary debut re-issued this month on Buio Omega Records as a vinyl release limited to four hundred copies. Picking up on the later Swedish sound, Hetsheads resemble a cross between Hypocrisy and Entombed with a darker atmosphere but the same playful heavy metal elements.
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Guest Article by Svennerick
Deeds Of Flesh’s music is known for breaking from the conventional, but unlike many other bands who resolve to untypical instruments or gimmicks, Deeds Of Flesh portray their own variety of death metal through the war that rages within their song structures and riffs.
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Thrashing Madness Productions recently re-released both Betrayer “Necronomical Exmortis” and “Forbidden Personality” demos as a single Necronomical Exmortis / Forbidden Personality CD. Full length Calamity remains planned for the future.
3 CommentsTags: betrayer, death metal, Speed Metal
From the squirrely sub-sub-genre of death metal that made us of flowing tremolo riffs as well as Slayer did, joining compatriots like Massacra and Vader, Deteriorate issued forth its first album, Rotting In Hell, to distribution in North America by J.L. America back in the hazy days of maturing underground metal.
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Record companies continue digging in their vaults to release rare material and actual remasters from classic underground metal bands, bypassing the tendency for ProTools “remasters” that amounted to compression of tracks ripped from the existing CD, in an effort to appeal to Generation X as they head toward five decades.
4 CommentsTags: death metal, earache records, morbid angel
Mexican death metal band Cenotaph forged a unique style of Central American death metal much as Sepultura did for Brazil, and influenced all New World old school death metal bands to follow.
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Antisocial and violent black metal band Sammath unleashed a video of the band playing in Moscow, using the track “Ferocious Mortar Fire” from Across the Rhine is only death as the canvas for a newly elitist and intolerant sound. Expect all of the violent of war metal, with the precision of death metal, and the melody of black metal.
10 CommentsTags: Black Metal, death metal, sammath, War Metal
