Century Media Records has announced its intention to re-issue all three full length records from Swedish death metal veterans Unanimated.
3 CommentsTags: death metal, unanimated
The Greatest Idiot Riff : Bolt Thrower’s “World Eater”
Master’s Paul Speckmann is known for taking an idea and squeezing everything he can from it through repetition and then utilizing the most direct route to return to that idea. Though this mentality would fail many bands because the riffs didn’t have the necessary urgency and creativity to work. Bolt Thrower on the other hand took this approach and pushed it to the logical extreme as each individual riff became the central focus while narrative development was relegated to an afterthought despite somehow still being present. What made Bolt Thrower so intriguing was that they possessed powerful riffs that were caveman like and more often than not completely idiotic yet the band managed to soar where others failed miserably.
17 CommentsTags: Bolt Thrower, death metal, Realm of Chaos, world eater
Funeral Bitch Re-Issues Old Demos With The 1980s Demos CD
From roughly 1984 to 1992, Paul Speckmann recruited different lineups to express the same idea through different band names such as Master, Deathstrike, Abomination, Funeral Bitch, and Speckmann Project. With similar basic sounds and shared songs, these bands differed mostly in personnel.
1 CommentTags: abomination, death metal, deathstrike, funeral bitch, master, paul speckmann, speckmann project, vic records
Triptykon Announces Release of Requiem (Live at Roadburn 2019)
Celtic Frost conceptual continuation project Triptykon, with full classical orchestration by the Dutch Metropole Orkest, presenting the trilogy of songs spanning 1987 to the present.
3 CommentsTags: celtic frost, death metal, symphonic
Necrophiliac – No Living Man Is Innocent (2020)
In nature, nothing can exist in stasis, but radical change forms the same chaos that stasis does, namely a loss of energy potential. This means that anything enduring exists in a constant state of internal conflict but within the parameters of continuity between past and future to its roots.
4 CommentsTags: ambient metal, death metal, Necrophiliac
Demilich Announces 2020 North American Tour
Murky obscure atmospheric death metal band Demilich, famous for spidery and bizarre riffs, have announced their 2020 North American Tour with Divine Eve, Outer Heaven, and Cardiac Arrest. You can find out more at the Demilich 2020 tour page or catch them on the dates below.
3 CommentsTags: cardiac arrest, death metal, Demilich, divine eve
Conjureth Releases Foul Formations EP
Conjureth, a project of Decrepitaph personnel, released its new EP Foul Formations on February 15, 2020, featuring more of its hybrid between Incantation and Immolation style mid-paced trudging death metal. Each song builds its main riff out of a central theme, then creates a staggered counterphrase for the chorus, and features a more thorough and basic elucidation of the theme as a transition, but otherwise for the most part is riff-chorus metal.
4 CommentsTags: conjureth, death metal, decrepitaph, OSDM
Malevolent Creation The Ten Commandments Re-Issued
Peer into the intense fury of three decades ago when Malevolent Creation unleashed their powerful fusion of speed metal and percussive death metal, The Ten Commandments (1991). Full of nice meaty riffs cleated to pounding double-bass drumming, this album explored the side of death metal that stayed closer to conventional metal.
35 CommentsTags: death metal, hammerheart records, Malevolent Creation, Speed Metal
Supuration The Cube: Death Metal’s Most Unique Album
It is commonly assumed that the most unique album in death metal is Nespithe and while there is a very strong case for such a claim, Supuration’s The Cube has a stronger claim to such a title. Demilich have a large number of failed imitators while Supuration have none at all. The first listen to Demilich immediately shows the band’s intentions and dizzying whirlwinds of ideas in elaborate riff mazes. Supuration sounds like a rock hybrid that borders on modern metal but with much depth and just as unique but requiring many more listens to dig past the highly accessible aesthetics. Here are a few tools that Supuration used to create the most unique album in Death metal.
21 CommentsTags: death metal, supuration, the cube
Master Master and 1985 Unreleased Album Re-issued As 2CD
Hammerheart Records opened pre-orders for the first Master album with several versions of the same songs, making this both a collector’s item and an impossible listen for the casual fan.
13 CommentsTags: abomination, death metal, deathstrike, funeral bitch, hammerheart records, master, speckmann project
