We should talk about dark organization in metal: whenever humans set up something thriving, it dies from within because individuals defer to the will of the herd, and also, under cover of that, individuals act against the goals of the group in order to advance their personal power interests.
119 CommentsTags: AIDS, Black Metal, death metal, modern metal, smr
Cynics among us may say they merely want a version of this album without incurring royalty payments to other musicians, but they did a good job of most of them with minimal modern influences, although the more rigid rhythm remove much of the organic charm of the original.
22 CommentsTags: cavalera, death metal, sepultura
It should strike you as funny that humanity, Western Civilization, and metal face the same problem in parallel: steady decline from having lost of sense of goal because they lost a sense of the why behind the goal after the sense of the transcendent also eroded.
23 CommentsTags: death metal, smr
Today we mark the ten year anniversary of the death of Jeff Hanneman, guitarist and composer for Slayer, which along with Hellhamer, Sodom, Master, and Bathory contributed to the old school and modern death metal vocabulary and spirit.
28 CommentsTags: death metal, jeff hanneman, slayer, Speed Metal
As I write this, I am on the phone with a friend of mine who works at an oil firm and might be able to get us a private jet to Madrid. This might get me past the watchlists and us there in time to see what according to founder Antti Boman is the last Demilich show ever.
35 CommentsTags: antti boman, death metal, Demilich
Death Metal Underground covered Undead Blood Enemy in the past, interviewing the band on their inspirations at that time, chronicling a band that makes a Master-style version of Swedish old school death metal (OSDM).
19 CommentsTags: death metal, Undead
Death metal followed a standard distribution like everything else. At first, a few pioneers patched it together out of what they had at the time, then a generation of bands emerged who solidified the style, followed by others who tried to make sense of that strong lead, before the imitators came.
15 CommentsTags: death metal, eulogy, Florida Death Metal, New York Death Metal
In its earliest incarnation, Blood created crafty riff-alert grindcore like Disharmonic Orchestra and Carbonized, other European grind that took a backseat to the UK and US versions, despite playing more with song structure and phrase. This origin has now almost entirely been swallowed by death metal.
7 CommentsTags: blood, death metal, hells headbangers, incantation
Everything that rises must converge with the Earth, whereas that which remains at the earthy level can endure for many eras if not forever like other aspects of nature. In my view, our natural world produced us so that we would take its other plants and creatures to new planets.
7 CommentsTags: cenotaph, death metal, eucharist, fourth monarchy, smr, unformulas
Incorporating Finnish death metal technique seems to have replaced the Incantation/Blasphemy trend. Unlike many who simply inject harmonized guitars playing creepy melodies, Sépulcre resurrect the spirit of that tradition: pummeling violence that expands into existential doom.
15 CommentsTags: death metal, sepulcre
