Alongside Hellhammer, Bathory, and Sodom, Slayer helped invent the raw sound of death metal, which combined the literality of hardcore with the imaginative atmospheres of heavy metal and the structural composition of progressive rock and classical.
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In an age of deathcore, 3rd War Collapse presents us old fashioned deathgrind from the later Suffocation school, charging ahead with high-speed pounding drums and a festival of angular riffs piled on top of each other in a cascade which produces a victorious synthesis of themes.
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Longstanding death metal band Pestilence, attempting to hybridize its musical core through the vision of Patrick Mameli with a new generation of metal, has released the first track from its upcoming album Exitium named “Morbvs Propagationem.”
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For those who have not yet listened to the local hipster whisper gossip train, Plague of Tyranny is a megaband composed of Paul Speckmann (Master), Alex Bouks (Goreaphobia), Jim Roe (Incantation), and Chuck Sherwood (Incantation).
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Our world changed a great deal between the early and mid-eighties: technology expanded, media control arose, and music rose against the nascent New World Order and its social environment composed of both “I got mine” style mercantilism and precious snowflake post-hippie ego-adornment. The quest was on to make crossover music that combined the alienation of punk with the archaic futurism of metal.
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Coming to us from the wilds of Sicily, Morticula Rex derive their influences from classic heavy metal and death metal, but create a style of doom-death with the same heavy metal influences that drove the Greek and Sardinian scenes to have unique voices, even if hybridized ones.
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Not realizing that death metal focuses on confronting the illusions behind which we hide in a social bubble instead of accepting that life includes death and lies like equality, democracy, and consumerism lead to group suicide, Cambodians expressed outrage that a death metal band borrowed the name of the most notorious Khmer Rouge death camp:
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As the death metal genre becomes buried under layers of history, the details of its creation gradually emerge, with the most recent being North From Here: The Sentenced Story by Matti Riekki, now available in English:
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According to numerous sources, Wes Weaver, composer and guitarist for Imprecation, Blaspherian, and Infernal Dominion, has passed away from multiple heart attacks earlier today. The band Imprecation issued a statement on his death:
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Celebrating the death and yet afterlife inertia of death metal, foundational Dutch pummeling vitriolic death metal band Asphyx plans to re-issue its demos and early material on a 3-LP set called Abomination Echoes due out on Napalm Records on June 18, 2021.
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