Death metal legends Cadaver, who recently have been experimenting with modern metal, release their new hybrid in the style of recent Obituary works that features verse-chorus composition and simplified, punk-like death metal riffs that use harmony like a prog-ish band.
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All post-metal is basically a ripoff of what Godflesh did on Streecleaner mixed with what bands like Ras Algethi pioneered, and when you combine post-metal and modern metal — a hybrid of speed metal and death metal with influences from late hardcore — you end up with something like Static Abyss.
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For death metal fans, this will be less exciting because as usual with humans, they melded the extremes and formed a new hybrid average generalist, “modern metal,” which is as much emo, late hardcore, indie, and alternative as metal, and like most bands with labels Cadaver is trying to “stay current.”
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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.
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Newer generations of death metal influenced heavy metal tend to adopt more of a simplified power metal approach, focusing on strong verse-chorus repetition with a few variant themes toward the end of the song, as if to make the music video more interesting. Firespawn comes to us from the same place as recent Slayer.
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Immolation fiercely maintains its reputation as both innovator and creator of a long run of relevant albums in the death metal genre. The band appeared in Poland on September 27, supported (besides opening bands Sincarnate and In Twilight’s Embrace) by Melechesh and Azarath. In every case the sound was at least good and with their performances they all have made great impression.
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Death Metal Underground readers may have noticed the output of material posted to the site over the last couple of months has slackened with regards to articles and Sadistic Metal Reviews.
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Autarcie could be easily dismissed for being assembled from the elements we expect from narcissistic yet generic post-black metal or “modern metal.” Instead, it presents to us a transition between black metal and either assimilation or a new form which is organic and local, and yet while the band does more with the elements of modern metal than that genre, its failure to conquer the modern mindset within precludes it from achieving the ancient sensibility and sensation of black metal, leaving it as identifiably “post-metal” in spirit but second-wave black metal in form.
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Review contributed by Jon Browning.
Whoredom Rife are exactly what is wrong with modern “underground” “metal”. All these posers do is take a bunch of riffs from records over twenty years old, chop them up, and randomly attach a few of them together to make… a track.
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Tomas Lindberg’s (At the Gates) awful new band The Lurking Fear released a new music for some awful new track that sucks off their upcoming album you shouldn’t care about as it will surely suck that comes out later this year on Century Media Records.
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