Satyricon announced a new record, Deep Calleth Upon Deep, which is coming out September 22nd on Napalm Records.
18 CommentsTags: black 'n roll, crap, Napalm Records, news, norway, satyricon, upcoming album, upcoming release
Whoredom Rife – Dommedagskvad (2017)
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.
13 CommentsTags: black 'n roll, dommedagskvad, funderground, melodeaf, metalcore, modern metal, norway, poser metal, posers, poseur metal, poseurs, rehash, review, scenesters, terratur possession, terratur possessions, trash, trends mosh core fun, whoredom rife
Myrkskog – Apocalyptic Psychotica (1998)
Review contributed by Seth Berg.
The only available demo from their brief term in black metal, Myrkskog managed to make a simple homage to In the Nightside Eclipse era Emperor whilst infusing it with their own distinct, though simple, mode of expression.
13 CommentsTags: 1998, apocalyptic psychotica, Black Metal, demo, emperor, myrkskog, norway, Norwegian Black Metal, review
War Arts Productions Reissuing Immortal On Cassette
War Art Productions is reissuing the first three Immortal albums – Diabolical Fullmoon Mysticism, Pure Holocaust, and Battles in the North, – on cassette.
28 CommentsTags: Black Metal, compact cassette, hipster bullshit, immortal, news, norway, Norwegian Black Metal, reissue, reissues, war arts productions
Emperor Playing Inferno Metal Festival 2018
Emperor announced on their Mark Zuckerbook page that they are playing their second album, Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk, at the 2018 Inferno Metal Festival in Oslo, Norway.
1 CommentTags: anthems to the welkin at dusk, Black Metal, cash grab, emperor, festivals, ihsahn, inferno metal festival, news, norway, Norwegian Black Metal, oslo, samoth, upcoming shows
Enslaved Finish Upcoming Album
Norwegian black metal turned alt-rock band Enslaved finished mixing and mastering their as yet untitled upcoming album for Nuclear Blast Records.
5 CommentsTags: alternative rock, boring, Enslaved, norway, nuclear blast, nuclear blast records, rock, upcoming album, upcoming release
Ihsahn: “What I do now is musically still black metal.”
Ihsahn is recording his upcoming solo album right now in Norway according to Blabbermouth. Furthermore Ihsahn believes that black metal is not a specific type of heavy metal music but rather a mind set and that the random progressive rock and jazzy instrumental masturbation Ihsahn performs now is still actually “black metal” despite not even being metal music to begin with, yet alone black metal.
62 CommentsTags: AIDS, Bathory, christianity, diamanda galas, emperor, homosexuality, idiocy, ihsahn, metalcore, norway, progressive rock, recording, sell-out, selling out, upcoming album, wanking
Enslaved Finish Recording New Album For Beardos
Sell-out formerly black metal band Enslaved has finished recording another indie rock album for Nuclear Blast Records. Expect every fat guy in flannel with neck pubes to love it almost as much as he loves the smell of putrid mayonnaise that gets stuck in the beard like little white dingle berries.
4 CommentsTags: alternative rock, Enslaved, hipster bullshit, indie rock, new album, norway, nuclear blast, nuclear blast records, sell-out, upcoming release
Ancient – Trolltaar Reissue
Ancient‘s last hurrah, the Trolltaar EP, has been reissued by Sleaszy Rider Records with three bonus live tracks from 1993 according to the band’s Facebook page. Trolltaar saw Ancient develop cyclical simple Enslaved style riffs into extended black metal epics inspired by the virtuosity of longer 1970s popular progressive rock songs from Yes, Pink Floyd, Camel, and Led Zeppelin. Ancient were one of the few death or black metal bands inspired by popular rock music where the mass-market inspirations did not render them impotent as a metal band at least at first. Ancient, lacking a truly distinct riffing style of their own, eventually ran out of ideas and decided to play Hot Topic rock after Svartalvheim and Trolltaar but that is a topic for another time.
5 CommentsTags: Ancient, black 'n roll, Black Metal, compact disc, norway, Norwegian Black Metal, progressive rock, reissue, sleaszy rider records, trolltaar
Condor – Unstoppable Power (2017)
Readers can probably infer from the title, logo, and cover of Unstoppable Power that this Condor are not the Colombian heavy metal / progressive rock act. Norwegian Condor plays rocking speed metal similar to the Canadians Exciter and Razor. Riffing is primarily in the Motorhead influenced style of those two mixed with the chromatic, tremolo-picked styles of early Slayer. Leads are Slayerian noise bursts or imitations of Kirk Hammet. Norwegian Condor’s drumming is mostly crusty, background d-beating which lends the music some extreme percussive aggression not found in many 80s speeding oldies.
6 CommentsTags: 2017, beer metal, condor, norway, review, Speed Metal, unstoppable power
