I’m not liking this opening track. It’s like I’m listening to Summoning but it’s not Summoning. Holy shit! What the hell? “My day will come!” and a boring interlude again.
12 CommentsTags: 2018, adult contemporary, AOR, black 'n roll, boring, Napalm Records, review, Summoning
Early English and US hardcore punk served as important catalysts in the development of underground metal. During the earliest years of the 1980s, it was hardcore punk and not metal that provided the most violent and intense music within grasp of disgruntled and alienated kids attempting to survive the suburbs of Western Civilization.
21 CommentsTags: bad brains, Hardcore Punk, jazz, metallic hardcore, nationalism, progressive rock, punk rock, reggae, review, washington dc
For decades, musicians have sought the holy grail of combining metal with industrial, but the problem is one of space. Industrial uses space more like rock or jazz, to separate notes, where metal focuses on the continuity of power chord riffs. If the hybrid goes too far to one extreme, it sounds like industrial with fragmented metal riffs; on the other extreme, it loses the machine-like sound of industrial. (more…)
7 CommentsTags: 2017, Industrial, industrial grindcore, industrial metal, industrial punk, metal, review, sterilizer
Review contributed to Death Metal Underground by Kyle.
Hey bruh you wouldn’t believe what just happened to me. Ive been squatting in Venice Beach for a few days playing the first Disciples of Mockery record to my crystals. Twenty minutes ago they started projecting all kinds of imagery on the walls warping reality around me. I was having Kaleidoscopic autistic blood visions dude. One of them was the vocalist Craig Pillard and he opened his mouth like he was going to eat my face but he didn’t man he spoke to me.
17 CommentsTags: 1999, craig pillard, death metal, death-doom, disciples of mockery, Doom Metal, evola, incantation, jim roe, prelude to apocalypse, review, ronny deo
Murky and obscure like the style itself, a definition of doom metal proves elusive. Proponents of doom metal uphold it as a qualitatively discrete sub genre within metal on the grounds shared set of aesthetic, formal and ideological particularities that binds together a seemingly disparate conglomerate of artists and styles.
23 CommentsTags: 1994, Doom Metal, funeral doom, Heavy Metal, review, thergothon
For Generation X, droning sounds were good sounds. The train passing at night meant that order was restored, the Hoover vacuum passing the doorway meant that a parent was home and somewhat engaged, and the relentless churn of machinery meant that the order that was would not collapse quite yet.
25 CommentsTags: 1980s, 1990, 1990s, pop music, punk, review, sonic youth, tedium
Review by Lucius Vorenus.
Wiking 1940 is an act I would generously describe as some genuinely confused crap. Even adjusting for the fact that they have a session member named Lord Himmler, they’re still really effeminate.
19 CommentsTags: 2017, Ambient, black 'n roll, homoeroticism, Italy, national socialist black metal, noise, nsbm, poseurs, review, screamo, War Metal, wiking 1940
Despite what record labels and glossy magazines want us to think, metal has suffered from an incremental artistic recession for the last two decades, with the dearth of truly exceptional releases increasing in an almost linear fashion.
9 CommentsTags: anthology, britain, British Death Metal, compact disc, compilation, dark blasphemies records, death metal, malediction, pantalgia, review, UK
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Review contributed to Death Metal Underground by Lucius Vorenus.
BLASPHAMAGOATACHRIST is the kind of music that’s so stupid that it has to have a cult following…
35 CommentsTags: beer metal, blasphamagoatachrist, demo, homosexuality, noise, nuclear war now! productions, nwn, NWN/FMP, poseurs, review, scenesters, trends mosh core fun, War Metal, youtube
Arghoslent hailing from Virginia, USA are another one of those so-called “melodic death metal” bands with hardly anything in common with death metal at all. Rather Arghoslent play plain old heavy metal. Unlike their lame contemporaries from Gothenburg, Sweden, Arghoslent were once an effective heavy metal band who initially continued the work of their idols that past European power metal bands had merely emasculated. Arghoslent themselves would eventually stumble into these same stadium rock sins but not on Arsenal of Glory.
53 CommentsTags: 1996, Arghoslent, arsenal of glory, article, demo, drakkar productions, EP, Heavy Metal, review, Speed Metal, virginia
