More mass murder of the unworthy.
7 CommentsTags: 2016, al-namrood, Black Metal, Centinex, Darkestrah, deathcore, diamond head, Forteresse, gothenburg metal, hard rock, metalcore, novelty metal, pseudo-progressive, quebec, Québécois, random, sadistic metal reviews, saudi arabia, sludge, stinking shit, Sweden, War Metal
Article by Lance Viggiano.
Hostile Terraforming is the result of a lot of instrumental practice and absolutely no artistic or even musical ambition. Every moment is technically precise in the pursuit of puritanically banal phrases which fake variation by playing the same motif in a higher octave. Cyclical song structures allow the players to shred freely while never needing to establish an emotive core. The EP lasts only as long as it takes for the musicians to run through every show-off-in-a-public-space rite of passage stylistic flair which is recited in the most obsessively canned manner – essentially a musical diet of Doritos and Pepsi. Like all such outfits, the drums are produced to resemble a typewriter thus ensuring maximum clarity so the listener can hear every soulless tap and click as the performer slavishly follows the guitar around like a gimp-clad submissive. Yes, there are musical pauses to give the bass guitar its obligatory solo which has no purpose within a greater melodic arc of the song; not that the drunk dive bar crowd notices or cares.
7 CommentsTags: 2014, death, EP, Hostile Terraforming, sadistic metal reviews, techdeaf, The Sound of Perseverance, wanking, Xoth
Only the flames can purify these rehashed and generic sinners.
17 CommentsTags: Advermix, Black Metal, Daat, metalcore, modern metal, sadistic metal reviews, Speed Metal, ThrOes
Article by Lance Viggiano.
Into the Cunt of the Witch is grainy fatalistic pap embellished with agonizing atonal voids where music should exist. When the haze clears just enough for a melody to become audible it possesses a character of passivity and reception but is always intensely grating in its pointlessness. The tired corpse of speed metal and heavy metal drags lethargically through chromatic sections that form the locus of this work. Lightly struck syncopated rhythms are relied too heavily upon and flatten into a sterile ticking that results in a pure time keeping effect not unlike a distraught prisoner tallying his cell wall; tracking his sentence until his song merely ends – a fair metaphor for the experience of this record. Individual songs are parts of four whole works and do not stand well on their own; ending abruptly without proper conclusions before jumping into the next section in a greater cycle. Vocals operate in two essential modes: an apathetic crooning within artificial caverns as well as a faux-distraught occult street preacher reminiscent of contemporary orthodox/occult black metal.
30 CommentsTags: 2016, Black Metal, Blliigghhtted, female vocals, hipster bullshit, Into the Cunt of the Witch, modern metal, sadistic metal reviews, women in metal
Article by David Rosales.
More Ghost Scooby-Doo music mixed with random Deathspell Omega retardation than cohesive and nuanced terror, Sovereign Nailing Shut the Sacrosanct Orifice presents yet another example of the many failures of modern black metal: pretentious in lyrical orientation, vacuous in concrete musical content, mediocre in the putting together of structures that form an intelligible narrative. The lyrics themselves, in any case, will appear cursorily written, superficial, and sensationalist for anyone that has delved semi-seriously into the subjects.
1 CommentTags: Black Metal, hipster bullshit, modern metal, Nailing Shut the Sacrosanct Orifice, poser metal, posers, sadistic metal reviews, sovereign
The Sadistic Metal Reviews are were we squeeze all the empty calories out of our guts into easily digestible packages for readers’ amusement. The leftovers are distributed to starving third world children to hasten their Malthusian death through infection with the type of drug-resistant bacteria that can only thrive in a Honey Bun.
10 CommentsTags: Above Aurora, Behind the Shadows, Betrayal, Black Wisdom, blackened death metal, Grey Heaven Fall, Harakiri for the Sky, hipster bullshit, melodeaf, metalcore, modern metal, power metal, sadistic metal reviews, screamo, Slammin' Thru, stoner rock
Article by Corey M.
Chalice is a real shit show. From a purely musical perspective, the self-titled EP Chalice is transparent hard rock with some metal-ish riffing that never gets quite as aggressive as Deep Purple. Now indeed, aggression is not the only or even most crucial element that goes into making good rock or metal, but Chalice fall fa(aaaaaaaa)r short in every other facet of songwriting and performance.
6 CommentsTags: 2014, Chalice, Doom Metal, EP, female vocals, Heavy Metal, hippies, hipster bullshit, medieval metal, modern metal, renaissance metal, sadistic metal reviews, women in metal
This promotional contribution from the Social Justice Warrior-ridden Baltimore metal scene is terrible; it sounds like Pig Destroyer meets Christian metalcore. The anonymous local supplier bravely contributed a shocking report of a recent Bestial Evil show in Baltimore.
42 CommentsTags: baltimore, bestial evil, bestial evil (usa), christian metal, crustcore, crustfundies, Grindcore, hipster bullshit, homosexuality, Infectious Cross, kevin rucker, metalcore, metalgate, sadistic metal reviews, shawn wright, sjw metal, sjws
Article by Corey M. Whoa that piece of shit is on the toilet lid. Someone has to wipe that down after the photo session. Reaching into toilets to fish out footlong pieces of shit that look like salamanders is what Death Metal Underground staffers do everyday. Our asses are worn out like whoever crapped that one out.
11 CommentsTags: death metal, Heretique, Incarnal, sadistic metal reviews, stinking shit
Article by Corey M.
Sunday is a day for expunging the weekend toxins before the work week. Here are three from our staff:
3 CommentsTags: beer metal, black 'n roll, Black Metal, core, crypto-indie, groove-metal, Humm, Inglorious, modern metal, sadistic metal reviews, Sauron, Speed Metal, via nocturna
