Michigan beer-fueled speed metallers Sauron and Nuke are embarking on their first ever tour!
No CommentsTags: beer metal, hells headbangers, Michigan, Nuke, Sauron, Speed Metal, tour, upcoming tours
Manilla Road – Dreams of Eschaton Released
Manilla Road‘s unreleased “Mark of the Beast” album, recorded between Invasion and Metal, has been pressed to CD and LP by High Roller Records as Dreams of Eschaton. This is the highest fidelity version yet, pressed from a collector’s tape that originated from Mark Shelton himself as detailed on the Nuclear War Now! forum:
4 CommentsTags: compilation, Dreams of Eschaton, epic, epic heavy metal, Epic Metal, Heavy Metal, High Roller Records, manilla road, Mark of the Beast, power metal, Speed Metal
Аспид – Кровоизлияние Released on Bandcamp
Аспид’s (Aspid) lost early 90s technical speed metal album, Кровоизлияние (Extravasation), has been released as a pay as you go, CD-quality lossless FLAC digital download on Bandcamp by Metal Race. Prior to Metal Race’s recent CD from the original DAT tape of the mix supplied by the band that was hard to get outside of Russia, Кровоизлияние was only available on the extremely limited original LP and a horrible sounding CD from a secondary source that was slightly sped up. Listeners worldwide may now enjoy some of the best post 1980s speed metal, resembling a more progressive Destruction.
22 CommentsTags: 1992, Aspid, Extravasation, Metal Race, progressive speed metal, reissue, Russia, Russian metal, Speed Metal, technical metal, Аспид, Кровоизлияние
Master’s Hammer – Ritual (1991)
Ritual is the pinnacle of the Central European black metal style characterized by continuing the riffing tradition of traditional heavy metal and strict adherence to speed metal song structure; Hellhammer, Mercyful Fate, Slayer, and even Megadeth influences are easily heard along with Bartók’s folkishness and Chopin’s romanticism. While their compatriots Root presaged the Hellenic scene, Master’s Hammer’s operatic use of the mellotron inspired the divergent atmosphere Emperor employed on In the Nightside Eclipse.
11 CommentsTags: 1991, bartok, Black Metal, chopin, Czech black metal, Heavy Metal, Master's Hammer, occult, review, Ritual, Speed Metal
Bulldozer Vinyl Repress
Bulldozer’s first two albums of drunken Motorhead, proto-underground metal in the style of Venom and Sodom are being repressed on vinyl from the original tapes for the first time in thirty years by F.O.A.D Records. Neither of these albums ever had good CD releases (the CDs sound like compressed needle drops) so fans of beer-fueled, 1980s first-wave black metal might want to check these out.
Tags: beer metal, Black Metal, Bulldozer, F.O.A.D Records, Heavy Metal, Italy, proto-underground, reissues, repress, Speed Metal, The Day of Wrath, The Final Separation, vinyl
Sadistic Metal Reviews: 6-20-2016
Article by Corey M. Apparently, our staff ate too many tacos this weekend.
2 CommentsTags: Black Bleeding, Cryptic Realms, death 'n' roll, death metal, groove, hard rock, Hidden Pride, modern metal, novelty metal, Pekla, piece of shit, sadistic metal reviews, Speed Metal, wanking
Sarcófago’s Rotting Reissued
Greyhaze Records is reissuing Sarcófago‘s 1989 Rotting EP on CD in digipack format this September.
No CommentsTags: beer metal, Black Metal, Brazil, Crossover, crossover thrash, death metal, digipak, EP, Greyhaze Records, reissue, sarcofago, Speed Metal, thrash metal
Sadistic Metal Reviews: Three More for the Fire
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
Defining Metal
Article by Lance Viggiano inspired by International Day of Slayer.
A candidate for the best work within a genre of music should capture every manifestation as best as it can and be able to answer the question: what is X? One might make the argument that the best album must capture the genre at its summit; still, that is a far more difficult essence to capture as in the case of metal, both black and death metal scaled adjacent but different peaks and therefore offer their own unique views of the same musical landscape.
13 CommentsTags: extreme metal, genre, hell awaits, music analysis, musical analysis, proto-death, Proto-Death Metal, proto-underground, slayer, Speed Metal
Mortuary Drape – Spiritual Independence (2014)
Article by Corey M.
Tags: 2014, Black Metal, Italy, mortuary drape, review, Speed Metal
