It no longer makes sense to speak of “heavy metal” because the genre has its own identity. It is metal music, and “heavy metal” is now the kind of stuff that people listened to after Boomer rock lost its oomph, probably ending with the first Metallica album.
31 CommentsTags: death metal, massacre
When #ChuckSchuldinerDiedOfAIDS, the entire death metal community came together to support research into this devastating disease. As the government cuts funding, it is time to raise our hands together for Chuck Schuldiner!
29 CommentsTags: AIDS, chuck schuldiner, chuck schuldiner died of AIDS, death, HIV+, LGBTQIA+
In the early days of the millennium, Evil Incarnate thundered across the land as bass-heavy pounding old school death metal, but with its newest incarnation, the band explores thunderous doom as well as a faster flowing tremolo style of death metal that evokes the oldest sounds of the genre.
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This evening featured a great podcast with Aureus Press on death metal, Plato, and the art of living well.
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International Day of Slayer XX dawns upon us this June 6, thrusting aside lesser commemorations as we embark on a singular quest: boycott society, play Slayer.
21 CommentsTags: death metal, hessian studies, international day of slayer, National Day of Slayer, slayer, Speed Metal
With the International Day of Slayer coming up, it was hard to pass on one of these at SoundWaves. After all, you always need a Igloo™ Thermos.®
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Antimelodic antichristian and antiherd black metal band Profanatica will be taking to stages across the failed state of the USA this summer with Knoll and Unidad Trauma. You can get tickets at Tone Deaf Touring or LiveNation:
16 CommentsTags: Black Metal, knoll, profanatica, tone deaf touring, unidad trauma
Early metal came from a mix of elements — proto-punk, dark progressive, and heavy rock — fused with soundtrack-style epic song structures, which along with the phrasal riffs that went along with power chords, made a new type of music that escaped the vocal-driven harmony-based tedium of Boomer rock.
3 CommentsTags: garage rock, iggy pop, jim jarmusch, johnny ramone, metal history, proto-metal, proto-punk, punk, the stooges
One thing that has become clear over the past few years is that on the internet, format is more important than reality. Write up a post with the right buzzwords, bloggy pauses, emphatic words, and current vocabulary and people think you are a genius even if you are babbling.
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Apparently Facebook, after shutting down my account for suspicion of “impersonation” a decade ago, has now decided to ban our page. The current framework of beliefs by which modern people live is shaking. Eighty years has revealed only the weakness at is core. Sea change is coming.
100 CommentsTags: AI, apostasy, blasphemy, heresy, sadistic metal reviews, sea change, smr
