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
Acanthrophis has completed its debut, Twilight of the Vanquisher’s Reign, of blackened death metal in the style of Dissection with NWOBHM and progressive metal influences. The album will be available to the public in physical form at the first show the band will play, which will be June 25, 2016 in Milwaukee, WI with House of Atreus and Khazad Dum.
4 CommentsTags: acanthrophis, blackened death metal, jerry hauppa, jim becker, joe getse, NWOBHM, progressive metal
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 David Rosales.
A legendary time and place for underground metal, the Norway of 1993 is an esoteric landmark (1994 being the exoteric) in time and space in black metal history. It saw the rise of a mythology of its own, the mythology of black metal, and an eventual catastrophic demise worthy of a saga of its own.
25 CommentsTags: 1993, Black Metal, burzum, darkthrone, Det Som Engang Var, gorgoroth, norway, pentagram, Under a Funeral Moon
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
Article by Jon Faugustus.
Poser power metal band Rhapsody of Fire made history on July 10, 2016, by playing their first concert in Tel Aviv, Israel. This took place at the traditional ‘Rock the Havana Club’ and probably attracted many a power metal connoisseur from the deconstructionist school.
14 CommentsTags: false metal, homosexuality, Israel, news, non metal metal pop crap, poser, posers, poseur, poseurs, rhapsody, rhapsody of fire, stinking shit, symphonic power metal, vocal driven power metal, vocal-based power metal
Article by Gonzalo Gallina.
In 1996, Spanish rock band Mago de Oz released their most acclaimed latin-rock-underground albums, Jesus de Chamberi. Like most things coming from modern Latin countries, it has difficulty defining itself. Representative of the modern cultural confusion of Hispania, Mago de Oz presents the audience with a mixed bag of rock ala Dio, reggae, and eighties bar heavy rock, while borrowing some metal riffs and melodic leads here and there, and ocassionally overlaying folky tunes on a violin.
12 CommentsTags: Español, glam metal, hard rock, homosexuality, language-spanish, Mago de Oz, reggae, troll, trolls
Article by Jon Faugustus.
Adagio, the French progressive metal band lead by Stephan Forte, has announced a fundraiser campaign to record and produce their fifth album to be titled Life. Throughout their history, the band has evolved from a mystical power metal band with contemplative overtones, to a decent but understated prog metal surpassing the likes of Symphony X, to a progressively more obvious selling out with pop songs covered with their dark progressivisms.
3 CommentsTags: Adagio, crowdfunding, glam metal, homosexuality, news, non metal metal pop crap, pop metal, poser, poseur, poseurs, pseudo-progressive, scam, stinking shit
Sammath have replaced their long term drummer, Koos Bos, with Wim van der Valk of Inquisitor.
6 CommentsTags: Black Metal, death metal, hammerheart records, Inquisitor, jan kruitwagen, new drummer, news, sammath
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
