Style gives voice to content, which means that the wrong style can distort content and present it incoherently, which is a problem since disorganization creates all the bad music in the world. Metalheads also suffer from popularity, since we do not understand it, so when one type of metal style becomes popular, the tendency is to incorporate it even if it does not fit.
No CommentsTags: betrayer, death metal, poland
We should probably discuss an unpopular relationship: how much of underground music, and wider 1980s and 1990s subculture, came from the unexceptional suburbs.
14 CommentsTags: glenn danzig, misfits, suburbia, underground music
Jon Schaffer has been taken into custody for his role in the Capitol riot:
14 CommentsTags: capitol riots, iced earth, jailarity, jon schaffer
A new Asphyx track sounding roughly like a hybrid between The Rack and late-model Bolt Thrower, “The Nameless Elite” runs long with a riff pair and a quick break and detour before returning to the classic death metal cadenced groove.
8 CommentsTags: asphyx, death metal
Sardinian black metal cadre Infamous recently released its most recent album, Muttos Pro S’Aristocratzia, on CD for a new generation of fans to appreciate this somewhat difficult to acquire offering.
4 CommentsTags: Black Metal, infamous
For most albums, you can write a shorthand review: needed more time in the oven. That is, they have the right elements, but in the wrong order, and the transitions do not make enough sense to be powerful, which results in a chaotic feeling with moments of “wow, this is pretty good.”
5 CommentsTags: cadaver, death metal
Speed metal never went away; it went underground and combined its many different veins. Mekong Delta mix in some Voivod with their Helstar and Coroner, maybe throw in some Slayer and later progressive old school death metal.
No CommentsTags: mekong delta, progressive metal, Speed Metal
We predicted many years ago that rock would assimilate metal and adopt its techniques, missing the point, and Inquisition comes along with a release that is half metal of various subgenres and half 1970s album-oriented rock, sure to be popular and yet, not bad at all.
7 CommentsTags: AOR, Black Metal, Inquisition
Legendary abrasive hardcore band Cro-Mags releases its new EP, 2020, on Friday December 11, 2020, and published the single of the same name recently to announce this new recording. The single reveals a new technical metal, emo, and metalcore influenced edge to the classic Cro-Mags sound.
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The official narrative in all things exist to sell people products, whether ideological or commercial, and so always consists of half-truths, namely some things that are facts, but carefully leaving out others to let your mind fill in the rest as is convenient for the sellers.
10 CommentsTags: andres segovia, Classical, classical guitar, rock
