by Ton Basileion
Putridarium create tunneling melodies that foster the sensation of exploring a vast network of caves. These songs use trudging, chugging power chords to add a sense of violence to the foreboding. The effect resembles the deepening evil on Blaspherian’s EP Allegiance to the Will of Damnation.
2 CommentsTags: death metal, putridarium
When in the hands of a band accomplished at songwriting, you know it immediately regardless of genre; Death Angel make handily coherent and cogent songs out of a few hardcore and heavy metal riffs, but with a focus on the listener, have made these into enjoyable songs that avoid the amorphous fungible state of most metal releases.
2 CommentsTags: death angel, Speed Metal
During the middle to late 1990s, metal fell into panic because it was clear that the genre needed to become progressive without falling into the usual mishmash of jazz, lite rock, and protest music that has made progressive rock a cursed entry since the 1970s.
1 CommentTags: Black Metal, solitvdo
As the news tried to hide an unconventional attack by a crazed person who may have drifted toward Islam in his schizophrenic delirium, we consider the lonely death of Andrea Meyer:
1 CommentTags: andrea meyer, cradle of filth, satyricon
As it stands, Mortal Ones Scream in Horror is not a good release; it is boring, to be blunt, but the band has great instincts in songwriting and with a little more confidence in their riffcraft and ability to play in tempo, they will go great places.
3 CommentsTags: death metal, haalbuaer
After slaying the world with North From Here, Sentenced reverted to the Iron Maiden and Queenrsyche side of the equation, trying to come up with a hard rockin’ version of death metal, in the process turning off most of their fans.
6 CommentsTags: Heavy Metal, sentenced
Longtime flowing black metal pioneers Graveland introduce their latest, Hour of Ragnarok, as a digi-CD via Forever Plagued Records.
1 CommentTags: forever plagued records, graveland
Fathers, Brothers, and Sons: Surviving Anguish, Abandonment, and Anthrax
by Frank Bello
Rare Bird Books, 206 pages, $28
Almost all popular music interviews and autobiographies address the how more than the why which disappoints the teenage fan in all of us. Frank Bello attempts to express the why with his story of a broken childhood and how it partially led him to being in speed metal band Anthrax.
2 CommentsTags: anthrax, frank bello, Speed Metal
Legendary floaty nebulous ambient band Biosphere returns with a new album due out January 21, 2022. Following previous efforts, the soundtrack-influenced background sound with evocative themes the listener must meet halfway remains, and the sample track almost trails off rather than conclude definitively.
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Submitted by Ton Basileion
Unleashing a spirited interpretation of the older, darker variant of grindcore found in acts such as Blood, early Carcass, Terrorizer, and Repulsion, Vomit Spell propel their debut album with thrashcore riffs at the frantic speeds of early grindcore with interpolations of melodies clearly inspired by both the death metal and black metal approaches to melody.
No CommentsTags: Grindcore, vomit spell
