Metal scientists at the Institute of Hessian Studies (IHS) today revealed research that shows definitely how the guitar as the lead compositional instrument leads heavy metal songs but not rock ones.
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Very few movies manage to be relevant, or to show us something about life that makes us want to re-engage from our comfortable armchair debt servitude, and very few do it so insightfully and elegantly that they might be “classics,” but this film surely qualifies.
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As AI and automation rise into mass consciousness, it is worth revisiting this Michael Crichton film from 1984 which points out that if a tool is made universal, it will also be hacked by some dark actors.
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When future historians sift through the remains of our civilization, they will recognize Strijd and Godless Arrogance as the defining albums from Sammath, which is fortunate because the latter just got a remaster.
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What makes a great album is not the parts, but the stringing together of those pieces so that they form a structure that resembles some part of our reality or ideation. Kosuke Hashida strips down music to find a voice in that vein.
4 CommentsTags: Hardcore Punk, kosuke hashida
Sounding like Bolt Thrower with more of a NWOBHM influence and Graveland overlays in the melodic department, this band creates its own style of grindcore on the verge of death metal by focusing on a few themes.
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No one wants to admit it, but thrash fits into transitional times because it skips all the politics, religion, and philosophy in order to focus on the lived experience of marginalized outsiders (skateboarders).
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Transitional speed/death/punk/NWOBHM hybrid Onslaught shocked the world (or at least the five hundred metalheads paying attention) with their Power From Hell album that pushed metal further toward both extremity and an odd literary-mythological sense of authenticity instead of an individualistic one.
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With the aid of friends from the Shitposter Movie Night Crew, I will be hosting a “metal listening night” on their server where we tackle classics like Sepultura Beneath the Remains, Therion Beyond Sanctorum, Enslaved Vikinglgr Veldi, and DRI Four of a Kind as vital pieces of the metal history canon.
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Music communicates an experience more than emotions directly; our emotions arise in response to it. The best music first manages to hold together as a consistent voice, and then explores its own take on the world, even if not original in style or necessarily profound; it needs personality.
22 CommentsTags: arktheos, death metal, War Metal
