Evoking the higher-speed precision work of On the Seventh Day…, the latest offering from Master merges early hardcore, 1960s heavy rock, and the early years of death metal into a driving force of dissent and alienation.
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Metal has been a ruin since 1994, but a handful of acts show that there is some life in the corpse, and Solips from Asgrauw shows great promise with its melodic high energy black metal.
13 CommentsTags: asgrauw, Black Metal, Melodic Death Metal
These songs feel like guys shouting at each other across a bar, each with a good idea, and the whole thing barely but strongly holding together, making a simple statement of both past and present.
34 CommentsTags: death metal, hypoxia
Proto-metal band Master continue a storied career with Among the Seeds of Death, slated for release on Hammerheart Records. If you liked On the Seventh Day… this release continues that tradition.
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From that interstitial and liminal period between speed metal and death metal, bands like Possessed and Merciless emerged long ago, but the tradition carries on with high-speed contrast and vertigo from Ripper.
26 CommentsTags: ripper, Speed Metal
Classic hardcore band Agnostic Front, who helped develop the NYHC sound along with the Cro-Mags, are embarking on a short tour to bring the hardcore reality to towns blighted by normie ideation.
57 CommentsTags: agnostic front, Hardcore, punk
Kaeck releases its sideproject Death is the master of this world in an attempt to reclaim the more atmospheric moments from Kaeck, Sammath, and Graveland in a mixture of metal, sampled backgrounds, and ambient guitar riffing more at home on a Swans or Carbonized album than in the somewhat rigid environment death/black metal has become.
17 CommentsTags: Black Metal, death is the master of this world, kaeck, sammath
It is hard to imaging screwing up this plot: urban explorers break into a hotel with a long scary history, confront evil, and have to escape. But the MillennialMovie™ managed to make it boring.
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The corporate homsars got ahold of this one, so it has different names like “Air Crash Investigators” outside the JCSA, but this is a collaboration between Canadian filmmakers, the Smithsonian, and National Geographic that takes a Forensic Files approach to technical failures in aviation.
21 CommentsTags: cinema, forensic files, mayday: air disaster, television
So what do you look for in a beer? As a fan of German beers, I would say no taste of decomposition or fermentation; I want a nice clean product. As a fan of IPAs, I would say a nice crisp piquant bitterness.
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