Shawn Wright of Bestial Evil USA sent Death Metal Underground a cease and desist email:
44 CommentsTags: baltimore, bestial evil, bestial evil (usa), Hate Mail, meta, metalgate, news, shawn wright
#Metalgate: Shawn Wright Threatens to Extort Death Metal Underground to Fund Bestial Evil National Tour
Baltimore social justice warrior Shawn Wright threatened to extort Death Metal Underground through a defamation lawsuit to fund his crappy crustcore band Bestial Evil USA‘s national tour in the comments section of our recent news article covering his latest whining.
25 CommentsTags: baltimore, bestial evil, bestial evil (usa), crustcore, metalcore, metalgate, news, shawn wright, sjws
Sanctuaire – Le Sang sur l’Acier (2016)
Sanctuaire hearken back to an imagined Canadian Viking past in the hope of explaining their national hockey skills. Le Sang sur l’Acier presents three black metal songs written in a style similar to their compatriots Sorcier des Glaces but genericized for mass appeal.
3 CommentsTags: 2016, Black Metal, canada, Canadian Black Metal, EP, Le Sang sur l'Acier, modern metal, quebec, Québécois, Sanctuaire, Viking Metal
#Metalgate: Vice Backed Indie Bands Drop Out of Pentagram Tour as Publicity Stunt
Two indie female-fronted bands (Wax Idols and King Woman) have dropped off pseudo-metal, psychedelic rock band Pentagram’s ongoing tour, breaking their separate agreements with promoters. The women in both bands were surprised when ex-junkie Pentagram frontman Bobby Liebling hit on them. The news of this passive-aggressive move being broken by Vice, both indie bands being backed by Vice, and subsequently embarking on a Vice-funded tour reeks of self-aggrandizing unprofessionalism.
16 CommentsTags: crypto-indie, drugs, hipster bullshit, hipsters, metalgate, pentagram, psychedelic, scantily-clad women, sjws, stoner rock, vice magazine
Blood Incantation’s Starspawn Out August 19th
Blood Incantation have announced their debut full-length Starspawn out for release August 19th on Dark Descent Records.
6 CommentsTags: blood incantation, dark descent, dark descent records, death metal, news, Starspawn, techdeath, Technical Death Metal, technical metal, upcoming release
Vanhelgd Announce New Album, Temple of Phobos
Swedish blackened death metal band Vanhelgd announced the release of their fourth album, Temple of Phobos
6 CommentsTags: Black Metal, blackened death metal, dark descent, dark descent records, death metal, Pulverised Records, Sweden, Temple of Phobos, Vanhelgd
Immortal Finish Writing New Album
Immortal, i.e. Demonaz and Horgh, have finished writing their new album. Now they just need to record it.
12 CommentsTags: abbath, Black Metal, Demonaz, drama, Heavy Metal, immortal, mainstream metal, news, upcoming release
Like an Ever Flowing Stream Flows Eternal
Dismember‘s Like an Ever Flowing Stream turned twenty-five this weekend. Like an Ever Flowing Stream upped the intensity from Carnage‘s Dark Recollections in the same way that Legion would do from Deicide‘s debut. Like an Ever Flowing Stream was faster, heavier, and more distorted. Dismember drenched themselves in blood and plugged dimed Boss Heavy Metal 2 pedals into dimed Marshall JCM 900 stacks, generating a ridiculously fat, high-gain rhythm guitar tone to trample and mangle all others.
12 CommentsTags: 1991, anniversary, carnage, death metal, Dismember, Like an Ever Flowing Stream, Nicke Andersson, Sweden
Sanctuaire’s Le Sang sur l’Acier Out Now
Sanctuaire released Le Sang sur l’Acier today on CD and for digital download.
6 CommentsTags: atmospheric metal, Black Metal, Canadian Black Metal, EP, Le Sang sur l'Acier, Les Productions Hérétiques, Monarque Helserkr, news, Pagan Metal, quebec, Québécois, Sanctuaire, Tour de Garde, Viking Metal
The Misnomer of “Melodic” Metal
“Melodic death metal” is meaningless. What is popularly called “melodic” death or black metal can be roughly divided into the three different types of music sketched out by Ludvig Boysen in his “The Three Types of Melodic Death Metal” article for Death Metal Underground. While Ludvig’s three categories are essentially correct, refining and broadening them allows formal classification of all “melodic” death and black metal. Note that Death Metal Underground’s extensive Heavy Metal FAQ covers the topic of genre in great depth but a brief rundown for the ignorant and lazy is in order.
42 CommentsTags: carcass, chromaticism, death metal, Flight of the Bumblebee, genre, Heartwork, incantation, melodeaf, melodeath, melodic black metal, Melodic Death Metal, melodic metal, music analysis, musical analysis, onward to golgotha, Rimsky-Korsakov
