Autopsy The Headless Ritual pre-orders availableWander over to the pre-order page for Autopsy’s The Headless Ritual, where the new album recorded this summer can be ordered in advance of its release, so that you get it as soon as possible after it slips off the presses and zooms through the mails, smelling of new plastic and old gore, into your sweaty little hands.
http://www.deathmetal.org/news/autopsy-the-headless-ritual-pre-orders-available/Relationship between sound and color found to be innateResearchers at UC Berkeley have been doing research into how sound is linked to visual perception, and they are ready to present their initial findings. According to the study, there is quantifiable evidence that correlations between the type of composition and specific colors exist.
http://www.deathmetal.org/news/relationship-between-sound-and-color-found-to-be-innate/Assimilate: A Critical History of Industrial MusicBilling itself as “the first serious study published on industrial music,” a new book entitled
Assimilate: A Critical History of Industrial Music has gone to press in an attempt to uncover this cryptic genre that has directly contributed to much of heavy metal’s approach to both percussion and topic matter.
http://www.deathmetal.org/news/assimilate-a-critical-history-of-industrial-music/Ray Manzarek of the Doors dies at age 74Rock and roll came from some very old ideas but it flourished starting in the 1950s and picked up speed in the mid-1960s as technology and social demand (“adolescence” replacing traditional adulthood initiation) created a greater perceived need for it. The pentatonic scale, originating in India and through it the middle east, was probably known to the ancient Greeks. Transposed into modern tuning, and put into the simple song format of Anglo-Celtic folk music with the percussion and harmony of German waltz bands, and suddenly the basis of rock music was born through many parallel pop music traditions in America.
http://www.deathmetal.org/news/ray-manzarek-of-the-doors-dies-at-age-74/Metal in Israel exploding forward as cultural phenomenonWhile Israel has developed a number of bands in its time, including the time-honored (and all-around good guys) Salem, much of us do not realize how much metal has found a place there. As recent news articles illustrate, the Holy Land is welcoming unholy metal with open arms. Not only that, but Israel is finding a unique voice for itself in heavy metal music.
http://www.deathmetal.org/news/metal-in-israel-exploding-forward-as-cultural-phenomenon/Ataraxy – Revelations of the EtherealThere is a way that quality music weaves its riffs and motifs to derive something substantial – almost more than just being audio. The lesser men would be satisfied by pop or some trend that’ll always be surpassed by another trend, but those with taste always look for the most compelling of journeys. One could hope to journey outside his comfort zone for an experience unlike any other. Perhaps it’d to be to go down such a hellish level and then be picked up again as a riff or storytelling changes. What if it never picks you up? What if it’s continuously challenging? What if it defies that which makes us human and throws our psyches into the unpleasant, but does it in such a way that it feels rewarding? That’s what I look for in music. I look for something that ignites the torch of uncertainty and makes it certain.
http://www.deathmetal.org/news/ataraxy-revelations-of-the-ethereal/Burzum – Sôl austan, Mâni vestanAfter a hiatus of some years, Burzum returns to the path that is intuitive and natural for composer Varg Vikernes, who drifted through a triplet of droning black metal albums before discarding the genre.
Sôl austan, Mâni vestan picks up where
Hlidskjalf left off, except that this new album uses a wider range of sounds and also covers a wider range of emotions.
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