Metal interview web zine Bardo Methodology interviewed Manuel Trummer, guitarist of the heavy metal band Atlantean Kodex today about herbs, psychedelia, mythology, and how Julius Evola inspired Dio’s “Ride the Tiger”. Want to find out what Trummer thinks of witches, psychedelia, and megalithic archaeological sites? Let’s find out!
2 CommentsTags: anthropology, archaeology, Atlantean Kodex, bardo methodology, drugs, evola, Heavy Metal, interview, manuel trummer, Mythology
Necropole are a French group who play flowing melodic black metal in the style of Graveland and the Quebecois with riffing heavily influenced by Gorgoroth. Necropole is an anthology CD collecting both of Necropole’s earlier demos, Atavisme… and Ostara, that were released on cassette only but readily heard through streaming on Youtube. Hopefully Necropole’s debut album will not be titled Necropole too to avoid confusion.
9 CommentsTags: anthology, Black Metal, demos, france, necropole, northern heritage, review
Today Relapse Records announced that heavy metal/post-punk band Tau Cross, whose self-titled debut was one of the Best Albums of 2015, have completed their second album, A Pillar of Fire, for release later this year in the summer.
7 CommentsTags: Heavy Metal, mainstream metal, new album, punk, relapse, relapse records, rob miller, tau cross, upcoming release
2016 is over. The funderground mentality continued spreading forth, infesting metal over the last year just the same as it had in the decades past the genre’s artistic high-point in the early nineties. Rehashes of past greats pandering to a lowest common denominator audience continue to dominate the release schedules of metal labels all too willing to please the lemmings with music fit to safely ignore during drunken socializing. Ever-flowing streams of posers are desperate to be rock stars, pumping out plagiarism, and paying their way to record deals. File sharing and streaming reducing the cost of hearing new music to essentially nothing has led fans to constantly consume whatever is new regardless of quality. However the purging is at last at hand. The day of doom is here. The filth who have lied and corrupted the underground must be cleansed while the commendable elite few will remain.
145 CommentsTags: 2016, ananku, best of, Black Metal, crossover thrash, dawning, dead congregation, death metal, Grindcore, Harley Flanagan, infamous, Jarno Nurmi, Kshatriya, mortalized, ripper, Serpent Ascending, sorcier des glaces, steve cefala, Takafumi Matsubara, tarnkappe
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Gorgut‘s debut Considered Dead turned twenty five this year. Gorguts shockingly were once an excellent death metal band. Considered Dead combined a rhythm riffing style reminiscent of Death but arranged those riffs into almost neoclassical compositions which unfolded over the course of each track, surprising with sudden shifts of utmost aggression into cathartic sonic violence.
7 CommentsTags: anniversary, Canadian Death Metal, considered dead, death metal, gorguts, Luc Lemay
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Dead Congregation annouced a new Greek tour to promote their recent Sombre Doom EP today on their Facebook page. Only two dates have been announced so far but more are coming.
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Gorgoroth‘s Destroyer is being reissued next March on LP and CD by Soulseller Records according to a post of theirs on the Nuclear War Now! Productions forum. Jon “Metalion” Kristiansen, author of the legendary Slayer zine, has written new liner notes.
2 CommentsTags: Black Metal, compact disc, destroyer, gorgoroth, norway, Norwegian Black Metal, reissue, soulseller records, vinyl
Immolation and Vader have been booked to play next year’s Bristol Deathfest. Immolation are still great live and Vader should be at least fun. The rest of the lineup is unremarkable at best. Check out Immolation play if you live nearby.
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