Metalheads should never forget how once upon a time metal was music for outsiders:
106 CommentsTags: nkvd, richard ramirez, smr
Metalheads should never forget how once upon a time metal was music for outsiders:
106 CommentsTags: nkvd, richard ramirez, smr
Already gaining a lead on all other contenders for the most compelling underground metal album of the year, Kaeck has on Het Zwarte Dictaat made the masterpiece of violent rhythm riffs and melodies that much of the underground wishes it could, combining black metal and war metal with doom metal and death metal to create a constantly changing mood within a fluid style. Fortunately, guitarist/composer Jan Kruitwagen had a few moments to give us his take on the band and state of the metal genre.
2 CommentsTags: Black Metal, jan kruitwagen, kaeck, War Metal
Showing influence from later Immolation blended with early thunderous Florida death metal, Flesh Pit attempts to reinvent a genre by going back to its roots and carrying forward instead of changing paths. This produces a highly listenable demo that balances the primitive with the cerebral.
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We might call this cultural heavy metal to distinguish it from the party metal like Motley Crue and Pantera, since it aims to produce an atmosphere and changing sonic adventure which hopes to reveal something in us that parallels what is discovered outside, more than entertain the lost.
1 CommentTags: Heavy Metal, yoth iria
This band claim a laundry list of influences, but to my ear, this sounds more like a fusion of early Gorguts and later Adramelech, possibly with Voivod in the wings: a tribute to classic death metal rhythms and patterns which manages to be just playful enough to avoid the pretenses of emulating the past.
2 CommentsTags: death metal, nihilanth
Legendary artists Darkthrone, who began in death metal before embarking on a black metal period that ended with Total Death, now begin to show signs of their punk-influenced era moving into something more like the epic rock and metal that inspired them back in the day.
28 CommentsTags: Black Metal, darkthrone
Soulburn split from the legendary Asphyx, taking the guitarist from their best album, Asphyx, and allowing him to create with a new staff who aimed to keep the delicious recipe of primitive riffs adding up to complex, changing moods revealing an inner state to each song.
3 CommentsTags: death metal, soulburn
Entering the already crowded field of doom metal, Void Rot take a minimalist version of the glacial Skepticism or Thergothon approach and add a little more death metal and some of the post-rock open chord picking that gives atmosphere, creating a grating monolith of slowly moving sound which varies motifs as a form of texture.
No CommentsTags: Doom Metal, void rot
The fine line between “quirky” and eccentric proves hard to spot, but with this NWOBHM revival with added melodic punk touches and yet a very old school sense of melody, Dead Express makes itself eccentric in a way that the quirky hipsters probably cannot appreciate, but might discover some quality music if they did.
No CommentsTags: dead express, Heavy Metal, punk rock
Hanging out on the edge of the thrash genre with MOD and SOD, the Mentors represented the side of thrash that took thematically after punk; most thrash either placed metal riffs in punk songs (Cryptic Slaughter, Suicidal Tendencies, Fearless Iranians From Hell) or punk riffs in metal songs (DRI, Dead Horse) and took after one of the two thematically, but the Mentors kept the party and sleaze side of punk alive.
2 CommentsTags: elbow deep, gore-grind, Grindcore, mentors, Thrash