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The Metal Teddy Bear Experience Interviews Opeth

by Guest Contributor on May 13, 2017

Interview contributed to Death Metal Underground by Chris Annunziata.

Chris Annunziata, host of The Metal Teddy Bear Experience show on 90.3 WMSC-FM, interviewed Mikael Akerfeldt of death ‘n’ toll turned seventies style rock band Opeth at the Starland Ballroom on March 7th. Chris steadfastly transcribed the extensive interview and most graciously submitted it us. Mikael discusses his touring experiences with Megadeth and Gojira along with his childhood security blanket and love of raw meat. The recorded version is at the end.

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Tags: Dave Mustaine, death 'n' roll, hard rock, interview, opeth, radio, Sweden

Havukruunu – Kelle Surut Soi (2017)

by Daniel Maarat on May 7, 2017

Havukruunu, despite their Burzum like cover, worship Bathory‘s Blood Fire Death and 1980s synth pop on Kelle Surut Soi. Havukruunu attempt the folk choruses, epic atmosphere, and melodic solos as Quorthon did in his successful attempt at mixing black and speed metal. Unfortunately for my ears, Havukruunu are not so successful on Kelle Surut Soi.

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Tags: 2017, black 'n roll, Finland, funderground, glam metal, havukruunu, kelle surut soi, naturmacht productions, review, synth pop, synthpop

Blessed Are the Sick Full Dynamic Range Reissue Announced

by Daniel Maarat on May 6, 2017

Earache Records announced a reissue of Morbid Angel‘s last great record, Blessed Are the Sick, as part of their “Full Dynamic Range” series. The Full Dynamic Range reissues are sourced directly from the analog mix tapes or digital Betamax or DAT ones with no compression applied in mastering when released on CD, LP, or lossless FLAC formats. They all sound great for the most part and far better than most other vinyl reissues that just print whatever the current CD master is to wax using direct metal mastering. The digital (CD/FLAC) Carnage, Carcass, Realm of Chaos, and Altars of Madness ones are the best sounding versions of those albums by far.

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Tags: blessed are the sick, death metal, earache records, full dynamic range, morbid angeld, reissue, remaster, vinyl

Onward to Golgotha: The Deepest Death Metal

by Daniel Maarat on May 5, 2017

Incantation‘s debut and best work, Onward to Golgotha, remains the deepest death metal album I have ever experienced a quarter century after its release as of today. With material (“Unholy Massacre” and “Profanation”) dating back to the initial founding of Incantation by guitarist John McEntee and drummer Paul Ledney, Onward to Golgotha was a record influenced as much by Bathory and Beherit as it was Morbid Angel and Autopsy.

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Tags: 1992, anniversary, Black Metal, craig pillard, death metal, incantation, jim roe, john mcentee, miran kim, onward to golgotha, paul ledney, progressive, relapse, relapse records

Condor – Unstoppable Power (2017)

by Daniel Maarat on April 30, 2017

Readers can probably infer from the title, logo, and cover of Unstoppable Power that this Condor are not the Colombian heavy metal / progressive rock act. Norwegian Condor plays rocking speed metal similar to the Canadians Exciter and Razor. Riffing is primarily in the Motorhead influenced style of those two mixed with the chromatic, tremolo-picked styles of early Slayer. Leads are Slayerian noise bursts or imitations of Kirk Hammet. Norwegian Condor’s drumming is mostly crusty, background d-beating which lends the music some extreme percussive aggression not found in many 80s speeding oldies.

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Tags: 2017, beer metal, condor, norway, review, Speed Metal, unstoppable power

Deathfeast

by Brett Stevens on April 24, 2017

He tightened a napkin roll.

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Tags: bodily dismemberment, collapse, deathfeast

Real Sex with SJWs Contest Winners

by Daniel Maarat on April 24, 2017

Death Metal Underground finally has crowned a winner of our Real Sex with Social Justice Warriors Short Story Contest. GGALLIN1776’s morbid visions of bloody leftist degeneracy have been pounded into our staffs’ brains like a pistol butt cracking open a teenage thug’s skull:

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Tags: antifa, antifascist, antifascists, communism, communists, sjws, socialists, stupidity

Sadistic Metal Reviews: Inquisition of the Unworthy

by Staff on April 23, 2017

Burn them all!

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Tags: a cunning man, acranius, AIDS, artificial brain, ash and coal, axis of despair, beartrap, black 'n roll, black habit, cowards, curse of denial, daycare for jedi, death 'n' roll, desert kingdom, diktatur, dreamslain, faces of the bog, faggots, fags, foetal juice, förgjord, grave plague, hate unbound, HIV+, hour of penance, hummingbird of death, hypocras, Inquisitor, karl willets, keitzer, memoriam, metalcore, mortanius, naddred, obsolete incarnation, persefone, pillorian, raise the black, sadistic metal reviews, Sauron, sinastras, skeletal, Speed Metal, technickill, the brood, the parasite paradise, ululatum tollunt, underdark, vielikan

Sadistic Metal Reviews: Flush ‘Em All

by Staff on April 8, 2017

Blood must be shed to atone for the sins of these mostly horrific recordings. Every single person who thought releasing these was a great idea should attempt to give themselves a self-swirlie while under the influence. Banging their head on the porcelain toilet tank lid will knock some sense into them or crack their skulls open. Hopefully the latter.

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Tags: acod, AIDS, beer metal, black 'n roll, carpatus, ctulu, cvinger, deathcore, ethmebb, hyperion, kforkill, krampus, maldoror, mustan kuun lapset, nyktophobia, orwellian, quintessenz, raise the black, sadistic metal reviews, sail, servus, starlit woods, viles vitae, wormhole

Judas Priest – Unleashed in the East (1979)

by Guest Contributor on April 1, 2017

Article contributed to Death Metal Underground by George Psalmanazer.

Judas Priest started life as just another Led Zeppelin influenced band in the early 1970s. Quickly they became massively influenced by Black Sabbath and especially Thin Lizzy. Priest adapting the counterpointed riffing and harmonzied melodic guitar leads of Thin Lizzy into a mixture of progressive rock and the then new heavy metal of Black Sabbath but with operatic vocals instead of Ozzy “singing” the riff through his nose kicked off the New Wave of British Heavy Metal in the late 1970s.

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Tags: 1979, Heavy Metal, judas priest, live, NWOBHM, progressive rock, review, Unleashed in the East

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