Slayer‘s Kerry King dished out his top ten favorite metal albums to Rolling Stone as part of the geriatric soft rock magazine’s imbecilic Top 100 Metal Albums list.
9 CommentsTags: ac/dc, black sabbath, Exodus, hard rock, Heavy Metal, iron maiden, judas priest, kerry king, mainstream metal, master of puppets, mercyful fate, metallica, news, NWOBHM, ozzy osbourne, rainbow, rolling stone, slayer, Speed Metal, venom
Morbid Angel pulled out of all of the European festival dates they were supposed to play in July and August due to visa issues according to their Funbook page.
6 CommentsTags: cancelled tour, death metal, Europe, festivals, morbid angel, news, Steve Tucker, trey azagthoth
Expulsion are a self-proclaimed grindcore band who rarely grind on their debut crossover thrash album Nightmare Future.
3 CommentsTags: Crossover, crossover thrash, expulsion, metalcore, nightmare future, relapse, relapse records, repulsion, review, thrash metal
Hipster screamos Wolves in the Throne Room released a new track and music video from their upcoming album Thrive Woven, which releases September 15th, 2017 on Artemisia Records.
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Article contributed to Death Metal Underground by Alan Nestorius.
Legion, Deicide‘s second and best album, turned twenty-five this year. Legion is the among the most aggressive metal albums of all time. Deicide went directly from the horse power of Deicide to jet engines on Legion. This served to emphasize their style of twin tripleted and tremolo picked chromatic riffs linearly progressed forward to machine gun percussion.
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Often when analyzing music, it can be useful to look to other genres to develop an understanding its relation to the order of nature. Written and recorded music has been around for centuries, and with a multitude of genres emerging in the last hundred years, few have completely died out and disappeared.
43 CommentsTags: celebrity, classical music, crypto-indie, djent, electronic music, electronica, indie metal, indie rock, mainstream metal, music industry, post-metal, post-rock, rock, rock 'n' roll, rock music
Incantation released a music for the track “Messiah Nostrum” off their sure to be lame upcoming album Profane Nexus which comes out on Relapse Records later this year on a date I do not care enough about to Google or read the description of the Youtube video for. Neither should you as you absolutely should not pay money for this excuse to tour.
8 CommentsTags: boring, death metal, incantation, modern metal, music video, new track, relapse, relapse records, techdeaf, tek-deth
Article by Lance Viggiano. Read his take on Transilvanian Hunger here.
I was essentially swindled into purchasing the gorgeous gatefold edition of this Averse Sefira LP which showcases some rather magnificent and captivating artwork as well as an above average execution of the band’s themes, concepts, and symbolism in visual form.
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Wolfspell Records is reissuing Kataxu’s Roots Thunder debut album on CD and vinyl LP for the first time by itself on higher fidelity formats than compact cassette.
6 CommentsTags: Black Metal, compact disc, Kataxu, poland, Polish Black Metal, reissue, remaster, Roots Thunder, vinyl, Wolfspell Records
Punk webzine Antihero Magazine interviewed vocalist Rob “The Baron” Miller and guitarist Andy Lefton of Tau Cross recently.
2 CommentsTags: andy lefton, antihero magazine, Crust Punk, d-beat, Heavy Metal, interview, rob miller, Speed Metal, tau cross
