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Adramelech

by Brett Stevens on August 1, 2021

As a related project to Demigod, the Finnish death metal band Adramelech aimed to create dark tunneling atmospheres of morally ambiguous and unstable spaces in order to snap people out of their bourgeois socializing and trend-following.

Adramelech – The Fall (1994)
Adramelech – Psychostasia (1996)
Adramelech – Pure Blood Doom (1999)
Adramelech – Terror of Thousand Faces (2005)

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Excruciation – Repent, Sinners! (2021)

by Paxton Jackson on July 30, 2021

Working within the liminal ground between death metal and doom metal, Swiss depressive onslaught Excruciation bring out their latest, which works funeral doom pacing and grindcore riffing to the doom-death genre, removing excess to leave a plain and sub-lingual mood of futile antagonism and existential anomie.

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Sarcofagus – Envoy of Death (1980)

by Paxton Jackson on July 29, 2021

We knew heavy metal birthed itself from the intersection of UK guitar rock, nascent punk music, and progressive rock, and Sarcofagus shows us with this re-issue of an album from 1980 just how much early metal borrowed from the progressive side of things.

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Laceration – Demise (2021)

by Paxton Jackson on July 27, 2021

Possessed created songs using death metal riffs in speed metal frameworks, but Laceration follows Immolation and Demigod in using speed metal riffs within atmospheric death metal songs, allowing the momentum of the song to merge with the mood, in which the different riffs tell a story through complement and contrast.

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Goblin TV interviews Sarcófago member Incubus

by Brett Stevens on July 26, 2021

For those who follow the legends of early proto-black metal, the name Sarcófago conjures up a vision of the ultimate boundary: barely in time, barely musical, and yet intensely creative and focused, this band open the door to a new world.

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Sadist Aims Toward 2021 Release for Firescorched

by Brett Stevens on July 26, 2021

Early progressive death metal experimenters Sadist, who began when besides At the Gates, Pestilence, and Atheist there were few options, plan to introduce their ninth full-length album to the world with Firescorched in 2021.

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Lycopolis – Viper Land (2021)

by Paxton Jackson on July 26, 2021

Coming at black metal from the same chaotic rendering that propelled both later French and Polish scenes, Lycopolis make muddy, distorted sound sing with lengthy riffs enwrapped in cascades of feathery but harshly distorted vocals, and from this world they create a ritual.

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Norwegian TV “Viking Metal” Episode Covers Enslaved

by Brett Stevens on July 25, 2021

As the music world tries to deal with the effect of the culmination of heavy metal in black metal, the genre that went furthest from “normie” music and the most into the ancient and futuristic both, some of these documentaries prove rather interesting.

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Iron Maiden Announces The End of The French Revolution

by Brett Stevens on July 25, 2021

Iron Maiden just released a new single, “The Writing on the Wall.” This longstanding band, known like metal itself for spanning Left and Right with its anarcho-realism, now introduces a new theme: all that we thought was good, was bad, and “good” evil won, so it’s time to… burn it all down.

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Exorcizphobia – Digitotality (2020)

by Paxton Jackson on July 21, 2021

When a genre fails, its heroes dies as martyrs, their glory never dimmed by the entropy of time in which mistakes must be made and meaning slowly erodes through too many individualistic interpretations, revealing the weaknesses of individuals. When a genre succeeds? It labors in the shadow of the past.

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Tags: exorcizphobia, Speed Metal

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