When underground music came about, it addressed a simple problem: rising costs had forced market concentration in the music industry. This produced six big companies that owned all the content, paid all the people who promoted and played it on radio, and therefore shaped the listening audience.
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One of these came down the pipe, and proved worthy of analysis. Macanudo, which is like the Heineken of cigars, makes a quality product but designs it for right at the middle of the audience, which means that their cigars lack the flair of the indie and artisan brands but rise above the average.
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Funeral doom came from Skepticism, Winter, and Thergothon as bands took a death metal approach to the ultra-maudlin doom metal of Candlemass and Saint Vitus, giving it a new grandeur that mirrored what the brainier death metal bands were doing, and slowing it down as a form of even greater extremity.
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The band that brought you Consvming Impvlse has now become a progressive deathcore band for its ninth album, Exitivm, which you can hear in full streaming from giant corporate megadouche entity YouTube:
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Hear a tale of the long chronicle of releases of Varathron demos and rarities.
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People like what is mentally easy because it requires the least amount of risk, since they want to avoid change, which carries with it the risk of misreading reality and therefore failing. Of all the sad cries of humans, “look for the lost diamonds of the past” may be the saddest, simply because it is mentally lazy.
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These antiquated tapes came out of an ancient closet, were remastered on modern equipment, and serve as interest only to Beherit fanatics who want to see how this band grasped for a clue about songwriting during the early days.
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Certain releases provide useful waypoints, or nodes on the mesh through which history navigated a path, and Necronomicon with its self-titled shows us where 1986 had left the underground edge of metal: adopting technique from the new proto-underground, but still keeping a foot in bouncy speed metal land and unwilling to go fully to the tremolo style of Slayer or the epic song structures of Hellhammer.
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Since no one else seems to be able to do much of anything in this world, it falls on us to make sense of it all here at Death Metal Underground. Very few can actually think — a process both analytical and creative, realistic and abstract — and so almost everything published is gibberish.
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Perhaps you can imagine a band that takes a Nunslaughter approach to riff writing, adds the spidery melodic leads of early technical death metal, and slashes it out at a Sadistic Intent pace of mid-paced riffs alternated with fast chromatic shredding; then, you would roughly have Sadistic Drive.
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