Metal Blade Records reissued the first four records from overlooked technical speed metal act Anacrusis during the last quarter of 2019. Hailing from St. Louis, Anacrusis incorporated crossover elements infused with familiar speed metal tropes, and later added more accessible progressive heavy metal elements while remaining musically astute.
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As the world shuts down because of the COVID-19 pandemic, German medieval necrofolk band Corvus Corax have opted to stream a live performance through the internet so people can attend from within their shelter-in-place auto-quarantine nests.
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From roughly 1984 to 1992, Paul Speckmann recruited different lineups to express the same idea through different band names such as Master, Deathstrike, Abomination, Funeral Bitch, and Speckmann Project. With similar basic sounds and shared songs, these bands differed mostly in personnel.
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Gene Palubicki from Angelcorpse notoriety returns with a new album that continues within the tradition of Black metal informed Floridian Death metal. Perdition Temple bring a level of technical acumen that has been denigrated by fans and practitioners of this style in recent years without falling into the pitfalls of Modern metal.
3 CommentsTags: Blood Sacrifice Shaman, Floridian Death metal, gene palubicki, perdition temple
Celtic Frost conceptual continuation project Triptykon, with full classical orchestration by the Dutch Metropole Orkest, presenting the trilogy of songs spanning 1987 to the present.
3 CommentsTags: celtic frost, death metal, symphonic
Mexican flowing black metal act Avzhia have released a promotional video for their upcoming 2020 record Fear of my Existence. According to details the new album will contain eight tracks of new material spanning over an hour of listening time, without the intrusion of synthesizers or other modern weaknesses.
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In nature, nothing can exist in stasis, but radical change forms the same chaos that stasis does, namely a loss of energy potential. This means that anything enduring exists in a constant state of internal conflict but within the parameters of continuity between past and future to its roots.
4 CommentsTags: ambient metal, death metal, Necrophiliac
Murky obscure atmospheric death metal band Demilich, famous for spidery and bizarre riffs, have announced their 2020 North American Tour with Divine Eve, Outer Heaven, and Cardiac Arrest. You can find out more at the Demilich 2020 tour page or catch them on the dates below.
3 CommentsTags: cardiac arrest, death metal, Demilich, divine eve
Conjureth, a project of Decrepitaph personnel, released its new EP Foul Formations on February 15, 2020, featuring more of its hybrid between Incantation and Immolation style mid-paced trudging death metal. Each song builds its main riff out of a central theme, then creates a staggered counterphrase for the chorus, and features a more thorough and basic elucidation of the theme as a transition, but otherwise for the most part is riff-chorus metal.
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Electro-Industrial/EBM project Ice Ages released their fourth album entitled Nullify via Temple of Darkness Records in September 2019. Although originally only available electronically, the release was unleashed in compact disc format by Temple of Darkness, a label specializing in death and black metal.
4 CommentsTags: ice ages, Summoning, temple of darkness
