When future historians sift through the remains of our civilization, they will recognize Strijd and Godless Arrogance as the defining albums from Sammath, which is fortunate because the latter just got a remaster.
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What makes a great album is not the parts, but the stringing together of those pieces so that they form a structure that resembles some part of our reality or ideation. Kosuke Hashida strips down music to find a voice in that vein.
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Sounding like Bolt Thrower with more of a NWOBHM influence and Graveland overlays in the melodic department, this band creates its own style of grindcore on the verge of death metal by focusing on a few themes.
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No one wants to admit it, but thrash fits into transitional times because it skips all the politics, religion, and philosophy in order to focus on the lived experience of marginalized outsiders (skateboarders).
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Transitional speed/death/punk/NWOBHM hybrid Onslaught shocked the world (or at least the five hundred metalheads paying attention) with their Power From Hell album that pushed metal further toward both extremity and an odd literary-mythological sense of authenticity instead of an individualistic one.
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With the aid of friends from the Shitposter Movie Night Crew, I will be hosting a “metal listening night” on their server where we tackle classics like Sepultura Beneath the Remains, Therion Beyond Sanctorum, Enslaved Vikinglgr Veldi, and DRI Four of a Kind as vital pieces of the metal history canon.
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Music communicates an experience more than emotions directly; our emotions arise in response to it. The best music first manages to hold together as a consistent voice, and then explores its own take on the world, even if not original in style or necessarily profound; it needs personality.
22 CommentsTags: arktheos, death metal, War Metal
The normie content you expect: let’s celebrate a very metal Christmas! Throw up the horns and hail Santa! What’s the best way you can think of to celebrate Christmas as a metalhead? By the way, there is no other content than this; it is simply the sleazy adult version of those reaction papers you wrote back in your mediocre high school education.
53 CommentsTags: AIDS, christmas, hannukah, happy hannukah, happy holidays, heri za kwanzaa, merry christmas
When you travel through Germany, you encounter many cities and towns each with their own local brewery, and they all make beer slightly differently. Like Warsteiner, Wernesgrüner Pils Legende offers a light beer with a slight spicy malt flavor and relatively low sweetness.
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The name translates to “regular day off” or other notions of a break from the manic pace of society, and this defines the charters involved, especially Hirohito the protagonist, who has essentially dropped out of the rat race to enjoy normal life to the dismay of all of those around him.
10 CommentsTags: hirayasumi, slacker culture
