Death Metal Underground

Sanctuaire Readying Feu Sacré

by Daniel Maarat on March 17, 2017

French Canadian Viking-themed black metal/ambient band Sanctuaire announced on their Facebook page that they are in the final stages of mixing their upcoming record, Feu Sacré (Sacred Fire). Hopefully the band have continued improving their compositional skills which advanced from their oft pedestrian Helserkr demo collection to last year’s sometimes inspiring Le Sang sur l’Acier EP.

(more…)

6 Comments

Tags: Ambient, Black Metal, canada, Canadian Black Metal, quebec, Québécois, Sanctuaire, upcoming release

Blood Enter the Studio

by Daniel Maarat on March 16, 2017

German grindcore gods Blood have entered their studio to record their first album in 14 years according to their Facebook page. Good luck guys!

14 looong years after Dysangelium it feels amazing beeing in the studio again. Ventilator, Satanic Taki, Destroyer Eisen, Martin Witchskinner and Evil Chuck will promise you: something brutal will come! Be warned and stay tuned…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4-C-PpbfcM

11 Comments

Tags: blood, germany, Grindcore, recording, upcoming release

Saltiness Over Sadistic Metal Reviews of Sentimental Albums

by Daniel Maarat on March 16, 2017

Old Disgruntled Bastard, one of the few quality metal blogs around, accused Death Metal Underground of writing clickbait on Facebook for our recent Sadistic Metal Reviews of older albums our staff had noticed to be inferior to the best of the past:

To Death Metal Underground: Certain albums have endured – for musical and extra-musical reasons – across decades and among generations of metalheads of diverse backgrounds, and the least they warrant is treatment with the respect they’ve earned. There is no revelation to be made and there is no current of general perception to be reversed by “raping sacred favorites”. Clickbait is distinctly unelitist and pissing in the wind for the fuck of it isn’t terribly smart either.

(more…)

118 Comments

Tags: Angel Witch, blood, classics, clickbait, cynic, dissection, diversity, gothenburg metal, kreator, manilla road, nostalgia, Old Disgruntled Bastard, sadistic metal reviews, salt, sentimentality, sodom, sodomize the weak

Sadistic Metal Reviews 3-15-2017

by Staff on March 15, 2017

(more…)

37 Comments

Tags: aethyr, arkhaeon, battle beast, blaine rohmer, boring, coldborn, crurifragium, Cryptic Realms, diktatur, doom's day, durr metal, evil priest, gloson, grimmd, hessaja, ic rex, idiots, kratornas, lacerated and carbonized, maloic, maze of sothoth, messaja, metalcore, mordant, nephilim, Ónefnt, Óreiða, ride for revenge, sadistic metal reviews, season of arrows, self-hatred, swine soul, teramobil, the descent, the flight of sleipnir, tomb mold, tygers of pan tang, ulalatum tollunt, wrath of echoes

Blood Interviewed By Note Calles Zine

by Daniel Maarat on March 15, 2017

German grindcore gods Blood were briefly interviewed by underground Peruvian blog Note Calles Zine. Blood talk about their career, influences, and future. Check it out.

(more…)

11 Comments

Tags: blood, germany, Grindcore, interview

Sadistic Metal Reviews: 3-14-2017

by Staff on March 14, 2017

These bands attempt to masquerade their GarageBand music fit only for arcades, pizza parlors, and high school dances as underground metal. They fail.

(more…)

22 Comments

Tags: agonia, anasarca, aversions crown, chalice of suffering, diablerie, dischordia, duch czerni, durr metal, herem, hostage of fate, lux ferre, moontower, murkocet, pessimist, sadistic metal reviews, scalpture, snogg, spitefuel, sturmtiger, tenebrae in perpetuum, violblast, vultur, witchery, wolfshowl

Lucky Charms Metal

by Daniel Maarat on March 14, 2017

Death Metal Underground has received criticism for our review of limp-wristed, warmed-over Swedish heavy metal act In Flames. Our staff called them the Swedish version of Christian glam rock band Stryper. However despite being hard rock, Stryper were actually heavier, more sincere in purpose, and more aggressive than the Comic Sans In Flames. Stryper and the speed metal influenced glam rock of Skid Row were at least far more musical than Fredrik Nordstrom produced melodeaf such as post-Alf Svensson At the Gates, Arch Enemy, Dark Tranquility, In Flames, and Soilwork. Stryper and Skid Row were at least well-versed in 60s and 70s riff rock while directly influenced by Metallica and Slayer:

(more…)

37 Comments

Tags: beer metal, Bill Steer, Bolt Thrower, butt rock, carcass, frank blackfire, fredrik nordstrom, glam rock, gothenburg metal, hard rock, Heavy Metal, idiots, in flames, junk food, kreator, melodeaf, skid row, stryper, Surgical Steel, those once loyal

Satan Headlining Pounding Metal Fest 2017

by Daniel Maarat on March 14, 2017

Satan are headlining the Pounding Metal Fest in Madrid, Spain this May. Supporting the NWOBHM and proto speed metal legends are other heavy metal bands Hell, Night Demon, Visigoth, Attacker, and Spanish Angel Witch worshipers Witchtower.

3 Comments

Tags: festivals, Heavy Metal, night demon, NWOBHM, Satan, Spain, Speed Metal

Hail of Bullets Breaks Up

by Daniel Maarat on March 13, 2017

Funderground party death ‘n’ roll and deathcore band Hail of Bullets has broken up according to a post on their Funbook page. Hail of Bullets’ illness was no reason to exist as a musical entity beyond lining the pockets and fattening the livers of Dutch death metal scene veterans through CD releases and festival gigs. Martin van Drunen quit the train wreck a while ago probably as death metal fans grew sick of the band’s constant stream of lame releases. The war is over Hail of Bullets. You lost and were executed for your crimes against metal music such as III: The Rommel Chronicles.

(more…)

18 Comments

Tags: death 'n' roll, deathcore, hail of bullets, news, the netherlands

Sadistic Metal Reviews: Mellow Destruction of Inferior Semi-Technical Trivialities

by Staff on March 12, 2017

These random, gimped releases are held in high regard by high-pitched “metal” critics and core pogo stickers. The Death Metal Underground staff takes it upon themselves to scorn and defile them in the name of all that is good in the metal genre.

(more…)

28 Comments

Tags: amon amarth, cynic, deathcore, dripping, fags, homosexuality, in flames, jazz fusion, lykathea aflame, melodeaf, metalcore, nu-metal, random, sadistic metal reviews, slam, techdeaf, tek-deth

Classic reviews:
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z