Welcome to the week where you will not be able to get through a day without someone mentioning the new Darkthrone album, Pre-Historic Metal. The legacy of this band lives on through its ability to stir up chaos.
9 CommentsTags: Black Metal, darkthrone, Guinness, late hardcore, lesbian black metal
When hardcore was new, it was a few innovators producing really interesting music not because they broke “the rules” but because they thought outside of the form of the aggregate of what had been rewarded so far.
53 CommentsTags: Classical, dave lombardo, late hardcore, physical media, radio, smr, william shatner
Over the last few years, death metal has been steadily invaded by speed metal and late hardcore just like black metal because these genres are easy to produce so everyone can participate, but Aurora Borealis pushes back against this trend with an album full of roaring old-school riffs and speed thrills.
5 CommentsTags: aurora borealis, death metal
If you can imagine a crossover between Mercyful Fate, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, and Sodom but with its own zest for life and flair for the majestic, Kaine delivers NWOBHM-drenched speed metal at mid-pace with old school riff composition.
15 CommentsTags: Heavy Metal, kaine, NWOBHM, Speed Metal
As clowns push death metal and black metal into pure repetition, death-doom rises, in one fiery instance with Consecration who take a Candlemass approach to Skepticism style funeral doom and make energetic but morbid havens of dark sound.
43 CommentsTags: consecration, death-doom, Doom Metal
Almost no one understands what made speed metal great, looking from the outside-in as any time after the era tends to do, nor what made those transitional bands like Slayer, Rigor Mortis, and Destruction so powerful.
8 CommentsTags: death metal, Mortuary
For fans of traditional sweeping but slower-paced black metal in the style of Enslaved and Graveland, but with a homebrew twist that calls to mind the most abstract of death metal structuralism, Armophophallus Titanum delivers an album of saturating experiences.
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This four-part documentary manages to convey a few things, one being that the suspect (who has since pleaded guilty) is nuts, and second that most of the people involved with publicizing the case are nuts.
11 CommentsTags: cinema, documentary, rex heuermann, serial killers
Legendary speed metal band Slayer — a proto-underground coven of wizardry like Sodom, Rigor Mortis, Hellhammer, and Bathory — introduced Reign in Blood four decades ago this month.
37 CommentsTags: proto-underground metal, slayer, Speed Metal
