You hear a lot of people talking these days about their nostalgia for the 1980s or the decade following. It always provokes a couple blinks, and then we — we are the silent witnesses, who saw it all — shrug and walk on. It is easy enough to understand.
30 CommentsTenth Anniversary of the Death of Jeff Hanneman
Today we mark the ten year anniversary of the death of Jeff Hanneman, guitarist and composer for Slayer, which along with Hellhamer, Sodom, Master, and Bathory contributed to the old school and modern death metal vocabulary and spirit.
28 CommentsTags: death metal, jeff hanneman, slayer, Speed Metal
Metal Cosmos (#1)
Metal Cosmos (#1) (download, 40mb)
Tags: Dark Fury, Drawn and Quartered, grandeur, kever, metal cosmos, morpheus descends, podcast, radio, radiocast, rotheads, sammath
Sadistic Metal Reviews: Abort Christ and Buddha Edition
In the metal community, like everywhere else, it is popular to hate on Christ because he is seen as the enemy of the total state simply because conservatives are trying to use Christianity as their competitor and substitute for the overwhelmingly popular idea of equality.
82 CommentsTags: cassette, Headbanger's ball, Naturalism, smr, vinyl
New Demoncy Teaser Floats
Power Metal
Listening to that 1980s power metal compilation that has floated around for awhile, it becomes clear to me why many of us dodged out on power metal and drifted toward the grindcore and death metal style of things back in the day: power metal is the capture of metal by the pop industry.
79 CommentsTags: glam metal, NWOBHM, power metal, Speed Metal
Sammath Premieres “Reichswald” From Grebbeberg
Necrotic war metal and black metal hybrid band Sammath bring inner melody to battering relentless martial metal, and now premiere the first track from their latest album, Grebbeberg:
62 CommentsTags: Black Metal, sammath, War Metal
Demilich “Last Show Ever” In Madrid Tonight
As I write this, I am on the phone with a friend of mine who works at an oil firm and might be able to get us a private jet to Madrid. This might get me past the watchlists and us there in time to see what according to founder Antti Boman is the last Demilich show ever.
35 CommentsTags: antti boman, death metal, Demilich
Fourth Monarchy – Nocturnal Odes of a Wandering Spirit (2023)
Taking up the task of reassembling the ruins of black metal, Fourth Monarchy mix Southern European mystical black metal with Swedish melodic death metal to create a descent into lush internally contrasting waves of harmony for a nocturnal restless atmosphere.
2 CommentsTags: Black Metal, fourth monarchy
Undead – Putrefactio (2023)
Death Metal Underground covered Undead Blood Enemy in the past, interviewing the band on their inspirations at that time, chronicling a band that makes a Master-style version of Swedish old school death metal (OSDM).
19 CommentsTags: death metal, Undead