Canadian technical speed metal band Voivod announced the November 27 release of a live album, Lost Machine – Live, recorded on their last tour for their most recent studio album, The Wake. The tracks on this album were recorded in Québec City during 2019.
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Grinding, brooding doom-death metal band Obituary have launched a platform for pay-per-view concerts, each based around an era of their material: Slowly We Rot, Cause of Death, and everything else (“Rare Classics and Special Tracks”). For your $15 you get a live Obituary show beamed into your living room three nights this year.
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Italian progressive-but-aggressive death metal band Maleficarum delighted many who liked its black metal influenced range of moods but tendency to return to Slayer, Morbid Angel, Vader, and Hypocrisy style ripping intricate riffs with a forward momentum that potentiated their complexity and intensity.
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Soulburn split from the legendary Asphyx, taking the guitarist from their best album, Asphyx, and allowing him to create with a new staff who aimed to keep the delicious recipe of primitive riffs adding up to complex, changing moods revealing an inner state to each song.
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With the full album appearing sometime in 2020, Fourth Monarchy released their track “The Rebirth of the Fourth Monarchy” in 2019, making it a good time to remind our audience of this important band. Following more of a Sentenced/Dissection fast melodic death/black metal attack, the new track showcases some odd vocals but tight improved songwriting.
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From the upcoming album Un Monde de Glace et de Sang to be released on October 31st 2020 via Obscure Abhorrence productions, this song shows the band dialing back the post-metal stylings of the last album and exploring further directions in their old school black metal sound.
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Baphomet like much early death metal represented the human subconscious, and the riff patterns and rhythms used in its songs reflect the thoughts just below our level of perception, a kind of framework to life discovered underneath the human hubbub, plastic, and chrome.
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Technical death metal band Macabre, who straddle the line between death metal and grindcore with their tightly-choreographed songs on the topic of serial killers, have slated their newest album Carnival of Killers for release on November 13, 2020 via Nuclear Blast.
10 CommentsTags: death metal, Grindcore, macabre
In a small departure from our regular Hessian content today, we are going to look into an important function of any community, which is passing on learning: those who experience life intensely and survive pass along what allowed them to not just survive but triumph, so that others can build on those lessons and discover even more success.
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Macanudo cigars were mysterious and expensive to the Greatest Generation, sought after by Boomers, and for the rest of us, now appear in grocery stores in sealed packs in addition to showing up everywhere else. At this point, they seem more a starter cigar, middle-of-the-road vanilla flavor and low strength.
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