Quarantine descended on the West just at the point when the madness seemed too much to bear. Tax sheep in the crucible of tedium, we found that spinning plates just to keep the GDP high had lost its gleam, and now we could see life as the endless procession of documents, obligations, and smiles with gritted teeth that it was.
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Inspired by recent events, Texas thrash/crossover band released a song from a demo cut in 2016. This song, “Separate Corners,” points out that we cannot all get along, and maybe humanity should just take a time out in its respective corners by religion, class, race, special interest, etc., until at least some of us get our shit together.
14 CommentsTags: birth a.d., Crossover, Hardcore Punk, Thrash
When death metal first came about, people believed it would never make it into the mainstream “culture” of our trend-based, democratic society. It turned out that industry just made an emo/metal hybrid and called it “technical death metal” so that neckbeard fedora barista hipsters can now claim they, too, listen to “outlaw music.”
12 CommentsTags: cloudflare, lee holloway, mainstream culture, opeth
Ambient music can mean anything. To most people, it means floaty electronica; in a more analytical sense, it means music which operates by a principle of sonic texture and layering, with lead voices disconnected from percussion so that melody leads the composition, allowing a new flexibility in composition.
1 CommentTags: Abyssum, Ambient, atmospheric, el nigromante
Antisocial and violent black metal band Sammath unleashed a video of the band playing in Moscow, using the track “Ferocious Mortar Fire” from Across the Rhine is only death as the canvas for a newly elitist and intolerant sound. Expect all of the violent of war metal, with the precision of death metal, and the melody of black metal.
10 CommentsTags: Black Metal, death metal, sammath, War Metal
Voivod guitarist Dan Mongrain cut a tutorial video to cover the playing of the solo to Voivod “Obsolete Beings,” a track from the 2018 album The Wake. Follow along to pick up some technique and appreciate the melodic structure of a good solo.
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As the arc of history yet again becomes a circle, we find out that only certain bands and subgenres make the cut because everything else consists of artistically simple but aesthetically complex variations on the Same Old Thing that humans create whenever groups of them try to make music in order to be popular.
27 CommentsTags: death, death metal, relapse records
When life first took over planet Earth, its initial goal was to spread until it covered every square mile of the globe. Then, it began to specialize, since all of the major variants — fish, birds, worms, beetles — had become apparent, and those now divided into different varieties to flesh out ecosystems.
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On April 24, this later-era death metal album will see re-issue in CD, LP, and digital formats. Demonstrating the fusion of Motorhead-styled aggressive punk-infused heavy metal with death metal, Divide And Conquer will come with three demo tracks, studio outtakes of “Choose Your Death” from the 1990 demo, a cover of At War “Ordered To Kill,” and original mixes of the tracks on the album.
15 CommentsTags: cianide, death metal
Hammerheart Records plans to re-issue Resurrection Embalmed Existence on April 20, 2020, bringing this second-wave Florida death metal release to the light once again. Originally issued in 1993, this slab of well-produced solidly chunky death metal never quite got the attention of other Florida bands.
3 CommentsTags: death metal, resurrection
