Hammerheart Records is preparing to re-release Trouble Psalm 9 and The Skull this coming June and has announced that pre-orders are now available. Both albums have been fully restored and will be available on CD/LP/MC/and in digital form.
4 CommentsTags: Doom Metal, Heavy Metal, trouble
After the recent social media kerfuffle where Paul Ledney called out weaklings for their fear of the media hype over the COVID-19 pandemic, I reached out to the man to see where he stood on these comments and what he meant.
7 CommentsTags: covid-19, paul ledney, profanatica
Xtreem Music continues to unearth the past via their 10 Inches of Deathcult Series, and has announced plans to re-release the 1990 demo entitled Demo #1 by longstanding death metal veterans Incantation. Demo #1 features early versions of classic tracks that would eventually find their way onto Onward to Golgotha and features Mortician founder and vocalist Will Rahmer on vocals.
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Coming from a pair of death metal community veterans, new documentary The Growl looks into death metal as it was, and whatever is left as Generation X and newcomers try to continue the tradition.
4 CommentsTags: documentary, the growl
Swedish crust punks Disfear have announced that their debut record Soul Scars will be reissued on vinyl LP on May 8th, 2020. The band, famous for their hybrid of d-beat hardcore, grindcore, and Swedish style melodic death metal introduced the most complete form of their sound on that album.
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Thrashing Madness Productions recently re-released both Betrayer “Necronomical Exmortis” and “Forbidden Personality” demos as a single Necronomical Exmortis / Forbidden Personality CD. Full length Calamity remains planned for the future.
3 CommentsTags: betrayer, death metal, Speed Metal
From the squirrely sub-sub-genre of death metal that made us of flowing tremolo riffs as well as Slayer did, joining compatriots like Massacra and Vader, Deteriorate issued forth its first album, Rotting In Hell, to distribution in North America by J.L. America back in the hazy days of maturing underground metal.
6 CommentsTags: death metal, deteriorate
Record companies continue digging in their vaults to release rare material and actual remasters from classic underground metal bands, bypassing the tendency for ProTools “remasters” that amounted to compression of tracks ripped from the existing CD, in an effort to appeal to Generation X as they head toward five decades.
4 CommentsTags: death metal, earache records, morbid angel
Despite starting out as a powerful fusion of German and American speed metal, Ripper continues progressing into Voivod and Pestilence territory with their latest EP, Paranormal Waves, released digitally on March 30, 2020.
4 CommentsTags: progressive metal, ripper, Speed Metal
Vampyric/Ooccult black metal veterans Black Funeral released a single entitled “Kassaptu Lemuttu (Incantations of Zaqiqu-Demons of the Underworld)” in preparation for their upcoming album entitled Scourge of Lamashtu, set to be released on July 3rd throughIron Bonehead Productions.
2 CommentsTags: black funeral, Black Metal
