Not many people appreciate the importance of Slayer. Along with other proto-death/black bands — Bathory, Master, Sarcofago, Hellhammer, Sodom, Possessed — Slayer stepped out of the speed metal sound to the tremolo sound and realized the possibilities of through-composed narrative songs based on the riff.
12 CommentsTags: metal, slayer, speedmetal, Thrash
Few bands inspired as much imaginative exploration of ideas as Manowar, which like Bathory looked toward the pre-medieval past for inspiration about the future, finding that humanity had not changed and our path is one of battle, honor, might, pride, death, blood, and victory instead of “progress.”
34 CommentsTags: borys shchuka, hurdy-gurdy, manowar
Old school Swedish death metal stalwarts Dismember represented one of those moments where the heavens, Earth, and natural kingdoms align to produce a window into the world beyond the immediate and physical, unleashing possibility through an embrace of realism and a pursuit of quality in life experience.
36 CommentsTags: death metal, Dismember, Old School Death Metal, Swedish Death Metal
Some of you remember Organic Infest, who terrorized the world with Penitence, a slab of iconoclastic death metal that observed the world in fine attachmentless detail.
71 CommentsTags: death metal, organic, organic infest
We live in an inauthentic era because we have no reference points in common except mass culture, therefore most of what we do consists of throwing a dozen aesthetics in a blender, coming up with a unique combination, and using it as the basis for our careers, health of the genre be damned.
80 CommentsTags: marie kondo, Norwegian Black Metal, smr, swedish death cleaning
One-human Finnish death metal band Desecresy plans to release its eighth album, Deserted Realms, on September 26th through Xtreme Music. To that end, the band has released the tracklist, cover, and first single, “Dark Chambers.”
31 CommentsTags: death metal, desecresy
The review queue this year has shifted, being both worse than ever before and having a higher number of promising options, which means that Sammath faces an underground which is gathering strength, which is why the band chose to reveal this intriguing video for “Last Gasp of the Dying.”
106 CommentsTags: Black Metal, sammath, War Metal
Death metal legends Cadaver, who recently have been experimenting with modern metal, release their new hybrid in the style of recent Obituary works that features verse-chorus composition and simplified, punk-like death metal riffs that use harmony like a prog-ish band.
149 CommentsTags: cadaver, modern metal
Raging martial black metal band Sammath has streamed its latest album, Grebbeberg, for a new generation of fans to appreciate the approach that combines old school dynamics with timeless melody to create a sensation of unending Nietzschean struggle and Promethean aggression.
33 CommentsTags: Black Metal, sammath, War Metal
Back when Dissection and Sentenced were the only bands to pick up on the hybrid of speed metal and death metal that Merciless pioneered and then add more Iron Maiden harmonized guitars and melody, Sacramentum stood out as having a darker aesthetic and more melancholic but aggressive spirit.
39 CommentsTags: Black Metal, sacramentum, tour
