The band that brought you Consvming Impvlse has now become a progressive deathcore band for its ninth album, Exitivm, which you can hear in full streaming from giant corporate megadouche entity YouTube:
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Vio-Lence Release Details For Upcoming EP Let The World Burn
Pummeling speed metal band Vio-Lence return, with Overkill guitarist Bobby Gustafson on the team, with a new variation on their death metal tinged Bay Area assault metal, planning a new EP named Let The World Burn for release during early 2022 on Metal Blade Records.
2 CommentsTags: Metal Blade, Speed Metal, vio-lence
Mass Destruction IV Metalfest Slated For November 5-7, 2021 in Atlanta, GA
Welcome to that odd point, thirty years after the genre formed, when your favorite music has become if not universally socially accepted at least recognized as part of the landscape, which means that you, too, can go to expensive festivals in far-off urban wastelands.
9 CommentsTags: concert, live, mass destruction, metalfest
International Day of Slayer XVI – June 6, 2021
It’s that time of year again. Celebrate the International Day of Slayer (a riff on the National Day of Prayer) by blasting Slayer loud all day and all night with a new live set and 1983 demo from Slayer for download.
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Pestilence – Exitium (2021)
Exploring a modern side of metal that keeps one foot in the past, the latest Pestilence will draw comparisons to Testimony of the Ancients, but to my mind goes back to Malleus Maleficarum even more, balanced with metalcore, progressive metal, and jazz fusion.
No CommentsTags: metalcore, pestilence, Speed Metal
Assault – The Fallen Reich (2017)
Listening to the review queue, it strikes me how few bands write songs with any unifying patterns to them. Most piece together riffs around a form, like those paper cut-outs seamstresses use to make dresses, and when it all seems to work, cut tape and call it a day.
No CommentsTags: assault, Melodic Death Metal, Speed Metal
Skepticism Announces Companion Release on September 24
Ornate funeral doom metal band Skepticism announced the release of their sixth full-length album, Companion, via Svart Records on September 24, 2021. The first single, “Calla,” indicates a more lush symphonic approach perhaps influenced by Empyrium.
1 CommentTags: Doom Metal, skepticism
Graveland Releases “The Wolf of Twilight” From Hour of Ragnarok
Classic flowing black metal band Graveland has returned, modifying their swing toward folkish soundtrack metal with more rigid, hardcore-style riffs in idenfiably metal songs spanning the black metal, death metal, and heavy metal genres.
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Desecresy Releases Three New Teaser Tracks
Ambient death metal band Desecresy recently released three teaser tracks, presumably from an upcoming album. These show the band venturing into some indie rock technique while attempting to dominate it with death metal structure and aesthetics.
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New Sammath Patches Appear in the Wild
Excoriating black metal band Sammath has unleashed a new crop of patches for your kutte or battle jacket, or maybe the sails on your yacht; these can be found from the Sammath direct merchandising site.
20 CommentsTags: Black Metal, merch, sammath
