What happens when something succeeds? It fixates on that success because now it has something to lose. Forget all those stupid alt-right tropes about “hard times make hard men weak, weak times make weak men hard” because they are like most things Right-wing merely a prelude to the type of sodomy that Jesus does not mind. Metal reached its peak in the 1990s with underground death metal and black metal, but now the little people have come in to munch the carcass while loudly demanding attention.
16 CommentsNational Day of Slayer XVII: The Carnage Continues
International Day of Slayer, riffing on the National Day of Prayer, kicks off on June 6, 2022 with new classic Slayer recordings for you to blast all day long while you skip work, school, and all other meaningless activities in order to listen to Slayer!
32 CommentsTags: international day of slayer, National Day of Slayer, slayer, Speed Metal
Serpent Ascending – Hyperborean Folklore (2022)
While still retaining some of the aesthetic elements of 2016’s sleeper-hit Aṇaṅku, Serpent Ascending has adopted a flowing form of riffing on this latest album comparable to some Norwegian black metal. This has both an upside and a downside, in that the longer melodies can reach a greater degree of intensity at times, but there is also less contrast within individual songs.
5 CommentsTags: Black Metal, Serpent Ascending
Scandinavian Black Metal After 1995
We all know that black metal essentially pulled an Amber Heard back in 1994, and that death metal had died the previous year, having said all that they wanted to say and now resting while the world took the next thirty years to assimilate the meaning. However, some standouts bucked the trend.
4 CommentsTags: ancient wisdom, diabolical masquerade, helheim, in battle, odium
Trenchant Releases “Yellow Cross Orison” From Upcoming Commandoccult
After Emperor peaked with In The Nightside Eclipse, its side project Zyklon-B got more attention. Like Niden Div 187 and Impaled Nazarene, it offered the punk side of black metal over the heavy metal, soundtrack, ambient, medieval, industrial, and progressive influences, blasting out short songs aimed at disruption and encouraging violence.
7 CommentsTags: godz of war, trenchant, War Metal
Desecresy Announces New Album, Releases Single “Rivers of the Nether Realm”
Longtime favorite around here Desecresy, who pair old school death metal with melodic but apocalyptic atmospheric styles, has released a single “Rivers of the Nether Realm” from their upcoming seventh full-length album Unveil in the Abyss to be released on April 19 via Xtreem Music.
16 CommentsTags: death metal, desecresy, xtreem music
Sadistic Metal Reviews: Dumpster Rape Edition
Some thought that American society died with Jerry Springers. Others like William Gibson, who should know better, think it died with the Bush presidency. Those of us with any attention span know that the decay even predated April 9, 1866, when the Civil Rights Act was signed. The decay is innate.
22 CommentsTags: Archemoron, ecryptus, helcaraxe, sadistic metal reviews
RIP Burke Shelley (1950-2022)
On January 10, Burke Shelley — bassist, songwriter, and pathfinder of NWOBHM-prog hybrid outlier Budgie — passed away in his hometown of Cardiff, Wales. A hybrid that sounded like Black Sabbath, Grand Funk Railroad, and Yes in an infernal three-way, Budgie possessed its own style and vision of the world, leading to an enormous influence on much of metal and rock to follow.
6 CommentsTags: budgie, burke shelley, NWOBHM
TAL – Sapiduz (2022)
Funeral Mist – Deiform (2021)
In the past, the DLA/DMU refused to review utter garbage, which is generally the right decision except when that garbage is the default for the subgenre chosen by market inertia. In other words, when it is what most people see under the $subgenre label at stores.
3 CommentsTags: Black Metal, funeral mist