Pursuing a precipice between cavernous death metal and uptempo technical death metal, Thaumaturgy fuses an Immolation sense of harmony with the raw chromatic rushing power of an Incantation or Obituary, tunneling deep into a density of sound with multiple internal breaks creating a running dialogue.
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On the surface very much in love with the Testimony of the Ancients era Pestilence, this band injects a sensibility of moods more like the technical albums from Immolation and Gorguts, replacing a frenetic urgency with more varied tempi and therefore, more adaptive riffing.
2 CommentsTags: cryoxyd, death metal, Progressive Death Metal, progressive metal, Technical Death Metal
A series of variations on a playful theme, the tracks of this EP create an ominous but playful look into the ambiguity of darkness, filled with both hope and fear. They achieve this with repetition of a trudging theme with lighter counter-themes that bring out a sense of adventure in the obscurity.
12 CommentsTags: dungeon synth, garden gnome, nightwave, soundtrack, vaporwave
One of our staffers is on location and liveblogging this epic and exhausting metal festival which stretches an onslaught of bands over three days. Best to bring your comfy chair and maybe a Kindle so you can sit through the poseur bands.
31 CommentsTags: absu, adorior, ares kingdom, Arghoslent, communion, crucifier, death strike, demoncy, diocletian, graveland, infernal war, Inquisition, invocation spells, magnus, master, Necrovore, necrowretch, omegavortex, sadistic intent, usurper, weregoat
When you think of the impetus behind Sammath and Kaeck, think of cooking: a careful adjustment of the ratio and granularity of ingredients in order to achieve the perfect effect. Trying to meld aggressive death metal and sinister black metal requires precise intent, like martial arts or assembling nukes.
24 CommentsTags: Black Metal, death metal, kaeck
We know the underground is dead. It has been dead for thirty years, and we have killed it, by accepting music that imitated the methods of the past without understanding of the why. And yet we soldier on, seeking the few exceptions.
19 CommentsTags: Black Metal, death metal, music reviews, sadistic metal reviews, smr
With Sacrilege Infernus, Lethal Prayer offers a faithful yet expansive continuation of Spiritual Decay, and it adheres to the variegated song structures that defined earlier works from the band while allowing broader influences to permeate the release.
8 CommentsTags: death metal, Lethal Prayer
Unholy mackerel! I ventured to the post office box today, figuring that everything was going to suck ass because it is a Saturday and the normies are out but also they are in some kind of state of panic over some kind of war somewhere, which means mass confusion.
2 CommentsTags: adversary, death metal, tshirts
Blending old school melodic Swedish death metal forms and the faster styles of New World underground metal like Mortem or Krisiun, Dissidence builds on its roots of melody with abrupt but precise riffs that project an atmosphere unique to the band.
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It no longer makes sense to speak of “heavy metal” because the genre has its own identity. It is metal music, and “heavy metal” is now the kind of stuff that people listened to after Boomer rock lost its oomph, probably ending with the first Metallica album.
66 CommentsTags: death metal, massacre
