Immortal, i.e. Demonaz and Horgh, have finished writing their new album. Now they just need to record it.
12 CommentsTags: abbath, Black Metal, Demonaz, drama, Heavy Metal, immortal, mainstream metal, news, upcoming release
The Misnomer of “Melodic” Metal
“Melodic death metal” is meaningless. What is popularly called “melodic” death or black metal can be roughly divided into the three different types of music sketched out by Ludvig Boysen in his “The Three Types of Melodic Death Metal” article for Death Metal Underground. While Ludvig’s three categories are essentially correct, refining and broadening them allows formal classification of all “melodic” death and black metal. Note that Death Metal Underground’s extensive Heavy Metal FAQ covers the topic of genre in great depth but a brief rundown for the ignorant and lazy is in order.
42 CommentsTags: carcass, chromaticism, death metal, Flight of the Bumblebee, genre, Heartwork, incantation, melodeaf, melodeath, melodic black metal, Melodic Death Metal, melodic metal, music analysis, musical analysis, onward to golgotha, Rimsky-Korsakov
Discharge Forced to Reschedule US Tour and Cancel Appearance at Maryland Deathfest
Maryland Deathfest once again has visa troubles forcing the cancellation of a headliner. Sodom‘s visa troubles last year led to the cancellation of their headlining appearance on the main stage of the parking lot festival. Now, British hardcore legends Discharge (the originators of d-beat hardcore) get the short end of the stick from the Baltimore festival’s disorganization.
2 CommentsTags: baltimore, cancelled tour, crossover thrash, d-beat, discharge, Hardcore, Hardcore Punk, maryland deathfest, news, nuclear blast records, punk, Thrash, thrash metal, US tour
Desaster North American Tour
Teutonic blackened speed metal band Desaster are coming to North America to play a few show starting tomorrow.
2 CommentsTags: beer metal, Black Metal, Desaster, German Speed Metal, news, Speed Metal, tour, tour dates, upcoming tours, US tour
The Three Types of Melodic Death Metal
Article by Ludvig Boysen.
There are three different kinds of music that are popularly called “melodic death metal”. Each is distinct and none even belong to the same metal sub-genre.
13 CommentsTags: amorphis, At the Gates, Deicide, Legion, melodeaf, melodeath, Melodic Death Metal, metalcore, musical analysis, Slaughter of the Soul, The Karelian Isthmus
Root – Zjevení (1990)
Article by Lance Viggiano
Root’s Zjevení updates Merciful Fate from Halloween to haunt by exorcising the clownish camp while maintaining their high degree of theatricality. A textural treatment gives speed metal riffs a spectral significance that allows for it to have expressive power in dreary dungeons at midnight lit only by a faint moon that is slowly swallowed by black vapor. Tonally and thematically, Root sets the stage for later Greek acts such as Varathron and Rotting Christ to further develop this music through melodious – relatively speaking – ambience which expelled punk’s poltergeist.
14 CommentsTags: 1990, Black Metal, Czech black metal, Root, Speed Metal, Zjevení
Rust in Peace Nick Menza
Nick Menza, the former drummer of Megadeth, died onstage last night.
2 CommentsTags: deaths, Heavy Metal, megadeth, news, Nick Menza, Rust in Peace, Speed Metal
Sanctuaire Present “Graver sur les pierres, les souvenirs d’hier” off Le Sang sur l’Acier
Monarque Helserkr has released a new track, “Graver sur les pierres, les souvenirs d’hier”, from his Sanctuaire viking-themed black metal project’s upcoming EP Le Sang sur l’Acier.
1 CommentTags: atmospheric metal, Black Metal, Canadian Black Metal, Le Sang sur l'Acier, Monarque, Monarque Helserkr, Québécois, Sanctuaire, upcoming release, Viking Metal
Agoraphobic Nosebleed Cover “Angel of Death”
Death Metal Underground has obtained an Agoraphobic Nosebleed cover of Slayer‘s classic “Angel of Death“.
7 CommentsTags: Agoraphobic Nosebleed, Angel of Death, core, cover songs, drugs, hipster bullshit, metalgate, news, sjw metal, slayer
The Origins of Satanic Realization through Heavy Metal
Sludgecore band Agoraphobic Nosebleed threw a fit for publicity over a recent batch of Death Metal Underground’s Sadistic Metal Reviews. Frontwoman Katherine Katz called us Fox News for our criticism of Agoraphobic Nosebleed’s shrieking short woman over a drum machine shtick and our psychological speculation as to why Agoraphobic Nosebleed would even bother releasing such failure other than for commercial exploitation of a musically-ignorant hipster fan base craving reaffirmation of their modern liberalism. Katz even claimed that artists should be responsible for the extreme actions of others in response to satire and that some topics should be completely off lyrics. For her, everyone who listens to “Embryonic Necropsy and Devourment” will potentially commit feticide. This is incredibly hypocritical for a band who shared a member with Anal Cunt and wrote Frozen Corpse Stuffed with Dope.
26 CommentsTags: Agoraphobic Nosebleed, Angel Witch, Black Metal, black sabbath, blessed are the sick, communists, death metal, Heavy Metal, His Majesty at the Swamp, masculinity, mercyful fate, metalgate, morbid angel, NWOBHM, Occultism, Philosophy, Root, Satanism, varathron, Zjevení
