Muert are another one of those funderground bands pretending to play black metal.
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Muert are another one of those funderground bands pretending to play black metal.
27 CommentsTags: 2017, beer metal, crossover thrash, funderground, hammerheart, hammerheart records, muert, posers, poseurs, rehash, review, thrash metal
Underground metal was rapidly dying by the mid nineties. The more musically successful death and black metal bands became disenchanted with their resulting limited financial success as the hordes of poseurs poured in through the gates of Byzantium, creating commercial rock that merely imitated the tones and texture of the monumental statues of the metal greats. The more popular death metal bands tried and failed at becoming rock stars while many of the more luminous minds in Norwegian black metal bands were dead or imprisoned.
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Dark Symphonies is reissuing Absu‘s debut Barathrum: V.I.T.R.I.O.L on CD from Proscriptor’s original DAT.
3 CommentsTags: absu, Black Metal, compact disc, Dark Symphonies, death metal, news, reissue, remaster, texas, texas metal
Iron Pegasus Records is releasing a demo compilation of Chilean speed metal band Ripper’s The Exit and Destroy the World demos.
1 CommentTags: anthology, chile, compact disc, demos, iron pegasus, iron pegasus records, news, ripper, Speed Metal, upcoming release
Polish death metal band Vader are top billed at the Undergrind Fest in Bangalore, India on September 24th.
12 CommentsTags: death metal, festivals, india, news, polish death metal, upcoming shows, vader
Hammerheart Records are making some Testimony of the Ancients t-shirts to go along with their upcoming remastered 2x CD version of the third Pestilence album.
2 CommentsTags: death metal, Dutch Death Metal, hammerheart, hammerheart records, news, pestilence, shirts, Technical Death Metal, the netherlands, tshirts
German grindcore gods Blood have made some patches and put them up for sale in their web shop.
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Matt Harvey of deathcore band Exhumed was called up to provide a contrary viewpoint on Decibel Magazine’s website to MetalSucks’ call for a proscription of Hells Headbangers Records, circlejerking around the Blast Beat advertising network.
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