Rob Darken posted his own account to the Graveland website of how anti-fascists and communists shut down the Messe des Morts VI festival in Montreal late last year. As readers are probably aware, the local police eventually shutdown the festival and forbid Graveland from taking the stage.
5 CommentsTags: canada, censorship, graveland, messe des morts, metalgate, montreal, rob darken
Marduk are touring the United States this February to promote their repetitive failed album Frontschwein. Incantation are opening for every American headbanger who hasn’t seen Incantation live yet.
5 CommentsTags: Black Metal, death metal, incantation, marduk, tour, upcoming tours, US tour
Before lapsing into embryonic death ’n’ roll on their second LP False (1992), Gorefest were among the earliest Dutch proponents of solid bread-and-butter death metal with a sense of melodic contour joining the many rhythm riffs into coherent songs which reach a point of focus in their cycles, forcing re-interpretation of its parts. The early style more or less complete on their demo recordings was brought to a fuller and more refined form on the 1991 debut album Mindloss.
33 CommentsTags: death metal, gorefest, review, the netherlands
Finnish death metal band Abhorrence are releasing a live album of their comeback performance at the 2013 Tuska Open Air Festival. Totally Vulgar – Live at Tuska Open Air 2013 is coming out February 10th on Svart Records. Svart released an earlier anthology of the band, Completely Vulgar, that was some of The Best Underground Metal of 2012.
No CommentsTags: abhorrence, death metal, Finland, Finnish Death Metal, live, svart records, upcoming release
Memoriam‘s For the Fallen is coming out this March on Nuclear Blast according to Amazon.com. Memoriam is the death metal band with Karl Willets and Andy Whale of Bolt Thrower and former Benediction members on guitar and bass.
1 CommentTags: Andy Whale, death metal, karl willets, mainstream metal, memoriam, nuclear blast records, upcoming release
Obituary announced an upcoming self-titled album out May 17th on Relapse Records. Prepare for boring mediocrity and probable Sadistic Metal Review fodder. The preview sounds terrible.
9 CommentsTags: boring, death 'n' roll, death metal, modern metal, obituary, relapse records, upcoming release
Article by Lance Viggiano.
Autechre‘s elseq 1-5 is a four hour anthology consisting of five individual EPs, each compiled together loosely upon conceptual coherence between the constituent tracks. elseq 1-5 is an exercise in release format rather than just content; the artists behind Autechre seek to utilize the immediacy of the digital age, releasing tracks “as they go” without traditional limitations imposed by the “album.” Granted of course this collection appeared as a hulking and impenetrable dump rather than a sequence. This point bears worth remembering as this overview proceeds as the temptation to view elseq 1-5 as a complete work, or works, is ingrained in popular habits.
24 CommentsTags: 2016, Ambient, anthology, Autechre, electronica, experimental, intelligent dance music, review
Morbid Angel announced an American tour this year with Suffocation as openers. Hopefully Trey and Steve‘s new album will not be radikult.
3 CommentsTags: death metal, morbid angel, suffocation, tour, upcoming tours, US tour
Dark Symphonies announced that they are reissuing Norwegian death metal band Molested‘s only full studio album Blod-draum later this month from the original tapes. Along with the new master from the original analog tapes (not the original CD just compressed for losers with Iphones), a new remix from the multitrack studio tapes will be included on the disc. The CD is available for preordering from Dark Symphonies right now.
5 CommentsTags: blod-draum, compact disc, Dark Symphonies, death metal, molested, norway, oystein g. brun, reissue, remaster, remix
Spanish language black metal webzine El Negro Metal has started hosting a downloadable monthly online radio show/podcast called La Naranja Metálica, which I have been told is a play on A Clockwork Orange‘s Spanish title La Naranja Mecánica. Most of the tracks being spun are from releases that Death Metal Underground and The Dark Legions Archive have endorsed in the past with many appearing on our recent best of lists. Hopefully La Naranja Metálica will help bring the best of the underground to a Spanish-speaking audience.
4 CommentsTags: Black Metal, death metal, el negro metal, Español, Internet Radio, la naranja metalica, language-spanish, podcast, underground metal
