Immortal are recording a new album next month. Demonaz will be the primary songwriting for the first time in almost twenty years. Will the KISS of All Shall Fall continue with Abbath kicked out of the band for refusing to kick drinking and drugs? Will Demonaz continue from March of the Norse or Blizzard Beasts? Let’s find out!
4 CommentsTags: Black Metal, Demonaz, immortal, nuclear blast records, recording, upcoming release
Guns get the job done.
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Canadian mainstream and funderground metal blog Hellbound.ca responded to MetalSucks‘ The MetalSucks Manifesto by publishing their own “The Wild Beast Manifesto” about how metal should not be neutered according to political correctness despite any single persons chosen political opinions.
3 CommentsTags: canada, censorship, communists, hellbound.ca, metalgate, MetalSucks
New Zealand war metal band Heresiarch are set to record a new album in February of next year according to a recent post of the band’s in the Nuclear War Now! Productions forum. Death Ordinance will be released by Dark Descend Records.
No CommentsTags: Black Metal, dark descent, dark descent records, death metal, death ordinance, heresiarch, new zealand, upcoming release, War Metal
A cultured human being should pursue a good hobby. It’s somewhat more interesting if said hobby involves a mild vice or foible. The hobby should also develop skill and produce a satisfactory end product. It should make the person somewhat unique amongst a group of peers and allow them to develop camaraderie with their fellow hobbyists. It becomes a Schelling Point so to speak.
9 CommentsTags: alcohol, beer, homebrewing, the good life
Ananku is a term from the Tamil language describing the otherworldly and awesome power of sublime natural places and objects to overwhelm mankind into submission to their will by merely the perception of them. Jarno Nurmi of Serpent Ascending accomplishes this musically on his album of the same name by composing harmonized heavy and black metal style leads atop a death metal rhythmic basic into occult blackened narratives. Riffs are phrased and repeat to numerologically unfold, revealing profound and novel melodic leads as if the petals of a flower gradually blooming into gnostic truth when bathed in unconquered light.
24 CommentsTags: 2016, ananku, Black Metal, death metal, Finland, Heavy Metal, i voidhanger records, Jarno Nurmi, review, Serpent Ascending
Thirty year old British metal magazine Metal Hammer is no more after its parent company Team Rock Ltd went into administration due to losing 8.8 million pounds last year. The printed mainstream media was unable to compete content wise with zines back in the day and the internet has finally put it down. Seventy three shills are rightfully out of work.
8 CommentsTags: funderground, mainstream metal, metal hammer, shills
A complete compilation of Cynic‘s demos, Uroboric Forms, is coming out next year from Century Media. Keep an eye out for it.
9 CommentsTags: anthology, century media, cynic, death metal, demos, jazz fusion, progressive metal, Speed Metal, upcoming release
The CD version of Tarnkappe‘s Winterwaker has been delayed to around the new year according to a post of Hammerheart Records on Facebook:
2 CommentsTags: Black Metal, compact disc, Dutch black metal, tarnkappe, the netherlands, upcoming release, winterwaker
Article by Lance Viggiano.
Veneror create long, flowing, compositions in the style of Sacramentum which carry a melancholic but sinister emotive pallet through melodious arpeggiated twin guitar harmonies. Structurally these songs cycle in between two or three motifs yet eschews a sense of heightened dynamics while coarse vocals ride atop giving a sense of continuity rather than circularity. This is further reinforced by the chromatic development which carries itself into reprieves which close each section with sparsity before jaunting into the next. The resultant unbroken sequence of phrases is not unlike what Revenant would use to great effect on their infamous and only full length album.
22 CommentsTags: 2013, Black Metal, Italy, percussimus foedus cum morte, Revenant, review, sacramentum, veneror
