Shawn Wright of Bestial Evil USA sent Death Metal Underground a cease and desist email:
44 CommentsTags: baltimore, bestial evil, bestial evil (usa), Hate Mail, meta, metalgate, news, shawn wright
Trader Joe’s – Petit Reserve Paso Robles Merlot (2013)
The unicorn of the wine world is an undiscovered, low cost but high quality wine that you can pick up (easily) on the way to a convivial gathering and have people say, after the lights are low, “What the heck was that?” This wine comes very close to unicorn status when you consider the price.
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International Day of Slayer XI — June 6, 2016
Every June 6, Slayer fanatics worldwide come together to blast Slayer and be disobedient. This year, the International Day of Slayer XI falls on a Monday, which is a perfect time to call in sick to school/work and listen to Slayer instead!
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Hate Mail (#1)
Some days, people write in with interesting questions. Interwoven among the constant stream of Viagra spam, your-mother-wears-boots invective and penis photos from metalcore bands, a glimmer of hope: the question which opens doors to other ideas.
25 CommentsTags: Hate Mail, identity politics, lyrics, political, political correctness
Traversing the Underground: Exploring Ancient Mythos
Article by David Rosales.
Ancient myths are the remnants of an age when oral traditions were the main way by which humans preserved and passed on knowledge. This may be the reason why multi-layered symbols and complex relations in stories awkwardly designed to fit differing messages into a form that we may now consider silly. Differing schools of scholarship have developed distinct theories when compiling, reconstructing, and interpreting these messages. Many keep their own “updated” versions which have morphed on their own into the age of the text when the written word defined the transferring and preservation of human knowledge.
10 CommentsTags: crimson relic, Donald Alexander Mackenzie, Forbidden Rites, franz berwald, merciless, Mythology, mythos, Purgatory's Reign, Richard Kieckhefer, Serpent Ascending, The Awakening, The Enigma Unsettled, underground metal, underground music
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
Sadistic Metal Reviews: Worn Out Wednesday
Article by Corey M. Whoa that piece of shit is on the toilet lid. Someone has to wipe that down after the photo session. Reaching into toilets to fish out footlong pieces of shit that look like salamanders is what Death Metal Underground staffers do everyday. Our asses are worn out like whoever crapped that one out.
11 CommentsTags: death metal, Heretique, Incarnal, sadistic metal reviews, stinking shit
Iron Maiden – Somewhere in Time (1986)
Article by David Rosales.
Released after Iron Maiden’s golden era, Somewhere in Time is touted by fans of heavy and power metal as a crown jewel of the band, exemplifying perfected expression and streamlined efficiency. This is not immediately convincing for metal hessians. Rightly so as the music became more sterile, hence, less credible. There is definitely a sense of “upgradedness” in both the production and the choice of stylistic voicings, allowing an inclusion of 80s pop coloration into the palette. This unclear, semi-sellout move demanded accountability, while at the same time the band boasted of accumulated experience fructifying the transformation, masterfully avoiding the typical degeneration that could be expected after the climax and summary of their original sound in 1985’s Live After Death.
34 CommentsTags: 1986, Heavy Metal, iron maiden, mainstream metal, NWOBHM, progressive metal, review, somewhere in time
Sadistic Metal Reviews: Three Thursday Turds
Article by Corey M.
Sewage plants are ever-flowing streams of shit. So is the deathmetal.org promo box:
10 CommentsTags: AVDL, Brutal Death Metal, Coliseum, Dyssentia, emo, metalcore, modern metal, nu-metal, sadistic metal reviews
CLOSE-UP BÅTEN 2016: Entombed, Grave, Unleashed, Merciless, Necrophobic, God Macabre
Close-Up Magazine is putting a mind-blowing group of Swedish death metal bands on a ferry cruise.
5 CommentsTags: Black Metal, Centinex, death metal, entombed, festivals, General Surgery, god macabre, grave, interment, Left Hand Path, merciless, necrophobic, news, Speed Metal, Swedeath, Sweden, Swedish Black Metal, Swedish Death Metal, Unleashed
