American beer got a lot of flack, but that reflects the situation forty years ago. Now, a number of independent breweries make great beer, and as in everything else, if you avoid the normie product designed for cultureless desire zombies, you can find some good stuff.
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Following a massive US tour and rising interest in its latest full-length, Grebbeberg, Dutch-German war metallish black/death band Sammath unleashes a re-issue of its 1997 demo “De Ruïnes Fluisteren” via Docs Production.
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The dubious Rock ‘n Roll Hall of Fame is holding a popularity contest — sorry, democracy event — to select who gets included on the rolls of the famous, and this year, Joy Division has been nominated. You can vote here for this post-punk/new-age/proto-industrial band.
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Aggressive black metal and war metal hybrid Sammath will release its latest offering on seven inch vinyl in early 2025 on WolfKult Religion. With artwork by Dylan Humphries, the disc features one new track and an exclusive track for this release.
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Some months ago, longstanding Houston record shack Sound Exchange moved from its second location in the Montrose to the new, hip and old-school East Houston neighborhood off Milby Street.
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Nature is healing. Beherit will be touring North America — New Yawk, Houston, Chitcago, Denver, Portland, probably SF, Los Angeles, and Mexico City — in 2025, delivering to black metal fans the resurgence of ancient spirit and sci-fi futurism that the genre has always proclaimed.
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Way back in the early 1990s, Niko Skorpio helmed a zine named Hammer of Damnation in addition to handling vocal duties in Thergothon.
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Were you hoping for happy Christmas greetings? Of course not!
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by Charles Alexander
The remix of The Coming of Chaos addresses production difficulties with a late release by a classic band, but struggles to overcome the hybrid of black metal and speed metal that was in vogue for a couple years but ultimately muddles the amazing composition within this album.
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Stick a bunch of Finns together in a winter war bunker with copies of Blood Fire Death and Under the Sign of the Black Mark, and you might get this imaginative band that stands astride black metal, speed metal, and epic heavy metal with an emphasis on changing atmosphere.
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