For the low price of only $129.99, you can acquire the 25th anniversary box set release of Mayhem Me Mysteriis Dom Sathanas, a five-LP release including all versions of the best-known Mayhem album and the one that, as digestible black metal with throwbacks to heavy metal, inspired many to undertake the genre.
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Heavy metal and grindcore hybrid Collision decided to split up last August, but went into the studio two months later to record their remaining songs as a mini-album entitled The Final Kill which showcased the evolution of their 1980s-era mix of genres.
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Some reviews you can write like people in rom-coms from Hollywood. You set up your MacBook on the rear veranda, overlooking the pool and the palm trees of Los Angeles, or maybe the soft lush vegetation of Martha’s Vineyard or the Riviera. Then you pour a glass of wine, and write quite happily in your own little bubble.
10 CommentsTags: progressive metal, timeghoul
Belgian grindcore band Aborted note that their upcoming EP La Grande Mascarade will hit stores and download queues on April 17, 2020. The EP features studio recordings of “Gloom and the Art of Tribulation”, “Serpent of Depravity,” and “Funereal Malediction.”
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Having release their last album eight years ago, Naglfar seemed senescent but has introduced its latest effort, Cerecloth, for release on May 8, 2020, via Century Media Records. Recorded and mixed at Wolf’s Lair Studio and mastered by Dan Swanö at Unisound, the album promises to follow previous Naglfar melodic black metal efforts.
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Post-Molested Norwegian blackened death metal band Borknagar joins avant-jazz / heavy metal hybrid Rotting Christ for a North American tour in 2020 named “Devastation on the Nation,” including guests Wolfheart, Abigail Williams, and Imperial Triumphant.
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Fans are reporting that online music streaming service Spotify has removed the Slayer album Repentless from the service in Mexico. If this is verified, it may show that online services are further adjusting their content to each nationality in order to avoid local taboos, including blasphemy and violence.
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The case of Rob Darken is a symptomatic one. He is undeniably the most important (and enduring!) metal musician from Poland and Eastern Europe in history. And yet, when black metal or folk is concerned, even on his own soil he is overlooked in favor of others, like Behemoth or Percival Schuttenbach respectively, solely on basis of some external attributes of their music. It seems that for some time now Darken is trying to gain at least a bit of the recognition he deserves: the exposure in Nergal’s biography, playing live with both Graveland and Lord Wind, and now the changes in the very formula of Lord Wind on The Forest Is My Kingdom.
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One can find much to like on this later grindcore release, but it never quite gained traction in the canon. One wonders why, since it has Bolt Thrower and Carcass styled thunderous fairly technical grindcore, guttural vocals that sear ears and hope simultaneously, and carefully paced songs which accelerate for choruses.
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To Make Rotten was initially released in 1991 by the band Sepsis and only seventy handmade copies existed at the time. La Caverna records have re-released this record twenty eight years of its initial release. While many expect another band that is rediscovered uniquely for existing at the right time and having a certain “spirit”. Sepsis put these claims to rest with a good demo that shows untapped potential.
2 CommentsTags: Grindcore, la caverna records, sepsis
