Musicians in the 1960s thought a lot about getting beyond scales, chords, and key, and making pure music, but the results usually ended in chaos because they were still thinking about music. K.K. Null creates dynamic sonic textures that convey a poetic sense of contrast and evolution, and uses that to create beauty from ugliness.
5 CommentsTribalism In Music
Hippie intellectual poseurs The Guardian are like a broken compass: whatever direction it indicates is North can be safely assumed not to be North. Their foaming vat of slime mold and anal yeast that manages the music section produced a shrill complaint about tribalism in music:
8 CommentsTags: assimilation, tribalism
Massacre Records Re-releasing Atrocity Todessehnsucht on Vinyl
For the first time since its inception in 1992, the Atrocity album Todessehnsucht will be available on vinyl LP. According to the release schedule at Massacre Records,Todessehnsucht is slated to be re-released on July 24th of this year.
11 CommentsTags: Atrocity, death metal
Triptykon featuring The Metropole Orkest – Requiem (Live At Roadburn 2019) (2020)
This album will make waves because it is going to divide audiences based on who will give it a chance and who will categorically ignore it; this, like trolling, is the pure provocation that forms a necessary part of Art as opposed to Entertainment. The album possesses a fatal flaw, but makes up for it with some of the more interesting experiments within the notion of doom — dark, melancholic, sentimental, but not self-pitying — sounds, going beyond metal and rock in composition.
9 CommentsTags: Ambient, atmospheric, celtic frost, death metal, hellhammer, triptykon
Insomnium Will Stream Live Concert on May 29
Melodic Finnish death metal band Insomnium will play a coronavirus virtual live concert on Friday, May 29, starting at 1:00 PM EDT. The show will consist of the Winter’s Gate album in total plus a smattering other songs from previous albums, and will be followed by a live chat with fans.
6 CommentsTags: Insomnium, melodic metal
Corvus Corax Streaming Living Concert On Thursday, May 21
Medieval neofolk band Corvus Corax plans to stream a live concert on Thursday, May 21, live at 6:00 PM CET from the band farm in Berlin Lübars. Like other coronavirus events, this one promises a lively show that you can enjoy from the comfort of your living room, phone, or a tablet nailed to the wall of your basement.
2 CommentsTags: corvus corax, neofolk
Triptykon With The Metropole Orkest Releases “Rex Irae” From Requiem
Attempting to sound the depths of the vision Tom G. Warrior had for Hellhammer, Celtic Frost, and now Triptykon, the band joins with orchestral layers of sound from The Metropole Orkest to release an extensive doom metal, gothic metal, and heavy metal onslaught.
No CommentsTags: celtic frost, Doom Metal, hellhammer, the metropole orkest, triptykon
Sinister Releasing Deformation of the Holy Realm On May 29, 2020
Following up on their surprisingly competent 2017 albumSyncretism, Dutch death metal masters Sinister have released a new single entitled, Deformation of the Holy Realm in preparation for the release of their latest album of the same name due out May 29th via Massacre records.
5 CommentsTags: death metal, sinister
Acerus Releases The Tertiary Rite
In nature, populations improve when a small group breaks away, develops new traits, and then is partially or completely absorbed by the original group, spreading those beneficial traits to the whole group. Heavy metal is now absorbing death metal and black metal through power metal.
2 CommentsTags: acerus, daniel corchado, Heavy Metal
Trouble Psalm 9 and The Skull Go Back Into Print
Hammerheart Records is preparing to re-release Trouble Psalm 9 and The Skull this coming June and has announced that pre-orders are now available. Both albums have been fully restored and will be available on CD/LP/MC/and in digital form.
4 CommentsTags: Doom Metal, Heavy Metal, trouble