Tickets are still available for Svart Records‘ upcoming death metal show in Helsinki.
1 CommentTags: convulse, death metal, Demilich, festivals, Finland, Finnish Death Metal, live shows, svart records
Antichrist Summer 2016 European Tour
Swedish speed metal band Antichrist is embarking a small European tour inbetween some festival dates they are playing this summer.
No CommentsTags: Antichrist, news, Speed Metal, Sweden, tour dates, upcoming tours
Yes – Fragile (1971)
By Johan P, with the amiable assistance of David Rosales. This review continues Death Metal Underground’s 1970s Progressive Rock for Hessians series.
In this part of the article series “1970s Progressive Rock for Hessians”, I have chosen to take on the English group Yes‘ fourth album Fragile from 1971. While their fifth effort, Close to the Edge, is generally regarded as their creative peak and definite statement, Fragile was more important for the development of the nascent progressive rock genre, and perhaps a more suitable entry point for someone who is getting into prog rock from a metal background. There is definitely a sense of power in the works of Yes even if it takes on a different form than what we are used to in metal music. Where early metal bands like Black Sabbath expressed a gritty, doom-laden heaviness through guitar-centered power chord riffing, Yes opted to build momentum through a more instrumentally integrated approach. That is not to say that there are no heavy guitar parts on ‘Fragile’, but here the guitars assume a somewhat different role than in metal.
19 CommentsTags: 1970s, 1970s Progressive Rock for Hessians, 1971, Fragile, musical analysis, prog rock, progressive, progressive rock, rock, Yes
Sorcery Stream New Album Garden of Bones
C-list Swedish death metal band Sorcery are streaming their upcoming album.
1 CommentTags: death metal, Garden of Bones, news, sorcery, stream, Swedeath, Swedish Death Metal, xtreem music
Incantation – Tribute to the Goat CD Reissue
The Editor on Olkoth – The Immortal Depths
Olkoth clearly wrote a few riffs and leads that could be effective on their own.
No CommentsTags: 2016, black 'n roll, Black Metal, counter-review, medieval metal, Olkoth, psychedelic, re-review, review, wanking
David Vincent: From Necronomicon to Nascar
Article by Lance Viggiano.
If it wasn’t already obvious from his PVC and faux cowboy touring get up borrowed from Nikki Sixx; David Vincent finally abandons any pretense of interest in metal music by trading his lace for the lasso.
18 CommentsTags: country, country music, country western, Covenant, Dave Vincent, david vincent, homosexuality, morbid angel, news, sell-out
Slayer Fall 2016 North American Tour with Death Angel and Anthrax
Slayer are touring North America this fall with lesser eighties speed metal bands Death Angel and Anthrax. I’m still hoping for a SlayExodus tour where the same lineup plays 75% Slayer and 25% Exodux material. Slayer Fan Club members (Does anyone who doesn’t watch the WWF pay to join this?) may preorder tickets now; sales to the general public go on sale Friday.
4 CommentsKerry King: “It’s always super fun for us to tour with Anthrax. Frank is one of my best friends in the biz!! Put that together with Death Angel, and fans will probably see the best package this year. See you there!”
With more dates to be announced, here is the confirmed itinerary:
SEPTEMBER
9 Jacob’s Pavilion, Cleveland, OH
10 Freedom Hill Amphitheatre, Detroit, MI
12 Sound Academy, Toronto, ON
13 Metropolis, Montreal, QC
15 Stage AE, Pittsburgh, PA
17/18 Rock Allegiance, Chester, PA*
20 Egyptian Room, Indianapolis, IN
22 The Pageant, St. Louis, MO
27 Hard Rock Live, Orlando, FL
28 Fillmore, Miami, FL
30 Horseshoe Casino Tunica, Tunica, MSOCTOBER
3 Norva, Norfolk, VA
5 Tabernacle, Atlanta, GA
7 Gas Monkey Live, Dallas, TX
8 ACL at the Moody Theatre, Austin, TX
10 Fillmore, Denver, CO
11 The Complex, Salt Lake City, UT
13 The Wilma Theatre, Missoula, MT
17 ENMAX Center, Lethbridge, AB
19 South Okanagan Events Centre, Penticton, BC
20 Abbotsford Centre, Abbotsford, BC
23 Reno Events Center, Reno, NV
27 El Paso County Coliseum, El Paso, TX* Slayer, Anthrax and Death Angel are all on this bill.
Tags: anthrax, death angel, news, slayer, tour, tour dates, US tour
Dead Congregation Repress Purifying Consecrated Ground
Dead Congregation have repressed their debut EP, Purifying Consecrated Ground, on frontman Anastasis Valtsanis’s own Martyrdoom Productions label in digipak CD format. The new fans the band picked up with their last album, Promulgation of the Fall, will finally have a chance to own a physical copy of the band’s most concise work.
7 CommentsTags: atmospheric metal, dead congregation, death metal, Martyrdoom Productions, news, Purifying Consecrated Ground, reissue
Free Dark Descent and Unspeakable Axe Records Sampler CD
Dark Descent and Unspeakable Axe Records have released a new free sampler CD of their recent upcoming releases. It is freely available with a purchase from the Dark Descent online store and for free download on their Bandcamp page with four additional tracks that couldn’t fit on the CD.
6 CommentsThe new Dark Descent Records/Unspeakable Axe 2016 CD sampler is now available. This is a FREE sampler and available with purchase through our web store and at Unspeakable Axe. Included on the disc is 16 tracks (8 from each label) with premieres from Blood Incantation, Excommunion, Lantern and Ruinous. The sampler also includes an discount code good for our web stores. Get yours now before it’s too late!
Trenchrot – Hell Pilot’s Call
Blood Incantation – Chaoplasm
Ripper – Anthropophagic Life
Ghoulgotha – The Sulphur Age
Hemotoxin – Transparent Eyes
Sheidim – Without Reins
Nucleus – Cube
Excommunion – Nemesis
Mortal Scepter – Violent Revenge
Nox Formulae – Hidden Clan NXN
Scorched – Lust for Strangulation
Lantern – Cleansing of the Air
Manic Scum – Strapped to the Gurney
Ellorsith – Jerome I
Obscure Evil – Enchants of Bitterness
Ruinous – Dragmarks
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