The most recent Nielsen rates provide food for thought:
19 CommentsAlbum units overall fell 13.6 percent, with 100.3 million total sales. (more…)
Tags: funderground, music streaming, podcasts, radio, vinyl
How To Know Your Genre Is Played Out (And Suitable Only For Wal-mart Hipsters)
A recent flyer for a record label of otherwise quality states:
34 CommentsOn the one year anniversary of her critically-acclaimed, masterful debut full-length, M, Danish black metal artist MYRKUR unveils a captivating live recording from the historic Emanuel Vigeland Mausoleum in Oslo, Norway. (more…)
Tags: Black Metal, hipsters, Myrkur, wal-mart
Discharge Announce Rescheduled Tour Dates
Discharge announced their rescheduled tour dates after being forced to cancel their summer tour due to visa issues.
5 CommentsTags: crust, d-beat, discharge, Hardcore Punk, nuclear blast records, tour, tour dates, upcoming tours
Cryptopsy Mexico Suffer Tour 2016
Cryptopsy are coming to Mexico this year. With only one member of their prime lineup remaining in drummer Flo Mournier, they probably won’t be particularly vile.
11 CommentsTags: Brutal Death Metal, cryptopsy, death metal, mexico, techdeaf, tour, tour dates, upcoming tours
Kataxu – Roots Thunder (2000)
Article by Anton Rudrick.
Consciously transcendental, voluntarily anachronistic, causing despondent exasperation among the pretentious and the untermensch. Kataxu blends the phantasmagorical reveries of dungeon synth with brief, unidentifiable nods to the nordic triune of atmospheric evil black metal. Kataxu Roots Thunder escapes morphing into ‘flowing black metal‘, layers majestically, layers in hiding, layers hiding, forms and shapes…
8 CommentsTags: 2000, Black Metal, Kataxu, poland, Polish Black Metal, review, Roots Thunder
Dream Theater to play in Belo Horizonte
Article by Jon Faugustus.
Dream Theater will be presenting themselves in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, at the Teatro Minascentro. This event adds to one more high-grade theater venue being defiled by the conformist pop this bands sells out to insecure young adults, and ex-Motley Crue fans going through middle life crisis.
Brazil, like Japan, is one of the go-to countries for any mainstream band seeking international recognition. The metal fandom there is as unoriginal and undescerning in their tastes as in the metal the artists produce. This is why it is not surprising to find 1/10000 bands worth listening to occasionally arising from such geographic locations.
6 CommentsTags: carnival music, dream theater, mainstream metal, mental retardation, pseudo-progressive, random
New Periphery album on July 22
Article by Jon Faugustus.
Djent band Periphery to release new album, Periphery III: Select Difficulty, on July 22nd, 2016. This upcoming album further consolidates Periphery’s reputation as the leading non-metal hipster band.
Standing out as an out-of-the-closet Pantera tribute band, Periphery has made a name for itself in the Pro-Tools community and the Mac users forum. The band has come to be known for their anti-establishment, anti-genre-classification, anti-gender-classification, anti-making-sense postures that sets them appart from anything in the rational universe, fitting perfectly in the make-believe world of millenials and the pampered liberal youth.
Tags: hipster bullshit, metalcore, Periphery, stinking shit, wanking
War Master Preview “Penetrating the Unknown”
War Master previewed another new track today from their upcoming LP:
1 CommentTags: death metal, houston, new song, new track, texas, war master
Hate Mail (#6)
Arktogäa took issue with our review of their feeble attempt to glue nongermane hardcore to black metal using Nazi samples:
21 CommentsTags: Arktogäa, beer metal, Hardcore, Hardcore Punk, Hate Mail, idiots, metalcore, modern metal, national socialism, national socialist black metal, nazis, Nazism, neo-nazis, nsbm
Ghoulgotha – To Starve the Cross (2016)
Article by Corey M.
To Starve the Cross sounds like the result of having chopped up a dozen good death metal songs and pasted the bits back together in such a way to eliminate any sense of continuity. Ghoulgotha is obviously made up of experienced and skilled players including the drummer of Ascended Dead and the guitarist from Father Befouled and Decrepitaph (among several other projects).
No CommentsTags: dark descent, dark descent records, death metal, Doom Metal, Ghoulgotha, modern death metal, modern metal, review, To Starve the Cross
