Kreator have announced an extensive 2017 tour with Sepultura in support of their yet-untitled, upcoming album.
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Kreator have announced an extensive 2017 tour with Sepultura in support of their yet-untitled, upcoming album.
2 CommentsTags: Europe, German Speed Metal, kreator, news, sepultura, Speed Metal, tour, tour dates, upcoming tours
Article by Lance Viggiano.
Innumerable Form’s Frozen to Death is a compelling and brief release which recalls Dark Descent’s roster yet avoids the calculated, clean retro nostalgia trips that mires their outfits. Motifs follow in the Darkthrone tradition of John Carpenter managing menace on a Casio. The melodic component of Innumerable Forms is steeped in Finnish death metal which delivered mystical melodies that sounded as if they were being recited by a saw blade descending into steel. Here the effect greater resembles mental anguish as if one was forced to say, “Yes!” to an incomprehensibly vast and hostile existence. Frozen to Death distinguishes itself from its inspirations in this way.
6 CommentsTags: 2012, death metal, demo, Frozen to Death, Innumerable Forms, review
Belarussian Ljosazabojstwa’s Staražytnaje licha has finally been released on CD.
6 CommentsTags: Black Metal, death metal, hellthrasher productions, Ljosazabojstwa, mystifier, news, reissue, Staražytnaje licha, War Metal
Article by David Rosales.
Released after Iron Maiden’s golden era, Somewhere in Time is touted by fans of heavy and power metal as a crown jewel of the band, exemplifying perfected expression and streamlined efficiency. This is not immediately convincing for metal hessians. Rightly so as the music became more sterile, hence, less credible. There is definitely a sense of “upgradedness” in both the production and the choice of stylistic voicings, allowing an inclusion of 80s pop coloration into the palette. This unclear, semi-sellout move demanded accountability, while at the same time the band boasted of accumulated experience fructifying the transformation, masterfully avoiding the typical degeneration that could be expected after the climax and summary of their original sound in 1985’s Live After Death.
34 CommentsTags: 1986, Heavy Metal, iron maiden, mainstream metal, NWOBHM, progressive metal, review, somewhere in time
The line up to 2016’s returning Summer Slaughter Tour has just been announced.
5 CommentsTags: Brutal Death Metal, cannibal corpse, death metal, deathcore, Krisiun, mainstream metal, news, nile, suffocation, techdeaf, Technical Death Metal, upcoming tours
Agalloch thankfully no longer exists after entering a depressive, suicidal spell over Death Metal Underground’s review of The Mantle. More after the jump.
19 CommentsTags: Agalloch, folk metal, hipster bullshit, news
Memoriam, the new project from Bolt Thrower veterans Karl Willets and Andy Whale, have announced that a demo will be released this summer…
No CommentsTags: Andy Whale, Bolt Thrower, Cosmic Key Creations, death metal, demo, festivals, karl willets, memoriam, tour dates, upcoming release
Gruesome have released a new music video and shared an exclusive brutal touring story with Death Metal Underground…
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This article was contributed to Death Metal Underground by Ludvig Boysen.
A lot of music claims to be metal without actually being metal these days. This music placed on equal footing with the classic metal masterpieces generates hostile reactions. But what if no one claimed that it was metal? How would we think of the music then? Would it be mislabeled good music or mere crap? That is what I try to find out with this review of The Mantle by Agalloch. I had a neutral and open mind while listening to it, not concerning myself with anything but the music itself.
23 CommentsTags: 2002, Agalloch, folk, folk metal, hipster bullshit, neofolk, review, The Mantle