Following the successful rollout of the first automated convenience store, Japan has broken yet another barrier by fleshing out what Nakatomi Corporation calls “the convenience store ecosystem.”
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Interview With Necrophiliac
We were fortunate enough to grab a few words from Necrophiliac as they wandered by in a blue twilight neon haze of cyberspace, and caught vocalist Bongo in a mood to reveal the secrets of this dark and primeval death metal sect.
10 CommentsTags: death metal, Necrophiliac, xtreem records
Diabolos Rising & Raism
Diabolos Rising/Raism manifested the work of two black metal musicians, George Zacharopoulos (music) from Necromantia and Mika Luttinen (vocals) from Impaled Nazarene, which allowed them to let out some ideas without having to compromise the integrity of their main bands.
2 CommentsTags: Black Metal, diabolos rising, impaled nazarene, Industrial, necromantia, raism
Convocation – Ashes Coalesce (2020)
Rare among doom metal bands, Convocation knows how to create a sustained mood with slowly crashing chords under rising gentle lead-picked melodies, building a contrast within each riff to which the gritty hoarse vocals provide a rhythmic anchor, drums drifting tangentially to both keep time and suspend it.
1 CommentTags: convocation, Doom Metal
Blasphemy Licenses “Initiation Of Confliction” War Metal Starter Guitar Kit
As a recognized founder of the war metal genre, the band Blasphemy represents martial conflict and infinite blasphemy. Now it may be the progenitor of future generations of war metal through its latest offering, a war metal starter guitar kit named “Initiation of Confliction” that includes all the necessities for creating a war metal project band.
3 CommentsDeathsiege – Unworthy Adversary (2020)
Following up on Cannibalistic Patricide, Deathsiege explores further into the idea of war metal as a voice for contrast instead of simply pounding the user into oblivion with many similar riffs arrayed like the tines and lanes of a maze.
3 CommentsTags: deathsiege, Israel, War Metal
Tenebra Re-Issues Through Crying Souls I See What I Was On Cult of Parthenope
Italian late-1980s style proto-black metal (Morbid, Venom, Tormentor, Goatlord) at its core, Tenebra speeds up the process somewhat and incorporates 1990s black metal of the Teutonic and Nordic varieties, eschewing the traditional melodic approach of Southern European bands for an advancing front of sawing riffs, using these to produce the backdrop for the slow emergence of atmospheric melody which stays minor-key without getting maudlin.
1 CommentTags: Black Metal, cult of parthenope, tenebra
Creature – Ex Cathedra (2020)
Metal needs a new sound and a new imagery ecosystem. 1970s metal had doom and warnings of the apocalypse, 1980s metal warned of collapse from within through choppy fractured sounds, and 1990s metal brought a fluid structuralism that emphasized pattern and order while embracing the evil that 1970s metal warned of and the chaos of the 1980s.
9 CommentsTags: creature, postmodern 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.
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Monstrosity Millennium: The Pinnacle of Technical Death Metal
Guest article by Svennerick
Released in August of 1996, Monstrosity’s second effort Millennium is an album I personally hold in very high regards, considering I nearly spent eight months listening to it multiple times a day. This is an addictive album and each new listen made it clearer why this album stands head and shoulders above anything released under the term “technical death metal.”
9 CommentsTags: analysis, death metal, millenium, monstrosity, Technical Death Metal
