Like thrash before it, grindcore was born out of a convergence of elements of punk and metal. Where thrash combined metal song structure and intensity with the brevity and minimalism of punk, grindcore merged the most abrasive aspects of hardcore punk with the techniques of death metal of the oldest school, arriving at an uncompromisingly direct and streamlined torrent of atavistic rage.
16 CommentsTags: 1992, carcass, carcass clone, czech republic, Goregrind, Grindcore, pathologist, review
Hammerheart Records is repressing Nile’s In the Beginning demo collection on vinyl LP for every OCD collector who needs to own every single mediocre death metal band’s demo on vinyl.
11 CommentsTags: anthology, cash grab, death metal, demos, hammerheart, hammerheart records, news, nile, reissue, repress, vinyl
Polish nu-metal, formerly brutal death metal, band Decaptiated are accused not only of kidnapping but of gang raping some groupie.
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Deathcore playing sell-outs At the Gates got a new guitarist to replace Anders Björler so that the sell-outs can pickpocket their long suffering fans once more.
21 CommentsTags: At the Gates, cash grab, century media, century media records, deathcore, festivals, god macabre, GRID, jonas stålhammar, metalcore, news, sell-out, Sweden, upcoming shows
Former Megadeth shredder Marty Friedman attacked modern political correctness and the hypersensitivity of special snowflakes in a recent interview with the Cleveland Scene:
17 CommentsTags: AIDS, censorship, communism, communists, cultural marxism, Marty Friedman, news, political correctness, self-censorship, sjws, social realism, socialists, special snowflake
Underground metal was rapidly dying by the mid nineties. The more musically successful death and black metal bands became disenchanted with their resulting limited financial success as the hordes of poseurs poured in through the gates of Byzantium, creating commercial rock that merely imitated the tones and texture of the monumental statues of the metal greats. The more popular death metal bands tried and failed at becoming rock stars while many of the more luminous minds in Norwegian black metal bands were dead or imprisoned.
28 CommentsTags: 1999, arthur rackham, arthurian legend, article, Black Metal, excalibur, jan kruitwagen, john carpenter, king arthur, mythic, mythic imagination, Mythology, sammath, strijd
Dark Symphonies is reissuing Absu‘s debut Barathrum: V.I.T.R.I.O.L on CD from Proscriptor’s original DAT.
3 CommentsTags: absu, Black Metal, compact disc, Dark Symphonies, death metal, news, reissue, remaster, texas, texas metal
