Legendary Swedish progressive death metal band At the Gates, fresh on the heels of passing on to the dark realm of vocalist Tomas Lindberg, has commissioned faithful re-issues of its first three albums.
20 CommentsTags: At the Gates, death metal
Temora – Demo 2025 (2025)
There comes to us a release showing us that the old art is not dead. A group of friends gets together in a rehearsal room to put together intricate riffs that carry a narrative. They test the rhythms back to back, a structure emerges that sustains and modulates energy. There is articulation in its diction, as there should be in writing or in speaking. Well-made music grows as a living vine, with heaves and breathing rhythms, that even in the midst of the putrefaction and desolation they are meant to evoke, produce psychic and infectious life, the destiny of which is to lodge itself into your brain. That parasite, which can indeed grow monstrous and insidious, is what the long-time death metal listener knows as pure enjoyment of this music of death.
85 CommentsTags: 2025 demo, czechia, death metal, temora
Sadistic Metal Reviews: Return to Carnage Edition
Sometimes death is waiting just around the corner. Sometimes death is the best option.
17 CommentsTags: AIDS Wolf, Aurora Disease, Black Reuss, Dark Phantom, Devil Empire, Epigram, Kaleidobolt, Karelian Warcry, Project .44, Sadistc Metal Reviews
Kaeck Stormkult Remaster (2026)
Kaeck Stormkvlt has been remastered by Zwaertgevegt Productions and released on vinyl for diehard metal fanatics to appreciate an even fuller sound.
36 CommentsTags: Black Metal, kaeck
Beherit – Live in Praha CZ (2025)
In recent years founding bands which unable to do big tours back when they were revealed as genre-builders, have emerged to undertake the professional tour experience now that they can do so easily.
28 CommentsTags: beherit, Black Metal
The Blues Brothers (1980)
We thinking apes who live through memories of conclusions derived from event change in sense simulacra of the world find ourselves continually going over memory, wondering if what we know now is what we knew then and if it is even real.
6 CommentsTags: capeshit, film, french revolution narrative, slapstick
Guitars Not Vocals Drive (Good) Metal
Metal scientists at the Institute of Hessian Studies (IHS) today revealed research that shows definitely how the guitar as the lead compositional instrument leads heavy metal songs but not rock ones.
31 CommentsTags: analysis, metal, music theory, vocals
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Very few movies manage to be relevant, or to show us something about life that makes us want to re-engage from our comfortable armchair debt servitude, and very few do it so insightfully and elegantly that they might be “classics,” but this film surely qualifies.
11 CommentsTags: cinema, francis ford coppola, john milius, joseph conrad, t.s. eliot
Sammath Godless Arrogance Remaster 2025
When future historians sift through the remains of our civilization, they will recognize Strijd and Godless Arrogance as the defining albums from Sammath, which is fortunate because the latter just got a remaster.
5 CommentsTags: Black Metal, sammath
Onslaught, Warlord, and New Skeletal Faces Tour 2026
Transitional speed/death/punk/NWOBHM hybrid Onslaught shocked the world (or at least the five hundred metalheads paying attention) with their Power From Hell album that pushed metal further toward both extremity and an odd literary-mythological sense of authenticity instead of an individualistic one.
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