Sardinian black metal cadre Infamous recently released its most recent album, Muttos Pro S’Aristocratzia, on CD for a new generation of fans to appreciate this somewhat difficult to acquire offering.
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Absu Re-Launches As Proscriptor McGovern’s Apsû
After ending Absu earlier this year in response to an attempted political guilt related seizure by a transsexual guitarist, Proscriptor McGovern has relaunched the band with a similar logo, biography, and approach as “Proscriptor McGovern’s Apsû.”
11 CommentsTags: absu, agonia records, apsu, Heavy Metal
CDC Announces Self-Immolation As New Protocol For COVID-19 Infection
Moments after denying that the United States has gone into full panic over COVID-19, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Robert Redfield announced a new protocol to permanently eradicate the coronavirus from America. “We must protect the uninfected, and the best way to do that is for the infected to commit violent suicide,” he said.
7 CommentsTags: anthony fauci, covid-19, robert redfield, self-immolation
Incantation Release Teaser Track “Propitiation” From Sect of Vile Divinities
Onrushing soundwall death metal band Incantation merge influences from their first three albums on “Propitiation,” an advance track from the forthcoming album Sect of Vile Divinities to be released on August 21, 2020. This album shows Incantation exploring its doom-death roots while keeping its streamlined songwriting format from recent albums.
1 CommentTags: death metal, doom death metal, incantation
Nuclear War Now! Productions Re-Issues Amputation (Pre-Immortal/Hades) Demos
Before Immortal came to life, guitarist Demonaz worked on a hybrid of primitive death metal and Bathory in a band he formed with later Hades drummer Jørn Inge Tunsberg. Nuclear War Now! productions will release the two Amputation demos as a single CD/LP entitled Slaughtered in the Arms of God on August 20, 2020.
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Metallica Removes Problematic Language From Master of Puppets
Amid rising calls for racial justice in the wake of the George Floyd death at the hands of police, terms like “master” have fallen out of favor due to their associations with slavery and feudalism. Consequently, industry leaders like GitHub and the Houston Association of Realtors are discontinuing use of these terms.
145 CommentsTags: master of puppets, metallica, social justice
Nuclear War Now! Productions Announces Re-Issue of Beherit The Oath of Black Blood
Nuclear War Now Productions will re-issue The Oath of the Black Blood by seminal Finnish black metal band Beherit in the fall or winter of 2020.
9 CommentsThat Glorious “I Believe In The Dark Lord” Sample From Necrophobic “Unholy Prophecies” (The Nocturnal Silence)
Every now and then, someone says (or writes) something so inane that the only proper response seems to be to quote the archly disturbing rant sampled in Necrophobic “Unholy Prophecies” from their 1993 melodic Swedish death metal album The Nocturnal Silence which goes something like this:
16 CommentsTags: covid-19, dean koontz, death metal, i believe in the dark lord, necrophobic, Satanism, the nocturnal silence
Profanatica Attacks Nu-Black Poseurs For Fear Of COVID-19
Paul Ledney of Profanatica/Havohej presents one of those personalities who navigate the world by gut instinct but generally uncover more than they know at the time. Much as in his black metal career, in his role as cultural critic of the black metal scene, Ledney put his finger on the rot at the heart of the community with recent comments on the COVID-19 panic or pandemic.
21 CommentsTags: covid-19, profanatica
Gore House Productions Releases Sampler With Proceeds Going To St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
Extreme music label Gore House Productions released its Decade of Demise sampler early this morning featuring 42 tracks of grindcore, death metal, deathgrind, goregrind, and metalcore-influenced death metal, with all proceeds going to St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital.
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