Jason Kiss of Goatcraft has reinvented himself again with a podcast called Necropolis, and he graciously invited me on to talk about ANUS, Dark Legions Archive, the classic underground, and the nowadays internet and corporate/hipster metal.
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Longstanding death metal band Pestilence, attempting to hybridize its musical core through the vision of Patrick Mameli with a new generation of metal, has released the first track from its upcoming album Exitium named “Morbvs Propagationem.”
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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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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.”
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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.
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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.
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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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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 will re-issue The Oath of the Black Blood by seminal Finnish black metal band Beherit in the fall or winter of 2020.
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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
