As discussed here before, the real question to a reviewer is, “Would you buy this?” My answer to Eight Headed Serpent might be no, but I would certainly stream it.
7 CommentsTags: Black Metal, impaled nazarene
Ascète – Calamites & les Calamités (2021)
Creating a version of black metal determined to go back underground, Ascète combine influences from melodic black metal, epic black metal, and the simple but energetic melodies of Oi, using song structures at the edge of randomness to develop strongly anthemic themes.
5 CommentsTags: ascete, Black Metal, oi
How To Review Metal Albums
The libertarians are correct: everything is an industry, at least until higher commitments or pretenses intervene. Metal music makes money, so not only has it become an industry, but promotions is a burgeoning industry, as is reviewing.
33 CommentsTags: abstraction, fisting, mission, purpose, sodomy, theory
Drawn and Quartered – Congregation Pestilence (2021)
Coming from an old school death metal background, Drawn and Quartered make a messy version of the heaving and battering style of percussive but primitive death metal that early Immolation and Cianide explored, mixing almost raw noise into thundering metal.
18 CommentsTags: death metal, Drawn and Quartered
Graveland Releases “The Wolf of Twilight” From Hour of Ragnarok
Classic flowing black metal band Graveland has returned, modifying their swing toward folkish soundtrack metal with more rigid, hardcore-style riffs in idenfiably metal songs spanning the black metal, death metal, and heavy metal genres.
1 CommentTags: Black Metal, graveland
New Sammath Patches Appear in the Wild
Excoriating black metal band Sammath has unleashed a new crop of patches for your kutte or battle jacket, or maybe the sails on your yacht; these can be found from the Sammath direct merchandising site.
20 CommentsTags: Black Metal, merch, sammath
Shards of Humanity – Cold Logic (2020)
Cold Logic offers thrashy, frantic death metal for caffeinated guitar shredders. Simple songs center around repetitive themes that undergo minor development through rhythmic variation, layering with lead guitar, and juxtaposition of complimentary ideas.
1 CommentTags: shards of humanity, Thrash
Resurgency – No Worlds… Nor Gods Beyond (2017)
Resurgency play blasting death metal in the tradition of Morbid Angel and Malevolent Creation. No Worlds… Nor Gods Beyond excels in a cogent, muscular delivery and a breakneck speed that give the impression of darkness sweeping over and engulfing the world.
No CommentsTags: death metal, resurgency
Hasufel – Exaltation (2021)
Merge dungeon synth with industrial and you get atmospheric industrial music that drives itself with sound samples and gently intermingling keyboard riffs at a glacial pace, perfect for creating an enduring mood but perhaps not the jarring expressions that metal refines.
2 CommentsTags: dungeon industrial, dungeon synth, hasufel, Industrial
Remembering Jeff Hanneman
Alongside Hellhammer, Bathory, and Sodom, Slayer helped invent the raw sound of death metal, which combined the literality of hardcore with the imaginative atmospheres of heavy metal and the structural composition of progressive rock and classical.
10 CommentsTags: death metal, jeff hanneman, slayer
