In nature, populations improve when a small group breaks away, develops new traits, and then is partially or completely absorbed by the original group, spreading those beneficial traits to the whole group. Heavy metal is now absorbing death metal and black metal through power metal.
2 CommentsTags: acerus, daniel corchado, Heavy Metal
Guest article by Svennerick
Released in August of 1996, Monstrosity’s second effort Millennium is an album I personally hold in very high regards, considering I nearly spent eight months listening to it multiple times a day. This is an addictive album and each new listen made it clearer why this album stands head and shoulders above anything released under the term “technical death metal.”
9 CommentsTags: analysis, death metal, millenium, monstrosity, Technical Death Metal
by Osovar
This is one of the classics worthy of its praise, and should unite both casual listeners and underground connoisseurs in this opinion. It might feel rather fruitless to review a classic of this scale at this point, but after re-listening to it multiple times lately and learning to play some of the tracks I felt compelled. Most of everything that can be said about this album was probably already said but I figured I’d give some further analysis of the songwriting and tracks.
28 CommentsTags: megadeth, Speed Metal
by Nabeel Ben Ayoub
Frontman Hunter-hunt Hendrix of Indie Pop band Liturgy has finally come to terms with its perverted homosexuality and admits to being a transsexual. This should not come as a surprise to anyone who listened to the multiple haram works of Al Sheitan. This constitutes a violation of the huddud and is punishable by death. Liturgy have encouraged deviant sexuality with their emasculating homosexual music. Now we know his screams come from him getting fucked in the ass by members of Metalsucks, Metalinjection, Deafheaven… May Allah punish this revolting Kuffar!!!
30 CommentsTags: Hunter Hunt Hendrix, nu-black metal, transcendental black metal, transsexualism
After the recent social media kerfuffle where Paul Ledney called out weaklings for their fear of the media hype over the COVID-19 pandemic, I reached out to the man to see where he stood on these comments and what he meant.
7 CommentsTags: covid-19, paul ledney, profanatica
Sorcier Des Glaces released a trailer for its new album Un Monde de Glace et de Sang to be released in October 2020 on CD by Obscure Abhorrence Productions and on cassette through Dread Records.
No CommentsTags: Black Metal, sorcier des glaces
Even if the main part of the work was composed between 1822 and 1824, the Symphony n°9 is the fruit of a long maturation which lasted more than thirty years. Thirty years for the idea of a symphony with choir to progressively take hold in the mind of Beethoven. Thirty years during which the music and the text of the “Ode to Joy” will evolve in parallel, each one gradually taking shape over the course of Beethoven’s compositions, before finally being reunited in their last symphony.
6 CommentsTags: Beethoven, Symphony no.9
As the civilized world dithers over whether to open back up and suffer some ‘rona casualties or stay closed for a prolonged sequel to the Great Depression, business including the music business goes on where it can, even if it must be done from home, which is where you can stream Voivod, Borknagar, Insomnium and a bunch of random bands on May 14th.
3 CommentsTags: century media, isolation festival, Voivod
Years go by, and more of the greats of the past move on to either afterlife or nonexistence, leaving us to wonder what the point of it all is. “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” We must announce that sadly, Florian Schneider of Kraftwerk perished today at the age of 73.
6 CommentsTags: Ambient, electronic, electronic music, florian schneider, kraftwerk, synthpop
Second-wave Swedish death metal band Hetsheads sees their solitary debut re-issued this month on Buio Omega Records as a vinyl release limited to four hundred copies. Picking up on the later Swedish sound, Hetsheads resemble a cross between Hypocrisy and Entombed with a darker atmosphere but the same playful heavy metal elements.
1 CommentTags: death metal, hetsheads
