Pursuing a precipice between cavernous death metal and uptempo technical death metal, Thaumaturgy fuses an Immolation sense of harmony with the raw chromatic rushing power of an Incantation or Obituary, tunneling deep into a density of sound with multiple internal breaks creating a running dialogue.
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On the surface very much in love with the Testimony of the Ancients era Pestilence, this band injects a sensibility of moods more like the technical albums from Immolation and Gorguts, replacing a frenetic urgency with more varied tempi and therefore, more adaptive riffing.
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When you think of the impetus behind Sammath and Kaeck, think of cooking: a careful adjustment of the ratio and granularity of ingredients in order to achieve the perfect effect. Trying to meld aggressive death metal and sinister black metal requires precise intent, like martial arts or assembling nukes.
24 CommentsTags: Black Metal, death metal, kaeck
Founding member of At the Gates vocalist Tomas Lindberg passed on to the grey lands yesterday from complications of cancer treatment. History will remember him for their epic first album, The Red in the Sky is Ours, which created the atmospheric metal genre in a new form.
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Folter Records plans to release the third Kaeck, Gruwelijk Onthaal, on September 18, 2025. The album features art by Dylan Humphries in a handmade woodcut style and shows Kaeck arriving on Earth, stepping on the broken souls and corpses of humanity.
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Exploring the new format that podcasts in the media firehose of mostly hollow hits out there, the NADS crew plus a familiar voice join up to rank the albums that were junctures in the branching path of evolution that brought us death metal and black metal.
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We know the underground is dead. It has been dead for thirty years, and we have killed it, by accepting music that imitated the methods of the past without understanding of the why. And yet we soldier on, seeking the few exceptions.
19 CommentsTags: Black Metal, death metal, music reviews, sadistic metal reviews, smr
Twenty-nine years have passed since Spiritual Decay was released, the last full-length from Lethal Prayer. Now, without any digital fanfare, we are presented its long-awaited successor: Sacrilege Infernus. No press release. No Bandcamp. No algorithmic offerings. No social media presence.
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With Sacrilege Infernus, Lethal Prayer offers a faithful yet expansive continuation of Spiritual Decay, and it adheres to the variegated song structures that defined earlier works from the band while allowing broader influences to permeate the release.
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Original underground revivalists Dissidence published the stream of their new album, Seven Crosses Impaled, which you can listen to here:
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