Xtreem Music has struck again by selecting the 1989 Asphyx demo “Crush the Cenotaph” as one of their upcoming Ten Inches of DeathCult series re-releases.
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Massacre Records Re-releasing Atrocity Todessehnsucht on Vinyl
For the first time since its inception in 1992, the Atrocity album Todessehnsucht will be available on vinyl LP. According to the release schedule at Massacre Records,Todessehnsucht is slated to be re-released on July 24th of this year.
11 CommentsTags: Atrocity, death metal
Triptykon featuring The Metropole Orkest – Requiem (Live At Roadburn 2019) (2020)
This album will make waves because it is going to divide audiences based on who will give it a chance and who will categorically ignore it; this, like trolling, is the pure provocation that forms a necessary part of Art as opposed to Entertainment. The album possesses a fatal flaw, but makes up for it with some of the more interesting experiments within the notion of doom — dark, melancholic, sentimental, but not self-pitying — sounds, going beyond metal and rock in composition.
9 CommentsTags: Ambient, atmospheric, celtic frost, death metal, hellhammer, triptykon
Sinister Releasing Deformation of the Holy Realm On May 29, 2020
Following up on their surprisingly competent 2017 albumSyncretism, Dutch death metal masters Sinister have released a new single entitled, Deformation of the Holy Realm in preparation for the release of their latest album of the same name due out May 29th via Massacre records.
5 CommentsTags: death metal, sinister
Monstrosity Millennium: The Pinnacle of Technical Death 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
Xtreem Music Announces Release Of Incantation “Demo #1” Via 10 Inches of Deathcult
Xtreem Music continues to unearth the past via their 10 Inches of Deathcult Series, and has announced plans to re-release the 1990 demo entitled Demo #1 by longstanding death metal veterans Incantation. Demo #1 features early versions of classic tracks that would eventually find their way onto Onward to Golgotha and features Mortician founder and vocalist Will Rahmer on vocals.
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That 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
Hetsheads …We Hail The Possessed Sees Vinyl Re-Issue On Buio Omega Records
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.
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Kill or Be Killed! – The Warfare Behind Deeds of Flesh’s Mark Of The Legion
Guest Article by Svennerick
Deeds Of Flesh’s music is known for breaking from the conventional, but unlike many other bands who resolve to untypical instruments or gimmicks, Deeds Of Flesh portray their own variety of death metal through the war that rages within their song structures and riffs.
10 CommentsThrashing Madness Re-Issues Betrayer Demos On Necronomical Exmortis / Forbidden Personality
Thrashing Madness Productions recently re-released both Betrayer “Necronomical Exmortis” and “Forbidden Personality” demos as a single Necronomical Exmortis / Forbidden Personality CD. Full length Calamity remains planned for the future.
3 CommentsTags: betrayer, death metal, Speed Metal
