Crushing death metal band Asphyx announced their intent to release their tenth full-length album, Necroceros, on January 21, 2021 via Century Media.
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Sacramentum – Finis Malorum (2020)
Trendy albums age poorly, but those written for eternity tend to maintain their stature even as people gain more experience and cynicism over the years. Finis Malorum stands up to time with a new edition that includes the “Sedes Impiorum” demo, two covers, and an early track.
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Gravfraktal – Unhallowed Death Triumph (2020)
Metal finds itself adrift between major movements, having perfected itself with black metal, especially as the genre re-incorporated death metal influences. Morons took that back into rock with “technical death metal” and “post-metal,” and the underground retaliated by becoming hardcore punk with “war metal.”
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Deeds of Flesh Reveal New Track “Alyen Scourge” From Forthcoming Nucleus
Technical percussive death metal band Deeds of Flesh (similar to Suffocation, Kataklysm, or Malevolent Creation) releases its ninth studio album, Nucleus, on December 11 of this year. Overcoming the loss of founder and guitarist Erik Lindmark in 2018, the band has come back with an updated sound and style.
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COVID-19 Only Attacks When We’re Having Fun, Scientists Reveal
COVID-19 — the bizarre virus from Wuhan, China that is part HIV, part bat flu, and part pure demonic evil — only attacks when we are having a good time, scientists have revealed. This necessitates the closing of all bars, pubs, restaurants, concert venues, and record stores, but not tax offices, tire shops, or proctologists.
3 CommentsTags: alcoholism, covid-19, death metal, proctology, satire
Obituary Launches Live-Streaming Concert Series For Covid Isolati
Grinding, brooding doom-death metal band Obituary have launched a platform for pay-per-view concerts, each based around an era of their material: Slowly We Rot, Cause of Death, and everything else (“Rare Classics and Special Tracks”). For your $15 you get a live Obituary show beamed into your living room three nights this year.
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Maleficarum Releases Unblessed Vol. 2 Compilation of Ancient Recordings
Italian progressive-but-aggressive death metal band Maleficarum delighted many who liked its black metal influenced range of moods but tendency to return to Slayer, Morbid Angel, Vader, and Hypocrisy style ripping intricate riffs with a forward momentum that potentiated their complexity and intensity.
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Soulburn Announces New Album Noa’s D’ark
Soulburn split from the legendary Asphyx, taking the guitarist from their best album, Asphyx, and allowing him to create with a new staff who aimed to keep the delicious recipe of primitive riffs adding up to complex, changing moods revealing an inner state to each song.
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Baphomet – Death In The Beginning Re-Issues Classic Rough Mix
Baphomet like much early death metal represented the human subconscious, and the riff patterns and rhythms used in its songs reflect the thoughts just below our level of perception, a kind of framework to life discovered underneath the human hubbub, plastic, and chrome.
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Macabre Releases Carnival of Killers on November 13, 2020
Technical death metal band Macabre, who straddle the line between death metal and grindcore with their tightly-choreographed songs on the topic of serial killers, have slated their newest album Carnival of Killers for release on November 13, 2020 via Nuclear Blast.
10 CommentsTags: death metal, Grindcore, macabre
