As if to acknowledge that Chuck Schuldiner died of AIDS on Valentine’s Day, the official merchandisers for Death have introduced a new line of Death merchandise featuring pink and kittens.
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Master – Saints Dispelled (2024)
Many of us enjoy death metal and particularly Master, a crossover between garage rock and proto-death metal, but we might acknowledge the Late Stage Hardcore problem here: when a genre gets too solidified, it becomes formula, and the formula reduces its core to the same thing as everything else.
92 CommentsTags: death metal, late stage hardcore, master
Vulnificus – Inextricable (2023)
Very few bands these days seem to honestly enjoy what they do, more being focused on ticking boxes on the underground death metal checklist, but Vulnificus seem to enjoy making compelling structured noise with the urgency of old Pestilence or Suffocation.
28 CommentsTags: death metal, vulnificus
Death by Metal (2016)
Coming from the genre of fan films pretending to be documentaries, Death by Metal tries to make Death frontman Chuck Schuldiner into a legend of metal who invented death metal out of thin air. In doing so, it panders to the nostalgia and hard rocker audience but misses many opportunities.
80 CommentsCelebrating 37 Years of Reign in Blood
Death metal, like heavy metal itself, merged from murky origins that shoveled many influences into more of a classical style of through-composed music based on phrase and not harmony with vocals, basing the music around the guitar as a lead instrument, adding in lyrical tropes from Romantic poetry.
67 CommentsTags: death metal, slayer, Speed Metal
Cemetery Urn – Suffer the Fallen (2023)
Coming from the part of the old school that focuses on producing dark cryptograms from the most basic robust and straightforward riffs it can conjecture, Cemetery Urn makes music that sets up a dominant rhythm trope like Immolation or Sinister and then spins contrasts until the theme gains a new weight.
57 CommentsTags: cemetery urn, death metal
Gomorrha – Doomed Mankind (2023)
Resurrecting the ancient style of early Death and Massacre, Gommorha utilize a contrast between pummeling rhythm and melody twisted out of flowing chromaticism to create a sensation of traveling through a violent and threatening landscape.
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Desecresy – Deserted Realms (2023)
On the surface, Desecresy grafted Bolt Thrower into periodically ambient underground metal like Asphyx and Demoncy, producing a sense of exploring catacombs and labyrinths in darkness while pursuing or being pursued, producing a mood of contemplative calm in the midst of intensity.
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Dismember Re-Issue Amazing First Album and Some Other Stuff
Old school Swedish death metal stalwarts Dismember represented one of those moments where the heavens, Earth, and natural kingdoms align to produce a window into the world beyond the immediate and physical, unleashing possibility through an embrace of realism and a pursuit of quality in life experience.
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Organic Working on New Material, Going into Studio
Some of you remember Organic Infest, who terrorized the world with Penitence, a slab of iconoclastic death metal that observed the world in fine attachmentless detail.
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