Autopsy have a mini CD coming out December 15th titled Puncturing the Grotesque on Peaceville Records.
2 CommentsTags: autopsy, compact disc, death metal, EP, news, peaceville, peaceville records, upcoming release
Upcoming Elfsgedroch EP
Dutch black metal band Elfsgedroch have an upcoming EP coming out called Burchten van `t Hooghe Noorden on Diaophora Productions.
23 CommentsTags: Black Metal, diaphora productions, Dutch black metal, elfsgedroch, EP, news, the netherlands, upcoming release
Upcoming Archgoat EP and European Tour Dates
Finnish war metal band Archgoat have a new EP for something to shill on tour with hipster black ‘n’ roll bands Bolzer and Svartidaudi.
6 CommentsTags: archgoat, black 'n roll, Bolzer, cash grab, EP, Europe, Finland, Finnish Black Metal, news, shills, tour, tour dates, upcoming release, War Metal
Arghoslent – Arsenal of Glory (1996)
Arghoslent hailing from Virginia, USA are another one of those so-called “melodic death metal” bands with hardly anything in common with death metal at all. Rather Arghoslent play plain old heavy metal. Unlike their lame contemporaries from Gothenburg, Sweden, Arghoslent were once an effective heavy metal band who initially continued the work of their idols that past European power metal bands had merely emasculated. Arghoslent themselves would eventually stumble into these same stadium rock sins but not on Arsenal of Glory.
53 CommentsTags: 1996, Arghoslent, arsenal of glory, article, demo, drakkar productions, EP, Heavy Metal, review, Speed Metal, virginia
Purtenance’s Paradox of Existence EP Out September 12th
Middling Finnish death metal band Purtenance have an four track EP titled Paradox of Existence (sounds like Ripper‘s Experiment of Existence a bit too much?) coming out on September 12th on Spanish underground label Xtreem Music.
12 CommentsTags: death metal, EP, Finland, Finnish Death Metal, new track, purtenance, upcoming release, xtreem music
Irillion – Egledhron (2016)
Some releases go neglected upon release as their poor production makes it too hard to discern what is actually being played for those without neutral high-fidelity setups. Upon upgrading my own, I realized that Irillion’s debut Egledhron EP is one of them. The production is so muddy and filthy that even warm “audiophile” style setups have a hard time discerning what the downtuned and distorted electric guitars are playing. While two earlier Sadistic Metal Reviews from our staff noted the recording as a promising but inferior, listening on a more revealing setup reveals Irillion’s self-recorded musical intentions and goals: Irillion wish to play flowing Eastern European black metal like Graveland with a filthy Joined in Darkness era Demoncy style production and atmosphere and an almost Transilvanian Hunger manner of variation.
10 CommentsTags: 2016, Black Metal, Colombia, egledhron, EP, flowing black metal, irillion, progressive, re-review, review, venezuela
Cirith Gorgor – Bi Den Dode Hant (2017)
Cirith Gorgor try to apply the technical musicianship of the best death metal to black metal as Demonaz did on Immortal‘s heavily Morbid Angel influenced last gasp, Blizzard Beasts. However Cirith Gorgor’s songwriting on Bi Den Dode Hant cannot even hope to approach the level of the Norwegian greats and best death metal bands of the early nineties; Cirith Gorgor sound more like Hate Eternal or any other generic rock band recorded by Erik Rutan‘s Klingon forehead trying to be Mayhem as black metal is cool with the kiddies now due to them reading on Facebook that Varg stabbed Euronymous in the face over twenty years ago.
3 CommentsTags: bi den dode hant, black 'n roll, cirith gorgor, death 'n' roll, EP, hammerheart records, progressive rock, review, techdeaf, the netherlands, wanking
Midnight – Shox of Violence (2017)
Midnight are the definition of beer metal. Midnight sound like Motorhead if Motorhead accidentally took tranquilizers and forgot to write chord progressions and progressive minor-key heavy metal leads in their songs. Midnight are Motorhead if when Lemmy got arrested for drug possession in Canada in the early seventies while touring with Hawkwind, Lemmy did not merely get kicked out of Hawkwind and deported back to the United Kingdom; Midnight are Motorhead if the Canadians were really the Soviets who institutionalized and lobotomized Lemmy while forcing him at gunpoint to cart around a potent IV drip of anti-psychotics and sedatives for the rest of his life.
14 CommentsTags: 2017, beer metal, cash grab, EP, Heavy Metal, hells headbangers, midnight, review, shox of violence, Speed Metal, thrash metal
Disma Premiers The Graveless Remains Title Track
Craig Pillard‘s (Incantation) controversial death metal band Disma premiered the title track from their upcoming EP, The Graveless Remains on Soundcloud today. “The Graveless Remains” is nothing special despite featuring the drumming of once and probably still amazing original Immolation drummer Craig Smilowski. Preorder The Graveless Remains from Profound Lore Records here if you wish the the will to enact your own inner-desires to own every C-grade death metal release ever published if the record is of the same caliber as the title track which I surely hope it won’t be. I know some of our readers out there will feel compelled to buy this even if that is the case. though. The Graveless Remains probably won’t as good as the Disma LP and certainly not even Mortal Throne of Nazarene. Where there’s a will, there’s a way but more of the Craigs is always welcome.
10 CommentsTags: craig pillard, Craig Smilowski, death metal, disma, EP, new track, upcoming release
Teitanblood Announce Accursed Skin
Article by Lance Viggiano.
Norma Evanglium Diaboli announced a new EP from crusty noise rock band Teitanblood. Accursed Skin consists of two lengthy tracks: “Accursed Skin” (14:28) and Sanctified Dysecdysis (11:46). Writing riffs is hard because it requires some modicum of actual creativity when you aren’t bashing power chords or lifting material from others. That’s why Teitanblood quit trying immediately after the mediocre Seven Chalices and let itself be carried by presentation and aesthetic to a greater degree than that record was on Death. Accursed Skin will be the second instance of this band using already released material to pad out the run-time of an EP as they cannot conjure up enough static, lukewarm grind/crust riffs and cool vocals to fill a release with new material.
27 CommentsTags: accursed skin, boring, crust, EP, funderground, noise rock, norma evangelium diaboli, teitanblood, the ajna offensive, upcoming release, War Metal
