Listening to that 1980s power metal compilation that has floated around for awhile, it becomes clear to me why many of us dodged out on power metal and drifted toward the grindcore and death metal style of things back in the day: power metal is the capture of metal by the pop industry.
79 CommentsTags: glam metal, NWOBHM, power metal, Speed Metal
Some would compare this to grindcore with a touch of death metal, but it sounds more like mid-period Impaled Nazarene (Latex Cult era) mixed with a B+ level Autopsy clone, and uses this simple formula to make three-part songs: a verse riff, chorus riff, and a more melodic transition to keep an air of mystery.
1 CommentTags: death metal, glam metal, Grindcore, megascavenger
German heavy metal band Accept are touring Europe next year.
2 CommentsTags: accept, Europe, glam metal, hard rock, Heavy Metal, mainstream metal, news, tour, tour dates, upcoming tours
German hard rock and heavy metal band accept released a lyric video for a new track, “Koolaid” from their upcoming album, The Rise of Chaos, which comes out August 4th on Nuclear Blast Records.
7 CommentsTags: glam metal, hard rock, lyric video, new track, upcoming release
Havukruunu, despite their Burzum like cover, worship Bathory‘s Blood Fire Death and 1980s synth pop on Kelle Surut Soi. Havukruunu attempt the folk choruses, epic atmosphere, and melodic solos as Quorthon did in his successful attempt at mixing black and speed metal. Unfortunately for my ears, Havukruunu are not so successful on Kelle Surut Soi.
6 CommentsTags: 2017, black 'n roll, Finland, funderground, glam metal, havukruunu, kelle surut soi, naturmacht productions, review, synth pop, synthpop
George Psalmanazar submitted a few reviews of albums he vehemently despises to Death Metal Underground. Enjoy!
39 CommentsTags: amon amarth, Angel Witch, arena rock, bedshitting, dissection, glam metal, glam rock, hard rock, Heavy Metal, judas priest, manilla road, NWOBHM, pop music, sadistic metal reviews, sell-out, stadium metal, stadium rock
Article by David Rosales.
Perfection is in the balance and in the details! These works possess neither balance nor detail.
40 CommentsTags: Abigail, boring, crypto-indie, glam metal, sadistic metal reviews, stoner rock, The Final Damnation
Axl Rosenberg, the founder of social justice warrior metalcore website MetalSucks, called blackened glam metal band Destroyer 666 racist over frontman K.K. Warslut’s altercation with masked antifacist thugs at a Danish festival. Earlier Rosenberg called Todd Jones from sludgecore band Nails a “scene bully” for titling their new album You Will Never Be One of Us, which he took as directed against social justice warrior internet agitators like himself.
47 CommentsTags: Axl Rosenberg, beer metal, black 'n roll, communists, Denmark, destroyer 666, festivals, glam metal, hard rock, hipsters, metalcore, metalgate, MetalSucks, Nails, pop metal, scenesters, sjws, sludge
Article by Gonzalo Gallina.
In 1996, Spanish rock band Mago de Oz released their most acclaimed latin-rock-underground albums, Jesus de Chamberi. Like most things coming from modern Latin countries, it has difficulty defining itself. Representative of the modern cultural confusion of Hispania, Mago de Oz presents the audience with a mixed bag of rock ala Dio, reggae, and eighties bar heavy rock, while borrowing some metal riffs and melodic leads here and there, and ocassionally overlaying folky tunes on a violin.
12 CommentsTags: Español, glam metal, hard rock, homosexuality, language-spanish, Mago de Oz, reggae, troll, trolls
Article by Jon Faugustus.
Adagio, the French progressive metal band lead by Stephan Forte, has announced a fundraiser campaign to record and produce their fifth album to be titled Life. Throughout their history, the band has evolved from a mystical power metal band with contemplative overtones, to a decent but understated prog metal surpassing the likes of Symphony X, to a progressively more obvious selling out with pop songs covered with their dark progressivisms.
3 CommentsTags: Adagio, crowdfunding, glam metal, homosexuality, news, non metal metal pop crap, pop metal, poser, poseur, poseurs, pseudo-progressive, scam, stinking shit
