Classic hardcore band Agnostic Front, who helped develop the NYHC sound along with the Cro-Mags, are embarking on a short tour to bring the hardcore reality to towns blighted by normie ideation.
57 CommentsTags: agnostic front, Hardcore, punk
Gimme Danger (2016)
Early metal came from a mix of elements — proto-punk, dark progressive, and heavy rock — fused with soundtrack-style epic song structures, which along with the phrasal riffs that went along with power chords, made a new type of music that escaped the vocal-driven harmony-based tedium of Boomer rock.
3 CommentsTags: garage rock, iggy pop, jim jarmusch, johnny ramone, metal history, proto-metal, proto-punk, punk, the stooges
Assimilation II
This site started from a number of text files designed to promote quality metal over commercialism, the process of dumbing down art so that it can have a wider audience along the Bell Curve, and grew to resist assimilation, or the absorption of metal back into rock ‘n roll as a flavor instead of a genre on its own.
10 CommentsTags: assimilation, commercialism, punk, rock 'n' roll, slayer, Speed Metal
Joy Division Nominated For Rock ‘n Roll Hall of Fame
The dubious Rock ‘n Roll Hall of Fame is holding a popularity contest — sorry, democracy event — to select who gets included on the rolls of the famous, and this year, Joy Division has been nominated. You can vote here for this post-punk/new-age/proto-industrial band.
46 CommentsTags: joy division, new wave, punk, rock 'n roll hall of fame
Cult of Scarecrow – Tales of the Sacrosanct Man (2021)
Alternative rock emerged from punk, looking for a way to be melancholic like the Goths and rebelliously cynical like the punks, but without becoming the same whiny bleat-beat material that 1960s rock made mundane. It went too far into rock, but eventually came back around to punk.
1 CommentTags: alternative metal, cult of scarecrow, punk
Glenn Danzig Spits Out the Brutal Truth About Political Correctness and “Woke” Trends
Famed for being a crypto-realist who lives in a world of imagination, Glenn Danzig laid out the brutal truth about political correctness:
6 CommentsTags: glenn danzig, kafkatrapping, political correctness, punk, sjws, the misfits, woke politics
Miasmal Sabbath – Ominous Radiance (2020)
Genres are like corporations: they move from innovation to participation to cash cow, at which point noone knows where to go and they simply aggregate everything that has not failed. Miasmal Sabbath bring together rushing death metal, d-beat punk, and Autopsy-styled necrotic doom-death into a listenable package.
7 CommentsTags: doom-death, miasmal sabbath, punk
1983
A footnote in an article we ran last week sparked a lot of controversy among our very passionate friends who lurk the DMU comment sections. No, it wasn’t that we correctly identified SJW journalists as the nail in the coffin of metal as we know it; instead it was an observation of the last death of heavy metal:
In the early 1970s, heavy metal was an exciting new musical and cultural movement. So much so, that it surpassed even rock music (thought to be revolutionary just a few years before). But towards the end of the decade came a near-lethal blow: punk rock. Faster, louder, more abrasive and aggressive, punk had risen the bar and metal couldn’t compete. From 1977-1983, metal was almost completely obliterated. Many had declared the movement dead – a fleeting flavor of the week experiment that did not stand the test of time.
Many took issue with this: “metal wasn’t dead!” they cried. “Albums were released, things happened!” “You’re erasing history Brock, your articles ruined this site and my life!”
The intrigue and utter distraction of this phrase sparked the need to further elaborate: Did metal actually die, during this time period, or did I somehow just miss a few years of quality metal development?
7 CommentsTags: 1983, death, metal history, NWOBHM, punk, Speed Metal, the second age of metal
Krishnacore Film Details Hare Krishna Influenced Punk In The 1980s
Back in the 1980s, a number of hardcore punk bands mostly in the New York area began to be influenced by Hare Krishna and Hindu ideas. They formed a pseudo-genre of their own, dropping out of the existing hardcore scenes to pursue a life of relative sanity and create music that channeled raw rage into a more meditative outlook. (more…)
19 CommentsTags: Hardcore, krishnacore, NYHC, punk
Lilou & John – Patriot Child (2018)
Most people compare this music to Motorhead, but in my mind, it resembles a fusion between Black Flag and folk music like the old Bob Seeger tracks that limousine liberals pretended to like along with their Harry Belafonte and Leonard Bernstein LPs. A strong punk energy and rhythm pervades the music while a vocal-driven melodic sense guides each song to a quasi-ironic, bittersweet but triumphant conclusion.
5 CommentsTags: folk, lilou & john, metal, pop, punk
