Percussive speed metal and death metal hybrid Exhorder is cruising around the states for a late summer tour. You can catch them at the following dates.
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Slayer Haunting The Chapel Hits 40th Anniversary
When we look back at the present era, we will separate out stuff that was aligned with the mainstream illusion from material that tried to discover an inner truth paired with external reality. Anything outside of the bourgeois Consumerist, Communist, and Christian social bubble will endure.
15 CommentsTags: cold war, death metal, Satanism, slayer, Speed Metal, underground metal
Celebrating 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
National Day of Slayer 2023
Yet again we gather to worship the metal of death with the National Day of Slayer, an answer to the National Day of Prayer which posits that we should enjoy life and do what is logical instead of wallowing in distinctions of “good” and “evil.”
64 CommentsTags: death metal, National Day of Slayer, slayer, Speed Metal
Digging Into the Vault: Thanatopsis A View of Death (2008)
In the busy postmodern era, we like to dig through the past to see what could have been, might have been, or has been but might be undiscovered. Unfortunately, we commit a lot of type I errors, namely false positives, in our zeal for finding that unpolished, uncut but valuable gem in the sands.
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Tenth Anniversary of the Death of Jeff Hanneman
Today we mark the ten year anniversary of the death of Jeff Hanneman, guitarist and composer for Slayer, which along with Hellhamer, Sodom, Master, and Bathory contributed to the old school and modern death metal vocabulary and spirit.
28 CommentsTags: death metal, jeff hanneman, slayer, Speed Metal
Power Metal
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
Armoured Angel – Stigmartyr (1992)
Legion are those who have attempted a synergic hybrid of speed metal into underground metal. Although the number of succesful outcomes remains modest, a handful notable works such as Immortal At the Heart of Winter and Merciless Unbound make the idea somewhat plausible.
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National Day of Slayer XVII: The Carnage Continues
International Day of Slayer, riffing on the National Day of Prayer, kicks off on June 6, 2022 with new classic Slayer recordings for you to blast all day long while you skip work, school, and all other meaningless activities in order to listen to Slayer!
32 CommentsTags: international day of slayer, National Day of Slayer, slayer, Speed Metal
Proscriptor McGovern’s Apsû – Proscriptor McGovern’s Apsû (2021)
The organization that was Absu before transsexualism destroyed it has been steadily moving away from songs in its works after The Third Storm Of Cythrául, with a brief jaunt into its influences with In The Eyes Of Ioldánach, but at this point it has become merely a riff carnival.
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