Grafjammer play crossover thrash with a black metal production on Koud Gemaakt.
7 CommentsTags: beer metal, black 'n roll, Crossover, crossover thrash, funderground, grafjammer, pizza thrash, review, the netherlands, thrash metal, trends mosh core fun
Hammerheart Records are reissuing the Pestilence‘s death/speed metal debut album, Malleus Maleficarum on all formats.
12 CommentsTags: compact disc, death metal, Dutch Death Metal, hammerheart, hammerheart records, news, pestilence, reissue, remaster, Speed Metal, the netherlands, vinyl
Hammerheart Records is preparing an upcoming reissue of Pestilence‘s Consuming Impulse according to a post on their Facebook page.
12 CommentsTags: death metal, Dutch Death Metal, hammerheart, hammerheart records, news, pestilence, reissue, the netherlands, upcoming release
Ancient and Sammath are opening for Norwegian black metaller turned arena rock clown Abbath at the Into Darkness IV festival on December 2nd in The Netherlands.
1 CommentTags: abbath, Ancient, Black Metal, festivals, Into Darkness, news, sammath, the netherlands, upcoming shows
Blood, Sadistic Intent, Suffocation, Angel Witch, Root, and Mortuary Drape are playing the 2018 Netherlands iteration of the social justice warrior organized Deathfest series of festivals. This one will run from March 2nd to March 4th and will be a good chance for Dutch headbangers to check out Sadistic Intent and Blood live. Hopefully the sound will not be as terrible as everyone is saying it was when Maryland Deathfest moved to a parking lot surrounded by junkie encampment in Baltimore.
No CommentsTags: Angel Witch, blood, death metal, festivals, maryland death fest, maryland deathfest, mortuary drape, netherlands deathfest, Root, sadistic intent, suffocation, the netherlands, upcoming shows
Sammath and Standvast have been booked to play the Diabolical Echoes PT 2 mini-festival with Norwegian black metal band Isvind in Groesbeek in the Netherlands on February 24th, 2018. Sammath is one of Death Metal Underground’s most highly praised modern bands while Standvast is an Ildjarn-like project from Nortfalke from Tarnkappe, Kjeld, and Kaeck. Sammath has long been a mainstay of our staff’s list of the The Best Underground Metal of the year so live shows from them should be a furious storm of riffs and whiplash.
11 CommentsTags: Black Metal, festivals, isvind, nortfalke, sammath, standvast, swerc, the netherlands, upcoming shows
Kaeck‘s Stormkult, The Best Underground Metal Album of 2015, is coming to vinyl courtesy of Heathen Tribes. The vinyl LP will feature remastered sound with a little less mud and a tad more room overhead. The LPÂ will come in gatefold packaging befitting the lyrical and compositional themes. It will be strictly limited to 200 copies. If you are a black metal analog fanatic and miss out, you will be sorry for sure.
11 CommentsTags: Black Metal, Dutch black metal, Heathen Tribes, kaeck, remaster, the netherlands, vinyl
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
Op de beenderen van onze voorvaderen is yet another another Dutch black metal record heavily influenced by Gorgoroth and Zyklon-B like Tarnkappe. Elfsgedroch however structures riffs as hyper-extended, arpeggiated tremolo-picked chords in incredibly long to the point of droning phrases in the manner of French Canadian band Sorcier des Glaces, who are indeed the band’s primary influence. Clever but occasionally too sappy harmonies similar to Master’s Hammer‘s Bartok and folk influenced heavy metal ones on Ritual but way more annoying pervade the record.
18 CommentsTags: 2016, Black Metal, Dutch black metal, elfsgedroch, review, the netherlands
