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Profanatica to release Thy Kingdom Cum on November 26
Demonic occultist black metal band Profanatica, also known sometimes as Havohej, continues its quest to demolish holiness with impure sexual abuse of the incarnate divine. This legendary band have been...
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Aborym – Dirty
Black metal doesn’t hybridize with much because black metal is by itself a distinctive genre. This distinctiveness comes not from its technique, which is borrowed from atmospheric heavy metal and...
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Woe – Withdrawal
Your average person perceives music as good and bad, with a whole lot of bad and some good. The truth is more shocking: truly bad is rare like truly good, but the vast majority is just so-so. So-so...
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Dark Funeral to re-issue first six albums including In the Sign…
Dark Funeral, the Swedish black metal band started by Necrophobic guitarist David Parland (whose untimely demise this year shocked the metal world), has a long and storied career. The band is now...
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Sammath Godless Arrogance to be released February 3, 2014
Hammerheart Records has set a release date for the fifth Sammath album, Godless Arrogance, which will see worldwide release by the Dutch label on February 3, 2014. You can hear a sample track in high...
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Ancient Modernism: An Exhibition of Letter Art and Illustration in Heavy...
Noted black metal logo designer Christophe Szpajdel is featured in an upcoming exhibit in New Zealand of metal and other illustrators and the logos and embellishments they create. The exhibit will run...
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The origin of all underground metal
Suppose that you’re a dying society (“the human race was dying out / no one left to scream and shout” – the Doors) and that you decide to give it one last hurrah. To try honesty instead of...
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Krieg announces release of Transient in 2014
The next Krieg full length will be titled Transient and will be recorded in 2014, according to Krieg frontman Imperial. The new album will be 40-50 minutes long, “with some return to the old Krieg...
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Entrevista con Andrés Padilla, autor de Underground Never Dies
Recientemente se corrió la voz acerca de un nuevo libro que va a explicar el metal underground. Este libro, llamado Underground Never Dies, es editado por Andrés Padilla, el editor y escritor desde...
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Interview with Andrés Padilla, author of Underground Never Dies
Recently the word got out about a new book that’s going to explain the metal underground. This book, called Underground Never Dies, is edited by Andrés Padilla, the longstanding publisher and chief...
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Interview with Andrés Padilla (Underground Never Dies)
Recently the word got out about a new book that’s going to explain the metal underground. This book, called Underground Never Dies, is edited by Andrés Padilla, the longstanding publisher and chief...
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Are You Morbid? returns to the radio
Are You Morbid?, the radio show by newer generations to keep the music of the underground years alive, has returned from the dead. This show briefly thrived on two different radio stations during the...
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Gorgoroth to release Instinctus Bestialis in early 2014
Norwegian black metal band Gorgoroth have announced a tentative schedule for their new album, Instinctus Bestialis. In a recent interview, the band stated that their goal was to have the album released...
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Label spotlight: I, Voidhanger Records
We got a promo pack of these over the weekend, so I’ve been tossing the tracks onto the playlist and picked a few favorites. Tempestuous Fall – Converge, Rivers of Hell This CD compiles different doom...
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Merciless Reviews 10-18-13
Cursed 13 – Triumf At some point, every artist must ask themselves who their audience is. For some, it’s the inexperienced. Cursed 13 would be OK as your first metal band, the one you listen to and...
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Bathory – Blood Fire Death
In 1984, the unholy triad of underground metal were born: Bathory, Hellhammer and Slayer laid out a formula that, taken together, would create the basis for all of the extreme metal genres to follow....
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Sadistic Metal Reviews: Androgel Edition
Androgel is a testosterone supplement that you take when you’ve heard too much weepy mainstream pseudo-metal and become a useless person. Here’s a list of bands designed to make you mute, impotent and...
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Ildjarn – Seven Harmonies of Unknown Truths
Originally shunned by most of the “new and wise” black metal community in the post-1995 era, Ildjarn emerged shrouded in mystery, and its renown has increased over the past almost two decades through...
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Immortal Pure Holocaust is 20 today
If you bought Immortal’s Pure Holocaust the day it was released, and conceived a child in the ensuing fury, that child would be entering college age today. Our review, written in the year of this CD’s...
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Wolfpack 44 releases “Rituale Romanum”
A new occultist extreme music entity composed of members of Electric Hellfire Club and Kult ov Azazel, Wolfpack44 has begun to record and release material, starting with the professional “Rituale...
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