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Upcomming Rotting Christ Vinyl Reissues
All of Rotting Christ‘s back catalog is being reissued on vinyl by Peaceville Records starting with their second release and first studio album, Thy Mighty Contract on April 21st. Hack writer Dayal...
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Necrophobic 2017 Chilean Tour
Swedish black metal band Necrophobic is planning a short four show tour of Chile this June. Chilean fans should check them out especially as their best vocalist, Anders Strokirk off of The Nocturnal...
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Sanctuaire Readying Feu Sacré
French Canadian Viking-themed black metal/ambient band Sanctuaire announced on their Facebook page that they are in the final stages of mixing their upcoming record, Feu Sacré (Sacred Fire). Hopefully...
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Sadistic Metal Reviews: 3-24-2017
Will every single one of these bands eventually get AIDS? Let’s find out! Comatose – The Ultimate Revenge (2015) Comatose are Filipino Deicide, Vader, and Sinister worship with shred leads and direct...
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Upcoming Grand Belial’s Key Demo Collection
Grand Belial’s Key’s two demos, Goat of a Thousand Young and Triumph of the Hordes, are being reissued on LP and CD by Worldwide Terror Committee Productions next month: From a post on the Nuclear War...
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ZOM – Flesh Assimilation (2014)
Article by Lance Viggiano. ZOM is essentially a crust band who starched by a discordant boondock black metal sensibility resulting in parlor tunes to cap off a hard day picking potatoes. Neither being...
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Interview: Nortfalke of Tarnkappe
I reached out to Nortfalke from Tarnkappe to see if he would answer some of our staff’s questions. Here we go: Hi Nortfalke. Thank you for making Winterwaker, which was some of The Best Underground...
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Aäkon Këtrëëh — Dans la Forêt (1996)
Aäkon Këtrëëh was an eponymous dark ambient/black metal-project created by Lord Aäkon Këëtrëh, a central figure within the French black metal collective commonly referred to as Les Legions Noires. A...
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Infamous / Winter Blackness – Symbols of Scarlet Revenge (2017)
Infamous have delivered us yet another split with a weaker but by no means incompetent band. Winter Darkness provide the almost filler this time on Symbols of Scarlet Revenge, playing somewhat...
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Kaeck Patches Available
A very limited amount of embroidered Kaeck logo patches have been made according to a post on Kaeck’s Facebook page. If you are the type who walks around covered in patches, join the Stormkult....
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Heresiarch Death Ordinance Album Release Show
War metal band Heresiarch are playing a show in Wellington, New Zealand on July 1st to celebrate the release of their debut album, Death Ordinance. Heresiarch release their awaited full length album...
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Thirty Years of Morbid Visions
Sepultura‘s Morbid Visions is my favorite thirty year old album. Released in Brazil on November 10th, 1986, Morbid Visions saw Sepultura slither past the primitive Hellhammer, Celtic Frost, and Sodom...
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Profanatica & Cianide Playing Destroying Texas 2017 Festival
Profanatica and Cianide are playing the 2017 iteration of the Destroying Texas festival along with a bunch of shitty scenester bands like Black Witchery. Check them out if you live nearby; Profanatica...
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Dawning – Mount Um + 1997 Demo (2016)
Another previously unreviewed record judged some of The Best Underground Metal of 2016. Mount Um + 1997 Demo is a digital anthology collecting what Steve Cefala judged to be Dawning‘s strongest...
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Elfsgedroch – Op de beenderen van onze voorvaderen (2016)
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...
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Infester – To the Depths, In Degradation Reissue Review
Martyrdoom Productions, run by Dead Congregation frontman A.V., reissued Infester‘s long out of print classic To the Depths, In Degradation on CD and vinyl LP earlier this year. I purchased a copy of...
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Euronymous: Black Metal’s First Hipster
Article contributed to Death Metal Underground by Cullen Toner. Many of the pariahs seen infesting contemporary American black metal – communism, narcissism, an illusion of extremism – can be traced...
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Demoncy & Profanatica Headlining Mass Destruction Metal Fest
The Mass Destruction Metal Fest to be held in Atlanta, Georgia on November 3rd and 4th announced a great lineup this year with Demoncy and Profanatica among the headliners. Also playing are Acheron,...
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Onward to Golgotha: The Deepest Death Metal
Incantation‘s debut and best work, Onward to Golgotha, remains the deepest death metal album I have ever experienced a quarter century after its release as of today. With material (“Unholy Massacre”...
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Profanatica Playing Maryland Show Next Week
Profanatica are playing a one off show in suburban Silver Spring, Maryland, next week right outside of the politician-infested swamp that is Washington, D.C. This will be a good chance for capital...
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