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Proscriptor To Perform Vocals for Zemial
Absu vocalist and drummer Prosciptor McGovern will be performing vocals for Greek Bathory lovers Zemial for Zemial’s 2018 tour dates. Hopefully Zemial will not be so boring anymore. A musical...
View ArticleSammath “Thrive In Arrogance” Live Teaser
Sammath‘s current lineup just played their first show. Here’s a snippet of “Thrive in Arrogance” off of Godless Arrogance. A pro shot live video will come soon. Hipsters and poseurs should beware and...
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Sammath “Thrive in Arrogance” Live
As promised, here’s Sammath‘s promised video of “Thrive in Arrogance” off the most excellent Godless Arrogance. Godless Arrogance was one of the most vicious albums since Blizzard Beasts. This is a...
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Thantifaxath – Void Masquerading as Matter (2017)
Squandered potential proves a crueler disappointment than an outright bad effort in many ways especially when so few modern bands even remotely approach the mantle of the greats of the past, and the...
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Ordo Ab Chao
As an insanely vicious and memorable chapter of metal’s oldest website comes to a chaotic climax, a new order now dawns upon us. Contrary to the leftist hysteria over the net-neutrality laws passed...
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Nortt- Endeligt (2017)
After a decade of nothingness and decay, Denmark’s Nortt re-emerges in the form of a third full length on pt. 2 of the Avantgarde Music canon (the rock n’ roll/new wave edition). Rising to prominence...
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Metal Vocals are Obstructive. Remove them.
There are many well cultured intellectuals who, when presented with metal music, will immediately be tuned out by the vocals. This results in much of the metal collective being comprised of...
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Star Wars: Tie Fighter 1994 LucasArts
Throughout literature, film, and any other telling of the Arthurian legend there is usually a hard line stance taken on characters or ideas being indisputably good or evil. The heroes and villains...
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An Overview of Inquisition
Introduction Known around these parts as a blackened heavy rock n’ roll band, Inquisition’s brand of black metal is produced by a high-energy application of black metal riffing with a heavy rock...
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Death Metal General- Ruined Holiday Edition
Since there have been exactly zero stories in the metal news this week warranting their own article let’s make the most out of the opportunity to try something new: A rapid-fire news roundup in chad...
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Elegiac Black Clouds of War 2018
Elegiac is a one man band from California formed in 2014 by sole composer Zane Young, whom has released a large number of records under the name of Elegiac- far too much for any band yet alone a one...
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Somber Lands: The Harmonic Minor Scale
Dark, brooding, and long cloaked in obscurity, the harmonic minor scale is a compelling collective of notes that has historically been used as an accent to minor key compositions. For centuries only...
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Venenum – Trance of Death (2017)
Records praised as “innovative” have a first-mover advantage: we all take that assessment at face value, not having heard the album, and then can only see through it after a half-dozen listens, at...
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Trendkillers #2: Blast Beats Must Die!
The blast beat has had a very unlikely journey through its relatively young lifespan in music. Rooted in a jazz technique of an alternating bass drum/hi-hat and snare 16th note pattern (though played...
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Dusk-Bound
The success of endeavors that carry with them the implication of development or transformation, such as the evolution of an artistic genre (without any relation to the ‘progress’ of dialectical...
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Poverty is the Price for Metal Stardom
The Talk: Every metal musician needs to have “The Talk” at some point or another and for some of you, this will be that moment. In the world of metal, “The Talk” is the soul crashing, dream...
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Abigor- Höllenzwang
Abigor are back with their 9th album, which is sadly a continuation of the ideas on Leytmotif Luzifer. Hailing from Vienna in Austria, Abigor definitely have the style and look associated with their...
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DEATH METAL GENERAL: I DON’T NEED ABBATH EDITION
Immortal is back! Well… sort of. Halfway there. Right? In name at least? You see, Demonaz- Immortal’s original guitarist during the 90’s, lyricist during the 2000’s, and now vocalist/guitarist and...
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Victory Over Peace
There are those who would make us think that peace is essential for life. They demand we must reconcile all manner of disagreements and simply live happily together. In reality, what happens in a real...
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Watain – Trident Wolf Eclipse (2018)
Grammy-award wining artist Watain has shamelessly assumed the mantle of “most embarrassing band masquerading as black metal” previously shared by Dimmu Borgir and Cradle of Filth. Where the downfall...
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