If you put every heavy metal cliché in an Eppenmayer flask and let everything incubate for 48 hours you will get “Written Destiny” from Children of Technology. There’s ...
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Coffins kick off this split LP with a whirlwind of demonic riffs laden with enough bass to make you feel the claustrophobia of being buried alive. The drumming ...
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It’s more conventional for the vocals to be the weakest part of an album, but Dreams of Rotting Flesh goes against those norms as Felix Stass leads his band with strong ...
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In Sahrartu, Belarus’ Eximperitus offer comfort from the cold weather with warming riffs, red-hot drumming, and a reassuring blanket of melody. Riffs that snarl slowly back up ethereal drone solos Jerry ...
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David how are you and how is the band? I hope busy working on a new Album for us? Hey man, I am doing fine! In spite of ...
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Horror metal messenger, Rogga Johansson never seems to stop does he? Out of every musician in the death metal genre, little come to be as prolific as Rogga, ...
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While there’s certainly no shortage of thrash metal bands inspired by Sepultura, hearing The Troops of Doom’s The Rise of Heresy was an unexpected surprise for me. Formed by ex-Sepultura ...
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How seriously Desire took themselves we may never know, but the silly nicknames of these guys crack me up and who could forget this album title? Pretentious nicknames ...
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“When all worship is done, when all candles burned down, it’s time to claw at knife and sword again”. With 27 years of existence, Abigor stands as one ...
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Who is the leading force in the Swedish extreme metal scene? Dissection, Sacramentum or maybe Naglfar? Yes, they are great bands without specially the Swedish black metal scene ...
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Comments Off on Review: Necrophobic “Dawn of the Damned” [Century Media Records]
By the mid-90’s, black metal was all over the globe and while my knowledge of Polish black metal (or Polish metal in general for that matter) is fairly ...
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One thing that I love about cover artwork is its ability to represent what kind of album you’re dealing with and of course plenty of death metal albums ...
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Long live the retrorock. Do you like Ghost? Do you like The Hellacopters? Then you will surely like “Lucifer III” from Lucifer as well. I am consciously referring ...
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Six years until the new record of the Bavarian black metal beast Dark Fortress enters our dimension. “Venereal Dawn” from 2014 was a very experimental album. So, what ...
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Season of Mist is pleased to announce the signing of American death metal icons PESSIMIST (ft. Kelly McLauchlin of DEATH, EX-POSSESSED, I AM MORBID, etc.)! In addition to a new ...
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You joined Hellwitch in 1994. How did that come about? I was 18 years old, in Kendall, Florida, looking for a band to play in. Scouring the local ...
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By the time Individual Thought Patterns came out, Chuck Schuldiner had already distanced himself from the horror themed sounds that characterized his early records. By no means was ...
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Sean Reinert, a longtime drummer of metal pioneers CYNIC, has died. He was found unresponsive at his home in California on Friday night (January 24). No cause of ...
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A Tribute to DEATH officially released today, enjoy! 01 – Sichgart (Ukraine) – Legion of Doom 02 – Basement Torture Killings (United Kingdom) – Mutilation (feat. Jonny Peterson ...
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Hideous featuring former and current members of Death, Obituary, Six Feet Under, Massacre and Lividity have announced the following debut gigs: August 4 – The New World Brewery ...
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