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Author Archives: Old Disgruntled Bastard
Vocal lines are no longer memorable in death metal
Posted on January 8, 2019
Virtually every death metal band from the first wave had its share of infectious vocal lines. From Deicide to Dismember, death metal fans grew up memorizing and screaming morbid lyrics in much the same way their baby boomer parents may … Continue reading →
Howie Bentley’s mastery of heavy metal
Posted on January 8, 2019
Rarely has a heavy metal songwriter working in different genre paradigms been as masterful over both expressions as primary songwriter Howie Bentley of Cauldron Born and Briton Rites. The first project is neoclassical, swords and sorcery power metal and the … Continue reading →
Posted in Doom Metal, Heavy Metal
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Tagged born of the cauldron, briton rites, cauldron born, Doom Metal, for mircalla, heavy metal, howie bentley
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Deceased – Ghostly White (2018)
Posted on January 5, 2019
In classic heavy metal manner, Deceased make evocative songs centered around instantly identifiable melodies. The band has ever been at pains to distance itself from all death metal references, at least as they are conventionally understood, and Ghostly White only … Continue reading →
Posted in Death Metal, Heavy Metal
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Tagged death metal, deceased, Ghostly White, heavy metal, King Fowley, Virginia, voivod
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Ruin – Plague Transmissions Vol. I (2017)
Posted on October 29, 2018
Ruin from California released one demo back in 1991 before disbanding. This compilation contains recordings of those tracks as well as new music released by the band on various splits since reforming in 2015. The style here is death/doom but … Continue reading →
Desultory – Through Aching Aeons (2017)
Posted on October 29, 2018
Many bands from the classic era of death metal suffered ignominious and often self-inflicted downswings in fortune. The mood that once prevailed to inspire an entire generation of metalheads changed into something altogether base and material in aspect. Following the … Continue reading →
Posted in Death Metal
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Tagged desultory, swedish death metal, through aching aeons
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Harsh noise
Posted on October 24, 2018
Under the right circumstances, possibly at the right time of day, listening to harsh noise can be a meditative experience; if per chance you are involved in an activity demanding mental concentration, it can even provide the kind of unemotional, … Continue reading →
Posted in Harsh Noise, macronympha, Thoughts
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Tagged Harsh Noise, incapacitants, macronympha, merzboww
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More Fool Me
Posted on October 19, 2018
How do you engage with somebody on a point of dissent when they don’t have the required vocabulary, literal or experiential, to do so? There is great wisdom in ceding ground when one doesn’t possess that vocabulary, but there is … Continue reading →
Krisiun – Scourge of the Enthroned (2018)
Posted on October 19, 2018
Up till Ageless Venomous, Krisiun played a furious, if slightly unmemorable, style of death metal consisting almost entirely of cyclical, tremolo-picked riffs. From Works of Carnage onwards, that came to be replaced with the preponderance of a staccato element in … Continue reading →
Monstrosity – The Passage Of Existence (2018)
Posted on October 18, 2018
While Monstrosity albums from the 90s are true genre staples, it wouldn’t be unfair to say that the band have come to be so well-regarded by the underground as much for staying out of the spotlight as they have for … Continue reading →
Profanatica’s artful simplicity
Posted on October 13, 2018
All music ever aims to do is capture one aspect of psychology with sincerity and a degree of verisimilitude. Music doesn’t necessarily have to cover the entire breadth of human emotion; such a task is not only near-impossible, but also … Continue reading →
Posted in Black Metal, Death Metal, Thoughts
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Tagged Curling Flame Of Blasphemy, Havohej, Paul Ledney, Profanatica, profanatitas
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