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Category Archives: Death Metal
Vocal lines are no longer memorable in death metal
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 →
Deceased – Ghostly White (2018)
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 →
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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)
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)
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 →
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More Fool Me
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)
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)
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
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 →
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Tagged Curling Flame Of Blasphemy, Havohej, Paul Ledney, Profanatica, profanatitas
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Condemner – Burning The Decadent (2018)
Condemner – Burning The Decadent Condemner return from a brief hiatus with a debut full length that tries to balance the chromatic progressiveness of Omens Of Perdition with the insistent simplicity and brutality of American bands like Embalmer, Cardiac Arrest, and … Continue reading →
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Tagged Burning The Decadent, Condemner, death metal, incantation, Omens Of Perdition, Texas
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Into Oblivion – Paragon (2018)
Into Oblivion – Paragon The death that lurks within is the war that sets you free – Beyond The Golden Throne Paolo Girardi’s depiction of a bustling portside city from Roman times, complete with Doric-Tuscan facades and triremes, instantly and … Continue reading →
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Tagged Black Metal, Canada, Creation Of A Monolith, death metal, Into Oblivion, Paragon
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