Tag Archives: Death

Teitanblood – Death (2014)

Posted on November 7, 2019 by Old Disgruntled Bastard

Teitanblood came to notoriety with Seven Chalices ten years ago, an album though harsh compared to its contemporaries still containing enough nods to conventional death metal tropes. All that went out of the window with 2014’s Death; on this album, … Continue reading →

A note on dissonance and Adversarial’s latest

Posted on October 27, 2015 by Old Disgruntled Bastard

Dissonant chords are called dissonant for a reason. As opposed to conventional death metal atonality built on floating key relationships but not without a sense of melody, dissonance lacks a harmonic center. When used tastefully and when supplemented with more … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Adversarial, and the black knife of nihilism, Death, endless nothing | 3 Comments

Extreme metal, old and new

Posted on September 26, 2015 by Old Disgruntled Bastard

Originally written for deathmetal.org A reader recently posted a comment asking my opinion on modern extreme metal bands like Teitanblood and Ascension. We often take it as an article of faith that modern metal is a fallen genre that parted … Continue reading →

Posted in Black Metal, Death Metal | Tagged Ascension, Black Metal, Death, death metal, Extreme metal, Krabathor, Kvist, Only Our Death Is Welcome, Teitanblood, Vettenetter, war metal | 4 Comments

Pitting Scream Bloody Gore against Severed Survival

Posted on July 1, 2015 by Old Disgruntled Bastard

It is often forgotten that Chris Reifert drummed on the first Death full length before going on to form the hugely influential Autopsy. Severed Survival has always seemed a companion album to Scream Bloody Gore, and while a certain amount of … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged autopsy, Death, death metal, Scream Bloody Gore, Severed Survival | 2 Comments

Prosanctus Inferi – Noctambulous Jaws Within Sempiternal Night (2013)

Posted on February 7, 2014 by Old Disgruntled Bastard

This duo from Columbus, Ohio bring a nimble, complicated twist to the black/death style of extreme metal. On first appearances, little more than a homage to the same old Incantation-derived school of basement death, this has far more in common … Continue reading →

Posted in Death Metal | Tagged Black, Death, Noctambulous Jaws Within Sempiternal Night, Ohio, Prosanctus Inferi | 1 Comment