Tag: Extreme Metal
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If you want to understand second-wave black metal, you don’t start with the tabloid nonsense, the church burnings, or the murder trials. You start with four blokes in Norway recording an album in 1991 that would help create the most glorious middle-finger U-turn in heavy metal history. To understand why A Blaze in the Northern…
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Überchriist don’t mess about with trivialities like intro tracks. There is no self-indulgent noodling or atmospheric mood setting at the start of Dæmonic Apotheosis. Überchriist just get straight to the fucking point and start slapping you around like a red-headed stepchild, with the opening track, Anti-Phoenix Descent. It’s refreshing. For far too long, black metal…
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Before I get into this review, I want to tell you a story. A couple of months ago I was at the end of it all, from a writing perspective. I wasn’t making any money, I was burnt out, and felt that I was just banging the same drum. Music news. Music reviews. Music news.…
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Narcotic Wasteland, fronted by guitarist and vocalist Dallas Toler-Wade of Nile, have shared their new single Fentanyl Zombie Apocalypse as they begin their August tour. The track tackles the fentanyl epidemic and its wider impact on society. Toler-Wade describes the song as “fast and tricky yet twisted and catchy”, with Kenji Tsunami contributing bass and…
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German death metal band Heretics have released their new single Cerberus (Terzet for a Hellhound), the second preview of their forthcoming album, Of Poets and Prophets. Based on Cerberus, the three-headed guardian of the entrance to the underworld, the song draws on references to ancient Greek texts and centres on the creature’s position between the…
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Ohio one-woman brutal death metal project Cordyceps Corpse will release its second full-length album, Perverse Craving For Rotting Corpses, on October 9 through Gore House Productions. The announcement comes alongside the album’s first single and video, Forced Out of Existence. Created by multi-instrumentalist Nani Porter, Cordyceps Corpse began in late 2023 as a solo project…
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Prague metallic hardcore band Crippled Fingers have followed Unbroken with Nothing, a new single centred on betrayal, broken trust and the point where repeated lies finally become impossible to overlook. The track combines heavy grooves and sharp riffs with a strong chorus before dropping into a forceful breakdown. Its subject matter follows a similarly direct…
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Melodic black metal band i Helvete will release their third album, Halla, on November 6, following a lengthy delay between completing the material and bringing it to release. The songs were completed in 2024, but lineup changes that same year pushed back both the production process and the album’s eventual release. Additional session musicians were…
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U.S. black metal outfit Sev Lezu will release their debut album, Blood Conscript, on August 28 through Ordovician Records, with the record arriving on vinyl, cassette and digital formats. Recorded at Artifact Audio by drummer, vocalist, lyricist and producer Sasha Stroud, Blood Conscript draws on dark, ancient mythology, a hateful pantheon and themes of bloody…
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Listening to an album sung entirely in a band’s native tongue is a unique experience. After all, a lot of what I get from music is based as much on the words I am hearing as the sounds themselves. Now, when that involves black metal, as a lot of you know, without a lyric sheet…