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Beats and yelling: Infernal Thorns Christus VenariOut 12th September on Personal Records Choppy, frantic death metal channels the frenetic energy of early Deicide into an explicitly gothic darkness. Borrowing the aesthetic material …

Beats and yelling: Infernal Thorns

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#infernalthorns #personalrecords

Hallucinated subgenres (There are only four) Metal subgenres don’t exist. I think we’ve imagined them all. I’ve run the numbers, and by my count there’s only ever been four.  “How could we have been so wrong about t…

Hallucinated subgenres (There are only four).

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Beats and yelling: Liminal Spirit UnwellOut 31st October, self-released Somewhere between jazz, industrial, progressive doom, and ambient comes this concept EP preoccupied with the theme of mental degradation. The narrative follows…

Beats and yelling: Liminal Spirit

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Beats and yelling: Draculum Poems of SpellcraftOut 24th October on Chaos Records The debut album from this German entity draws on a thread of UK black metal (such as it is) most infamously expressed by Cradle of Filth and Hec…

Beats and yelling: Draculum

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#draculum #chaosrecords

Beats and yelling shorts, 5th November 25 Atavistic Passage: Demonstration TwoOut 9th October on MoH Creations Ritualistic dark ambient collides with raw black metal, creating a sense of occasion through simple melodic refrains reduced to …

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Beats and yelling: Thaumaturgy Pestilential HymnsOut 20th October on Memento Mori Thaumatrugy upgrade themselves from the competent but commonplace chasmic death/doom of the debut into a more holistic statement of extreme metal.…

A broad brushstroke of extreme metal challenges the listener into traversing its contours, but on repeated spins reveals an array of cogs and competing impulses working at the molecular level beneath.

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#thaumaturgy #mementomorirecords

Only Death is Real: Existential Death-Obsession Prevails Over Nihilistic Death-Obsession (guest entry) Words by Jason Kiss Only Death is Real “Only Death is Real” is one of the most endearing slogans of the extreme metalunderground. The phrase was first brought into metal lexicon by Hellhammer, late…

Only Death is Real: Existential Death-Obsession Prevails Over Nihilistic Death-Obsession (guest entry)

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Beats and yelling short, 29th October 25 Victimarum: Seitsemän soihdun valossaOut 11th October on Signal Rex This brighter iteration of melodic black metal manages to achieve a sense of activism and storytelling in a way that pushes back …

Beats and yelling shorts, 29th October 25

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Beats and yelling shorts, 27th October 25 Hadopelagyal: HaematophoryktosOut 19th September on Amor Fati If we were to regard this in terms of presentation alone we would come away with the impression that Hadopelagyal are interested in lit…

Beats and yelling shorts, 27th October 25

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Beats and yelling: Cultic LoreOut 3rd October on Eleventh Key I often use the term “world building” when writing about music. It’s probably worth clarifying what I mean here. History may remember early 21st Century music no…

Beats and yelling: Cultic

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#culticband #eleventhkey

YouTube video by Necroclassical Necropolis AD #11 - The Will to Metal (Schopenhauer + Metal Discussion)

Thanks for Necropolis AD for having me on the podcast to discuss Schopenhauer's aesthetics and how it relates to extreme metal, great discussion.

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Beats and yelling shorts, 20th October 25 Isen: Zaklinani posledni zimyOut 5th September on Northern Silence Productions Basic, repetitive black metal achieves a sense of triumphalism through a gradualist development of riffs. Each one is …

Beats and yelling shorts, 20th October 25

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Beats and yelling: Heruvim MercatorOut 12th September on Redefining Darkness Records Heruvim locate the carefree bounce of Pestilence circa ‘Spheres’ within the dark chasmic setting of modern death metal, flattening off prog…

Beats and yelling: Heruvim

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#heruvim #redefiningdarknessrecords

Please read the following scenario carefully Please read the following scenario carefully. A discussion will follow. Scenario One: Andrew Lee is an American of Chinese descent. He has a death metal band called Ripped to Shreds. Ripped to Shre…

If you’re a fan of metal, you either accept the discomfort that comes with the territory and choose to learn and grow with it, or you don’t really like or understand metal as an artform in its totality.

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#rippedtoshreds #andrewlee

Beats and yelling: Kaeck Gruwelijk OnthaalOut 18th September on Folter Records It’s been ten years since Kaeck’s debut ‘Stormkult’. Where that album consolidated an austere reading of early second wave black metal into an …

Beats and yelling: Kaeck

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Beats and yelling shorts, 10th October 25 Eldur: Rituals of Death and NecromancyOut 25th August on ATMF Combines the purposeful militarism of simplistic Swedish black metal with a mystical eccentricity borrowed from modern occultist metal.…

Beats and yelling shorts, 10th October 25

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#eldur #atmf #execrari #hessianfirm #pestilentialshadows #northernsilenceproductions #brilliantemperor #cultburial #cultmember #loyalbloodrecords #impendingrot #bloodharvest

Beats and yelling: Porenut Výstup k svätej KundeOut 29th August, Nomad Sky Diaries Porenut harness a wealth of competing strands both in and outside of metal to craft a surprisingly compact statement of uncanny black metal f…

Beats and yelling: Porenut

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#porenut #nomadskydiaries

Beats and yelling: Medieval Demon All Powers of DarknessOut 22nd August on Hells Headbangers Medieval Demon, erstwhile outliers of the classic Greek scene, continue their eccentric second life with a run of occultist horror metal p…

Beats and yelling: Medieval Demon

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#medievaldemon #hellsheadbangers

Beats and yelling: Castrator Coronation of the GrotesqueOut 15th August on Dark Descent Records Modern death metal is often guilty of running away from itself. Either gesturing at lofty, pseudo esoteric avant-garde affectation…

Beats and yelling: Castrator

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#castrator #darkdescentrecords

Beats and yelling shorts, 27th September 25 Incinerated: The Epitome of TransgressionOut 14th July on BlackSeed Lifts the clustered melodic density of late second wave black metal (think Cirith Gorgor or Gorgon) with a thread of fatalistic l…

Beats and yelling, 27th September 25

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#incinerated #blackseed #cancervoid #mesacounojorecords #ironfortressrecords #ashen #redefiningdarknessrecords #vindicator #rauhnacht #antiqrecords #mjolne #atmfrecords

Beats and yelling: Lethal Prayer Sacrilege InfernusOut 25th July, self-released Access to culture has never been easier. Deciding what to access and spend time with near impossible. People idolise the traditional underground for i…

Beats and yelling: Lethal Prayer

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Beats and yelling: Endless Dismal Moan Lord of NightmareOut 25th July on Hessian Firm (originally released in 2006) Endless Dismal Moan, the brainchild of one Chaos 9, who sadly took their own life in 2008, was an enigmatic Japanese bla…

Beats and yelling: Endless Dismal Moan

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#endlessdismalmoan #hessianfirm

Beats and yelling shorts, 11th September 25 Décryptal: SimulacreOut 11th July on Me Saco Un Ojo/Rotted Life Attempts to forge links between the old and the new in death metal via a survey of muscular old school traditions through the crushin…

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#decryptal #mesacounojorecords #rottedliferecords #lepra #blackseedrecords #mouthofmadness #darknessshallriseproductions #oskoreien #ancienttorment #eternaldeathrecords #malthusian #relapserecords

Beats and yelling shorts, 9th September 25 Mortalha Negra: NecromanteOut 18th June on Helldprod Records Essentially a thrash metal rendering of ‘Under a Funeral Moon’. Excitable yet austere, riffs reach through the old school filter, reinje…

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#mortalhanegra #helldprodrecords #putridity #willowtiprecords #belethstrumpet #korpituliproductions #lyuaoien #centipedeabyss #eminentiatenebris #antiqrecords #sunkenmonolith #prehistoricsounds

Beats and yelling: Imprecation Vomitum TempestasOut 30th June on Nuclear War Now Productions Texan death metal engages in a distant but often proactive dialogue with the genre’s macabre roots. Blaspherian, Condemner, Imprecation…

An immersive, complete cinematic picture underwritten by an undeniable sense of power and overwhelming force, juxtaposed with a nuanced, near mystical will to conjure forces beyond the rational self.

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#imprecation #nuclearwarnowproductions

Obsolete tears Understanding Sacramentum I was as shocked as anyone to hear of the tragic passing of Nisse Karlén. Sacramentum were a very formative band in the development of my taste. I was lucky enough to catc…

I was as shocked as anyone to hear of the tragic passing of Nisse Karlén. Sacramentum's small collection of recorded material is a unique statement of extreme metal at its most sophisticated, dramatic, powerful, reflective, and dignified.

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#sacramentum

Beats and yelling: Drawn and Quartered Lord of Two HornsOut 27th June on Nuclear Winter Records Drawn and Quartered remind us that – despite my growing cynicism – you should never write anyone off before their time. 2021’s ‘Congregation…

Beats and yelling: Drawn and Quartered

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#drawnandquartered #nuclearwinterproductions

Beats and yelling shorts, 27th August 25 Grog: Sphere of AtrocitiesOut 13th June on Helldprod A collection of generic brutal and semi technical death metal furniture, delivered with the random freneticism of grindcore. Swirling between id…

Beats and yelling shorts, 27th August 25

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#grog #helldprodrecords #patristic #willowtiprecords #witherer #hypaethralrecords #hexella #hellsheadbangers #beyondmortaldreams #lavadomeproductions #belethstrumpet #korpituli

Transience The noise diaries XVII

The noise diaries XVII: Franz Schubert, Supuration, Plague Bearer

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Beats and yelling shorts, 20th August 25

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#nithe #caligarirecords #iaton #signalrex #cromlech #darknessshallrise #ikuturso #puritythroughfire #devsmortvorvm #apocalypticproductions #empalamento #haloranrecords