Tagged: deathmetal

Nephelium is a phenomenal band. They seamlessly blend new techniques with tried-and-true methods of classic death metal. Being labled as "Metal juggarnauts" suits Nephelium , the way they combine classic death metal growls with punishing guitars, and unmerciful drumming. Their newest album, Coils of Entropy harks back to classic death metal bands such as their influencers Death, and Suffocation . They're not just brutal, but slam your head against the wall fantastic. With vocals that often break down to animalistic roars and screeches, punching guitar riffs backed by some of the best double [...]

. . . Death is the end, and so in this series' finale, we'll find out what happens when death metal's brutal and technical side is robbed of power. 1. Suffocation - Breeding the Spawn Spawn is so murky and flat that it's difficult to hear what is going on. It's so bad that it's nearly lo-fi. If pressed, I couldn't even tell someone if the songs were good based on the original album. Sometimes the drums are swallowed up by the guitars, and sometimes they [...]

A couple of Friday nights ago we demolished every character-staining suspicion that we were having a "Sober January" in the Unicorn in Camden. There were also a couple of bands playing - Carpathia and Bleeding Oath - so we wrote about them. Six things we learned while trying to get our noggins round this noodling prog metal extravaganza 1. Bleeding Oath are young. Like... really, REALLY young. Like... statutory rape young. Which makes them very [...]

The day before their Bangalore gig headlining Summer Storm 2012, Opeth have a sit down and chat at a press conference hosted at Hard Rock Cafe. We were there and we took notes. If we had a paisa for every time we had to 'press charges', phew, we'd have a lot of them moneys. As predicted, a journo asks about which girl the album Heritage is about. Ummm, it had nothing to do with a girl. Oh and priceless, someone asked what the band has to say about the idea that metalheads "wear black [...]

Abigail Williams Becoming Candlelight Records 23 January 2012 by Andy Parker Abigail Williams is the sole brainchild of Ken Sorceron, a man who has purged and rebuilt his empire several times over in the search of his "true" sound. Becoming sees the band's creator and leader finally making some serious headway into [...]

. . . Cannibal Corpse were writing songs for their twelfth album last spring when guitarist Pat O'Brien got the call of a lifetime: come play for Slayer. O'Brien had written several songs for the upcoming album Torture , but his bandmates weren't about to hold him back. "It happened right in the middle of writing," drummer and founding member Paul Mazurkiewicz said recently. "The first two songs were Pat's songs. He has four songs on the record and got the call [from Slayer] in April. We were in the thick of writing, but we [...]

Dyscarnate And So It Came To Pass Siege Of Amida Records 27 February 2012 by Von Eshewing the recent trend in modern metal to be as technical as possible, Dyscarnate put their faith in big, brutal riffing and complex, but never wanky, drum work. That isn't to say they pound out drop-D, one-note, bore-you-to-tears crap-fests [...]

This year Summer Storm 2012 will be headlined by Swedish prog metal stars Opeth (more on that here ) but did you know that they will also showcase the talents of a German death metal band with a curious interest in Celtic folklore (no really, Summer Storm is hosting them. Check here for deets )? It's a question that can be a real conversation starter at parties and we had to do some serious research to learn more about this band. Figuring out what SuidAkrA is all about was a challenging experience but it really makes listening to new [...]

It seems that we can't get enough of The Black Dahlia Murder and Skeletonwitch's UK tour. Not only did about half our writing staff pile into the Camden Underworld when the tour hit London , but our photographer in chief, Gary Wolstenholme , was on hand to snap it when the tour arrived in his native Sheffield. His sexy, sexy pictures are just after the jump. -- The Black Dahlia Murder @ Sheffield Corporation - 19 January 2012 [...]

Bloodstock Open Air has added Ancient Egypt-obsessed death metallers, Nile , and historically-extremely-importa nt-although-not-really-as-good -as-they-used-to-be black metallers, Mayhem , to its 2012 line-up. And...errr...that's about it. Both bands are making their Bloodstock debuts, and both bands are going to be UK festival exclusives for Bloodstock this year, but then again we doubt there were many other festivals fighting to be first ones to knock either band's booking agent's doors. Don't get us wrong - both bands will no doubt put on a kickass show on the Main Stage at Bloodstock [...]

Aborted Global Flatline Century Media 23 January 2012 by Dan Pelic This far into the very existence of death metal, bands may well have to go against the anti-melodic grain many of the genre tend to follow. Bands like Decapitated have raised the bar for blasters and grinders to find groove – an elusive, serpent-like creature few [...]

As a heavy metal fan, Krisiun has always been a quandary for me. You see, I like Krisiun. I like their music. I like the concept behind the band's music. Until 2009's The Southern Storm , I never actually liked any of their albums proper. Nevertheless, I've always appreciated the band's existence. Heavy metal needs a band like Krisiun, a band dedicated to playing death metal as if the genre's artistic palette froze after Covenant was released. The Southern Storm changed everything. Prior to Storm , a Krisiun song was a [...]

It's as the title says - everyone's favourite forehead-branding no-longer-quite-as-Satanic-as- they-used-to-be death metallers, Deicide , have been added to the bill of Bloodstock Open Air 2012 , where they will play their only UK show of 2012. And there was us thinking this was the year V Festival would see the light and sandwich Glen Benton and co. in between Jessie J and Skrillex. Watch the "album trailer" to Deicide's 2011 release, To Hell With God: Deicide [...]

As previously reported , Opeth are set to headline the 2012 edition of Summer Storm Festival in Bangalore. Now in its second year, Summer Storm's previous edition saw American metallers Lamb Of Gob headline the event (deets here ). The organizers have recently added two more international bands to support the Scandinavian death metal outfit - Nothnegal from Maldives and SuidAkra from Germany. Going by the Facebook page of of the Maldives metalheads Nothnegal, they are a band on a mission At first the hard sound of metal seems a contradiction [...]

Obituary has been writing and recording death metal for almost a quarter century. They emerged from the Florida underground in 1989 with the genre defining Slowly We Rot, survived the metal slump of the '90s, and showed the new century what death metal is all about in 2005 with Frozen In Time. Obituary is now bringing their decidedly old-school death metal sound to the social networking generation; the band streamed a New York City show live for free in November with the help of Unation, and recently redesigned their web site to strengthen their relationship with fans. But music continues [...]

There's a strain of music that I've always had a problem with, which is any music that can be referred to as "too European". Do you know what I'm talking about? To me, it's music that's so immaculate, so devoid of punkiness and skronk, that you can actually see it shine like a waxed Porsche. That, initially, was what made me keep listening to Opeth and Cormorant on hold. Aside from the striking resemblance between Cormorant frontman Arthur Von Nagel and Opeth's Mikael Åkerfeldt , both bands traffic in a mightily ambitious admixture of NWOBHM, prog, folk, [...]

I love the "Sunlight Sound" as much as the next guy, but it's been abused of late, invoked in hybrid procedures and put to nefarious use. In the end it's a sonic tool; its glorious overdistorted virtues will only shine in the light of righteous riffs and songwriting. Horrendous have got those in spades. The ...

Se puede decir que los logotipos del pop y del death metal (o Black Metal) son diametralmente opuestos en sus aspiraciones, ya que mientras en el pop lo que se busca es una identificación lo más instantánea posible, en el metal los diseños deben lucir lo más ininteligible que se pueda. Por poner un par de ejemplos: Acá el visualmente llamativo logo de P.I.L. y en contraste, uno de los multigaragoleados logotipos de una de esas bandas de black metal que deambulan por, digamos, la [...]

Y'ever watch True Blood or read the Sookie Stackhouse novels? You say you're a heterosexual male... so no? Let me re-phrase. Have a girlfriend/wife? Y'ever passively listen while True Blood plays in the same room as the couch you're sitting on, while waiting for Anna Paquin to get naked again? That's what I thought, you coy motherfucker. In said world, "V" (vampire blood) is used as the ultimate psychedelic/ opiate/ steroid/ stimulant drug. Impetuous Ritual and their full length, Relentless Execution of Ceremonial Excrescence, is like [...]