SABREWULF - CONDEMNED

El Paso drone/post-hardcore band makes a doom album in the newer style. It's bleak, dark and pure punk in its spirit.

http://www.deathmetal.org/news/sabrewulf-condemned/

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DESTROYING TEXAS FEST 7

Absu, Blaspherian, Inquisition, Bahimiron and guests play a Northwest Houston show. This should be legendary, and may end in fire.

http://www.deathmetal.org/news/destroying-texas-7-absu-bahimiron-inquisition-blaspherian-sunday-november-3/

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THE ROOTS OF METAL

A new art exhibition in Frankfurt, Germany shows us the darker side of Romantic poetry, literature and art, which coincidentally was the sliver of that genre that inspired heavy metal.

http://www.deathmetal.org/news/the-roots-of-metal-dark-and-occult-romanticism/

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INTOLITARIAN - BERSERKER SAVAGERY

This extreme fusion of martial power electronics and droning war metal creates an audio interruption that is, like the barking of a loudspeaker in a bombed city, a broadcast from hell.

http://www.deathmetal.org/news/intolitarian-berserker-savagery-2012/

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MUSIC IS THE BASIS OF LANGUAGE

Rice University researchers find that music not only obeys the laws of language, but may be the way we developed language. This has heady implications for riff-heavy metal music.

http://www.deathmetal.org/news/music-is-the-basis-of-language/

rad

amazing

Interview with Goatcraft

Like guitar, the piano is a highly versatile instrument. It can serve in a pure rhythm role, or apply melody, and can easily chord and shape an atmosphere out of harmony. However, it can do one thing the guitar cannot: stand on its own while amplified and be a credible one-person band.

Solitary musician Lonegoat, who has recorded intros for Druid Lord and Demonic Christ, mounts the stage in isolation to create singular pieces of piano music that reflect the infinite loneliness and emptiness of existence. From this nihilistic background, the music branches to a dark storming Nietzschean vibe balanced by a sense of demonic playfulness.

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Backed, and Support, but I don't think the others on the board are receptive.

I back Goatcraft hard. Excellent release. Doing a split with Goatcraft later this year.

Well, MotleyGrue doesn't think that you are very receptive.

It's not BS hipster dulcimer metal or whatever, I don't see why there'd be a problem.

Someone else says they like them=everyone else here will think they suck

That is BadAss if you are doing a split. Let me know if you want help.....Texas folk need to stick together....Horns up MotherFuckers.....

Don't get butthurt, I am not fagget.......

You think you're funny and clever but your not.

I don't think I ever claimed that ha ha ha. Sorry I am still not a fag though, hope you find the dude you are looking for.

Right. I was making a joke in reference to the MotleyFagget troll.

I know you aren't gay and neither am I. So quit being a faggot.

ooooooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhh. Ha ha.

Look deep enough into our collections and we're all faggots.

Interview: Karl Spracklen of the International Society of Metal Music Studies

"Heavy metal is an important part of modern culture and everyday life, so studying heavy metal enables us to understand both of those things. For me, the interesting thing about heavy metal is the tension between metal’s strong sense of being part of a non-mainstream subculture, and metal’s place in the industry of modern pop and rock music. That’s because I’m essentially a sociologist. Other heavy metal scholars might be interested in the way the music is constructed, or the meaning behind song lyrics, or the history of the scene, or the use of heavy metal as a philosophy or ideology of life. Heavy metal is just a subject field, a lens, through which we can think about problems in other academic diciplines." - Dr. Karl Spracklen

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I know what you're getting at, but I'm not sold. I don't think storing music anally is a good idea. Must be really bad for the record covers.

Hey man where's like... MY interview, man?

Interview with Ara

Whatever the changes that have been wrought in metal over the past 20 years, Ara roll back some of the tendencies toward excessive form and pointless technicality, and return the focus to songwriting.

Ara presents a challenge to what metal has become and to what many conceive of as metal. We figured we would go deeper for the whole story, and were fortunate to speak with guitarist and band cofounder Jerry Hauppa, who helped clarify the situation and told us about the inspiration and musical vision behind Ara’s latest, The Blessed Sleep.

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I'm liking this new one:

The rise of Death Metal in Africa


Only a handful of really good bands so far, but 3rd world (the region, at least... I suppose it depends on the country) Metal is interesting to keep an eye on.

Chris Reifert of Autopsy reveals details of The Headless Ritual

Famed for their contributions to late-1980s death metal and its continued guidance through the 1990s, Autopsy arose as a band playing a chaotic, filthy, organic sounding form of death metal, which was in contrast to the more rigidly technical “Morbid Angel” inspired bands of the day. In many ways, Autopsy was a bridge between the more structured death metal and the more chaotic but more melodic bands from the grindcore world like Carcass and Bolt Thrower.

Fresh from the studio, Chris Reifert (drums) was able to give us a few words on the nature of the new album, its style and the future for Autopsy.


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Slayer

Most of us just “attend” to things, like jobs and families, and hope for the best. The giants among us are driven onward by some belief in something larger than themselves or than the social group at large. They are animated by ideas.

For Jeff Hanneman, the idea was both musical and a vision of what that music should represent. He peered into the dystopia of modern times with one eye in the anarchistic zone of the punks, and the other in the swords ‘n’ sorcery vision of a metalhead. When he put the two together, he came up with something that makes Blade Runner and Neuromancer seem gentle.

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Good read.

Põhjast – Matused



Unlike most entries in this sub-genre, Matused is not campy hard rock with metal licks and prolonged droning riffs. Instead, it cuts back to the core of what made heavy metal great, with the amazingly adept vocals of Eric Syre guiding a guitar-driven, riff-based band with a sense of how to create and nurture mood like a doom metal band.

Syre’s vocals highlight these riffs with melodies but do not merely duplicate the notes, but instead serve as a separate instrument, winding around the progressions that guide the song and by carefully choosing where to go in that space, both accentuating consistency and foreshadowing change. Like serpents in the trees of an enchanted garden, vocal melodies slowly enwrap each riff and then merge with it, urging the song on to new dimensions.

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I just came

Interview: Varg Vikernes



After creating in the course of four early albums an impressive body of art that essentially ended black metal as it was by raising the bar beyond what others could easily participate in, Vikernes was imprisoned for sixteen years for his alleged role in church arson and murder. During the time he was in prison, he put out two more impressive keyboard-based albums and several books’ worth of writings before falling silent around the turn of the millennium.

Upon his release, he didn’t slack off, either, but pushed out two new albums influenced by the rising drone-Narrow Squirting Bowel Movement trend from Eastern Europe, and has released a film, is currently working on a role-playing game, and continues to produce numerous writings and a new theory of history. Since he is an object of interest as well as such a strong personality that he cannot escape notice, he has continued to use interviews and other public talking points to advance his ideas.

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Interview: Varg Vikernes

While you may be proud of your little Varg piece, I will proudly say he is not an influence, I have never listened to his music, he is not an impact on what I listen to in BM he just chose the easy criminal way out and shit has worked out in his favor. His music it truly not impressive and you know this yourself, and since he has matured he has changed his viewpoint. FUCK HIM FUCK NORWAY/EUROPE BLACK METAL as truth. I live in the fucking USA, I live in fucking New England, and am proud of the music that comes out of our country. Suck his fagget cock if you want, he holds no value to what we do over here.

I understand you are promoting your thing, but fuck him, fuck Europe,

Honestly I do not give a FUCK if what I say is not popular, or accepted, I said it, and I FUCKING MEAN IT.

ha ha

My goodness gracious, the sheer volume of butthurt is through the roof!

Also the Dead Hills review was interesting, I gotta give that a listen.

Hah, so fucking wasted when I posted those posts ha ha, I barely remember them ha ha. Still Fuck Varg ha ha.

Bonus points for the STRIPES reference ha ha.