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Monthly Archives: December 2011
Black Friday: Lamentations of the Ashen
USBM is often pigeonholed as being stagnant and derivative. In the 90s and 00s that was largely true and any worthwhile acts were almost exclusively playing raw black metal. Lamentations of the Ashen was spawned in the American midwest. What … Read the rest of this entry →
New Nexus Inferis Track. Hooray!
Nexus Inferis have unleashed a new track from their forthcoming exercise in claustrophobic extreme metal futurism. The digitized spoken samples add a nice layer of creep on top of the relentless punishment. The breakdown (not of the deathcore variety) at … Read the rest of this entry →
2011 Gems I Have Snoozed On: Arkham Witch & The Atlas Moth
Instead of blabbing to you about what you mighthave missed out on in 2011, I increasingly find myself compelled to share what I have missed out on in this glorious year of metal. In fact, I don’t even know if … Read the rest of this entry →
The Aussie Thrash of Randomorder
The Aussies strike again. Don’t know what it is about this site that hits so well over in this mammoth of the Commonwealth but it must be our rugged adventurous spirit. At least that’s what I’ll keep telling myself. Though … Read the rest of this entry →
Almah: Motion
Originally a side project of Angra vocalist Edu Falaschi, It would be reasonable to expect Brazlians Almah to carry the torch of power metal zealously. Not only that but they are often slapped with the melodic power metal bumper sticker … Read the rest of this entry →
The Big 4 Today: A Compressed Review
As some hard-nosed thrashers point out, bands sometimes cross a line where their fame makes it so commercial considerations influence the content of their music. This, of course, is unacceptable to people of many artistic circles. Yet, it’s also unfair … Read the rest of this entry →
How Dare Al Jourgensen Disrespect Our Wise, Benevolent Corporate Overlords?
Seriously, this guy has some nerve. What have they ever done to him? All they’ve ever done has been for the good of society. They’ve made us more efficient as shoppers by using media to politely remind us of what … Read the rest of this entry →
Tuesday Time Machine: Armored Saint Circa 1991
Oh man Tuesdays are the worst. I’m tired as a wombat. Was gonna have coffee but I had a beer instead. My memoirs are going to be great, I just know it. Anyhoo, sometimes referred to as Armored Saint‘s Back … Read the rest of this entry →
Pop a Lactaid; Primal Fear Still Serving Up Plenty of Cheese
Though Primal Fear still revel in their cheesiness without shame, they have always gotten a pass from me since they are more Judas Priest than Judas Priest these days. (I don’t think anyone bought tickets to the Priest farewell tour … Read the rest of this entry →
Voyager: The Meaning of I
Though we’ve been on a bit a prog kick lately with the reviews, I think I’ve personally been pretty successful with avoiding any wankfests. When I heard Aussies Voyager described as a synth-happy amalgam of Nevermore, Dream Theater and Cynic, … Read the rest of this entry →
Weekend War Cry: MERRYY BLOODY XMAS TO YE ALL
I love the temporary insanity that comes with rabid consumerism as much as the next guy (OMFG I NEED ALL THESE TAMAGOTCHIS OR BABY JESUS WILL CRY BLOODY TEARS) but it’s time to put an end to St. Nick’s reign … Read the rest of this entry →
Black Friday: Famine is Right
Famine brings it’s raw, skelatal form of black metal to the masses from that occult-riden satanist abyss, New Jersey, USA. (Can YOU explain what goes on there?). It’s essentially one guy who goes by the name Worthless, though the music … Read the rest of this entry →
BREAKING NEUZ: New Naglfar Track Premieres, Melodic BM Fanboys Faint En Masse
I’ve never been sure what gave this band more cred than mid-2000s Dimmu Borgir apart from simply being simply less well-known. This is a neat track and bring the blasting crush pretty hard with some folky sounding stomps and lead … Read the rest of this entry →
Beyond the Epilogue
Considering I just coughed up $6 for a mediocre breakfast, to a faceless corporate cabal that peddles cakes of hormones, chemicals and cattle parts no less, the modesty of artists who give their music away for pennies is humbling. Bitter, … Read the rest of this entry →
Full Exhumed Set from Maryland Death Fest Available for Download at…NPR?
NPR has a sweet music blog and they’ve given some cool acts like Portal, and Cormorant some time in the spotlight. Though both those acts are cool, It shouldn’t be completely blindsiding to see them on NPR since they’re, well, … Read the rest of this entry →
Sons of Northwestern Darkness: Portland’s Axxicorn
We’ve been pretty fortunate in the quality of artists that contact us. Without being hyperbolic, probably about 90% are awesome up-and-coming bands. In this case, there is an obvious St. Vitus or Black Sabbath (a la Sabbath Bloody Sabbath) comparison … Read the rest of this entry →
Vallenfyre: A Fragile King Drops but Doesn’t Break
The days of hyperkinetic death metal being what every new band strives for is not necessarily the norm anymore. With a strong resurgence of bands creating an old school death metal sound, ultra-fast riffing is not always the main goal. … Read the rest of this entry →
Psycroptic’s New Track and Some High Brow Jostling
I know I’m a few days late on this track, mostly because I’ve always been on the fence with this band, but after listening to it this track is pretty incredible musically. The “-core” vocals still don’t do wonders in … Read the rest of this entry →
Tuesday Time Machine: Atheist’s Sophmore Masterpiece
Since we seem to be creaming ourselves (both the writers of ShredderNet and we as the death metal community overall) over the likes of Origin, Hour of Penance and Fleshgod Apocalypse it only makes sense to revisit one of the … Read the rest of this entry →
Covering Fire Vol. IV: Pentagram(The Stones), Death (KISS), Sacred Reich (Black Sabbath)
It’s that time again. Just a little snack to savor between posts. Who knows, maybe this will get some of you to revisit old records, remember other good covers of the tracks below, or inspire you to jam on something … Read the rest of this entry →