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Posted on February 5, 2013 by Maz

TUESDAY TIME MACHINE: OZZY OSBOURNE – THE ULTIMATE SIN (1986)

So, the late 80s were a dark time for much of mainstream metal. Anybody who wanted to stay relevant in terms of record sales indulged in hair metal aesthetics or, at least, in its inescapable androgynous fashion. There’s Judas Priest‘s … Read the rest of this entry →

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Posted on February 5, 2013 by Maz

DECIBEL TOUR 2013: CANNIBAL CORPSE, NAPALM DEATH, IMMOLATION

I have been hitting the classic death metal back catalogs hard lately jamming everything from Nocturnus and Edge of Sanity to Cannibal Corpse‘s The Bleeding.  I’ve just found that my appreciation for modern death metal was waning and rather than soak … Read the rest of this entry →

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Posted on February 5, 2013 by Maz

NEW VIDS FROM JESS AND THE ANCIENT ONES, DE LA CRUZ, KVELERTAK

After the jump there are three new and new-ish videos from three awesome artists and some brief musings on their worldly ramifications. It’s really deep and important and you should press “read more” or whatever it says now. ShareTweetFacebookLinkedInTumblrStumbleDiggDelicious

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Posted on February 4, 2013 by Maz

THE NEW MESHUGGAH EP IS HERE AND FREE

How does a free, undreleased Meshuggah song complete with actual guitar leads sound to you? Well, the wonderful people at Scion AV Metal, bringers of such treasures as free EPs from Arsis and Revocation, are making the new Meshuggah EP Pitch Black … Read the rest of this entry →

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Posted on February 4, 2013 by Maz

TOUR De FRASH: THE CASUALTIES, GOATWHORE, HAVOK

As ya’ll have figured out by now, I’m finally squirming out from under a mountain of tedious, soul-crushing real life responsibilities to be able to post again. A lot of things have happened in the last two weeks, including the … Read the rest of this entry →

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Posted on February 4, 2013 by Maz

DAVE GROWL DIRECTS NEW SOUNDGARDEN VIDEO. ALSO, HERE’S THE VIDEO.

The brahs in Soundgarden seem unphased by rumblings that they have reunited primarly for financial reasons and are pressing forward in the aftermath of King’s Animal with a new video directed by Dave “Growl” Grohl. You see that there is an increasingly popular play on … Read the rest of this entry →

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Posted on February 4, 2013 by Maz

STREAM THE NEW ENFORCER ALBUM, YOU’LL THANK ME

It’s pretty tough to follow up a great NWOTHM release without losing momentum in this, the 2013th Year of Our Lord. Despite the music being funner than all hell, these bands do nonetheless play to some small crowds. In one … Read the rest of this entry →

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Posted on January 18, 2013 by Maz

HOLY GRAIL: RIDE THE VOID

The masses of patch covered heavy metal traditionalists, though often less than visible in your local scene, have been covertly driving the New Wave of Traditional Heavy Metal for almost half a decade now. On the heels of Cauldron‘s recent … Read the rest of this entry →

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Posted on January 17, 2013 by Maz

LISTEN TO INDIA’S MORTAR IMMEDIATELY

The rethrash movement might be at a little bit of crisis. Those bands that put out some of the best work in this revival –acts like Exmortus, Vektor, Nylithia, Deathhammer, among others– sit in relative obscurity while major labels throw their … Read the rest of this entry →

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Posted on January 17, 2013 by Maz

NERGAL STARS IN NEW HITLER COMEDY, INTELLIGENT COMMENTS FROM AMERICA POUR IN

About a year after cheating death, Nergal will be take to the silver screen to play Joachim von Ribbentrop. Yes, that Ribbentrop, he of the Molotov-Ribbentrop non-aggression Pact signed by the USSR and Germany after the former was denied an anti-Nazi alliance by Western powers. Blabbermouth reports that … Read the rest of this entry →

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Posted on January 16, 2013 by Maz

LET’S TALK ABOUT HOW RIGHTEOUS HEART’S COVER OF STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN WAS

Some would call this song iconic, I would call it the most tepid song in rock n’ roll history. Either way, performing it as such in front of the delusionally pretentious Zepp themselves, as well as the Prez and 1st … Read the rest of this entry →

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Posted on January 16, 2013 by Maz

GO STREAM ROTTEN SOUND’S NEW EP

Finland’ Inferno mag is streaming Rotton Sound’s new EP in its entirety and it’s a killer. As your humble author expands his grindcore consciousness beyond the Nasum and Napalm Death he was born into, this band is slowly entrenching itself … Read the rest of this entry →

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Posted on January 16, 2013 by Maz

NEW DARK MF’N THRONE

Damn it sure sounds like sounds like fenriz has been hitting the Manilla Road hard, ya’ll. Here’s a good analogy for you geeks out there; the musical cocktail of modern Darkthrone is much like the sword Excalibur. Fenriz has been on a … Read the rest of this entry →

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Posted on January 15, 2013 by Maz

LISTEN TO CROW BLACK SKY IF YOU HAVEN’T

South Africa’s Crow Black Sky spent so much damn time on this video that I eventually gave up on catching the premiere and missed it by about a month. This may be a bit too hi-fi for some but it … Read the rest of this entry →

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Posted on January 15, 2013 by Maz

TUESDAY TIME MACHINE: DECAPITATED – WINDS OF CREATION (2000)

Yeah, so, I know I broke my unwritten rule of not covering any records produced after 1999 but this is Choose Day Chime Machine, ok? So, I choose what I want until you chime the fuck in. This is not … Read the rest of this entry →

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Posted on January 15, 2013 by Maz

STREAM THAT NEW HOLY GRAIL ALBUM AND LET’S BE FRIENDS

I’ve been hearing rumblings of curmudgeonly butthurtness about Holy Grail’s blend of thrash and traditional heavy metal. Seem some have implied that the band’s blend of thrash metal, a remnant of its members’ previous involvement in Bonded By Blood, are … Read the rest of this entry →

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Posted on January 15, 2013 by Maz

HEY THERE’S A NEW DYING FETUS VIDEO

In this case, it’s really more about the surgical precision of the tune but the video does look like there were a couple of late nights spen working on. Though I personally didn’t find time to review Reign Supreme, it … Read the rest of this entry →

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Posted on January 14, 2013 by Maz

CHECK OUT WORMED, THEY HAVE A NEW SONG AND ARE NEAT

Though I often prefer a grittier brand of death metal, my geekery knows know bounds and anything quasi-futuristic is bound to gain traction in my book. If you enjoyed the cybernetic post-apocalypse of Nexus Inferis, this band should be nice … Read the rest of this entry →

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Posted on January 11, 2013 by Maz

BLACK FRIDAY: SICULICIDIUM

This Burzum-esque Hungarian band, like many of its kind, draws inspiration from the history of its homeland. Siculicidium is a mass murder perpetrated by the Habsburgs in 1700s against the Székelys, an ethnic subset of Hungarian civilization. Their songs drift … Read the rest of this entry →

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Posted on January 11, 2013 by Maz

VORUM: POISONED VOID

Åland is an automous Finnish island off the country’s Southern coast. On the shores of Maarianhamina, the island’s largely Swedish-speaking capital, named after Maria Alexandrovna (the Empress consort of reform-minded Russian Tsar Alexander II), is where this gem of a band makes their home. Much … Read the rest of this entry →

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