Death Metal Underground

Storming unruly black/death squad Kaeck reprised their 2016 appearance at the Under The Black Sun festival (pictured above) with a new live recording that shows the immense disturbance among the forces of good that this band creates.

End of summer going into fall is a good time for eating too much snack food, so have a variant on the southern classic pimiento cheese spread!

From its upcoming album All The Shadows, classic swords and sorcery heavy metal band Cirith Ungol has released its first single, the title track.

All things in life strive to survive and perpetuate.

Evoking the higher-speed precision work of On the Seventh Day…, the latest offering from Master merges early hardcore, 1960s heavy rock, and the early years of death metal into a driving force of dissent and alienation.

Metal has been a ruin since 1994, but a handful of acts show that there is some life in the corpse, and Solips from Asgrauw shows great promise with its melodic high energy black metal.

These songs feel like guys shouting at each other across a bar, each with a good idea, and the whole thing barely but strongly holding together, making a simple statement of both past and present.

Proto-metal band Master continue a storied career with Among the Seeds of Death, slated for release on Hammerheart Records.

From that interstitial and liminal period between speed metal and death metal, bands like Possessed and Merciless emerged long ago, but the tradition carries on with high-speed contrast and vertigo from Ripper.

Classic hardcore band Agnostic Front, who helped develop the NYHC sound along with the Cro-Mags, are embarking on a short tour to bring the hardcore reality to towns blighted by normie ideation.

Kaeck releases its sideproject Death is the master of this world in an attempt to reclaim the more atmospheric moments from Kaeck, Sammath, and Graveland in a mixture of metal, sampled backgrounds, and ambient guitar riffing more at home on a Swans or Car…

It is hard to imaging screwing up this plot: urban explorers break into a hotel with a long scary history, confront evil, and have to escape.