Death Metal Underground
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Death Metal Underground is the oldest and longest-running internet heavy metal site with a focus on underground metal (death metal, black metal, speed metal, grindcore, doom metal) and its culture, history, and philosophy.
Death Metal Underground
4d ago
Some civilizations have public viewings of the dead; some bury them as soon as possible under cover of night. Some have wakes, others solemn commemorations. Human death rituals take many forms but they all serve to fix a discontinuity, to knit a past that cannot continue with an unknown future. Into your hands, O merciful ..read more
Death Metal Underground
2w ago
Way back in the early 1990s, Niko Skorpio helmed a zine named Hammer of Damnation in addition to handling vocal duties in Thergothon. Darkness Shall Rise Productions recently opened pre-orders for a compilation of the five issues of the zine from 1991-1996, offering 288 pages of underground metal for 33 € for those who missed ..read more
Death Metal Underground
2w ago
Were you hoping for happy Christmas greetings? Of course not! As you may know, many of us here walk the Left Hand Path which is the ancient understanding called “monism” in which power and morality are one, the Heavens operate like Earth, and the gods live among us in a world beyond symbolism where metaphor ..read more
Death Metal Underground
3w ago
Apparently emerging from a podcast done by lead writer Mike Schiff, this documentary concerns the parallel lives and interwoven fates of heavy metal music and horror films, making a good case that people who do not buy into society’s nonsense tend to choose a path where power is more desirable than safety and popularity. It ..read more
Death Metal Underground
3w ago
It does not matter what I write here because people no longer read articles. They read headlines and summaries, then skim for embedded media. Television finally took over through the computer. As usual, the voters/consumers are their own worst enemy, choosing the dumbest format they can find. People in groups avoid known fears and ignore ..read more
Death Metal Underground
1M ago
by Charles Alexander The remix of The Coming of Chaos addresses production difficulties with a late release by a classic band, but struggles to overcome the hybrid of black metal and speed metal that was in vogue for a couple years but ultimately muddles the amazing composition within this album. Songs that were already rising ..read more
Death Metal Underground
1M ago
Stick a bunch of Finns together in a winter war bunker with copies of Blood Fire Death and Under the Sign of the Black Mark, and you might get this imaginative band that stands astride black metal, speed metal, and epic heavy metal with an emphasis on changing atmosphere. Much of this album will sound ..read more
Death Metal Underground
1M ago
The line between doom-death and funeral doom blurs with this release since there is relatively little death metal or phrasal riffs, and more of the approach Skepticism and Thergothon took with slow even chording of overlapping tone progressions overlaid with lead melodic rhythm guitar. Producing a ponderous but adventurous atmosphere, this approach imbues the listening ..read more
Death Metal Underground
1M ago
Every genre hits a ceiling. How does jazz rise beyond The Shape of Jazz to Come, electronica exceed Computer World, classical beat the Beethoven nine symphonies, or black metal surpass Hvis Lyset Tar Oss, Pure Holocaust, and Transilvanian Hunger? The answer will disappoint everyone: by using them as the new baseline and writing more intriguing ..read more
Death Metal Underground
2M ago
When you start writing about metal, you rapidly find that metal connects to lots of other stuff. Not just by lyrics and imagery but by sound alone, since listening to metal seems to shape consciousness toward viewing reality differently than what The Herd wants: oblivion, free stuff, nudes, and donuts. At some point, we all ..read more