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Galicia – Precipice Available Now
Galicia's debut album Precipice is available now on YouTube and Bandcamp in its entirety. Pre-orders will be shipped out in the next couple of days. The album will also be…
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Consume the Forsaken and the Bastardization of Brutal Death Metal
Brutal death metal, one of the many death metal subgenres that is consistently trashed by “purists” just like genre siblings melodic death metal and technical death metal. Among the critiques…
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Noctis – Out of the Shadow of Legend (1998)
With the end of the LLN movement, French black metal saw a shift towards more refined playing and a celebration of French culture from the middle-ages that was entrenched in…
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Some notes on irony
“In five ways the supersaturation of an age in history seems to me hostile and dangerous. Through such an excess, first, that hitherto mentioned contrast between inner and outer is…
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Hessian Firm Signs Galicia
We are very proud to announce that we have officially signed Galicia and will be releasing their album Precipice on the 21st of October. Pre-orders are up on our Bandcamp…
Hessian Scrum: Dungeon Serpent
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7XFgPxUiPc&ab_channel=HessianFirm Nick is joined by Arawn of melodic death metal band Dungeon Serpent to discuss their full length, World of Sorrows, the state of melodic death metal and how the…
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Mindly Rotten – The Most Exquisite Agonies (2005)
Mindly Rotten are a Colombian brutal death metal and while this has certain connotations, musically this bears non of the trademarks of latin brutal death metal and instead opts for…
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The art of Purposeful Dissonance: Sentenced – My Sky Is Darker Than Thine
Sentenced's classic album North From Here opens with its most aggressive song "My Sky Is Darker Than Thine" that features a breakdown as an important compositional tool. While brutality and…
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A Case for Death Metal’s Greatest Album: Deicide – Legion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15-ek30lZ5M&ab_channel=HessianFirm Nick and Maccauley go through the triumphs of Deicide's magnum opus Legion and why its use of rhythm and subtleties may make this to be the greatest death metal…
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Forgotten Minor Classics: Mercyless – Abject Offerings
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_R-ldAidfmU&ab_channel=HessianFirm After a long hiatus, Nick returns with a short video detailing why Mercyless - Abject Offerings deserves to be considered as an important release for the death metal genre.