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Regurgitation – Tales of Necrophilia (1999)
Guest Article by Malus After the death of the classic death metal scene, more extreme and experimental types of death metal were arising in the late 90s and early 00s.…
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Gorgoroth – Gorgoroth: Climax Analysis
Gorgoroth's second album is often considered to be their magnum opus and one of the greatest Norwegian black metal albums despite coming out significantly later than the other recognized classics…
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HS: Lelahel (Lelahell, Litham, Aash and much more)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRk3xf9j-Fo&t=86s&ab_channel=HessianFirm Nick is joined Lelahel who has been one of the major driving forces of Algerian and North African metal since the 90s. Conversations revolve around his unique use of…
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Beatrik – Requiem of December (2005)
Beatrìk are an Italian black metal duo that released a few demos and a pair of albums in the early 2000s before unceremoniously disbanding to form other projects. While the…
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Hessian Scrum Special: Joël Guigou (Agressor, Outburst)
https://youtu.be/VD7ysmKn4AU Nick is joined by Joël Guigou of celebrated death/thrash metal band Agressor and underground thrash band Outburst to talk about the band's influences and compositional style, what made the…
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Interview: Robert Sennebäck (Dismember, Unhallow)
While most early Swedish Death metal in the early 90s was very simplistic and featured a lot of hard rock influence, Like an Everflowing Stream was much more technically proficient…
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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…