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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.
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Spawn of Possession – Cabinet (2003)
In 2003 while death metal was redundant and for the most part stagnant the world was struck by an album that brought the technical death metal genre to another level;…
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Sorhin – Apokalypsens ängel (2000)
While Swedish black metal has always been notorious for having a small number of unique bands followed by an endless stream of third rate imitators, some of the better bands…
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Blut Aus Nord – Disharmonium – Undreamable Abysses (2022)
Right off the bat, the fact that yet another metal album claiming inspiration from the much abused aesthetics and themes laid by H. P. Lovecraft doesn’t immediately succumb to triteness…