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Making waves in the Black Metal scene the one woman ghoul from Denmark lifts the veil on her brand new project. A ghostly promenade coalescing both serene melodies and biting riffs that make up the DNA of the new record. Join us as we take a trip into the illusionary, eerie wonderful dynamics of Myrkur’s, M.
Originality is becoming more and more scarce as with each year that arrives in the Metal calendar. Band after band sounding like copy cat images of each other, save for the select few who will go on to become visionaries, ushering in the new age of Metal.
As times change so does the face of the music, a current talking point in the metal community being about whether technology has influenced the sound of Metal in the modern day. Being responsible for some of the best sounding Death Metal records in recent years, Erik Rutan is not only Death Metal royalty for his instrumental prowess but also for his genre defining production. A man of who goes under many guises at long last returns with some of the most abrasive Metal this year.
Balance is incredibly important in music, particularly music of a grander complexity, releasing their brand new twelfth studio album this year Spock’s Beard return with their latest handbook. The Oblivion Particle.
Many believe that in death there is also life. Often hearing when the older generation passes on a new born is brought into the world, chanelling our essence as humans. Deciding that they had expended their creative juices with Megadeth both guitarist Chris Broderick and drummer Shawn Drover decided to leave the band. However with the demise of one comes the Birth And The Burial.
Artistic license can be manifested in many different ways. The poetic putting together of modern art for example or the manifestation of prose. Nevertheless there is a fine line between true artistic flair and pretentious flattery. Walking this metaphorical line with boundless creativity we see one of the year’s most intriguing band’s, Agent Fresco release their brand new album Destrier. Merely a snapshot of the creative genius the band are capable of.
Entering the era that is now called the Anthropocene we, as humans are very much active in the destruction of our own planet. The Anthropocene era is one where the humans’ effect on the planet is beginning to be felt. Not only in well developed countries but the third world and even the sea itself. Through Carbon emissions, pollution and over population, to use the band’s own words “We Are All Horrible People”. With our shepherds arriving to forewarn us of our imposing doom, Cattle Decapitation show us that if we continue taking advantage of our planet we will soon face The Anthropocene Extinction.
Having been around in the Death Metal arena now for twenty five absolutely destructive years Krisiun approach their anniversary as one of Brazil’s most ruinous exports with a brand new album, Forged In Fury. Have Camargo and co’s claws remained as razor sharp as they once were or has time dulled our feral cat’s claws…