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From that interstitial and liminal period between speed metal and death metal, bands like Possessed and Merciless emerged long ago, but the tradition carries on with high-speed contrast and vertigo from Ripper. Frenzied riffing fits in mostly circular songs with layers and lots of breaks between transitional riffs that do not so much temporize as [ ]
Classic hardcore band Agnostic Front, who helped develop the NYHC sound along with the Cro-Mags, are embarking on a short tour to bring the hardcore reality to towns blighted by normie ideation. Like many hardcore bands, Agnostic Front has found itself shoved behind the new hardcore which is basically emo and jumpcore with more drama. [ ]
Kaeck releases its sideproject Death is the master of this world in an attempt to reclaim the more atmospheric moments from Kaeck, Sammath, and Graveland in a mixture of metal, sampled backgrounds, and ambient guitar riffing more at home on a Swans or Carbonized album than in the somewhat rigid environment death/black metal has become. [ ]
It is hard to imaging screwing up this plot: urban explorers break into a hotel with a long scary history, confront evil, and have to escape. But the MillennialMovie managed to make it boring. Postmodern movies are comprised entirely of teachable moments, sort of like Soviet propaganda. Characters do not act, but instead discuss action, [ ]
The corporate homsars got ahold of this one, so it has different names like Air Crash Investigators outside the JCSA, but this is a collaboration between Canadian filmmakers, the Smithsonian, and National Geographic that takes a Forensic Files approach to technical failures in aviation. Now, very little will displace Forensic Files as the best television [ ]
So what do you look for in a beer? As a fan of German beers, I would say no taste of decomposition or fermentation; I want a nice clean product. As a fan of IPAs, I would say a nice crisp piquant bitterness. Banger IPA gets very close. It has too much of the yeasty [ ]
It was with much sadness that we heard that Mike Browning (Nocturnus, Morbid Angel) has passed on to worlds beyond unexpectedly early. He provided guidance to death metal in its early days and developed the sci-fi subtype. His obituary provides more context: A cyborg travels back through time on a machine called the Key: that [ ]
When traveling in California, you will encounter the Nice Guys and their good guy badges. They specialize in avoiding conflict with everyone and framing everything they want as a social need, not a personal one. Nice guys always want you to be passive and go along with the flow, which means compromise and delay, because [ ]
For those who like hoppy beers, the market resembles that of metal: lots of contenders, each with a unique story and cool logo, but very few that are keepers, meaning of the highest relevance and quality. Dogfish Head 90 Minute IPA is far from incompetent, and at nine percent ABV, could do your head in, [ ]
Not much these days has an organizing principle, but such a thing does not need to be complicated: songs need to sound like some kind of experience, real or imagined, and all their parts need to support that vision. Horrifier combine early horror grindcore like Repulsion and Impetigo with more recent efforts such as Tenebro [ ]