Tag Archives: Death metal
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Cryptopsy, None So Vile
3January 27, 2012 by hhbrady
Why is None So Vile, a 16-year-old release from Québécois death metal outfit Cryptopsy, indispensible? I will elucidate this in …
Continue readingCategory: Album Review, Metal | Tags: Cryptopsy, Death metal, Decibel, heavy metal, Inferno, Lord Byron, Lord Worm, Music, None So Vile, Phobophile, Zbigniew Robert Promiński
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A Goatwhore primer
5January 26, 2012 by hhbrady
What with Blood for the Master coming out on Valentine’s Day 2012 (because that makes sense), here’s your primer– i.e., …
Continue readingCategory: Album Review, Metal | Tags: black metal, blood for the master, Carving Out the Eyes of God, Celtic Frost, Death metal, Decibel, Erik Rutan, Goatwhore, Haunting Curse, Metal Blade Records, New Orleans
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Impetuous Ritual, Relentless Execution of Ceremonial Excrescence
Leave a commentDecember 29, 2011 by hhbrady
Y’ever watch True Blood or read the Sookie Stackhouse novels? You say you’re a heterosexual male… so no? Let me …
Continue readingCategory: Album Review, Metal | Tags: Album review, Anna Paquin, black metal, Death metal, doom metal, impetuous ritual, Music, Relentless Execution of Ceremonial Excrescence, Sookie Stackhouse, Sunn O))), True Blood
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Top 20 Heavy Albums of 2011
8December 21, 2011 by hhbrady
Honorable Mention: Indian, Guiltless Top 20: 20: Skeletonwitch, Forever Abomination Genre-less pure metal: 1982 Metallica, covering Iron Maiden, with Cronos singing. …
Continue readingCategory: Album Review, Lists, Metal | Tags: 2011, Album review, albums, Death metal, doom metal, heavy metal, Music, rock, Rwake, soda shop, top 20
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Anhedonist, The Drear
Leave a commentDecember 17, 2011 by hhbrady
“The Insatiable Hole,” track one, has one great title. I actually only listened to this because of the unusual band name: Anhedonist, …
Continue readingCategory: Album Review, Metal | Tags: Album review, anhedonist, Death metal, Doom, Metal, Music, rock, Sludge, the drear
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Anatomia, Dissected Humanity
Leave a commentDecember 14, 2011 by hhbrady
Vibrant Japanese death metal band– playing doom metal. Opener “Carnal Mutilation”= straight ahead death metal until about 2 minutes in, …
Continue readingCategory: Album Review, Metal, Microreview | Tags: Album review, anatomia, black metal, Death metal, dissected humanity, doom metal, Extreme metal, Music
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Fuck the Facts, Die Miserable
3December 9, 2011 by hhbrady
This’ll be in my top 3 records of 2011. I really dig it– much more than I expected to, actually. …
Continue readingCategory: Album Review, Metal | Tags: Album review, Death metal, DeathGrind, die miserable, extreme music, fuck the facts, Grindcore, Metal, progressive, Relapse Records
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Landmine Marathon, Gallows
5November 19, 2011 by hhbrady
Oh, my children, devotees, congregation– how I do so love the death/grind. This most rarified of music genres, is, to …
Continue readingCategory: Album Review, Metal | Tags: Album review, Brutal Truth, Death, Death metal, gallows, grind, Grindcore, landmine marathon, LandmineMarathon, Metal, Music, Prosthetic Records
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Because It’s Hallowe’en: How to Psychologically Engineer Death/grind
Leave a commentOctober 31, 2011 by hhbrady
Having recently, for whatever reason (paging Doctor Freud) been listening to a shitton of death/grind, and being the in the …
Continue readingCategory: Essay, Heaviness + Weirdness, Metal, Monograph | Tags: behaviorism, Death metal, DeathGrind, Developmental psychology, essay, Grindcore, John B. Watson, Music, personality, progressive metal, Psychology, rock, Technical Death Metal
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Tom Waits’ Alice and Blood Money: pop music’s death metal
1October 29, 2011 by hhbrady
Alice There’s very simple orchestration in “Alice,” and that’s part of the attraction; Waits’ narrative, over bass and what is …
Continue readingCategory: Album Review | Tags: Album review, Alice, Blood Money, Charles Bukowski, Death metal, Metal, Music, Pop music, rock, Tom Waits