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MI Metal Shows Update: February 2018
With this month’s update you can: Buy the latest Corrosion of Conformity album. Support a metal show near you. Party to an Andrew W K video. Get an MPN hoodie at an unbelievable price. Beat your friends at rock trivia… AND MUCH MORE \m/
Obscene – Sermon to the Snake
Solidly played, solidly executed music, and showing a lot of potential indeed,
Black Moth – Anatomical Venus
Anatomical Venus is quite an impressive opus from start to finish
Hooded Menace – Ossuarium Silhouettes Unhallowed
The darkest of oceans lapping forever at your feet and suddenly you are in it and drowning with no help in sight.
Perfect Beings – Vier
Any attempt to welcome this album into a good home and to give it the attention it deserves will no doubt yield tremendous rewards.
Ataraxy – Where All Hope Fades
One of the best death doom albums you’ll hear this year and by far the best album of their career
Cryptae – Cryptae
.Cryptae sound like they just walked straight out of the primordial ooze and decided to show us what the fuck that sounded like.
Mr. Plow – Maintain Radio Silence
head bobbing majesty mixed with lazy grooves and lyrical hooks
Humanity’s End – Between Life and Death
Humanity’s End are continuing a legacy of great death metal. Get on it!
Scaphism – Unutterable Horrors
The victim was basically alive whilst being eaten to death. Curious? Read on!
Exalter – Persecution Automated
Exalter have captured the pure essence of what thrash is all about.
Photo Gallery: Corrosion of Conformity 1-11-18 at The Stache in Grand Rapids
When the show with Black Label Society was postponed due to illness, Corrosion of Conformity played a surprise headlining gig at The Intersection. Their new album ‘No Cross No Crown’ dropped the next day and they graced us with some new songs, the new album on sale (signed too!!) and an amazingly intimate show.
False Flag – False Flag EP
False Flag ring forth from the tiny speakers with a visceral honesty that can be hard to find.
Disintegration – Cruel Slaughter
…these are six minutes well worth your time.
DSKNT – PhSPHR Entropy
The depths of nightmares are plumbed to find the visual template upon which this sonic blasphemy is drawn.
Mammon – Luna de Sangre
Luna de Sangre, released at the tail end of 2017, shows Mammon developing their own sound, staking their own ground.
Beastcraft/Black Altar – Occult Ceremonial Rites/Winds Ov Decay Split
Something wicked this way comes!
Calligram – Askesis
You’ll want to strike that match.
Somali Yacht Club – The Sea
your Chuck Taylors scream for your attention as you sway to the lazy beat
Vinide – Reveal
Mixing operatic vocals, huge synth layers, and face melting guitar shredding
Heikki Hautala & Hyvaet Veljet – Rauha ja harmonia
sparse musical composition and blasts of some of the dirtiest, grittiest guitar riffs east of the Gulf of Bothnia.
Bestialord – Law Of The Burning
The riffs on this release are simply mind blowing, palm muted crunchiness of the kind that gets your head nodding along nicely
Deathmarch – Dismember
Hopefully with such a fierce love of doing what they do more will follow soon.
MI Metal Shows Update: January 2018
With this month’s update you can: Watch a new Tribulation video. Buy the fifth Watian album. Support a metal show near you. Order a warm MPN hoodie at an even warmer price. Read history that matters… AND MUCH MORE \m/
