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SONG OF THE WEEK: Vermin Womb – Age of Neglect
This song, and the album from which it relentlessly crawls forth like an invading creature of spiteful violence, are among the most brutal, hateful, bile-filled creations I have ever heard.
Anagnorisis – Peripeteia
Musically, Peripeteia is has grown immensely from Beyond All Light. Pablo Picasso once said, “Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.” Beyond All Light is the band’s masterpiece after learning the rules of black metal as an art form. It is darkly beautiful, full of vile, pent-up aggression and ceaseless rage. Peripeteia is where Anagnorisis begin to break the rules like an artist.
Astral Blood – Astral Blood
The two songs and the interlude sandwiched between are ominous, destructive, and diabolic while also taking the listener on a dark, dimensional journey.
Discarnatus – Awakened Through Pain
Discarnatus is like a re-animated corpse with blackened, putrefying flesh layered over a skeleton of death metal.
Terrorist – Post-Mortem
Vicious. Feral. Intense. Unhinged. These are all adjectives which could be used to describe Post-Mortem by the now defunct Florida grindcore act Terrorist.
MI Metal Shows Update: 10.17.16
Its almost Halloween and all the metal ghouls are coming out! Art of Dying is in Flint. Suicidal Tendencies with Madball in GR. Gojira is in Detroit. A bunch of local shows across the mitten. Darkthrone has new music. Pick up some blood dripping candles while you’re here. Plus… Upcoming Shows, New Releases, Videos and MORE!
MI Metal Shows Update: 10.10.16
The air outside is getting as cold as our metal hearts! Metal concert season continues with It Lies Within in Flint. Parkway Drive in GR. Hatebreed and Devil Driver in Battle Creek. A bunch of local shows across the mitten. The Devil Wears Prada has a new album, Plus… Upcoming Shows, New Releases, Videos and MORE!
Interview with Andy Schoengrund of Feral Light
[I’m] just taking the Icy black metal parts a bit further and the melodic parts a bit further.
Wolves in the Throne Room/Cloud Rat at Lee’s Palace – September 24th, 2016
Cloud Rat is always amazing and Wolves in the Throne Room was near transcendental.
MI Metal Shows Update: 10.03.16
The metals season is in full swing! Lots of shows this week! Coheed and Cambria in GR. Old Black releases an album. Divine Eve comes to Hamtramck. Opeth and The Sword in Detroit. Every Time I Die has a new video, Plus… Upcoming Shows, New Releases, Videos and MORE!
MI Metal Shows Update: 9.26.16
Ahhh Fall the time of METAL! There are soooo many shows this week, metal lovers of all kinds REJOICE! Dope is on the East and West side. Cattle Decapitation is gonna blow minds mid week. The Goddamn Gallows come home. Saint Vitus has a new live album, Gojira released another video, Plus… Upcoming Shows, New Releases, Videos and MORE!
The Body and Full of Hell – One Day You Will Ache Like I Ache
I’m not sure that I can even say that I like the album. What I can say with certainty is that it is one of the most compelling listens I’ve heard all year.
Scorched – Echoes of Dismemberment
The opening riffs…seem to take their time clomping up the stairs with the realization that killing you may be more of a challenge than they thought.
MI Metal Shows Update: 9.19.16
Seraphim is playing the Detroit area. Between The Buried and Me and Fallujah are playing MI this week with Devon Townsend Project at The Intersection. Ghost has a new EP., Pink Floyd was more metal than us before metal was even a thing. Nola is released on vinyl and a killer MPN hoodie SALE. Plus… Upcoming Shows, New Releases, Videos and MORE!
Void Omnia – Dying Light
Dying Light is a rich, layered album full of black metal darkness.
Vrtra – My Bones Hold A Stillness
The rather vivid imagery in my head every time I listen to these roughly 30 minutes over three tracks is of being lost in sea. At night. In the eye of a brewing storm.
Morbo/Bunker 66 – Into the Morbid Bunker Split 7″
Sometimes 12 minutes of savagery is all you need.
15 Words About: Dirt Chili – Album Shot & a Smoke
Local Michigan metal to party with, loudly. Bartenders, beasts, warmongers working men and warriors included.
Sumerlands – Sumerlands
They remind me of the better bands of that generation before it went full hair metal, with even a touch of NWOBHM in the mix. Instead, they are really the new wave of American heavy metal.
Minenwerfer/1914 – Ich hatt einen Kameraden
As a historical album, really as an album in general, Ich hatt einen Kameraden (I have a comrade) is a masterpiece.
Cara Neir/Wildspeaker – Guilt and His Reflection
The final track on the album, His Reflection, is not only the best track on the album and the best work by Wildspeaker, but stands up well to any other crust track you care to name.
Sea of Bones/Ramlord – Split
The band plays a nasty blend of crust, hardcore punk, and black metal, creating a hybrid all their own. The sound is filthy, rotten, and drags you bodily into the void, caring nothing for scrapes and bruises inflicted on the way down.
MI Metal Shows Update: 9.12.16
Uncle Acid, Sevendust, Agent Orange, Against Me, Gwar, Crowbar, Slumlord Radio, For Today, and Septafoil are all playing MI this week! Dirt Chili release party is Saturday. The Machine Shop is having a Water Drive for Flint. Baroness has a new Purple video and Devin Townsend releases Transcendence. Plus… Upcoming Shows, New Releases, Videos and MORE!
MI Metal Shows Update: 9.06.16
SLAYER, Anthrax, Death Angel, Ghost Bath, ACDC, Bret Michaels, Ratt, Warrant, LA Guns, Mustard Plug, and Royal Bliss are all playing MI this week! There are a few metal fests scattered all over the Mitten this weekend too. Slayer’s bloody good new video, Goblin Cock is funny to say and they released new music, Plus… Upcoming Shows, New Releases, Videos and MORE!
