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Iron Gavel/Black Tar Prophet – Split
These beats drive the destructive feeling of their music along with their deep tones and overall style of playing.
Guitar Force – Different Universe
Altogether, with these elements, you have a very good sounding heavy metal band that I could listen to on my way to work, getting hyped for a workout, or just making every day epic!
Disevered – Hammers of Blasphemy
The six songs make you feel like you’re in the middle of street fight.
Truckfighter – V
The music was heavy, gloomy, and all around wonderful.
Surgeon – Beast of Light
Surgeon is a different animal entirely, a feral hunting creature of controlled savagery.
Myrkur – Mausoleum
Mausoleum carries you deep into your own emotions, raw though they may be, and asks your to face them unflinchingly, to see the beauty and the light as well as the darkness and deep, deep sadness.
Death Requisite – Second Death
Sarasota, Florida-based Death Requisite offer up a 20+ minute EP of symphonic-blackened death metal that shows a lot of promise for their future.
Altar of Oblivion – Barren Grounds
Each of the melodies presented in the songs give you a sense of longing. The slow melodic guitar presented in the songs allows you to feel the pain that comes from sorrow in your life.
MI Metal Shows Update: 8.29.16
MI Metal Update 8.29.16: Prophets of Rage, Black Sabbath, Ted Nugent, Abiotic, Merauder, Faster Pussycat, Don Jamieson and Chokehold are all in MI this week! Labor Day local shows all over the Mitten, Zakk Wylde & Corey Taylor have a new video, Twelve Foot Ninja release new music, Plus… Upcoming Shows, New Releases, Videos and MORE!
Swamp Witch – The Slithering Bog
While listening to the music, you find yourself taken on a journey through the lair of a witch. The bass lines within the songs are haunting and lure you deeper into the lair of the music and make you curious as to what is to come.
Motorowl – Om Generator
The album Om Generator is filled with some great feelings of nostalgia and new twists that make for a good album.
Morrow – Covenant of Teeth
Morrow have captured pure emotion and used it to create a texture of love and pain, hope, forgiveness, and desperation, sorrow and strength.
Cloud Rat – Discography 2010-2015
The three-piece … play an in your face style of highly charged, experimental grindcore.
MI Metal Shows Update: 8.22.16
MI Metal Update 8.22.16: Periphery – Sonic Unrest Tour in GR and Detroit, Metal Mayhem at Papa Petes, Pestilent Age with Archimime at The Rockery, Sabaton’s new album, a sweet Death Angel video, Plus… Upcoming Shows, New Releases, Videos and MORE!
MI Metal Shows Update: 8.15.16
MI Metal Update 8.15.16: Too many local and national shows to list! Honorable Mentions: ZZ Top, Korn, Rob Zombie, In This Moment, Nervosa, Every Time I Die, and so many more! Lamb of God has a new video, Vader has a new EP, Plus… Upcoming Shows, New Releases, Videos and MORE!
MI Metal Shows Update: 8.08.16
MI Metal Update 8.08.16: Kiss hits GR, Dirt Fest is Saturday with Hatebreed and Killswitch Engange and many more, From Blue to Gray drop an album, local shows all over the Mitten, New Music from Carnifex. Plus… Upcoming Shows, New Releases, Videos and MORE!
Feral Light – A Sound of Moving Shields
Take past members of Wolvhammer, Empires, Manetheren, and Finger of Scorn. Stir until well blended. Mix in frosty Scandinavian black metal draughts of venom. Shake well. Sprinkle with British crusty gutter filth. Bake until bleak and urgent. Serve cold as death.
Pyramido – Vatten
Absolute Contempt is a fairly new label with only seven releases so far, but Daniel Zambrano, the owner, has a different vision for his releases. All proceeds from the label are going to cat rescue shelters.
Oblivion Circle – Oblivion Circle
I was immediately struck by the music. While Oblivion Circle doesn’t play straight-up black metal, they do play black metal with plenty of death metal influences and a ton of atmosphere.
Virus – Memento Collider
This is no simple strum-along–either take it as a challenge to figure out these knotty chords or surrender completely and let yourself dissolve in a wash of sound you may never be able break down or understand.
Tomb Mold – The Bottomless Perdition
There was so much gravel in the vocals that I had to empty my shoes at the end of the album.
MI Metal Shows Update: 8.01.16
MI Metal Update 8.01.16: Lots of Hair Metal glory happening in MI this week with Ratt, Warrant, Lita Ford, L.A. Guns, Downtread @ Chene Parkin Detroit. Alice Cooper is coming to KZOO, The Plot In You in The Stache @The Intersection, New Music from Valient Thorr and Ringworm. Plus… Upcoming Shows, New Releases, Videos and MORE!
MI Metal Shows Update: 7.25.16
MI Metal Update 7.25.16: Slipknot and Marilyn Manson at DTE, Hellmouth’s only 2016 show, Black Sabbath’s final tour and Lacuna Coil’s new video. Plus… Upcoming Shows, New Releases, Videos and more!
The Night Watch – Boundaries
The music is challenging, but the presentation is deliciously unusual, and while one might envision such a piece as a cult classic…
