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Lecherous NocturnePhoto by Nex Cultus Photography Here’s an interesting ongoing death metal tour: Lecherous Nocturne with Gigan. Lecherous Nocturne are supporting The Age of Miracles Has Passed (Unique Leader, 2008). It took me a while to get into it, as I have tired of brutal/technical death metal. (I reviewed their previous album here.) Once I […]

Torn Asunder Self-Released2006 Icon-Eight is Mactabilis from Bergen, Norway. In Thrash the Moment! he’s concocted four cuts of raw, vicious thrash/death. The bio and title both reference ’80s thrash, but the sheer ferocity and occasional blastbeat tip this EP closer to death metal. Whatever you call it, it rocks. The production is gritty but solid, […]

At Metal Injection, I’ve reviewed the debut album by Miami’s Black Tide. Singer/guitarist Gabriel Garcia is 15, and his bandmates are also teenagers. Arizona’s Age of Evil, whom I wrote about a while back, are similar in youth and sound. However, Black Tide are really thirtysomethings stuck in the ’80s. Why these teens fetishize cock […]

This quote by Black Flag drummer Bill Stevenson from We Owe You Nothing (Punk Planet: The Collected Interviews) has stuck with me: We also had a very confrontational stage vibe. I’m not saying we brought [violence] upon ourselves, it just wasn’t an inviting setting. There was a wall up and we were trying to play […]

by Cosmo Lee Pagan Hellfire is a one-man black metal act that avoids the usual depressive connotations of that M.O. Robust, mid-paced marches dominate, in keeping with black metal’s recent trend. Mastermind Incarnatus is competent at screeches and drums, but he’s incredibly fluent with guitars. His forte is stacking upper-register dyads on top of lower-register […]