Death Metal Underground

We write; you complain; everyone else ignores us. Later on, the world catches up, and everyone hides how they read it here first. We call the metal trends by looking at reality instead of social ...

https://www.deathmetal.org/review/sadistic-metal-reviews-ww3-inbound-edition/

Attempting to create continuity between older and newer works, Pestilence re-recorded a selection of “greatest hits” that leans hard on the more recent albums, as such compilations always ten...

https://www.deathmetal.org/review/pestilence-levels-of-perception-2024/

Before the moniker Goat found me, friends called me Sven because after a few bonghits my conversation tended toward praise of Swedish death metal. The Swedes perfected death metal, working in mel...

https://www.deathmetal.org/review/unleashed-before-the-creation-of-time-2024/

As our longtime readers know, this site started out in the hacker days of the 1980s as a type of free speech protest designed to expand the various Overton-style Windows through shocking, disturb...

https://www.deathmetal.org/interview/interview-with-eli-azrael/

What is our purpose? Resurrecting a dead genre via natural selection, which means promoting the good, smiting the bad, and ignoring and accepting everything else. Why would anyone care? In the tr...

https://www.deathmetal.org/news/sadistic-metal-reviews-late-stage-civilization-version/

Judas Priest came out of the era that melded Black Sabbath with Led Zeppelin and came up with some of the most creative guitar riffology in history, raising the standards by which any new album w...

https://www.deathmetal.org/news/judas-priest-invincible-shield-2024/

The news filtered down through the grapevine the other day that Yosuke Konishi of Nuclear War Now! Productions had entered into a new venture named Helios Press which will manufacture vinyl recor...

https://www.deathmetal.org/interview/interview-with-yosuke-konishi-of-helios-press/

Some shows define an era, and the assault of Sammath on Texas revealed where underground metal is going now: doubling down on what made it great, injecting new creativity, and fleeing from the du...

https://www.deathmetal.org/shows/haserot-sacrocurse-trenchant-and-sammath-live-in-houston-february-24-2024/

Hybrid death, war, and black metal band Sammath is currently raging across Texas as part of its worldwide Texas tour. Clubs are 21+ but seem perfect for intense underground shows.

https://www.deathmetal.org/news/sammath-in-the-midst-of-worldwide-texas-tour/

As if to acknowledge that Chuck Schuldiner died of AIDS on Valentine’s Day, the official merchandisers for Death have introduced a new line of Death merchandise featuring pink and kittens. Long...

https://www.deathmetal.org/news/death-official-merchandise-acknowledges-soft-pink-side-of-chuck-schuldiner/