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Recommendation: ☀☀☁ Released in 2000, Contrastic’s self-titled debut is notable for being the first deathgrind release from a Czech band to find significant critical and commercial reception. It’s also one of the first albums to combine deathgrind with electronic effects, taking cues from The Locust and The Berzerker (with the latter releasing their debut in the same year). Oh, and […]
Continue reading »Welcome to the third installment of the Baltic Metal Primers. Earlier this year, I discussed Lithuanian black metal and Estonian death metal, which included brief overviews of metal in context of Baltic history and culture. These primers primarily focused on Baltic metal in the 1990s shortly after the countries’ independence following the collapse of the USSR (and subsequently ending several […]
Continue reading »While all three of the Baltic States (Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia) had active death metal scenes throughout the 1990s and beyond, that of Estonia stands out for three reasons. First, Estonia had the earliest death metal scene of the Baltics and thus laid the blueprint for the other Baltic States. Second, Estonia’s cultural and geographical relationship with Finland led to a […]
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Recommendation: ✂ (“Pure Evil and Hate”) Before becoming a household name in modern death metal, Polish group Behemoth was a straight-up black metal act with volkisch tendencies. And the Forests Dream Eternally is the band’s first EP – following four demos and full-length Seventevith (Storming Near the Baltic). More so than now, Behemoth was pretty much synonymous with frontman Nergal, […]
Continue reading »SUNNbleach is the alter ego of Sunbleach that reviews and discusses extreme metal instead of vaporwave. It was originally an April Fool’s Day 2017 feature that included some album reviews and an album-of-the-day before returning to normal programming. SUNNbleach was brought back for three days around Halloween 2017 and included additional articles such as a feature on the Fallen Empire […]
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Recommendation: 🐺🐺☁ Blasphemy, Conqueror, and Sarcófago get a lot of attention, but there’s one band in particular without whom the concept of war metal would be forever different: Order from Chaos. This Midwestern band started up in Kansas City, Missouri in 1987 and released three blistering full-lengths and a ten EPs/demos over an eight-year run. The band was fronted by […]
Continue reading »This is SUNNbleach, the alter ego of Sunbleach in which we discuss extreme metal music, media, and culture. SUNNbleach originally ran the weekend of April Fool’s Day 2017, and it now takes over the site every year for Halloween. This year, SUNNbleach will run from 30 October through 1 November, after which it will return to regularly scheduled programming. This […]
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