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Kult Reviews: HELLHAMMER – Demon Entrails
Before they were creating proto-black metal in Celtic Frost, guitarist/vocalist Tom Gabriel Fischer and bassist Martin Eric Ain were members of seminal blackened thrash outfit Hellhammer. If you’re a fan of Celtic Frost, Hellhammer, or extreme metal in general, you should definitely check out Hellhammer’s new demo reissue, Demon Entrails (Century Media), which sheds new [...]
Raw Rehearsal: DEATH 1988 Rehearsal Tape
In January 1988, the members of Death convened in Orlando, Florida, to rehearse six of the songs that would eventually wind up on the band’s second and highly influential album, Leprosy—and MetalKult is proud to offer the rarely heard audio captured during that rehearsal.
Demo Download: CORONER Featuring TOM G. WARRIOR
Originally part of the road crew for fellow countrymen Celtic Frost, Swiss thrash trio Coroner—made up of bassist Ron Royce, drummer Marquis Marky and guitarist Tommy T. Baron—went on to become one of the most progressive extreme metal acts of the Eighties. The connection between the Zurich band and Celtic Frost was so strong, in [...]
Kult Review: AKITSA – Goétie
Right-click to download “Ode Au Temps Passé.mp3″ Originally a cassette-only release, Canadian black metal group Akitsa‘s 2002 debut full-length, Goétie, has just received a proper CD reissue by New York City’s Hospital Productions. Now, all you lo-fi black metal fiends who missed out on the hard-to-find original, can finally get your fill [...]
Kult Reviews: ASH POOL – World Turns On Its Hinges
Right-click to download “Under Zyklon Blue” Birthed in an abysmal New York City basement, black metal band Ash Pool issue forth smoldering, dark and noxious metal. World Turns On Its Hinge (Tour De Garde/Hospital Productions) is their latest batch of truly, and quite literally, underground black metal. Like unknown soldiers, their identities [...]
Kult Reviews: CEPHALIC CARNAGE – Xenosapien
Right-click to download “Divination and Violation” Dizzying! Cephalic Carnage‘s latest record Xenosapien (Relapse) contains such advanced levels of math-metal deathgrinding stoner madness that it’s a wonder the Colorado five-piece didn’t set the studio ablaze while tracking it. Definitely a more sophisticated (if the term can even be applied to Cephalic) successor to their [...]
Kult Reviews: TODAY IS THE DAY – Axis of Eden
Right-click to download “Broken Promises and Dead Dreams” Where Today Is the Day‘s last album, 2004′s Kiss the Pig, was a sprawling, sometimes flawed masterpiece of moody, metallic experimentation, Axis of Eden—the trio’s latest record and its first on vocalist/guitarist Steve Austin’s own SuperNova Records—is a more concentrated and focused dose of blasting, [...]
Kult Reviews: ALCEST – Souvenirs D'un Autre Monde
Right-click to download “Souvenirs D’un Autre Monde” Under the moniker of Alcest, French multi-instrumentalist Neige explores what happens when heavily melodic progressions and uplifting atmospheric effects are mixed with isolationist black metal je ne sais quoi. The result? Souvenirs D’un Autre Monde (Profound Lore Records), Alcest’s unexpectedly profound and affecting full-length debut. [...]
Demo Download: POSSESSED's 1984 Death Metal
In 1985, San Francisco’s Possessed released their now-legendary death metal debut Seven Churches. Not only did Seven Churches‘ blend of thrash riffs, grunting vocals and blistering leads send shockwaves of excitement throughout the underground tape-trading scene of the day, but the album’s final track, “Death Metal”—and Possessed’s 1984 demo of the same name—just may have [...]
