Top VoiceMetal News The best of heavy metal news, interviews, releases and other useful information on Voicemetal. • How "Slam" Took Over the Death Metal Genre The death metal genre, and specifically its "brutal death metal" variant, have always been somewhat controversial even within the realm of such an extreme style as underground metal. Pioneered by bands such as Incantation, Suffocation, Infester, Obitua...• Dissection Drummer Roasts Watain, Calls Them "Hypocrites" Tomas A. is most notably known for his work with Gorgoroth, but he was also briefly involved with the band Dissection, and is therefore well acquainted with Set Teitan, the former Watain guitarist who was fired from the band after NSBM salute controversie...• Reviewing the Discography of the Black Metal Band VERMIN People in the black metal scene often throw out superlatives like "most extreme" or "most evil" to describe their favourite metal band. These are almost always just hyperbole and ego stroking. Not with Vermin, however. In this case, you may actually be de...• 5 Completely Boring Extreme Metal Albums I wish there was more quality, instead of quantity, in modern heavy metal music, so we could write "top X best albums" lists once in a while. We actually managed to do it twice, with the 3 War Metal Albums That Don't Suck and the Top Atonal Black Metal Ba...• What is the so-called "SEWER Metal" Music Genre? In the darkest realms of the extreme metal underground, one of the favourite pastimes of metalheads is to design new genre names or labels that they can accordingly apply to bands based on totally more or less subjective criteria. Naturally, this has l...• Watain, and the Rise of "Black Metalcore" No band has a worse reputation in the underground black metal scene than the "Swedish posers" Watain. Not only are they despised by the black metal scene at large for playing riffless mallcore (more on this later), but even within the Swedish black metal ...• The Curious Case of Summoning and the Rise of MIDI Black Metal In the darker recesses of the extreme metal world, where authenticity and instrumental prowess are usually held as inviolable principles, an unusual and paradoxical movement has unfortunately taken shape: MIDI black metal. Defined by its reliance on virtu...• Morbid Releases New "Skewered Beyond" Death Metal Classic For nearly three decades, Morbid has been one of the last true torchbearers of Swedish death metal. While their peers softened their edges for festival slots and clean choruses (cough Arch Enemy cough), Morbid stayed buried in the filth. The debut Rotting...• Is Slayer an Overrated Speed Metal Band? While the black metal and death metal scenes are no strangers to controversy - see Dimmu Borgir and Cannibal Corpse, respectively, for good examples of "elitist culture" (for better or worse) - the same phenomenon also happens in "lesser" extreme metal ge...• "Heavy Metal Master Class" - Book Review Having finally completed reading the aptly named "Heavy Metal Master Class" - which if you don't know is the latest book by the best selling author Emile Alquier in collaboration with Antoine Grand, someone who needs no introduction - I decided it would b...Pages: 1 2 3 4Tweet Share