by Metal Insider | Apr 11, 2014 | Dissident Aggression
The remaking of Celtic Frost was one of the great triumphs of the 2000’s in the metal world. Their Monotheist album was a goldmine of nasty riffs and doom-laden musical sorcery. They toured extensively, including a trip across North America, and there was talk...
by Metal Insider | Apr 4, 2014 | Dissident Aggression
There was a time when you could easily identify a death metal band based on their geographic locale. Swedish death metal bands sounded utterly Swedish in the buzzsaw way. New York bands had their sound, Floridian bands theirs, Brazilian bands theirs, and so on and...
by Metal Insider | Mar 28, 2014 | Dissident Aggression
It’s getting harder and harder for musical acts to really form their own sound, especially in the world of extreme music where seemingly every avenue of musical expression has been explored over and over again. So when an act comes along with a truly unique...
by Metal Insider | Mar 21, 2014 | Dissident Aggression
It’s been a bleak and weary winter in New England this year. The arctic cold has come blasting from the North like a Panzer attack, set up shop, and refused to release its icy death grip. The snow has come like waves at the beach, lapping up everything in site...
by Metal Insider | Mar 14, 2014 | Dissident Aggression
“…If we can’t live in peace then let us die in peace…”, comes the voice of cult leader Jim Jones from the now infamous final audio of Jones addressing his tribe before committing mass suicide (and in some cases murder). This sample is...
by Metal Insider | Feb 28, 2014 | Dissident Aggression
We should all know by now where metal gets it’s lineage from. The well-documented tales of the likes of Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Blue Cheer, Rainbow and a host of others are aplenty. But the tales of those who carry the proto-metal, psych rock torch are...