Hunters – From Birth To Soil

In movies, books, artwork, and general folklore, the prehistoric woolly mammoth has, throughout history, often been portrayed as a gigantic, lumbering peacefully-minded juggernaut that will, however, put any would-be predator and/or dipshit, Neanderthal asshole square in their place if the elephant-like giant felt at all threatened. I’m guessing that being stomped into the tundra by [...]

Entrails

Formed in what many refer to as the death metal heyday in the early 1990’s, old school-minded Swedish death crew, Entrails, embraced the ravenous ways of the genre’s most notable contributors. Not long after their inception, the band lay dormant from the mid-nineties until just a few years ago, when the beast was resurrected to [...]

Mhorgl – Heresiarch

These days, it’s really hard to not find one’s self completely overcome with a disgusted, misanthropic attitude toward the present state of humanity…at least if you’re paying attention to the grueling shitstorm that is society. If not, then you must be one of the lucky and/or oblivious few that will march like sheep through your [...]

Kata Sarka/Nak’ay split

In the disgustingly unending quest for all-that-is-technologically-superior in life, today’s general human population tends to steer away from the cassette tapes when it comes to music. “Tapes are a dead format.”, they’ll say. Often, the suggestion of downloading can be heard muttered in conversation or read in an internet post by some oblivious kid who [...]

Forbidden Magazine presents: Nate of the Living Dead’s “Best of 2011″

So, here we are once again, faithful fanatics of the Forbidden! Another grueling 365 days have dawned and disintegrated into dust just in time to do it all over again. Some would say this year was “slow” or even “dead” when it comes to the presence of extreme music and its creators. I beg to [...]

Entrails – The Tomb Awaits

One of my favorite memories about the early-to-mid nineties is the fact that my little brother wasn’t even really a teenager before he became a 100%, grade-A, rabid, old school death metal obsessive. By the time he reached the sixth grade, he had already made a habit of getting into trouble at school in our [...]

Batillus

Sheer audio annihilation seems to come easy for Brooklyn, New York’s very own avant garde, doom quartet, Batillus, a band that knows very well how to blur the edges of genre confinement. Fresh off the road from a string of pulverizing U.S. dates with the likes of The Atlas Moth, Kowloon Walled City, and more, [...]

Radiation Sickness

There’s absolutely no denying how sincere and powerful the underground extreme music scene was in the late-80’s. One only had to bear witness to the bands living it, and giving it a fucking name, to understand this concept. At that time, Indianapolis, Indiana would become the birthplace of a handful of true, thrashing soldiers to [...]

Skeletonwitch – Forever Abomination

In the vast world of horror film history, there seems to be one constant: no matter how many times you try, no matter what the fuck you do…you can’t kill the goddamn monster. In Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, Leatherface had the misfortune of having Dennis Hopper’s buzzing saw shoved into his guts, and the dead [...]

Late August – Not For Human Consumption

“If you’re going to do something, do it well…and leave something witchy.” – Charles Manson
The first thermonuclear bomb test unleashed the same amount of deadly energy and devastation as approximately ten million tons of TNT. With that kind of force, it’s pretty much a given that someone’s ass is going to be handed to them [...]

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