Jeramie Kling and Taylor Nordberg Announce Departure from Massacre

Kling (left), a pooch, and Nordberg ham it up for Smoke and Mirrors.

Florida death metal outfit Massacre will be undergoing more lineup changes following the departure of guitarist Taylor Nordberg and drummer Jeramie Kling.  A glance at Massacre’s Wikipedia lineup section shows long list of past musicians, with Kling and Nordberg being part of the band for just a year. An abbreviated version of their Facebook statement… Continue reading Jeramie Kling and Taylor Nordberg Announce Departure from Massacre

Album Review: Necrot’s Mortal (Tankcrimes, August 28th)

The metal world is full of sub-genre categorization.  You can’t swing a dead cat in an online forum without hitting a post debating a band’s placement on the spectrum of brutality.  Is band X brutal death metal?  Blackened death metal?  Viking metal?  Alien-inspired technical death metal with progressive elements?  With their August 28th release, Mortal,… Continue reading Album Review: Necrot’s Mortal (Tankcrimes, August 28th)

Album Review: Cult Burial (s/t, November 6th)

By Nikita Alekseyevich Khrenov Trends are cyclical.  What was once popular will fade away only to return many years later, and these past couple years have seen old school death metal make a massive return.  It seems like every month we have a slew of bands dropping some of the best throwback brutality we’ve ever heard… Continue reading Album Review: Cult Burial (s/t, November 6th)

Nerd Talk with CULT BURIAL

It’s about time we had another Nerd Talk!  Simon Langford of UK death metal outfit Cult Burial shares his nerdy proclivities with Alternative Control today.  His band, which has their debut album (s/t) coming out this November, has been described as “not for the uninitiated.”  So if you’re initiated in the world of OSDM, have… Continue reading Nerd Talk with CULT BURIAL

Album Review: Desolator’s Sermon of Apathy (Black Lion Records, Sept. 4th)

My first exposure to death metal, in late 1994/early 1995, came via Obituary’s World Demise and Symbolic from Death.  Both albums turned me on to the genre but it wasn’t until I discovered Entombed that it fully clicked.  Left Hand Path changed my outlook on heavy music and I fully bought in to what the… Continue reading Album Review: Desolator’s Sermon of Apathy (Black Lion Records, Sept. 4th)

Album Review: Echoes from Deep November by Fires in the Distance

The debut album from Connecticut metal supergroup Fires in the Distance, Echoes from Deep November more than lives up to expectations from their local scene — and furthermore, the expectations placed upon a band that was signed before their first release in the midst of a pandemic.  But these guys have been at it long… Continue reading Album Review: Echoes from Deep November by Fires in the Distance

Album Review: Stygian Crown (s/t, Cruz Del Sur)

Scanning the press release for Stygian Crown’s upcoming, self-titled release, a phrase jumped off my screen: “Candlethrower.”  For the uninitiated, it might seem like an ill-placed promo for the newest Olympic sport.  For the extreme metal fan it immediately brings two bands into play: Candlemass and Bolt Thrower.  Both outfits constitute giants in their respective… Continue reading Album Review: Stygian Crown (s/t, Cruz Del Sur)