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Ist noch wer am Donnerstag im #hydepark in #osnabrueck #osnabrück und sieht und hört sich #prong an ?
P R O N G
was habe ich die in Ende der 90er geliebt !
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Ist noch wer am Donnerstag im #hydepark in #osnabrueck #osnabrück und sieht und hört sich #prong an ?
P R O N G
was habe ich die in Ende der 90er geliebt !
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Ist noch wer am Donnerstag im #hydepark in #osnabrueck #osnabrück und sieht und hört sich #prong an ?
P R O N G
was habe ich die in Ende der 90er geliebt !
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Ist noch wer am Donnerstag im #hydepark in #osnabrueck #osnabrück und sieht und hört sich #prong an ?
P R O N G
was habe ich die in Ende der 90er geliebt !
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Ist noch wer am Donnerstag im #hydepark in #osnabrueck #osnabrück und sieht und hört sich #prong an ?
P R O N G
was habe ich die in Ende der 90er geliebt !
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Snap your fingers, snap your neck #Prong (1994) #Banger #DavidsMonthOfMusic #MusicChallenge #Music #Metal www.youtube.com/watch?v=drvM...
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Bon mais la je suis dans #prong. Écoute l'album Beg To Differ par Prong sur Qobuz https://open.qobuz.com/album/5099746637521 A sa sortie j'étais vendeur fnac d'été rayon hard rock à rue de Rennes. J'avais conseillé ce disque à quelqu'un qui était revenu déçu. Je me suis dit : merde tu déconnes. Nan je déconnais pas :)
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Assez metal en ce moment. https://open.qobuz.com/album/0074645301921 #prong
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Biohazard – Divided We Fall Review
By Steel Druhm
Biohazard are one of those bands that held my interest and affection, but only for a small window of my life (1992 through 1996). While their mean street NYC tough guy hardcore-meets-metal sound resonated with me as a dumb, loud 21-year-old, by the time I was approaching 26, it all started to feel too “try hard” and adolescent, like something I should move beyond. After that, I would still enjoy the hits from Urban Discipline and State of the World Address on gym playlists, but I rarely went back to the actual albums or sought out their new stuff. When it was announced that Biohazard had reformed the original lineup for a new album, some 13 years since the last release, I had more than a few reservations. The NYC badass schtick is a perishable one with a definite shelf life, and the idea of a bunch of dudes in their 50s shouting about curb stomping me just wasn’t a selling point. Still, the Cro-Mags pulled it off, so maybe these guys could too. I sampled the early singles, and to my surprise, they were quite entertaining. And here I am reviewing Divided We Fall against my better judgment. Can these Brooklyn goons deliver the burly goods all these years later?
The short answer is…yes. Divided We Fall is a shockingly spry, punchy outing with catchy writing and enough testosterone to power 4 Cam Skattebos. It’s basically the album that could have followed Urban Discipline, with a collection of short, angry anthems about staying hard no matter what life throws at you. Opener “Fuck the System” sounds exactly like you’d expect. It’s enough like classic NYHC to conjure memories of Madball, Agnostic Front and crossover acts like Pro-Pain. They keep that rowdy, pissed-off tone going on bruisers like “Forsaken,” and the uber rugged “Eyes on Six,” which is one of their most catchy and entertaining tracks ever. This one stinks of BO and malt liquor, and it will hit you a pipe and dump you in the Gowanus Canal.
Slower cuts like “Death of Me” blend well with the bouncy, classic hardcore urgency of “Words to the Wise” and “The Fight to Be Free,” and at no point does the machismo drop below mega-toxic levels. There are a few missteps though. “S.I.T.F.O.A” is too rap-centric and ends up sounding like a cross between Anthrax’s “I Am the Man” and one of the godawful raps by SNL in-house comedy act The Lonely Island. Closer “Warriors” mostly works and has cool parts, but Evan Seinfeld singing “the warriors” oh so seriously doesn’t really help. Still, 9 out of 11 tracks landing and delivering more or less vintage Bio-sounds is quite a shocker. And the band smartly keeps every song in the 3-minute window so everything motors by in a sweaty fury. The sound is what you’d expect from this kind of band, and production is credited to Jonathan DeMaio. I’ll assume that’s actually Joey DeMaio from Manowar because that’s way too fucking funny.
Both Billy and Evan sound fine vocally. I’ve always preferred Billy’s rough bellowing, and he still sounds like he could beat your ass. On tracks like “Eyes on Six,” he sounds angry, mean, and murderous, and that’s essential for this kind of music to get over. Evan sounds like Evan, not better or worse, and he only irritates me when he tries that rappy-metal bullshit or tries to sing too much. The guitar work from Billy and Bobby Hambel is sharp and recalls the glory days quite clearly. You get a collection of very NYHC-inspired riffs designed to get you pumped up and into the pit leaping over pizza-rats and comatose hobos. The minimal embellishments work well in the songs, and I even hear traces of Prong at times, so that’s a win. This ain’t prog, folks. It’s simple, fugly noise for the mouth breathers and lunkheads, and that works just fine for me since I’m both.
Divided We Fall has no business being as good as it is, and it’s on close to the stuff Biohazard were churning out during their peak. That means you get rough, confrontational meathead metal for those with fatty beef in their brain, and there’s a demographic for that. I can’t say I will be blasting this one way into the future, but I already moved select cuts to the gym playlist for maximum gainz. Maybe I still needed a few good curb stomps. Maybe you do too. If so, Biohazard want to say hello from the gutter.
Rating: 3.0/5.0
DR: NA | Format Reviewed: Fucking STREAM!
Label: BLKIIBLK
Websites: facebook.com/Biohazarddfl | instagram.com/biohazarddfl
Releases Worldwide: October 17th, 2025#2025 #30 #AgnosticFront #AmericanHardcore #AmericanMetal #Biohazard #BLKIIBLK #CroMags #Crossover #DividedWeFall #Madball #Oct25 #ProPain #Prong #Review #Reviews
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PRONG
Cleansing
2025 Europe reissue
Ltd. Ed. Numbered #167 of 1500
Smokey Marble #vinylRound 2 of Prong.
Cleansing will always be my favorite Prong album.
I skipped school the morning it came out and walked to my local Good Vibrations to buy it on cassette.
I remember the first time I heard “Snap Your Fingers, Snap Your Neck”. I thought “Holy fucking shit! That song is AWESOME!”
To this day, it’s one of my favorite songs of that entire decade.It took me a good couple days to get past the first side of that tape. The first four songs of Cleansing are like a glorious sledgehammer. They’re so damn good!
And again, I can’t stress how incredible these MOV reissues are, both in how they sound AND look, including beautiful linen laminate covers.
Hands down my favorite reissues of the year.
#vinyl #vinylrecords #vinylcollection #art #music #vinylcommunity #retro #vintage #prong #cleansing #1990s #90s #90smusic #metal #thrash #punk #alternative
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PRONG
Prove You Wrong
2025 Europe reissue
Ltd. Ed. Numbered 459 of 1500
Clear Red #vinylFinally got a copy of this for the library!
Prove You Wrong was many of the cassette tapes I pilfered from my older sister’s then-boyfriend’s collection.
I could never really decide what they were.
Thrash? Metal? Punk? Alternative? All of the above?
Who cared? All I knew was that WHATEVER they were, they were fucking awesome.
That was in 1991, and it started a deep love affair. From there, I went backwards to Force Fed and Beg To Differ, and when both Cleansing and Rude Awakening came out, I was first in line to get them.Music On Vinyl has done a great job on these reissues. They sound great.
When this is done, Cleansing goes on next.
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥#vinyl #vinylrecords #vinylcollection #art #music #vinylcommunity #retro #vintage #1990s #90s #90smusic #prong #proveyouwrong #metal #thrash #punk #alternative
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Eine ähnlich lange Setlist wie Guns N' Roses bei Wacken, aber deutlich aufregender und gesanglich auf der Höhe: #Prong im "Im Wizemann".
https://www.gig-blog.net/2025/08/05/prong-03-08-2025-im-wizemann-stuttgart/
#Konzert #Konzertbericht #Concert #LiveMusic #LiveMusik #Konzertfotografie #ConcertPhotography #Stuttgart #Metal #Crossover
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Gestern PRONG live in Aschaffenburg:
Was eigentlich eine 31-Jahre-Clearsing-Tour hätte sein sollen, wurde zu einem brachialen Rundumschlag durch die Bandgeschichte.
Die Vorband ist einfach nicht erschienen, also haben die Jungs um Tommy Victor die volle Zeit genutzt. 2 1/2 Stunden ohne Pause. Die Setlist war 3 Seiten lang und soll 26 Lieber umfasst haben - ich hab nicht mitgezählt, war mit bangen und abfeiern beschäftigt. Grandios und Power pur! 🤘 -
Gestern PRONG live in Aschaffenburg:
Was eigentlich eine 31-Jahre-Clearsing-Tour hätte sein sollen, wurde zu einem brachialen Rundumschlag durch die Bandgeschichte.
Die Vorband ist einfach nicht erschienen, also haben die Jungs um Tommy Victor die volle Zeit genutzt. 2 1/2 Stunden ohne Pause. Die Setlist war 3 Seiten lang und soll 26 Lieber umfasst haben - ich hab nicht mitgezählt, war mit bangen und abfeiern beschäftigt. Grandios und Power pur! 🤘 -
Gestern PRONG live in Aschaffenburg:
Was eigentlich eine 31-Jahre-Clearsing-Tour hätte sein sollen, wurde zu einem brachialen Rundumschlag durch die Bandgeschichte.
Die Vorband ist einfach nicht erschienen, also haben die Jungs um Tommy Victor die volle Zeit genutzt. 2 1/2 Stunden ohne Pause. Die Setlist war 3 Seiten lang und soll 26 Lieber umfasst haben - ich hab nicht mitgezählt, war mit bangen und abfeiern beschäftigt. Grandios und Power pur! 🤘 -
Gestern PRONG live in Aschaffenburg:
Was eigentlich eine 31-Jahre-Clearsing-Tour hätte sein sollen, wurde zu einem brachialen Rundumschlag durch die Bandgeschichte.
Die Vorband ist einfach nicht erschienen, also haben die Jungs um Tommy Victor die volle Zeit genutzt. 2 1/2 Stunden ohne Pause. Die Setlist war 3 Seiten lang und soll 26 Lieber umfasst haben - ich hab nicht mitgezählt, war mit bangen und abfeiern beschäftigt. Grandios und Power pur! 🤘 -
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See PRONG Perform In Parking Lot Of MetLife Stadium Before METALLICA Concert#Prong
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Heavy Moves Heavy 2023 – AMG’s Ultimate Workout Playlist
By Ferox
Before I was press-ganged into the Skull Pit, I, Ferox, began curating an exercise playlist named Heavy Moves Heavy. For nearly a decade, I alone reaped the benefits of this creation–many were the hours spent preening aboard my Squat Yacht, mixing oils so that I could marvel at the glistening gainz unlocked by the List. My indentured servitude is your good fortune, because a new and improved version of the Heavy Moves Heavy playlist is now available to all readers of AMG in good standing.1 The lifters among us have spent countless hours in the Exercise Oubliette testing these songs for tensile strength and ideological purity. Enjoy–but don’t listen if you are being screened for PEDs in the near future. This music will cause your free testosterone levels to skyrocket even as it adds length and sheen to your back pelt.
Only a blind master of epic poetry could capture the feats of strength performed by the lifters of AMG in 2023. We did have a bard wandering around the Hall, but no one has seen him since the last n00b uprising was put down. Suffice it to say that 2023 saw the List spur our Fearsome Five on to ever-more-epic achievements. These are the songs that got us there.
Whose contributions are best? What omissions expose us as dilettantes? Add your comments and song suggestions below. The song suggestions will be subjected to a remorseless testing process we call The Winnowing, and those that survive will be added to the master list. The comments will of course be ignored.
To the list!
Kenstrosity Bursts Through His Own Workout Gear:
“Askoma (Sorethroat)” // Massen (Gentle Brutality) – I am a psychopathic gym goer. If I can’t listen to huge grooves, massively thick guitars and meaty growls, I want to pump iron in silence. Thankfully, Massen refuse to let me work out without a soundtrack brimming with those exact parameters, and thereby allows me to break PRs on the reg.
“Catapulted into Hyperspace” // Nothingness (Supraliminal) – An unbelievably hooky death metal monster, “Catapulted into Hyperspace” has been my iron giant for almost a full year. The incredible momentum with which this song pushes my body should destroy me. Yet, the crazy swagger held in these riffs enlivens my nerves and oxygenates my blood like nothing else.
“Clockwork God” // Tardigrade Inferno (Burn the Circus) – Have you seen the physique of your average circus acrobat? Those fuckers are seriously jacked and shredded, yet lithe and agile. Hence, when the chunky chugs of “Clockwork God” enter my earballs, I can see my future, and it shows me at peak physical condition. All thanks to a vengeful little water bear.
“Destined to be Killed” // Phlebotomized (Clouds of Confusion) – Phlebotomized may be one of the weirder death metal bands to feature on this list, but “Destined to be Killed” is nothing short of a ripper. Great for those high-intensity intervals, the blistering blasts and tempered marches held here make for a great workout banger.
“Elysiism” // Wormhole (Almost Human) – Form is everything. Form is the only path to heavy. Once you get there, you’ll want a companion that understands what heavy means. Slam is that companion, and “Elysiism” contains one of the best set of slamming riffs of the year, hands down. Get it in you and watch your gainz balloon past your wildest expectations!
“Lift the Blindfold” // Crypta (Shades of Sorrow) – Sometimes you really just need something classic and thrashy to get the blood hot and the muscles flexing. Crypta understood the assignment with “Lift the Blindfold,” a clinic in shredding riffs and thrashy energy sure to get you movin’ and groovin’ with gusto.
“Liquified Mind” // Outer Heaven (Infinite Psychic Depths) – The bar is pressing into my traps. I’m deep in this squat and failure is approaching fast. There’s nothing I can do, I’m not going to make it back to start position. “Liquified Mind” starts playing and all of a sudden, I’ve pumped out three more reps as if I’m on autopilot. Such is the power of filthy, grooving, massive death metal.
“Ode to the Meatsaw” // Vomitory (All Heads are Gonna Roll) – Nothing beats an arena banger, an anthemic, fist-pumping slab of chunky death for the gym. That’s where Vomitory’s “Ode to the Meatsaw” shines in full glory, carving up bodies with a meatsaw as I sculpt mine with dumbbells. What more could a gym rat like me ask for?
“Symphony of a Dying Star” // Mental Cruelty (Zweilicht) – Versatility is a virtue. Variety is key to an adaptable body. So, when I want to swap between high-intensity cardio, intervals, or just pick up a heavy thing and put it back down again, the powerful genre-swapping talents of Mental Cruelty’s “Symphony of a Dying Star” serve me brilliantly.
“Tormenting Fungal Infestation” // Vomitheist (NekroFuneral) – I love a mid-tempo banger to fuel my weightlifting hour, and there’s no better fodder for that than Vomitheist’s “Tormenting Fungal Infestation.” Ideal for any gym session where metered, disciplined breaths are essential to an effective movement, this song will keep you in the pocket all day long.
Ferox vs. The Curlers in the Squat Rack:
“In But Not Of” // Afterbirth (In But Not Of) – The shotgun marriage of post-metal crescendoes and a climactic brutal death freakout makes for the (Workout) Song O’ The Year. The end of this song will leave you well and truly berzerkified and ready to do less than prudent things to yourself.
“Breath of Satan” // Svartkonst (May the Night Fall) – Stop fucking around and focus. “Breath of Satan” is a fleeting blast of blistering intensity that’s guaranteed to help you accomplish ONE THING before the rest of the List does its work.
“Castle of Grief” // Carnosus (Visions of Infinihility) – Carnosus’s tech death onslaught is spry and engaging enough to keep you distracted from the suffering that is only now commencing. The saucy rolled tongue flourish midway through is a reliable font of joy in troubled times.
“Manuscripts of Madness” // Xoth (Exogalactic) – Certain dullards crossed their arms at Xoth’s latest, but do they even lift? This track infuses melodeath into the band’s pan-genre stew, and its sing-along chorus is just the thing to keep you tumescent during the early-mid workout blues.
“Warlocks Grim and Withered Hags” // Hellripper (Warlocks Grim and Withered Hags) – Here’s a black thrash epic to lose yourself in while you can still recognize the concept of “fun.” It’s gonna hurt from here on out, so you might as well make the most of this track.
“Throatsaw” // Autopsy (Ashes, Organs, Blood, and Crypts) – Only “Throatsaw” is real. This List could be “Throatsaw” repeated fifty times and still be equally effective.
“Mother of Ghouls” // Nexorum (Tongue of Thorns) – “Too many riffs,” sniffed a dainty staffer about Nexorum’s debut album. God help that timid soul if he’s ever exposed to this track from the band’s follow-up, which showcases riffs on riffs AND the Guitar Solo O’ The Year (Slayer-Inspired Division).
“Bastard Creature” // Angerot (The Profound Recreant) – A bit o’ bombast to help you puff your chest out for the endgame. “Rejoice in the birth of the bastard creature!” Angerot is talking about you, in whatever new form you take after finishing this workout.
“Pitch Black Resolve/Nickel Grass Mosaic” // Gridlink (Coronet Jupiter) – Here’s a grind double shot to keep you moving after your brain quits on you.2 This slice of tuneful madness sets a relentless marching pace and will not hesitate to holler at you until the thing is done.
“Throne ov the Morning Star” // Plaguewielder (Hot Graves) – Pick up something heavy and walk across the gym with it before softness sets in. You need an iron grip to get through life unscathed by the handshakes of farmers. Grip strength blowouts are the one trve way to finish any workout and this track will help you attain those Meathooks Ov Doom.
Thus Spoke and the Smiting of the Half-Depth Heretics:
“Join me in Armageddon” // Thy Art is Murder (Godlike) – Say whatever you’re going to say about TAiM, this is exactly the kind of anthemic banger you need when you’re chucking heavy stuff about. So what are you waiting for? Come and join me in armageddon the gym.
“Enlighten Through Agony” // Dying Fetus (Make Them Beg for Death) – Fun fact: I’d never listened to Dying Fetus before this year—DON’T COME FOR ME PLEASE OK, I’M WORKING ON IT. The rhythm on this thing, the brutality, the incredibly appropriate title. Time to get enlightened.
“Leper by the Grace of God” // God Disease (Apocalyptic Doom) – Dark, brutal, and dragging. This is the resting-bitch-face workout accompaniment you absolutely cannot do without on a playlist like this. Plus, it has an awesome, haunting solo that I personally find very motivating.
“Serrated Jaws” // Grand Cadaver (Deities of Deathlike Sleep) – Tell me these aren’t the perfect lyrics for lifting: “Go for the kill//Tighten the grip//Stare into the eyes of fear.” Yeah, I didn’t think so. The real ones get their spot from the music like this.
“Manhunt” // To the Grave (Director’s Cuts) – I would stick the whole album here if I could, but this one gets the most plays. Pure menace and rage. And the way those “TRUST MEEE…“’s are delivered…chills. And gains.
“Taufbefehl” // Nightmarer (Deformity Adrift) – Having a title I can barely pronounce correctly doesn’t stop me from wanting to belt it out every time I hear it alongside those glorious concrete-head-smashing chord-and-beat combos each chorus. Stone-cold banger and perfect for lifting.
“Mortal Shells” // Mental Cruelty (Zweilicht) – Oh my word, that descending minor melody surge that is the chorus of this song, blastbeats coming in, symphonics soaring, “THIS EEARRTH FORRRSAAKES MEE” makes me feel fucking invincible. And it will make you feel invincible too.
“The Insignificants” // Cattle Decapitation (Terrasite) – It’s angry, it’s nihilistic, its rhythms are on point. And it ends with an utterly bleak and brilliant sung/screamed refrain that is just the right balance between brooding and motivating. Weird but it works.
“Catastrophize” // Humanity’s Last Breath (Ashen) – “Ugh why is there so much deathcore on this playlist, Thus?” “Shut up,” I say, as I put another plate on the pendulum squat for you, “this one’s going to help.” It just beat album neighbor “Death Spiral” to make it here and you’re gonna feel its worth.
“Hammer from the Howling Void” // Sulphur Aeon (Seven Crowns and Seven Seals) – This song is just kind of epic. Its driving urgent melodies, group shouts and wails, and grand scale are like a shield of armor. It’s also possessed of a chorus with that ideal lifting tempo. You are the hammer from the howling void. Embrace it.
Holdeneye Practices Radical Body Acceptance:
“Unholy Hell” // Mystic Prophecy (Hellriot) – Mystic Prophecy has been delivering the beef for over twenty years, and this year’s album was especially beefy. “Unholy Hell” is a plodding groove-fest that makes me feel like I’m taking a 40 oz tomahawk steak to the face and swallowing it whole. Thank you, sir, may I have another?
“War Remains” // Enforced (War Remains) – Few bands can bring forth my deeply repressed primal rage like Enforced. “War Remains” has a snarling groove that just won’t quit, and I’ve been using it as a performance-enhancing sound-substance all year.
“Blood Blind” // Cannibal Corpse (Chaos Horrific) – While “Blood Blind” may not be my favorite CC gym song ever, it’s damn close. Corpsegrinder’s vocal build-up over the the chugging riff that leads up to the song’s “chorus” makes me see more red than any Cannibal Corpse album cover can hope to muster.
“Academia” // Finality (Technocracy) – One of the most ferocious album-openers I heard all year, “Academia” has been helping me dominate gym class ever since its release. Intensely melodic and powerfully groovy, this power/thrash barnburner will give you a doctorate in gainz.
“Best Served Cold” // Frozen Soul (Glacial Domination) – Current research shows that cold exposure can inhibit muscle growth and strength gain, but I’ve found that Frozen Soul has the opposite effect. Not only does “Best Served Cold” contain enough groove to fuel an entire workout, it also reminds you how to best enjoy your protein shake to refuel after.
“Mountain of Power” // All for Metal (Legends) – Do I really need to say anything about this one? It’s a song about a mountainous man of enormous strength with spoken word parts performed by a mountainous man of enormous strength. This is pure Holdeneye-bait.
“Tithe (The Money Song)” // By Fire and Sword (Glory)- When you’re trying to give 110% in the gym, sometimes that last 10% can be hard to come by. “Tithe” mentions building up kingdoms with our sweat and tells us to ‘remember that the pain is brief.’ With that kind of motivation, how can we not blow right past our preconceived limitations?
“Confined” // Disguised Malignance (Entering the Gateways) – I couldn’t let Steel corner the market on grimy old-school death metal, so I offer you “Confined,” one of the grooviest tracks of the year. If you’re like me, you’ll have a tough time keeping your arms confined within your sleeves after listening to this one.
“Power Surge” // Cruel Force (Dawn of the Axe) – No Heavy Moves Heavy playlist would be complete without some old-timey metal sounds, and “Power Surge” delivers its ancient payload with lethal precision. I dare you not to feel a surge in power as the intro gives way to the speedy main riff.
“Sword of Mars” // Warcrab (The Howling Silence) – “Sword of Mars” uses burly Bolt Thrower tremolos with hate-filled sludgy hardcore vocals to transform its listeners into statues of blade-wielding Greek (or Roman) gods. Queue this one up and experience divine results.
Steel Druhm Feeds the Floor to Posers:
“Slimebreeder” // Rotpit (Let There Be Rot) – No-nonsense, stupid heavy OSDM for no-nonsense stupid heavy gym days, Rotpit has the goods and the slime you need for the gainz and the pain. Feed this slime directly into your leg day. Not FDA approved.
“Cerebral Ingestion” // Carnal Tomb (Embalmed in Decay) – Mid-tempo caveman grooves heavy enough to pulp a power rack and with enough forward momentum to power you through any kind of exercise rigor. Just the right levels of ugly, brutal and gross,
“Vortex of Blood” // Grand Cadaver (Deities of Deathlike Sleep) – D-beating Swedeath goes grandly in the gym and Grand Cadaver drags a big stinking corpse into the room with this one. Entombed and Dismember-isms run like an everflowing stream directly into your veins and make you a better version of your crappy self.
“Cremator” // Dripping Decay (Festering Grotesquieries) – Short, sharp, shocking and so good at getting you all geeked up for that next big lift. This is Slaughter-core all day and that means thrashing, nasty heaviness in your face. You need this 2-minute adrenaline injection.
“Nemesis” // Serpent Corpse (Blood Sabbath) – When you fortify classic OSDM with massive, bone-crunching riffs and a scuzzy sound profile, it brings forth your worst angels. “Nemesis” borrows from Autopsy but goes nuclear with it and the results are tailor-made for gym idiots.
“Decrowned” // Vomitory (All Heads Are Gonna Roll) – Vomitory have been cranking out gym-friendly animalistic death forever, and “Decrowned” is a great example of their knuckle-dragging art. That fat chug at 1:55 will loosen your molars and make you feel things. Vomit: it’s not just for breakfast anymore.
“The Surgeon” // Overkill (Scorched) – A non-death metal song?? Hell yes, because Overkill is all about fists, broken bottles, and rusty shanks. 100% NJ attitude in one 5-minute dose. If that doesn’t get you in a focused place, no amount of preworkout will help your sorry ass.
“Planetary Obliteration” // Re-Buried (Repulsive Nature) – On the ragged edge of OSDM and slam lies this sick twist of a bastard. Feel the muscles in your arms and legs contort and start to fracture your skeletal system as the primal beatdowns blast your feeble mind. It’s obnoxious, brutish, and sounds like deadlifts gone very wrong.
“Me the Nothing” // Metal Church (Congregation of Annihilation) – An atypically heavy, grinding, vicious cut from the elder statesmen in Metal Church. There is simply no way to blast this and not feel the aggression surging in your blood. The insane vocals at chorus time will make you grind your teeth and hunger for weight.
“Who Told Me” // Prong (State of Emergency) – Prong supplied many songs to the Lift Lists ov Steel over the years, and “Who Told Me” is the latest nugget of New York-style hostility to get up in your face and make you want to brawl Jersey Shore idiots. Poke somebody in the chest after a personal best.
#2023 #Afterbirth #AllForMetal #Angerot #Autopsy #ByFireAndSword #CannibalCorpse #CarnalTomb #Carnosus #CattleDecapitation #CruelForce #Crypta #DisguisedMalignance #DrippingDecay #DyingFetus #Enforced #Finality #FrozenSoul #GodDisease #GrandCadaver #Gridlink #HeavyMovesHeavy #Hellripper #HumanitySLastBreath #Massen #MentalCruelty #MetalChurch #MysticProphecy #Nexorum #Nightmarer #Nothingness #OuterHeaven #Overkill #Phlebotomized #Plaguewielder #Prong #ReBuried #Rotpit #SerpentCorpse #SulphurAeon #Svartkonst #TardigradeInferno #ThyArtIsMurder #ToTheGrave #Vomitheist #Vomitory #Warcrab #Wormhole #Xoth
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Heavy Moves Heavy 2023 – AMG’s Ultimate Workout Playlist
By Ferox
Before I was press-ganged into the Skull Pit, I, Ferox, began curating an exercise playlist named Heavy Moves Heavy. For nearly a decade, I alone reaped the benefits of this creation–many were the hours spent preening aboard my Squat Yacht, mixing oils so that I could marvel at the glistening gainz unlocked by the List. My indentured servitude is your good fortune, because a new and improved version of the Heavy Moves Heavy playlist is now available to all readers of AMG in good standing.1 The lifters among us have spent countless hours in the Exercise Oubliette testing these songs for tensile strength and ideological purity. Enjoy–but don’t listen if you are being screened for PEDs in the near future. This music will cause your free testosterone levels to skyrocket even as it adds length and sheen to your back pelt.
Only a blind master of epic poetry could capture the feats of strength performed by the lifters of AMG in 2023. We did have a bard wandering around the Hall, but no one has seen him since the last n00b uprising was put down. Suffice it to say that 2023 saw the List spur our Fearsome Five on to ever-more-epic achievements. These are the songs that got us there.
Whose contributions are best? What omissions expose us as dilettantes? Add your comments and song suggestions below. The song suggestions will be subjected to a remorseless testing process we call The Winnowing, and those that survive will be added to the master list. The comments will of course be ignored.
To the list!
Kenstrosity Bursts Through His Own Workout Gear:
“Askoma (Sorethroat)” // Massen (Gentle Brutality) – I am a psychopathic gym goer. If I can’t listen to huge grooves, massively thick guitars and meaty growls, I want to pump iron in silence. Thankfully, Massen refuse to let me work out without a soundtrack brimming with those exact parameters, and thereby allows me to break PRs on the reg.
“Catapulted into Hyperspace” // Nothingness (Supraliminal) – An unbelievably hooky death metal monster, “Catapulted into Hyperspace” has been my iron giant for almost a full year. The incredible momentum with which this song pushes my body should destroy me. Yet, the crazy swagger held in these riffs enlivens my nerves and oxygenates my blood like nothing else.
“Clockwork God” // Tardigrade Inferno (Burn the Circus) – Have you seen the physique of your average circus acrobat? Those fuckers are seriously jacked and shredded, yet lithe and agile. Hence, when the chunky chugs of “Clockwork God” enter my earballs, I can see my future, and it shows me at peak physical condition. All thanks to a vengeful little water bear.
“Destined to be Killed” // Phlebotomized (Clouds of Confusion) – Phlebotomized may be one of the weirder death metal bands to feature on this list, but “Destined to be Killed” is nothing short of a ripper. Great for those high-intensity intervals, the blistering blasts and tempered marches held here make for a great workout banger.
“Elysiism” // Wormhole (Almost Human) – Form is everything. Form is the only path to heavy. Once you get there, you’ll want a companion that understands what heavy means. Slam is that companion, and “Elysiism” contains one of the best set of slamming riffs of the year, hands down. Get it in you and watch your gainz balloon past your wildest expectations!
“Lift the Blindfold” // Crypta (Shades of Sorrow) – Sometimes you really just need something classic and thrashy to get the blood hot and the muscles flexing. Crypta understood the assignment with “Lift the Blindfold,” a clinic in shredding riffs and thrashy energy sure to get you movin’ and groovin’ with gusto.
“Liquified Mind” // Outer Heaven (Infinite Psychic Depths) – The bar is pressing into my traps. I’m deep in this squat and failure is approaching fast. There’s nothing I can do, I’m not going to make it back to start position. “Liquified Mind” starts playing and all of a sudden, I’ve pumped out three more reps as if I’m on autopilot. Such is the power of filthy, grooving, massive death metal.
“Ode to the Meatsaw” // Vomitory (All Heads are Gonna Roll) – Nothing beats an arena banger, an anthemic, fist-pumping slab of chunky death for the gym. That’s where Vomitory’s “Ode to the Meatsaw” shines in full glory, carving up bodies with a meatsaw as I sculpt mine with dumbbells. What more could a gym rat like me ask for?
“Symphony of a Dying Star” // Mental Cruelty (Zweilicht) – Versatility is a virtue. Variety is key to an adaptable body. So, when I want to swap between high-intensity cardio, intervals, or just pick up a heavy thing and put it back down again, the powerful genre-swapping talents of Mental Cruelty’s “Symphony of a Dying Star” serve me brilliantly.
“Tormenting Fungal Infestation” // Vomitheist (NekroFuneral) – I love a mid-tempo banger to fuel my weightlifting hour, and there’s no better fodder for that than Vomitheist’s “Tormenting Fungal Infestation.” Ideal for any gym session where metered, disciplined breaths are essential to an effective movement, this song will keep you in the pocket all day long.
Ferox vs. The Curlers in the Squat Rack:
“In But Not Of” // Afterbirth (In But Not Of) – The shotgun marriage of post-metal crescendoes and a climactic brutal death freakout makes for the (Workout) Song O’ The Year. The end of this song will leave you well and truly berzerkified and ready to do less than prudent things to yourself.
“Breath of Satan” // Svartkonst (May the Night Fall) – Stop fucking around and focus. “Breath of Satan” is a fleeting blast of blistering intensity that’s guaranteed to help you accomplish ONE THING before the rest of the List does its work.
“Castle of Grief” // Carnosus (Visions of Infinihility) – Carnosus’s tech death onslaught is spry and engaging enough to keep you distracted from the suffering that is only now commencing. The saucy rolled tongue flourish midway through is a reliable font of joy in troubled times.
“Manuscripts of Madness” // Xoth (Exogalactic) – Certain dullards crossed their arms at Xoth’s latest, but do they even lift? This track infuses melodeath into the band’s pan-genre stew, and its sing-along chorus is just the thing to keep you tumescent during the early-mid workout blues.
“Warlocks Grim and Withered Hags” // Hellripper (Warlocks Grim and Withered Hags) – Here’s a black thrash epic to lose yourself in while you can still recognize the concept of “fun.” It’s gonna hurt from here on out, so you might as well make the most of this track.
“Throatsaw” // Autopsy (Ashes, Organs, Blood, and Crypts) – Only “Throatsaw” is real. This List could be “Throatsaw” repeated fifty times and still be equally effective.
“Mother of Ghouls” // Nexorum (Tongue of Thorns) – “Too many riffs,” sniffed a dainty staffer about Nexorum’s debut album. God help that timid soul if he’s ever exposed to this track from the band’s follow-up, which showcases riffs on riffs AND the Guitar Solo O’ The Year (Slayer-Inspired Division).
“Bastard Creature” // Angerot (The Profound Recreant) – A bit o’ bombast to help you puff your chest out for the endgame. “Rejoice in the birth of the bastard creature!” Angerot is talking about you, in whatever new form you take after finishing this workout.
“Pitch Black Resolve/Nickel Grass Mosaic” // Gridlink (Coronet Jupiter) – Here’s a grind double shot to keep you moving after your brain quits on you.2 This slice of tuneful madness sets a relentless marching pace and will not hesitate to holler at you until the thing is done.
“Throne ov the Morning Star” // Plaguewielder (Hot Graves) – Pick up something heavy and walk across the gym with it before softness sets in. You need an iron grip to get through life unscathed by the handshakes of farmers. Grip strength blowouts are the one trve way to finish any workout and this track will help you attain those Meathooks Ov Doom.
Thus Spoke and the Smiting of the Half-Depth Heretics:
“Join me in Armageddon” // Thy Art is Murder (Godlike) – Say whatever you’re going to say about TAiM, this is exactly the kind of anthemic banger you need when you’re chucking heavy stuff about. So what are you waiting for? Come and join me in armageddon the gym.
“Enlighten Through Agony” // Dying Fetus (Make Them Beg for Death) – Fun fact: I’d never listened to Dying Fetus before this year—DON’T COME FOR ME PLEASE OK, I’M WORKING ON IT. The rhythm on this thing, the brutality, the incredibly appropriate title. Time to get enlightened.
“Leper by the Grace of God” // God Disease (Apocalyptic Doom) – Dark, brutal, and dragging. This is the resting-bitch-face workout accompaniment you absolutely cannot do without on a playlist like this. Plus, it has an awesome, haunting solo that I personally find very motivating.
“Serrated Jaws” // Grand Cadaver (Deities of Deathlike Sleep) – Tell me these aren’t the perfect lyrics for lifting: “Go for the kill//Tighten the grip//Stare into the eyes of fear.” Yeah, I didn’t think so. The real ones get their spot from the music like this.
“Manhunt” // To the Grave (Director’s Cuts) – I would stick the whole album here if I could, but this one gets the most plays. Pure menace and rage. And the way those “TRUST MEEE…“’s are delivered…chills. And gains.
“Taufbefehl” // Nightmarer (Deformity Adrift) – Having a title I can barely pronounce correctly doesn’t stop me from wanting to belt it out every time I hear it alongside those glorious concrete-head-smashing chord-and-beat combos each chorus. Stone-cold banger and perfect for lifting.
“Mortal Shells” // Mental Cruelty (Zweilicht) – Oh my word, that descending minor melody surge that is the chorus of this song, blastbeats coming in, symphonics soaring, “THIS EEARRTH FORRRSAAKES MEE” makes me feel fucking invincible. And it will make you feel invincible too.
“The Insignificants” // Cattle Decapitation (Terrasite) – It’s angry, it’s nihilistic, its rhythms are on point. And it ends with an utterly bleak and brilliant sung/screamed refrain that is just the right balance between brooding and motivating. Weird but it works.
“Catastrophize” // Humanity’s Last Breath (Ashen) – “Ugh why is there so much deathcore on this playlist, Thus?” “Shut up,” I say, as I put another plate on the pendulum squat for you, “this one’s going to help.” It just beat album neighbor “Death Spiral” to make it here and you’re gonna feel its worth.
“Hammer from the Howling Void” // Sulphur Aeon (Seven Crowns and Seven Seals) – This song is just kind of epic. Its driving urgent melodies, group shouts and wails, and grand scale are like a shield of armor. It’s also possessed of a chorus with that ideal lifting tempo. You are the hammer from the howling void. Embrace it.
Holdeneye Practices Radical Body Acceptance:
“Unholy Hell” // Mystic Prophecy (Hellriot) – Mystic Prophecy has been delivering the beef for over twenty years, and this year’s album was especially beefy. “Unholy Hell” is a plodding groove-fest that makes me feel like I’m taking a 40 oz tomahawk steak to the face and swallowing it whole. Thank you, sir, may I have another?
“War Remains” // Enforced (War Remains) – Few bands can bring forth my deeply repressed primal rage like Enforced. “War Remains” has a snarling groove that just won’t quit, and I’ve been using it as a performance-enhancing sound-substance all year.
“Blood Blind” // Cannibal Corpse (Chaos Horrific) – While “Blood Blind” may not be my favorite CC gym song ever, it’s damn close. Corpsegrinder’s vocal build-up over the the chugging riff that leads up to the song’s “chorus” makes me see more red than any Cannibal Corpse album cover can hope to muster.
“Academia” // Finality (Technocracy) – One of the most ferocious album-openers I heard all year, “Academia” has been helping me dominate gym class ever since its release. Intensely melodic and powerfully groovy, this power/thrash barnburner will give you a doctorate in gainz.
“Best Served Cold” // Frozen Soul (Glacial Domination) – Current research shows that cold exposure can inhibit muscle growth and strength gain, but I’ve found that Frozen Soul has the opposite effect. Not only does “Best Served Cold” contain enough groove to fuel an entire workout, it also reminds you how to best enjoy your protein shake to refuel after.
“Mountain of Power” // All for Metal (Legends) – Do I really need to say anything about this one? It’s a song about a mountainous man of enormous strength with spoken word parts performed by a mountainous man of enormous strength. This is pure Holdeneye-bait.
“Tithe (The Money Song)” // By Fire and Sword (Glory)- When you’re trying to give 110% in the gym, sometimes that last 10% can be hard to come by. “Tithe” mentions building up kingdoms with our sweat and tells us to ‘remember that the pain is brief.’ With that kind of motivation, how can we not blow right past our preconceived limitations?
“Confined” // Disguised Malignance (Entering the Gateways) – I couldn’t let Steel corner the market on grimy old-school death metal, so I offer you “Confined,” one of the grooviest tracks of the year. If you’re like me, you’ll have a tough time keeping your arms confined within your sleeves after listening to this one.
“Power Surge” // Cruel Force (Dawn of the Axe) – No Heavy Moves Heavy playlist would be complete without some old-timey metal sounds, and “Power Surge” delivers its ancient payload with lethal precision. I dare you not to feel a surge in power as the intro gives way to the speedy main riff.
“Sword of Mars” // Warcrab (The Howling Silence) – “Sword of Mars” uses burly Bolt Thrower tremolos with hate-filled sludgy hardcore vocals to transform its listeners into statues of blade-wielding Greek (or Roman) gods. Queue this one up and experience divine results.
Steel Druhm Feeds the Floor to Posers:
“Slimebreeder” // Rotpit (Let There Be Rot) – No-nonsense, stupid heavy OSDM for no-nonsense stupid heavy gym days, Rotpit has the goods and the slime you need for the gainz and the pain. Feed this slime directly into your leg day. Not FDA approved.
“Cerebral Ingestion” // Carnal Tomb (Embalmed in Decay) – Mid-tempo caveman grooves heavy enough to pulp a power rack and with enough forward momentum to power you through any kind of exercise rigor. Just the right levels of ugly, brutal and gross,
“Vortex of Blood” // Grand Cadaver (Deities of Deathlike Sleep) – D-beating Swedeath goes grandly in the gym and Grand Cadaver drags a big stinking corpse into the room with this one. Entombed and Dismember-isms run like an everflowing stream directly into your veins and make you a better version of your crappy self.
“Cremator” // Dripping Decay (Festering Grotesquieries) – Short, sharp, shocking and so good at getting you all geeked up for that next big lift. This is Slaughter-core all day and that means thrashing, nasty heaviness in your face. You need this 2-minute adrenaline injection.
“Nemesis” // Serpent Corpse (Blood Sabbath) – When you fortify classic OSDM with massive, bone-crunching riffs and a scuzzy sound profile, it brings forth your worst angels. “Nemesis” borrows from Autopsy but goes nuclear with it and the results are tailor-made for gym idiots.
“Decrowned” // Vomitory (All Heads Are Gonna Roll) – Vomitory have been cranking out gym-friendly animalistic death forever, and “Decrowned” is a great example of their knuckle-dragging art. That fat chug at 1:55 will loosen your molars and make you feel things. Vomit: it’s not just for breakfast anymore.
“The Surgeon” // Overkill (Scorched) – A non-death metal song?? Hell yes, because Overkill is all about fists, broken bottles, and rusty shanks. 100% NJ attitude in one 5-minute dose. If that doesn’t get you in a focused place, no amount of preworkout will help your sorry ass.
“Planetary Obliteration” // Re-Buried (Repulsive Nature) – On the ragged edge of OSDM and slam lies this sick twist of a bastard. Feel the muscles in your arms and legs contort and start to fracture your skeletal system as the primal beatdowns blast your feeble mind. It’s obnoxious, brutish, and sounds like deadlifts gone very wrong.
“Me the Nothing” // Metal Church (Congregation of Annihilation) – An atypically heavy, grinding, vicious cut from the elder statesmen in Metal Church. There is simply no way to blast this and not feel the aggression surging in your blood. The insane vocals at chorus time will make you grind your teeth and hunger for weight.
“Who Told Me” // Prong (State of Emergency) – Prong supplied many songs to the Lift Lists ov Steel over the years, and “Who Told Me” is the latest nugget of New York-style hostility to get up in your face and make you want to brawl Jersey Shore idiots. Poke somebody in the chest after a personal best.
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PRONG - The Descent (Official Music Video)
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Prongs New Single The Descent Takes Aim at Modern Media
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Today In Metal History 🤘 September 24th, 2023🤘MEGADETH, RUSH, VOIVOD, PRONG, DIMMU BORGIR#Megadeth #Rush #Voivod #Prong #DimmuBorgir #TodayInMetalHistory #September24
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Today In Metal History 🤘 September 19th, 2024🤘
LITA FORD, PRONG, TRIUMPH, MEGADETH, ANTHRAX, OBITUARY, DOWN#LitaFord #Prong #Triumph #Megadeth #Anthrax #Obituary #Down #TommyVictor #JohnCoghlan #StatusQuo
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PRONG - Non-Existence (Official Lyric Video)
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THE WEEKLY INJECTION: New Releases From CARNIFEX, PRONG & More Out Today 10/6
Plus releases from Capra, Dusk, Of Mice & Men, Linus Klausenitzer, and Svalbard#Carnifex
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Private: Steel Druhm’s Top Ten(ish) of 2023
By Steel Druhm
Well, we made it the end of another year full of surprises, disappointments, gains and losses. 2023 saw us add a few new voices to the AMG staff and sadly, it will see a few longtime members of the family stepping back from the day-to-day operations and activities. The much beloved Madam X has moved on from managing our everflowing stream of promos and that will now be handled by yours Steely. Sadly, our main cat man Grymm is also moving on for the time being, taking some personal time away from the deadlines and pressures of nonstop blogwork.
Throughout all the changes we’ve endured over the years, both good and bad, the AMG mission remains the same: to bring you the most honest, insightful, and entertaining reviews possible without being beholden to labels or outside pressures because we earn absolutely nothing for our efforts, We are truly terrible capitalists, but we love metal as much as you do and we want to talk about it, so the site grinds on year after year. I hope it always does.
Let’s all embrace the new year and what it holds for us. Life is always an adventure and one best shared with people you care about who make you laugh and make you think. If you don’t have those people, WE can be those people. Get on the war wagon with us and into the future we go!
Without further ado, here are the things that brought out my inner primate in 2023.
(ish) Blood Oath // Lost in an Eternal Silence – One of the year’s best and most entertaining throwback death metal releases, Lost in an Eternal Silence targets the exact point where early death metal looked to the skies and dreamed of being something more complex. Blood Oath have the raw talent and crazy creativity to recapture the early days of death metal and to replicate that frantic jump from brutality to proggy insanity that the genre toyed with in the late 80s. The album is the perfect blend of nostalgia and insane creativity, melding the past with the present and what may be the future. One of the most inventive and zany death platters of the year.
#10. Tanith // Voyage – Formed by Satan axe-master Russ Tippins, Tanith exist in a space between classic NWoBHM and 70s hard tock with a sheen of folk covering the entire enterprise. On sophomore outing Voyage, they take this retro formula and mine it for every ounce of precious metal, crafting some killer little gems along the way. Songs like “Snow Tiger” and “Olympus by Dawn” have been replayed more times than I can count and there’s something magical and endearingly DIY and indie about this whole release. It’s not especially heavy, but the hooks stick so deep, you won’t care much. This is the Charmer o’ the Year for sure.
#9. The Night Eternal // Fatale – I loved the sadly defunct act In Solitude dearly. Their mash-up of NWoBHM, occult metal and Mercyful Fate was hard to resist and I wanted more, more MOAR. When I first stumbled on The Night Eternal, it sounded to me as if In Solitude had possessed them, forcing them to pick up where they left off. I’m very okay with this and Fatale plays out like the new In Solitude platter I so desperately wanted. It’s the same sweet, hooky mix of classic Mercyful Fate-isms, chilly occult rock, Goth rock and early 80s metal. This thing gets into your head deep and demands many replays, and if I had found it earlier, it would have moved up the rankings considerably. Get this and feel The Night’s iron grip.
#8. Oak // Disintegrate – Oak is the project of Gaerea lead guitarist/vocalist, Guilherme Henriques, and instead of creating another black metal act, Oak is steered into the funeral doom universe and what better way to accomplish that than to make Disintegrate one 45-minute-long track? Yes, that makes for a daunting, intense listen but the beauty of what Oak do is just how listenable their ultra doom, deathy sound ends up. Heavy as fook riffs intertwine with weepy melancholic trills and beautifully emotive solo work and the listener gets carried along on ephemeral waves. The ebb and flow of the 45 minutes is remarkable and it never feels bogged down or dead in the mud. This is first-rate writing and execution and the slightly blackened edges add a great spice to the wood flavor. Bring in this wood.
#7. Rotpit // Let There Be Rot – In the time of old school death metal mania, Rotpit is the proudly unevolved monkey. Formed by members of Heads of the Dead, Wombbath, Just Before Dawn, and Revel in Flesh, Rotpit has the pedigree, and they leverage it to make Let There Be Rot the most over-the-top fun, mindless, dumb, death platter of the year. Cuts like “Slimebreeder,” “Let There Be Rot,” and “Beastfeeder” are Grade A bloody meat with no expiration date, and you will use them as the soundtrack to everything you do in life. This idiotic collection of caveman deathage has been a constant companion to me since it dropped and I’m stupider for having its company.
#6. Serpent Corpse // Blood Sabbath – Picking the best old school death metal platter of this year was no easy feat in 2023. There was so much good death this year at times it felt impossible to stay ahead of it and give everything a fair listen. At the end of the race though, it was Serpent Corpse that kept dragging me back for another beating more than anyone else, though Rotpit came so close! Their toxic blend of Autopsy-core and the scuzziest of Swedeath HM-2 abuse is seasoned with unexpected doses of melodeath to create a near-perfect cacophony of chaos that feels old but also fresh and evil. This things slithers, slaps, and grinds in all the ways a deathhead wants and needs. Get it inside your skull.
#5. Prong // State of Emergency – My bingo card for 2023 did NOT include falling in love with a new Prong album and beating it into the ground for 4 months straight. As much as I loved those classic Prong platters in the late 80s and 90s, they went through a long period of weak/erratic release and I had only been impressed by 2012s Carved in Stone. That’s why State of Emergency hits so damn hard. It’s the best thing Prong’s done in forever and takes you back to the salad days when they were on the cusp of metal’s adventurous edge. This thing is chocked full of the best riffs and harmonies Tommy Victor’s dreamed up in a long time and every song grabs you and smacks you around with NYC attitude. It;s so good to hear these back in fighting shape!
#4. Saturnus // The Storm Within – Saturnus have always had a relaxed release schedule, with only 5 albums to show for some 30 years in the business. It took them almost 10 years to drop The Storm Within, but the product was well worth the impossible wait, ending up one of the most polished and captivating doom albums of the year. Recapturing their classic sound and ability to wring emotion from the listener, Saturnus does their doom thing with style and panache all across the album, blending crushing riffs, airy trilling and mournful melodies to harsh your mellow completely. I’ve heard loose talk about this album being overrated or overhyped. Ignore that noise and tell the spewer to taste the floor!
#3. Isole // Anesidora – There weren’t a lot of classic doom releases that blew me away, by Isole have my number and once again they used it to knock me flat with their take on the Candlemass style on Anesidora.
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Dripping Decay //
Wormhole //
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Sacred Outcry //
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Private: Steel Druhm’s Top Ten(ish) of 2023
By Steel Druhm
Well, we made it the end of another year full of surprises, disappointments, gains and losses. 2023 saw us add a few new voices to the AMG staff and sadly, it will see a few longtime members of the family stepping back from the day-to-day operations and activities. The much beloved Madam X has moved on from managing our everflowing stream of promos and that will now be handled by yours Steely. Sadly, our main cat man Grymm is also moving on for the time being, taking some personal time away from the deadlines and pressures of nonstop blogwork.
Throughout all the changes we’ve endured over the years, both good and bad, the AMG mission remains the same: to bring you the most honest, insightful, and entertaining reviews possible without being beholden to labels or outside pressures because we earn absolutely nothing for our efforts, We are truly terrible capitalists, but we love metal as much as you do and we want to talk about it, so the site grinds on year after year. I hope it always does.
Let’s all embrace the new year and what it holds for us. Life is always an adventure and one best shared with people you care about who make you laugh and make you think. If you don’t have those people, WE can be those people. Get on the war wagon with us and into the future we go!
Without further ado, here are the things that brought out my inner primate in 2023.
(ish) Blood Oath // Lost in an Eternal Silence – One of the year’s best and most entertaining throwback death metal releases, Lost in an Eternal Silence targets the exact point where early death metal looked to the skies and dreamed of being something more complex. Blood Oath have the raw talent and crazy creativity to recapture the early days of death metal and to replicate that frantic jump from brutality to proggy insanity that the genre toyed with in the late 80s. The album is the perfect blend of nostalgia and insane creativity, melding the past with the present and what may be the future. One of the most inventive and zany death platters of the year.
#10. Tanith // Voyage – Formed by Satan axe-master Russ Tippins, Tanith exist in a space between classic NWoBHM and 70s hard tock with a sheen of folk covering the entire enterprise. On sophomore outing Voyage, they take this retro formula and mine it for every ounce of precious metal, crafting some killer little gems along the way. Songs like “Snow Tiger” and “Olympus by Dawn” have been replayed more times than I can count and there’s something magical and endearingly DIY and indie about this whole release. It’s not especially heavy, but the hooks stick so deep, you won’t care much. This is the Charmer o’ the Year for sure.
#9. The Night Eternal // Fatale – I loved the sadly defunct act In Solitude dearly. Their mash-up of NWoBHM, occult metal and Mercyful Fate was hard to resist and I wanted more, more MOAR. When I first stumbled on The Night Eternal, it sounded to me as if In Solitude had possessed them, forcing them to pick up where they left off. I’m very okay with this and Fatale plays out like the new In Solitude platter I so desperately wanted. It’s the same sweet, hooky mix of classic Mercyful Fate-isms, chilly occult rock, Goth rock and early 80s metal. This thing gets into your head deep and demands many replays, and if I had found it earlier, it would have moved up the rankings considerably. Get this and feel The Night’s iron grip.
#8. Oak // Disintegrate – Oak is the project of Gaerea lead guitarist/vocalist, Guilherme Henriques, and instead of creating another black metal act, Oak is steered into the funeral doom universe and what better way to accomplish that than to make Disintegrate one 45-minute-long track? Yes, that makes for a daunting, intense listen but the beauty of what Oak do is just how listenable their ultra doom, deathy sound ends up. Heavy as fook riffs intertwine with weepy melancholic trills and beautifully emotive solo work and the listener gets carried along on ephemeral waves. The ebb and flow of the 45 minutes is remarkable and it never feels bogged down or dead in the mud. This is first-rate writing and execution and the slightly blackened edges add a great spice to the wood flavor. Bring in this wood.
#7. Rotpit // Let There Be Rot – In the time of old school death metal mania, Rotpit is the proudly unevolved monkey. Formed by members of Heads of the Dead, Wombbath, Just Before Dawn, and Revel in Flesh, Rotpit has the pedigree, and they leverage it to make Let There Be Rot the most over-the-top fun, mindless, dumb, death platter of the year. Cuts like “Slimebreeder,” “Let There Be Rot,” and “Beastfeeder” are Grade A bloody meat with no expiration date, and you will use them as the soundtrack to everything you do in life. This idiotic collection of caveman deathage has been a constant companion to me since it dropped and I’m stupider for having its company.
#6. Serpent Corpse // Blood Sabbath – Picking the best old school death metal platter of this year was no easy feat in 2023. There was so much good death this year at times it felt impossible to stay ahead of it and give everything a fair listen. At the end of the race though, it was Serpent Corpse that kept dragging me back for another beating more than anyone else, though Rotpit came so close! Their toxic blend of Autopsy-core and the scuzziest of Swedeath HM-2 abuse is seasoned with unexpected doses of melodeath to create a near-perfect cacophony of chaos that feels old but also fresh and evil. This things slithers, slaps, and grinds in all the ways a deathhead wants and needs. Get it inside your skull.
#5. Prong // State of Emergency – My bingo card for 2023 did NOT include falling in love with a new Prong album and beating it into the ground for 4 months straight. As much as I loved those classic Prong platters in the late 80s and 90s, they went through a long period of weak/erratic release and I had only been impressed by 2012s Carved in Stone. That’s why State of Emergency hits so damn hard. It’s the best thing Prong’s done in forever and takes you back to the salad days when they were on the cusp of metal’s adventurous edge. This thing is chocked full of the best riffs and harmonies Tommy Victor’s dreamed up in a long time and every song grabs you and smacks you around with NYC attitude. It;s so good to hear these back in fighting shape!
#4. Saturnus // The Storm Within – Saturnus have always had a relaxed release schedule, with only 5 albums to show for some 30 years in the business. It took them almost 10 years to drop The Storm Within, but the product was well worth the impossible wait, ending up one of the most polished and captivating doom albums of the year. Recapturing their classic sound and ability to wring emotion from the listener, Saturnus does their doom thing with style and panache all across the album, blending crushing riffs, airy trilling and mournful melodies to harsh your mellow completely. I’ve heard loose talk about this album being overrated or overhyped. Ignore that noise and tell the spewer to taste the floor!
#3. Isole // Anesidora – There weren’t a lot of classic doom releases that blew me away, by Isole have my number and once again they used it to knock me flat with their take on the Candlemass style on Anesidora.
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#2023 #BlogPost #BlooaOath #DisquishedMalignance #Isole #Listurnalia #Oak #Overkill #Phobocosm #Prong #Rotpit #Saturnus #SerpentCorpse #SteelDruhmSTopTenIshOf2023 #Tanith #TheNightEternal #Theocracy #Tribulation #VanishingKids #Vomitory #WytchHazel
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Record(s) o’ the Month – October 2023
By Steel Druhm
The year is slipping away from us. The cold winds of holiday insanity are blowing against your windows as the wolves of 2024 tear at the moribund carcass of 2023. It’s almost enough to make a person wistful and reflective. Upon reflection, October was a very solid month in metal, less stacked than September, but with a collection of gems of its own to savor. We carefully weighed the public zeitgeist and took the temperature of our knowledgeable staffers, then ignored all of that and called winners and losers. The losers are in the coal chamber and the winners get an extra gingerblood cookie in their stocking. Jørn to the world.
Vanishing Kids have that special “something.” I don’t know how to describe what that “something” is but like pornography, I know it when I stumble upon it. I was very taken by their 2018 Heavy Dreamer opus and was expecting equally great things on Miracle of Death. And don’t you know it, these Wisconsin wunderkinds delivered again! Miracle of Death is a strange, seductive, and ultra-moody platter that explores doom, goth, and alt-rock textures in ways that feel fresh and new. The melancholy is laid on thick and songs like “Spill the Dark” radiate a dark, haunting beauty that draws the listener in and traps you. The 70s doom-centric “Demon Glove” feels mysterious and ethereal, mining the same evocative territory as Messa, and 9-minute closer “Dust” is a total joy to get caught up in. Miracle of Death is an enchanting and unique listen and one I keep going back to for more. You should too.
Runner(s) Up:
Wayfarer // American Gothic – Once again, Wayfarer’s black metal meets Wild West schtick continues to defy expectations and not come across as silly or gimmicky. American Gothic walks a delicate line with their “Denver aesthetic,” contrasting classic black metal tropes against Western themes and idioms as they paint bloody tales of a particularly violent era in American history. Should this work? No. But it does. As an enthusiastic Doom_ET_AL gushed, “Wayfarer take the violence and beauty of the land they inhabit and translate that to music that reflects that dichotomy. The result is the best cut of their career and an effort that occasionally transcends the genre itself.” Sun’s out, gun’s out.
Sulphur Aeon // Seven Crowns and Seven Seals – The tentacles be slappin’ fast and furious as Lovecraftian eldritch horrors are once more conjured forth by Sulphur Aeon’s trademark blackened death attack. Taking a more ritualistic take on their past Behemoth-meets-Immolation insanity, Seven Crowns finds room for nuance amongst the extremity and tumult. Slick, smart songcraft wins the day as the horrors from beyond reclaim their earthly kingdom. Kenstrosity summed it well thusly: “Seven Crowns and Seven Seals is still a very good record by a band who, it appears, can do no wrong.” Watch for flailing protuberances.
Bonus Runner Up:
Prong // State of Emergency – Prong’s certainly had their ups and downs over their nearly 37 years in the metal business, but Tommy Victor really brought the thunder with him for 12th album State of Emergency. All the things I loved about Prong in their heyday are back and as pissed off as ever, and you get some of the best songwriting and riff construction since 1994s legendary Cleansing release. The sounds of New York attitude live large in cuts like the title track, “Descent,” Non-Existence,” and “Who Told Me,” and that classic confrontational quirkiness is there in Tommy’s pinch harmonics and heavy grooves. As the sometimes wise Itchymenace extolled, “State of Emergency is chock full of the signature East Coast punk/ thrash/ hardcore/ industrial sound you’ve come to expect from Prong.” Get Pronged.
#2023 #AmericanGothic #MiracleOfDeath #Prong #RecordSOTheMonth #SevenCrownsAndSevenSeals #StateOfEmergency #SulphurAeon #VanishingKids #Wayfarer
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Record(s) o’ the Month – October 2023
By Steel Druhm
The year is slipping away from us. The cold winds of holiday insanity are blowing against your windows as the wolves of 2024 tear at the moribund carcass of 2023. It’s almost enough to make a person wistful and reflective. Upon reflection, October was a very solid month in metal, less stacked than September, but with a collection of gems of its own to savor. We carefully weighed the public zeitgeist and took the temperature of our knowledgeable staffers, then ignored all of that and called winners and losers. The losers are in the coal chamber and the winners get an extra gingerblood cookie in their stocking. Jørn to the world.
Vanishing Kids have that special “something.” I don’t know how to describe what that “something” is but like pornography, I know it when I stumble upon it. I was very taken by their 2018 Heavy Dreamer opus and was expecting equally great things on Miracle of Death. And don’t you know it, these Wisconsin wunderkinds delivered again! Miracle of Death is a strange, seductive, and ultra-moody platter that explores doom, goth, and alt-rock textures in ways that feel fresh and new. The melancholy is laid on thick and songs like “Spill the Dark” radiate a dark, haunting beauty that draws the listener in and traps you. The 70s doom-centric “Demon Glove” feels mysterious and ethereal, mining the same evocative territory as Messa, and 9-minute closer “Dust” is a total joy to get caught up in. Miracle of Death is an enchanting and unique listen and one I keep going back to for more. You should too.
Runner(s) Up:
Wayfarer // American Gothic – Once again, Wayfarer’s black metal meets Wild West schtick continues to defy expectations and not come across as silly or gimmicky. American Gothic walks a delicate line with their “Denver aesthetic,” contrasting classic black metal tropes against Western themes and idioms as they paint bloody tales of a particularly violent era in American history. Should this work? No. But it does. As an enthusiastic Doom_ET_AL gushed, “Wayfarer take the violence and beauty of the land they inhabit and translate that to music that reflects that dichotomy. The result is the best cut of their career and an effort that occasionally transcends the genre itself.” Sun’s out, gun’s out.
Sulphur Aeon // Seven Crowns and Seven Seals – The tentacles be slappin’ fast and furious as Lovecraftian eldritch horrors are once more conjured forth by Sulphur Aeon’s trademark blackened death attack. Taking a more ritualistic take on their past Behemoth-meets-Immolation insanity, Seven Crowns finds room for nuance amongst the extremity and tumult. Slick, smart songcraft wins the day as the horrors from beyond reclaim their earthly kingdom. Kenstrosity summed it well thusly: “Seven Crowns and Seven Seals is still a very good record by a band who, it appears, can do no wrong.” Watch for flailing protuberances.
Bonus Runner Up:
Prong // State of Emergency – Prong’s certainly had their ups and downs over their nearly 37 years in the metal business, but Tommy Victor really brought the thunder with him for 12th album State of Emergency. All the things I loved about Prong in their heyday are back and as pissed off as ever, and you get some of the best songwriting and riff construction since 1994s legendary Cleansing release. The sounds of New York attitude live large in cuts like the title track, “Descent,” Non-Existence,” and “Who Told Me,” and that classic confrontational quirkiness is there in Tommy’s pinch harmonics and heavy grooves. As the sometimes wise Itchymenace extolled, “State of Emergency is chock full of the signature East Coast punk/ thrash/ hardcore/ industrial sound you’ve come to expect from Prong.” Get Pronged.
#2023 #AmericanGothic #MiracleOfDeath #Prong #RecordSOTheMonth #SevenCrownsAndSevenSeals #StateOfEmergency #SulphurAeon #VanishingKids #Wayfarer
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Another rude awakening
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The tired thoughts from troubling
A weary mind from worrying
Your constant fears upon wakening
🤘🤘🤬Prong
Rude Awakening -
Another rude awakening
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The tired thoughts from troubling
A weary mind from worrying
Your constant fears upon wakening
🤘🤘🤬Prong
Rude Awakening -
Another rude awakening
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The tired thoughts from troubling
A weary mind from worrying
Your constant fears upon wakening
🤘🤘🤬Prong
Rude Awakening -
Another rude awakening
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The tired thoughts from troubling
A weary mind from worrying
Your constant fears upon wakening
🤘🤘🤬Prong
Rude Awakening
