The Alternative’s Best 50 Releases of 2024
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Full Album Stream: Fatal Embrace – “Hail Down Deep
Swedish melodic black metal group Fatal Embrace made their first run as a band from 1992 to 1998, releasing a couple demos and their debut album, Shadowsouls’ Garden, released on Candlelight in 1997. According to the band, they still had plenty of ideas and went into the studio… Read More »Full Album Stream: Fatal Embrace – “Hail Down Deep
KILL SCREEN 052: Victor Love of MASTER BOOT RECORD and the Humanity of Dehumanization
Ever since the first installment of Kill Screen, Decibel’s co-nerds have sought a consensus among our player characters on the parameters of what makes a game or console “retro”—and have failed miserably. Some have proclaimed that the demarcation for gaming’s modern era started as early… Read More »KILL SCREEN 052: Victor Love of MASTER BOOT RECORD and the Humanity of Dehumanization
Blast Worship: Sick/Tired
Where they from? Chicago, Illinois. The New York Jets actually won a football game Sunday against a totally depleted and checked-out Jacksonville Jaguars team. It was the first Jets win in the state of Florida since 2014. That’s an entire decade if you couldn’t do… Read More »Blast Worship: Sick/Tired
Read an Exclusive Excerpt from the New ‘Dark Dungeon Music: The Unlikely Story of Dungeon Synth’ Book!
Cult Never Dies, the U.K. metal publishing house founded by renowned author Dayal Patterson, has just unveiled their latest extreme music tome. Dark Dungeon Music: The Unlikely Story of Dungeon Synth is an exhaustive new hardcover book on the dungeon synth genre, written by Jordan… Read More »Read an Exclusive Excerpt from the New ‘Dark Dungeon Music: The Unlikely Story of Dungeon Synth’ Book!