GMVC October: Spirit Adrift - Enlightened In Eternity
Surely it wasn't an easy job for Spirit Adrift to follow up their astounding 2019 masterpiece “Divided By Darkness”, but Nate Garrett and company outdid themselves once again with "Enlightened In Eternity," just one year later.
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Dan Craley's Friday the 13th Death Metal Faves
Depending on how the calendar aligns itself, there will be at least one, but no more than three Friday the 13th’s each year. They can land on any month, but most frequently occur in March or November. Does that make this year’s September arrival rare? No, not really, but it’s an excuse to talk about death metal. So we’ll take it!
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GMVC September: Type O Negative - Bloody Kisses (Suspended In Dusk)
1993's Bloody Kisses, Type O Negative's third and the last recording with their original lineup, marks their transition to their iconic gothic metal style. It was notably the first Roadrunner Records release to be certified Gold, in 1995.
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GRAVE CONVULSIONS EPISODE 136
August 2023: MY MIC SOUNDS NICE! The headset microphone era of Grave Convulsions is OVER and we are verging on competent DIY audio production. I was also still unemployed at this point, which still sucked.
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Tankcrimes Top Ten by Dan Craley
Tankcrimes Records' origin story begins sometime in the early 2000’s and somehow involves a one-inch button maker. That story is a little bit complicated and better told elsewhere, but through two decades, enthusiastic mastermind Scotty Heath has willed the label into a well-respected tastemaker and curator of extreme music.
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FANG'S TOP ALBUMS OF 2024 (SO FAR!)
LEARN MOREGMVC AUGUST: GHOUL'S SPLATTERTHRASH
Hailing from the land of Creepsylvania (fine, they’re actually from Oakland, California), the maniacs from Ghoul have been ripping & shredding the scene for over 20 years now. They’ve got a knack for storytelling, dark humor and all things nasty, gory and gruesome. And that right there is the winning combo for me; it’s like Exhumed and GWAR had a thrasher lovechild.
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GRAVE CONVULSIONS EPISODE 135
Read moreCOOP’S TOP TEN AMERICAN METAL ALBUMS
When it comes to thunderous drums, razor blade guitars, and screams hellbent on curdling blood, nowhere has had an impact like our dear old United States of America. In the spirit of July 4th and celebrating another year of American metal dominating the dirtiest corners of music, Gimme Metal asked our newest contributor and self-proclaimed “king of the basement pit,” Coop, to put together his Top Ten American Metal Albums list.
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RETRO REVIEW: CEREBRAL ROT’S EXCRETION OF MORTALITY
read moreBrown Acid: Gimme Metal Vinyl Club Edition
In 2015, the world was introduced to Brown Acid: The First Trip. Fast forward to 4/20/2024, there have been eighteen trips, each one a wild ride through the best of '60s and '70s heavy rock. As the founder of Gimme Metal, I took on the daunting task of distilling the essence of this series into a single LP. The result? Eleven killer tracks for this month’s vinyl of the month.
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Ghosts of Metal Past: May
From UFO's PHENOMENON to Sabaton's HEROES, read more about the biggest metal releases of May!
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Worm Review
Retro Review: Worm's Foreverglade in the GMVC!
Mixing metal genres can be tricky alchemy. Each listener brings multiple sets of preferences, prejudices, and expectations to the table. For example: While death-doom or blackened crust are chocolate-and-peanut-butter delights to these ears, the blending of black metal with shoegaze or post-rock hits me like toothpaste and orange juice.
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KEVIN DIERS - 5 THINGS I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO IN 2024
With so much awesome music at our fingertips, we are truly living in a time of infinite possibilities for fans of underground metal. There’s so much coming at us - new releases, tour announcements, dream festival lineups getting dropped nonstop - that sometimes it can be a bit overwhelming.
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HAIKU ON FIRE: CELEBRATING THE RETURN OF THE VINYL CLUB AND HIGH ON FIRE’S COMETH THE STORM
READ MORETOP 5 BEST '80S ROCK RECORDS!
Check out our selection of the best rock albums from the 1980s!
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“WHO KILLED MARILYN?” AND BEYOND: THE GLENN DANZIG SONGBOOK
In New Jersey, where I’m from, Bruce Springsteen is considered to be the musical voice of the state, the songwriter who captures its working-class grit. “The Boss,” some people call him. Twenty-four years in Jersey and I never got one paycheck from this guy, so I say funk dat. Especially when Lodi, NJ, birthed not just New Jersey’s but, in my sincere opinion, America’s greatest songwriter: Glenn Danzig.
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New Release Review: Hulder – Verses in Oath (20 Buck Spin)
If you look back with fondness at the symphonic black metal that rose to prominence in
the mid to late ‘90s-—and I certainly do, as this stuff was my personal gateway to the
genre as a whole—Hulder’s second LP Verses in Oath captures this era with such
precision that it evokes hyper-specific sense memories: Necropolis Records sampler
CDs, Red Stream mail order catalogs, Century Media Black’s Firestarter compilation
with the wooden match in the spine of the jewel case.
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GHOSTS OF METAL PAST: FEBRUARY
February might be the shortest month but it definitely has not been in short supply of sick metal releases throughout the years.
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Gimme’s Top Albums of 2023
READ MOREGimme’s Community Commerce Lives On
"Rhymes Records in New Haven was my first real record store. It was located on the second story above an art-house, independent movie theater, the York Square Cinema , and below a vintage clothing store. It was small. Crammed with new and used vinyl, walls of cassettes, zines from all over the world, and, later, a few cds. I was only about 13 when I started going there weekly, and it was my favorite place on the planet. "
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BACK IN BLACK: THE RETURN OF GIMME
"Almost 8 months after Gimme’s demise (which left a hole in the heart of the metal community), Gimme rises from ashes. We are excited to announce that the Gimme store reopens its virtual doors today, with the same goal of community engagement & customer satisfaction."
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