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    • Interview: Lori Bravo

    the anus.com metal development team was lucky to catch lori bravo during a break from work with her new band, Raped. she was kind enough to consent to an off-the-cuff interview which had some remarkable results.

    as those who are fans of early death metal know, lori and her band nuclear death were instrumental in developing the genre in its early days. still carrying touches of thrash from the previous generation, she and her bandmates forged forward with a unique and devastating style of music. read on to learn what inflames her passion and willpower toward the making of metal.

    1. nuclear death sounded to me like it descended halfway from the progressive extremist speed metal ("thrash") of the previous decade, mixing that with its fundamentally deathy influence. if you could name something that you'd heard in the time leading up to the creation of the nuclear death works, what influenced you the most?
    I would say...Discharge,Venom,Mercyful Fate,Black Flag and Russian Classical.
    image of lori bravo from nuclear death, who kindly gave us this interview in the midst of a busy schedule of world destruction2. what art do you enjoy outside of metal?
    Actually...I do not listen to alot of 'metal'.....I am into punk and hardcore, jazz and fusion, classical, indie-rock.....and of course the works of Goya, Picasso, Bosch, Giger, Mapelthorpe, Giger, Rimbaud, Smith, Morrison, Plath, Baudelaire, Whitman, Kerouac, Manson, Wilde, Cobain, Saffo........etc.
    3. do you consider art to have relative grades of complexity?
    Of course...but I also....believe the most simplest of lines can be most complex in nature.
    4. is your current band metal, or a metal fusion? i ask because many metal artists choose after an underground success to turn to the mainstream somewhat, mostly looking for new worlds to conquer.
    I do not believe that I have even achieved what you dubbed as 'successful'.....My new band is called RAPED...and it is a fusion of my anger,jealousy,hatred,hopefulness and liberation from boyfriends,bullshit and sexism!!!I call it arte-sexed-dark-edged-fuckyourface-off music....or GRRRLCORE!!
    5. what do you think about drugs, group sex and fascism?
    Drugs are how we as a society seem to cope...I mean EVERYBODY'S on SOMETHING!!!Group sex is great...do it SAFELY....I am in the sex business..I strip....SAFTEY..PEOPLE....I CAN'T STRESS THAT POINT ENOUGH!!!Fascism in shit...but it is a big part of life.....I don't think it is going to go away...so we,as artists,need to address the issue and alert the public on how much it ruins us internally and externally as many times as we can write a song ,paint a canvas, make a film or make a statement!
    6. if you saw a black spot on a purely white wall, would you consider the wall to have an entrance, or the spot to have a boundary?
    Entrance...I don't beleive in boundaries...that is limited to me...I don't like limits!!!!
    7. what in your mind are the usefulness of these states: caprice and serendipity?
    I Love impulsiveness in all things!!!! Spur of the moment......A whim of change....some of the best things are built from this lovely little spurt!Beautiful 'accidents'.....serendipity is how I have managed to write every fucking thing that is good and paint a canvas that is worth viewing!!!!! I am a creative FUCKUP!!!
    nuclear death carrion for worm album cover image8. if you were suspended in a reality where another nuclear death album might be made, what in your mind might it sound like?
    If Steve and I did another...I think it would be an in your face muse....RAPED is the result of what ND spawned.
    9. if you had four minutes to give advice to a young metal band, it might be...?
    Don't sign anything without a lawyer, never compromise your principles, be yourselves, listen to your inner voices and take NO shit!!!!
    10. what do you think about commerce, morality and the holiday of easter?
    Trade and buy/sell rules the world...enjoy it...Sexually-speaking...let's fuck!Even I have morals.....Have CLASS people! You can be Hardcore without losing your integrity....Easter.....I like the iconography aspects and rituals.....rising from death...aint it sweet.....Bunnies for everyone!!!!!
    11. i like the shorter song format with some bands, offhandedly naming carcass and DRI, as it allows a fragment of a consciousness to momentarily express itself and vanish, where a full song might have to artificially include other subject matter to flesh out the shit. then again, if you write your lyrics when wasted or careless, what flows might be pure subconscious dialogue and therefore might be effective. it seemed to me some study went into the nuclear death lyrics, no matter how hasty their creation. what sorts of ideas and systems of thought were influencing you at the time?
    Alcohol,drugs,reading,sex,fear and dreams.
    12. what do you think of capitalism, christianity and zionism?
    Good and bad....I hate corporate-owned anything...but what are you going to do....do it yourself and put it on the net......christianity has been so fucking twisted and raped of its origins and beliefs,honestly,I think Christ would want to kill those fuckers,I believe every people should be able to 'go home'...we all deserve our place.
    nuclear death band photograph from the early 1990s13. are you a large fan of any mainstream media?
    I am pop cultured,you know? I like anything that I find interesting!
    14. often relationships in bands are as stressed as two cops dating. do you have any advice in the most general sense in this area?
    Fuck....it's a marriage,respect eachother.
    15. do you own guns or dogs, and what kind of vehicle do you drive? do you see these questions as destructive to the persona of a metal artist and therefore not worth answering? i hope so, but if not let me know. i want one of the new glock .357s to take out that pesky streetlight.
    I own a 45 and a single-shot....I am slave to 5 cats...I cycle..I never have driven.
    16. the aura combined of artistic form and content that is metaphorically relevant in a wrenching evocation of the sickness and desires of the current time, if present intelligently, can form the basis for powerful metal. do these ideas "strike a chord" with any of your own?
    I think we are a highly intelligent form of music.....we present to the listener what one may or may not want to face.Look...if you have shit lyrics...I don't care how great the music is.....I won't give you a second thought.
    17. do you have plans to write a book?
    Yes......I have poetry,as well as a tell-all in the worx
    18. if i were a gangbanger, anytime i shot someone, i'd say "you'd better hope for reincarnation!" do you think reincarnation is likely, or is it another for the "wishful thinking" file?
    I think it is bullshit.....This is MY fucking unique soul..when I die that is it!
    19. have you heard burzum, dead brain cells or absurd?
    No....turn me on......
    20. what do you think are the faults of www.anus.com/metal, and why do you think many people hate us?
    Because you are too intelligent for most dumbfuck metal-heads.....fuck 'em...you RULE!!!!
    21. do you visit any bulletin boards, chat rooms or use an instant messenger?
    Oh yes....My s/n is insectbride.....I am a member of Hole's message board,Distillers,TSOL's...oh yessssssssss!!!!
    nuclear death bride of insect/carrion for worm album cover re-release22. is saddam hussein a CIA plant?
    Could be.....dunno....I think he is an android.
    23. if you had no limitations and could make any music you would choose, how would your music differ?
    Listen to RAPED....I have no limitations!!!!I know what I like.
    24. what makes arizona for you an attractive place of residence? after i drove through i considered moving, as it had a laid backness to the city.
    I hate it.....That is why I am moving to LA,permanently in May!!!!I love the filth,corruption,trashedout ways of big cities...I am from Chicago...for fuxsake!!!!
    many thanks for any answers you can do. some of these questions will be unanswerable, but i have designed them based on your other interview so that you will have fun with them, i hope. i will send you finished copy and we'll cut any that don't succeed. hails and vomits...
    ..Thanx...I had a great time with your interview.......one of the best I have gotten in a while.....actually, I found ALL answerable!!!! I can rap for hours,Love.......New Nuclear Death/RAPED contact is my Email!!!!

    IN DEATH AND CRUELTY....VO/Lori

    The Christian concept of a god--the god as the patron of the sick, the god as a spinner of cobwebs, the god as a spirit--is one of the most corrupt concepts that has ever been set up in the world: it probably touches low-water mark in the ebbing evolution of the god-type. God degenerated into the contradiction of life. Instead of being its transfiguration and eternal Yea! In him war is declared on life, on nature, on the will to live! God becomes the formula for every slander upon the "here and now," and for every lie about the "beyond"! In him nothingness is deified, and the will to nothingness is made holy! . . . - F.W. Nietzsche, "The Antichrist"
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    The Metal Basement

    30 07 12 - 14:32

    New radio program DJ'd in part by one of our users:

    The Metal Basement with Maniacal Michael & the Basement Bunch.

    It airs every Tuesday night from 10-12 PM PST.

     

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    Metal Rising Worldwide

    30 06 12 - 08:34

     

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    Beherit - "Celebrate the Dead"

    18 06 12 - 19:34

    Black metal + dubstep



    Numen - intention = essence
     

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    Why this blog has been silent

    31 03 12 - 05:58

    We've moved it.

     

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    Impiety - Ravage and Conquer

    03 03 12 - 06:07

    Impiety - Ravage and Conquer



    This album is thoroughly enjoyable energetic and simple death metal which incorporates enough hints of melody and harmony to give the songs memorability. However, on the whole it belongs to that category of bands which are guilty pleasure bands by design. They do not aim for profundity, but rather intensity. We might list Vader and Angelcorpse as well, or maybe early Grave, because they have a similar low-tech approach. There is not much that is musical about this release. It is pure rhythm, with the aforementioned musical elements tacked on to keep your interest. But as rhythm, it has the intensity of later Angelcorpse and the raging power of broad basic statements that propelled early Grave. Its songs are not as memorably constructed as those on Exterminate or Into the Grave, have more the intensity of mid-period Vader, but in a time of feeble self-pitying rock bands trying to be hipster "metal," it's gratifying to find something with heart. You will tap your feet to these energetic, propulsive tunes and appreciate the sheer violence out of which they are created. Unlike many recent albums which drag you along for the ride, Ravage and Conquer drops you into the middle of it and makes you fight your way out.

     

    przk | | underground metal | 262 comments

    Imprecation - Angel of Salvation's Doom (2012)

    29 02 12 - 19:08



    From their new blasphemous album. Sounds good, with a few nods to 1980s mainstream technical metal, pissing all over 2010s technical metal.
     

    przk | | underground metal | 21 comments

    DEAD CAN DANCE tour dates announced

    29 02 12 - 05:21

    SEPTEMBER

    19th - HCTAT, Istanbul, Turkey
    21st - Earth Theatre, Thessaloniki, Greece
    23rd - Lycabetus Theatre, Athens, Greece
    25th - MCV, Utrecht, Holland
    27th - Grand Rex, Paris, France
    29th - Cirque Royal, Brussels, Belgium

    OCTOBER

    1st - Alte Oper, Frankfurt, Germany
    3rd - Tempodrom, Berlin, Germany
    5th - CCH, Hamburg, Germany
    7th - Philharmonie, Munich, Germany
    8th - Philharmonie, Cologne, Germany
    10th - KCP, Prague, Czech Republic
    12th - Bkz Oktyabrsky, St. Petersburg, Russia
    13th - Crocus City Hall, Moscow, Russia
    15th - Sala Kongresowa, Warsaw, Poland
    17th - Papp Laszlo Arena, Budapest, Hungary
    19th - Teatro Degli Arcimboldi, Milan, Italy
    20th - Batiment Des Forces Motrices, Geneva, Switzerland
    22nd - Auditori, Barcelona, Spain
    24th - Casa Da Musica, Porto, Portugal
    26th - Royal Albert Hall, London, England
    28th - Grand Canal Theatre, Dublin, Ireland

    Dates for the North American, South American and Asian legs of the tour will be announced shortly, along with ticket sales information

    www.deadcandance.com
     

    przk | | underground metal | Five comments

    IMPRECATION update

    22 02 12 - 17:48

    New Imprecation tracks will be unleashed next week, the release should be ready by the end of March. The songs to come are entitled "Hosanna Ex Inferis" and "Angel of Salvation's Doom". - David Herrera
     

    przk | | underground metal | 22 comments

    SUMMONING working on new materail

    19 02 12 - 19:00


    19.02.2012
    After a longer winter-sleep summoning is back again and ow works constantly for a new release. We promise that in the near future we will regularly update the homepage again, so it will we worth the costs to check the page in regular intervals.

    The present situation of Summoning:

    In the past years we have worked on new material just very rarely because of different reasons (partly personal, partly being not motivated enough) but since the last months ,we intensified the work for new material and realised, that the old spirit is back again and we are very motivated for a cool new release and we are very committed in every terms of composing.

    Meanwhile there are two songs which are fix starters for the album. 4 or 5 songs are in a more advance state and we composed riffs for at least 10 or 15 songs in a very early state. Btw. we still have one finished song from the last oath bound session which also will be in one or another way. so probably this time we are in the luck situation that we have more songs left, so maybe there will be some special limited fan releases beside the normal release, but this is of course just a wish right now.

    We hope that until the end of this year most of the material for the new album can be finished. In the moment we have no concrete conception about the lyrical concept. All we can say right now is, that Summoning is still alive and middle earth will awake again. - SUMMONING official web presence


    This is encouraging.

    It does not sound like it will be soon, but so long as quality is high, it will be massively anticipated.
     

    przk | | underground metal | Eleven comments

    THRASH is not SPEED METAL

    18 02 12 - 16:52



    Mix together the early CIRCLE JERKS, early BLACK FLAG, MDC, MINOR THREAT, SSD, TERVEET K�DET, and GANG GREEN, and you have something approximating these DIRTY ROTTEN IMBECILES (so-called by their parents). What can I say--this is manic, intense, tight thrash with great lyrics, and I can't wait till these Houston boys unleash themselves upon the rest of us deprived people. 22 songs.
    -Tim Yohannan (from Maximum Rocknroll #5, March/April 1983)

     

    przk | | underground metal | 31 comments

    PROFANATICA - Sickened By Holy Host / The Grand Masters Session

    18 02 12 - 16:51



    This oddity features an all new 39 minute mini-album plus the "The Grand Masters Session" Box Set on CD for the very first time. Nearly 80 minutes of true blasphemy & perversion.

    PART #1 features 5 new songs plus 2 old classics written and recorded by Ledney with a session member. The performance on this work is much like their primitive NECROVORE-ous atrocities committed in the early '90s and allows for safe assumption of what could have been heard on their long-lost album, "The Raping of the Virgin Mary."

    Meanwhile, PART #2 features the same titles but written and recorded by Gelso alongside the same drums & vocals performed on part #1. The execution of this session continues in the more musical direction showcased on their first 2 albums and incorporates soundscapes sonically compiled by the late Aragon Amori. The end result is nothing short of devastating, and the vast contrast between these two sessions takes on the form of an album in itself that is sure to appeal to both old & new devotees of the black cult.

    Finally, "The Grand Masters Session" previously available as a vinyl-only 8" Box Set, is a raging 2008 "live in the studio" recording showcasing many of the classics, a few newer hits and an exclusive medley (a conglomerate of 5 songs).

     

    przk | | underground metal | Ten comments

    SUPURATION retrospective CD release

    17 02 12 - 10:10



    Yes, the mighty french legend SUPURATION (aka SUP) are back from the crematory in form of a retrospective collection CD which includes all the earliest and most brutal stuff of the band from '89 /'90 when they were in their most Death Metal shape right before they started to experiment with clean vocals and more varied sounds.

    "Back from the Crematory" is the generic title of this cult release which is planned for an imminent release on September 16th. The CD includes the awesome band's debut self-financed mini CD "Sultry Obsession" ('90), their only demo "Official Rehearsal" ('90) as well as the impossible-to-find demo of the band's very 1st studio recording "Haunted" under their previous monicker ETSICROXE as well as a 9-song live show, both from '89.

    This masterpiece comes with remastered sound and packed in a total old-fashioned layout in contrat to their latter weird & sophisticated designs. Includes killer 12-pages booklet featuring an exclusive retro-interview, liner notes, cover and tons of old photos & flyers. This definitely a must-have release not only for every SUPURATION fan, but for every lover of the good old Death Metal from late 80's and early 90's!!

    http://www.xtreemmusic.com/
     

    przk | | underground metal | Six comments

    Lord Wind - Ales Stenar

    12 02 12 - 07:36

    New Lord Wind: not metal per se, but metal in spirit, and it will be hard to beat this impressive CD that I'm already calling as "album of the year."



    Note new URL.
     

    przk | | underground metal | Sixteen comments

    New SAMMATH

    11 02 12 - 12:07

     

    przk | | underground metal | Two comments

    YADENU (Yet Another DEMONCY "Enthroned is the Night" Update)

    11 02 12 - 12:06

    Demoncy (CD) jackets are in production and on their way to completion. No release date has been given yet but we are expecting them roughly around the 22nd of February. - Forever Plagued Records

    Can't fucking wait!
     

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    BLASPHERIAN update

    09 02 12 - 17:24

    BLASPHERIAN UPDATE:
    NEW SONG FOR SPLIT 7" WITH IMPRECATION......FINISHED
    2 NEW SONGS,REWORKED VERSION OF 'TO WALK THE PATH...'.... FINISHED
    AND NOW WE BEGIN WRITING FOR THE UPCOMING SPLIT WITH CRUCIFIER 'THE POISONERS OF YAHWASTE'...
    AND THEN WE RECORD THIS UNHOLY MADNESS....HOPEFULLY SOMETIME IN MARCH/APRIL 2012 ANNO SATANAS...
     

    przk | | underground metal | Ten comments

    New footage of Quorthon

    09 02 12 - 16:42

    Part 1:



    Part 2:



    Part 3:


    See also our interview with Quorthon, one of the smartest men in metal.
     

    przk | | underground metal | Two comments

    VARG VIKERNES converting to Christianity?

    06 02 12 - 20:09

    A textual comparison:

    A Burzum Story: Part VIII - On Overgrown Paths

    'Enter ye in at the narrow gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way that leadeth to destruction, and many there are who go in thereat.

    Bible

    How narrow is the gate, and strait is the way that leadeth to life: and few there are that find it!' Matthew 7: 13-14

    All I can say is... oy gevalt. Ripped shamelessly from Faceplant
     

    przk | | underground metal | Four comments

    Another DEMONCY update

    06 02 12 - 19:55

    Okay FPR confirmed the updated jacket design. I'm waiting to hear back that everything is accepted and in production. Remember everything is done but the jacket so once the jacket is done everything gets packaged and sent to us. I'll confirm once the jacket is in production and then I'll confirm once they give us an exact shipping date. I'll feel so much better once these are in the hands of all who preordered as I know we are at fault for accepting these pre's so damn early, considering the time its taking to get this finished.- FPR
     

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    Typical Gojira Fan

    03 02 12 - 01:34



    This from fans of the band who penned this lyrical turd:


    I hold my inner child within
    And tell him not to cry
    "don't fear the living"
    One day you will stand as a king
    And no fear can erase
    This light below us
    Each one of us is now engaged
    This secret we all have
    This truth is growing
    And as a warrior I have to fight
    I can already feel
    The love I'll discover


    Is it fair to point out that anyone who thinks this is "poetry" or "profound" is of the level of stupidity found mainly in Twilight fans?
     

    przk | | underground metal | Seven comments

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