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Spotlight: Cerebral Bore, Oceano, Hour of 13

It’s time for another edition of Spotlight. It’s time to review music so you know what to buy and what to steal to light it on fire. This week we’re going for already signed bands but fear not! If you want us to review your music, hit us up via the ‘Your Band’ form. We’ll answer your email as soon as we can but we’re busy guys. It’s not easy being metal, it’s a lot of fucking work.

Now make the jump for 3 reviews of Brutal Death Metal, Deathcore and Doom Metal bands!

The best way to end your weekend

For most people it’s the end of the weekend today but for me, it’s the start of my weekend because I had to work all week, including Saturday and today, and the next two days I don’t have to work so I’ll spend them with my favorite hobby: listening to metal, which is also the ultimate way to end your weekend!

So tomorrow you’re going back to work, school or what-the-hell-ever it is you’re doing and I’ve got an advice for you. If your supervisor or teacher gets on your nerves, just HANG HIM HIGH!

Video of the Week: Dry Kill Logic

So this week in Video of the Week, we have two videos of the week, both by Dry Kill Logic. The video on the left is the music video to ‘Paper Tiger,’ which comes off ‘The Dead and Dreaming’ and the video on the right is a live performance of the same song.

I’ve seen DKL live twice and what blew me away each time was how perfect the band sounded live. When you compare both videos, you can almost hear no differences. The guitar playing, the drumming, the singing, everything sounds live just as it does on the CD. Or more like, this is the closest to sounding identical that I’ve ever heard. Plus, I really like that song, even though it might sound to Metalcore… ish for my usual taste. Guilty pleasure, I guess.

And it all started with Death…

It all started with the man above, Chuck Schuldiner. Death Metal. Some people may argue that it all started with Possessed but to me Chuck Schuldiner and his band Death are the fathers of Death Metal, without wanting to take away anything from Possessed’s legacy.

What I realized is that members of Death went on to form or join other Death Metal bands and in turn members of these bands went on to form or join other DM bands aswell and so on and so forth.

So what I want to do is this: I’ll give you a quick rundown of bands that are in some way related to the fathers of Death Metal. Make the jump for your daily dose of Death Metal.

Weekly Dose of Metal: Artas

Artas is a modern Thrash/Death Metal band from Austria. While their first album ‘The Healing’ was a Death Thrash Metal album, the new album ‘Riotology,’ which was released this year, goes a way more melodic path. Artas’ lyrics are mostly in English, but they also feature songs in Spanish, French and German.

The following song, called ‘Rassenhass’ (eng. ‘Racial Hatred’), is a song about something that we, at Dose of Metal, wholeheartly support. It’s a song against racism and fascism, that’s sadly still way too common all around the world.

I’ll now translate the chorus for those who don’t speak German: “Because the masses hate races, you hate them too and because you hate, love is lost for you. Selected to hate races.”.