Black metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music. Common traits include fast tempos, a shrieking vocal style, heavily distorted guitars played with tremolo picking, raw (lo-fi) recording, unconventional song structures, and an emphasis on atmosphere. Artists often appear in corpse paint and adopt pseudonyms.
Peace Sells... but Who's Buying? is the second studio album by American thrash metal band Megadeth, released on September 19, 1986, through Capitol Records. The project was originally handled by Combat Records, resulting in the original mix of the album being co-produced by Randy Burns. Capitol Records then bought the rights to the album and hired another producer named Paul Lani to mix it himself. The recording of the album was difficult for the band, because of the ongoing drug issues the members had at the time. Drummer Gar Samuelson and guitarist Chris Poland were fired shortly after the album's promotional tour for drug abuse, making Peace Sells Samuelson's last Megadeth album. Poland reappeared as a session musician on Megadeth's 2004 album The System Has Failed. The title track, noted for its politically conscious lyrics, was released as the album's second single and was the band's first music video. The album's cover art, featuring the band's mascot Vic Rattlehead in front of a desolated United Nations Headquarters, was created by Ed Repka.
Absurd is a German black metal band that has been classified as a "right-wing extremist" group by the Thuringian Landesbehörde für Verfassungsschutz.
Hanzel und Gretyl are an American industrial metal band founded in New York City by Kaizer von Loopy and Vas Kallas in February 1993.
Über alles is the third studio album by American industrial metal band Hanzel und Gretyl, released on May 20, 2003 via Metropolis Records. The album was critically well-received and is generally regarded as the group's most prominent and identifiable work to date. The album is the first of a highly conceptualized trilogy of DIY industrial metal operas that denote a distinct change in style for the group marked by aggressive metal style guitar riffs, gritty orchestral sampling and guttural German spoken vocals.
Neue Deutsche Härte, sometimes abbreviated as NDH, is a subgenre of rock music that developed in Germany and Austria during the early-to-mid 1990s and early 2000s. Alluding to the style of Neue Deutsche Welle, the term was coined by the music press after the 1995 release of the German rock and metal band Rammstein's first studio album Herzeleid.
Scheissmessiah is the fourth full-length release by American industrial metal band Hanzel und Gretyl. It was released on October 12, 2004, via Metropolis Records. It is a concept album that parodies Handel's Messiah with a satanic metal twist.
Ausgeflippt is Hanzel und Gretyl's debut full-length album, released on October 10, 1995, via Energy Records. It is mostly techno-industrial, unlike later releases. The album featured mostly German and English lyrics, but also featured lyrics in Romanian, Greek and French. It received some good reviews upon its release, and even spawned a successful single in the form of "Shine 2001", which reached number one on the Alternative Press Dance Chart.
Transmissions from Uranus is the second full-length album by American industrial metal band Hanzel und Gretyl. It was released in 1997 via Energy Records. It followed the pace set by the band's debut release, Ausgeflippt, as its style was very electronically oriented. The album enjoyed significant success, with the song "9D Galactic Center" included on the soundtrack to Mortal Kombat Annihilation. This was the band's last release on Energy Records, as the company went out of business in 1998. It was also the band's last release with a focus on machines and space and the last album to feature any song performed in a language other than German or English, with the song "Astronafti" performed in Greek, as their image changed radically upon the release of their third album, Über alles, which was a satire of totalitarian regimes.
Drain, known in North America as Drain STH, was a Swedish hard rock band from Stockholm.
Ultraelectromagneticpop! is the debut studio album by the Filipino alternative rock band Eraserheads, first released on July 1, 1993 by BMG Records (Pilipinas) Inc. It was produced by the band and Ed Formoso.
Fashion Bomb are an American band formed in Chicago, Illinois, United States, in 2003. Fashion Bomb's music spans the metal subgenres, with songs that have elements of heavy metal, industrial, alternative, and nu metal. However, the band is most consistently categorized as industrial metal.
2012: Zwanzig Zwölf is the fifth full-length album American industrial metal band Hanzel und Gretyl. It was released via Metropolis Records on February 5, 2008. The album is a concept album based on the Mayan 2012 apocalypse theory. The album's concept is based on the idea that in the year 2012, Hanzel und Gretyl will play a show at one of the ancient Mayan temples that will actually reveal itself to be a space ship. This space ship will then take HuG on a tour around the universe.
Our Last Enemy is an Australian industrial metal band. The band was formed in 2006 by Oliver Fogwell, Jeff Ritchie and Matt Heywood. The band would go through several guitarists and keyboardists from 2007 before being joined by Bizz and Zot on guitars and drums respectively.
Doll is a Canadian punk rock/new grunge band from Ottawa, Ontario. They have opened for Three Days Grace and many other well-known bands.
Black Forest Metal is the seventh full-length album by American industrial metal band Hanzel und Gretyl. It was released via Metropolis Records on November 11, 2014. The album was successfully funded via a PledgeMusic crowdfunding campaign on June 26, 2014. The album marks the transition point to the band's "Grimm Shiza" era, focusing more on black metal and satanic themes.
Born to Be Heiled is the sixth full-length album by American industrial metal band Hanzel und Gretyl. It was released via Metropolis Records on November 27, 2012. The album was one of the debut releases for the Metropolis Metal Records, a subdivision of Metropolis Records. The album was a basis for the remix album Hanzel und Gretyl für Immer.
Hanzel und Gretyl für immer is a remix album by American industrial metal band Hanzel und Gretyl and a companion album to 2012's Born to Be Heiled. It was released via Metropolis Records on October 8, 2013. The album is a remix album of Born to Be Heiled. All of the remixes were done by KyzrWolf, a side project of Kaizer van Loopy.
Rublood is an Italian industrial metal band from Turin, Italy. Formed in 2010, the group are noted for their dark horror-themed lyrics, pessimistic and misanthropic social commentary, distinctive trademark face paint, dark stage uniforms and physical appearances that correspond to gothic fashion. Rublood have supported live acts by bands such as Avatar, Deathstars and Sex Gang Children the latter of which was part of the inspiration for Rublood. In 2015 the band appearance at the Chania Rock Festival in Chania, Greece where they shared the stage with Sabaton, Gus G and Flotsam and Jetsam and supported Butcher Babies and Hanzel und Gretyl on their 2015 tour through Italy.
Hexennacht is the ninth full-length album released by American industrial metal band Hanzel und Gretyl. It was released via Metropolis Records on December 13, 2019. The album is based on satanic and Black Forest themes, and was released on a Friday the 13th in December by coincidence. The song Eine Kleine Hexennacht Musik is a parody of the Mozart song Eine Kleine Nachtmusik.
