Cemetery Lament

Cemetery Urn Cemetery Urn Hells Headbangers Release Date: June 9th 2017 Pre-Order HERE!!! "Australian Barbaric Death Metal" at least that is what Cemetery Urn has dubbed themselves. It must be an Australian thing because last year I saw Disentombed in concert and they call their particular style Australian Brutal Death... Apparently every death metal band from down under feels the need to create their own sub-genre for their specific music. I suppose when you come from a place with bugs the size of small dogs and Crocodile Dundee you can do whatever the fuck you want... But I digress...  Over the years it seems like most of the death metal acts have gone out of their way to  make the vocals as completely and totally guttural and as possible. Call me old fashion but listening to an entire album of monotone growl/puking into a microphone that sounds like it's lodged in your throat eventually gets a little boring. I don't care how fucking awesome your ...

Recently I made contact with a few of the smaller labels and distributors in the extreme metal world to see if there would be any interest in having Cemetery Lament do promotional features for upcoming artists and albums. I received a pretty good response from a few of them and I'm happy to announce that moving forward I will feature news and release information from several labels in the emerging underground scene.  Now before anyone worries that I'm already selling my soul in some kind of Faustian bargan to the man or going "mainstream"... pfft ... trust me when I say this won't change anything about Cemetery Lament or my focus on unsigned underground artists. Underground metal will always be the focus of my blog and no amount of money, power or sexual favors is going to change that... okay maybe the last one. My reason for striking such a devious deal was to provide you [the reader] with even more content from as many different sources as possible in the...