Hellfire summons Godzilla for a groove metal throwdown
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Hellfire summons Godzilla for a groove metal throwdown

Recently, we reviewed the mighty Dimension-X by one-man band Hellfire. Erik Schrage, the project’s main engine, plays black metal very competently, so the stylistic turn in Godzilla caught us unprepared. Godzilla is slow, uber-downtuned groove metal with satanic screams. Elements of black metal, such as tremolo-picked riffage and diminished-sounding chord progressions are still present, but the stylistic shift is notable. The combination is interesting and hasn’t been explored by someone else, not to our knowledge at least. Some songs ditch…

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Hellfire transitions into Dimension-X with a blast of angry, nihilistic black metal

Black metal is probably the most notorious metal aesthetics known to man. Hellfire, a solo project by musician Erik Schrage, takes the genre to its extremes. It’s an epic record with over an hour of running time which never stops pummelling your ears with blast beats, harsh guitars, and a voice screaming from the very depths of hell. This is supreme, raw black metal with absolutely no elements that may be considered “commercial”. It’s brutal and challenging listen with a…