Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett admitted that Metallica’s sell-out hard rock self-titled “Black Album” was inspired by Soundgarden.
8 CommentsTags: butt rock, honesty, kirk hammett, metallica, news, sell-out, selling out
Strijd: Black Metal Götterdämmerung
Underground metal was rapidly dying by the mid nineties. The more musically successful death and black metal bands became disenchanted with their resulting limited financial success as the hordes of poseurs poured in through the gates of Byzantium, creating commercial rock that merely imitated the tones and texture of the monumental statues of the metal greats. The more popular death metal bands tried and failed at becoming rock stars while many of the more luminous minds in Norwegian black metal bands were dead or imprisoned.
28 CommentsTags: 1999, arthur rackham, arthurian legend, article, Black Metal, excalibur, jan kruitwagen, john carpenter, king arthur, mythic, mythic imagination, Mythology, sammath, strijd
Matt Harvey Gives MetalSucks the Reach Around
Matt Harvey of deathcore band Exhumed was called up to provide a contrary viewpoint on Decibel Magazine’s website to MetalSucks’ call for a proscription of Hells Headbangers Records, circlejerking around the Blast Beat advertising network.
26 CommentsTags: ben umanov, blast beat network, carpetbaggers, communism, communists, deathcore, decibel, exhumed, homosexuality, matt goldberg, Matt Harvey, metalcore, MetalSucks, national socialist black metal, Nazism, news, nsbm, poseur, poseurs, sjws, social justice warrior, social justice warriors
Metalsucks, Shut the Fuck Up
by David McEric
The shamelessly slimy Metalsucks claim to have received an “open letter” from The Anti-NSBM Working Group, asking Hells Headbangers Records “to cease releasing and distributing Nazi propaganda,” a spurious claim at best, and a needlessly high-handed position against a family business with no ties to Nazism, racism, or any specific intolerance of any kind, past running a label and distro full of acts that advocate mass murder and devil worship like any good metal band should. The alleged group who wrote the letter doesn’t have much of an online identity, but Metalsucks does, and since they were the ones who posted this clickbait tripe in the first place, this open letter is directed at them.
40 CommentsTags: ben umanov, blast beat network, carpetbaggers, matt goldberg, MetalSucks, poseurs, profiteers, russians
MetalSucks Threatens Hells Headbangers
Crybaby social justice warrior metalcore blog MetalSucks posted a statement from a group of metalcore musicians calling for American distro and label Hells Headbangers to stop releasing “Nazi propaganda”or else.
18 CommentsTags: antifa, antifascists, Black Metal, blast beat network, censorship, communism, darker than black, elegy records, fascism, hells headbangers, hipster idiocy, idiots, metalgate, MetalSucks, news, nsbm, political correctness, RAC, werewolf records
Politics of Heavy Metal
As MetalGate is renewed under a flood of censorship targeting the “Alt Right,” confusion prevails as usual, this time about whether metal has any politics at all, and whether those politics support the Alt Right.
65 CommentsTags: article, heavy metal philosophy, heavy metal politics, kickass, metal philosophy, metal politics, raging realism
#metalgate: Nyogthaeblisz Attempts Undercover Gigs
Politically incorrect Texan black metal band Nyogthaeblisz attempted to play undercover gigs in Philadelphia and New York last weekend.
3 CommentsTags: Black Metal, censorship, hellvetron, metalgate, news, nyogthaeblisz, political correctness, shows
#Metalgate: Nyogthaeblisz Excluded From Maryland Show For “Racism”
Washington, DC area crust punk and metalcore scenesters decided that anti-religious Texan black metal band Nyogthaeblisz were racist and got their show at Gaithersburg, Maryland tattoo parlor Raw Ink canceled according to the Washington City Paper and moved to a Philadelphia bar hours away.
14 CommentsTags: Arghoslent, attention whore, censorship, communists, crustfundies, dcheavymetal.com, Grand Belial's Key, hypocrisy, idiots, maryland, metal chris, metalgate, news, nyogthaeblisz, political correctness, racism, raw ink, scenesters, sjws, social justice warrior, social justice warriors, special snowflake, washington dc
#Metalgate: Spotify Proscribes Politically Incorrect Metal Bands
Social justice warrior Paul Resnikoff of Digital Music News whined that some metal bands on Spotify were on a Southern Poverty Law Center list of “hateful” bands on Itunes in hope of virtue “signal boosting” his pathetic music industry blog.
12 CommentsTags: ad hominem, attention whore, battlecry, Bolzer, censorship, centurion, communism, communists, cultural marxism, Dark Fury, digital music news, endless pride, geimhre, Grand Belial's Key, granulosum, hate forest, kamaedzitca, kolovrat, metalgate, music streaming, national socialist black metal, news, nokturnal mortum, nsbm, paul resnikoff, political correctness, seges findere, selbstmord, sjws, social justice warriors, socialists, southern poverty law center, spear of longinus, special snowflake, spotify, streaming, thunderbolt, virtu
Roots of Evil: The Origins of Metal
With the fiftieth anniversary of metal music around the corner, forthcoming years will witness an increase of publications dealing with the history, legacy and defining characteristics of the genre. This could finally resolve the lack of consensus that still exists regarding the definition and origins of heavy metal.
25 CommentsTags: Ambient, article, black sabbath, cream, electronic, Genesis, hard rock, Heavy Metal, heavy metal history, heavy rock, metal history, origins of heavy metal, progressive electronic music, progressive rock, proto-metal, psychedelic rock, punk, tangerine dream, the stooges
