Forbidden to be seen
Spirit of the elder gods
Are dead but must live on
Still to life and yet they breathe
Dead but dreaming…..
– DEICIDE

When metal opens imaginations, it is a source of power.

When it gets too preachy (Napalm Death, nu-Burzum) it becomes constraint.

When it cares too much about the 75% of popular music fans who are transient, it gets fake too.

Do it for the 25%: future warriors and thinkers. Allahu Ackbar!

The gent who puts on the Anti-Christ Mass festivals and most of the Houston underground metal shows is Luis Carlos, who fronts The Adversary productions. He gave a lengthy interview with lots of information about the state of the underground:

• Interview with Luis Carlos of The Adversary and producer of the Anti-Christ Mass festival

Plaguecast radio brings you the Samhain edition of their mixed metal, noise, hardcore and dark ambient show. Not for the faint of heart.

• Stream online
• Download (117 mb MP3)

The object of the bronies’ fascination is “My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic,” a remake of a 1980s animated TV show for preadolescent girls featuring plucky, candy-colored equines.

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Bronies say their hobby has nothing to do with their sexuality or gender. “I don’t care about showing to the world that I am masculine,” says Jason Subhani, a 19-year-old college student in Astoria, N.Y. A Pony poster on his bedroom wall mingles with images of heavy-metal icons. – WSJ

We have found the great source of Opeth, Mastodon, Isis, Kylesa, DEP, Rage Against the Machine, Tool, etc. fans — they’re not gay, they’re sit-down-to-pee types.

Consort, summon my legion of rape-vultures. We must feast on the prostates of the self-enslaved.

One of our users, Devolved, has launched his own radio show called Are You Morbid? It’s old school underground metal (OSUM) with dark ambient. He will be on again tonight. We recorded the show last week, but this week, we need some help. Can any of you record this live stream from 6-8 PM PST tonight?

Here are some basic instructions. All you need to do is

• Go to your audio controls (double-click on speaker in system tray), select File->Properties, then select Recording from the radio buttons. Make sure Line In is represented and not muted.
• Go to your audio program (Audacity, Soundforge) and in your recording options, select Line In or Stereo Mix.

This will record whatever is playing on your computer. Save the file as an MP3 and upload.

For hilarity’s sake:

The members of death metal bands are not usually accused of tolerance of homosexuals. It’s just not easy to pronounce LGBT in a screech, a grunt or a scream. The two groups don’t usually coexist, so when Samwise Didier played a video of the lead singer from Cannibal Corpse ranting of his hatred of “Night Elf faggots,” many WoW-players and Blizzard fans were stunned. Sure, most of the offensive words were bleeped out, and when George “Corpsegrinder” Fisher took the stage to play with the all-Blizzard employee band Level 90 Epic Tauren Chieftain, only normal non-offensive metal ensued.

Cannibal Corpse is blockhead metal that sold out the percussive sound back in the 1990s, but Corpsegrinder is a really good fellow. It is a sad truth of being a metalhead that there are a lot of interesting and/or good people who make shitty music.

You probably missed the show tonight. That’s understandable — if you haven’t heard it already.

Click below to download the 107mb 128k mp3 capture from this week’s show.

Maybe next week, you’ll choose to tune in. Oldschool metal and dark ambient, with acerbic yet cosmic commentary.

• Devolved “Are You Morbid?” (107mb)

Updated link.

We’ve just conducted an interview with Are You Morbid?‘s Devolved, host of this new underground metal/dark ambient radio show.

Check it out:

• Live stream (mp3) 6-8 PM PST Saturdays
• Interview with Devolved

Currently playing (6-8 PM PST).