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Fashwave

by Brett Stevens on August 5, 2017

During the tumultuous past few years, a new sub-genre appeared that combines elements of several existing genres. Fashwave is synthwave with a darkwave sensibility and occasional metal-inspired riffs that sound very much out of the canon of Beherit or Burzum, but simplified to fit within the more synthpop-oriented rhythms of fashwave.

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Tags: Ambient, article, cybernazi, darkwave, electronic music, electronica, fashwave, joseph retrostein, retro, synthpop, synthwave, vaporwave, xurious

Autarcie, Black Death and Other Sicknesses

by Max Schoenbach on July 30, 2017

Autarcie could be easily dismissed for being assembled from the elements we expect from narcissistic yet generic post-black metal or “modern metal.” Instead, it presents to us a transition between black metal and either assimilation or a new form which is organic and local, and yet while the band does more with the elements of modern metal than that genre, its failure to conquer the modern mindset within precludes it from achieving the ancient sensibility and sensation of black metal, leaving it as identifiably “post-metal” in spirit but second-wave black metal in form.

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Tags: article, autarcie, Black Metal, disco, france, Les Légions Noires, modern metal, peste noire, post-black metal, post-metal

Nergal Decries Fundamentalist Islam

by Daniel Maarat on June 30, 2017

Behemoth frontman Nergal came out against what he termed “Radical Islamists” in a recent interview conducted after a Rammstein concert in Berlin was evacuated due to a terrorist threat.

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Tags: behemoth, christianity, islam, mainstream metal, metalcore, modern metal, nergal, poland, politics, Rammstein, Religion, terrorists

Bill Steer Admits Making Arena Rock

by Daniel Maarat on May 7, 2017

Bill Steer, the guitarist of sell-out grindcore legends turned butt rock turkey Carcass, did an interview with hipster social justice warrior rock website Vice Noisey last week where he ranked Carcass’s albums in order of his favorites. Bill Steer admitted that Necroticism: Descanting the Insalubrious was pretentious death ‘n’ roll instrumental wank and that continuing in that style would not have provided any future for the band so they started writing heavy metal for arena rock fans on Heartwork as only about three hundred people at every big show Carcass played actually liked death metal at all. Bill Steer finally dropped all pretense of Carcass’s later material being traditional heavy metal and admitted it is actually written as arena rock in order to please the most people.
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Tags: arena rock, beavis and butthead, Bill Steer, butt rock, carcass, death 'n' roll, Grindcore, Heartwork, pop metal, reek of putrefaction, sell-out, Speed Metal, stadium metal, stadium rock, Surgical Steel, vice magazine, wanking

Deeds of Flesh Posts “Studio” Video

by Daniel Maarat on February 11, 2017

Deeds of Flesh posted a new video log to Youtube documenting how they are recording the guitars for their upcoming album. If you suspected that techno metal was recording in the bedrooms of pudgy action figure collectors with guitars directly digitally reamped into Cubase and Protools, you were right! Deeds of Flesh of course don’t pay for a real studio! This shit’s digital! The same chair and computer used for jerking it to BangBros is used for recording brutal tekdeathgrind! Guitar wank and actual wank in the same place! Hopefully Deeds of Flesh sidelines their recent ‘core tendencies to improve on the promising Portals to Canaan.

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Tags: Brutal Death Metal, death metal, deathgrind, deeds of flesh, techdeaf, techno, tek-deth, upcoming release, wanking, youtube

Homebrewing FAQ

by Jonathan Peter Wilkinson on December 26, 2016

A cultured human being should pursue a good hobby. It’s somewhat more interesting if said hobby involves a mild vice or foible. The hobby should also develop skill and produce a satisfactory end product. It should make the person somewhat unique amongst a group of peers and allow them to develop camaraderie with their fellow hobbyists. It becomes a Schelling Point so to speak.

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Tags: alcohol, beer, homebrewing, the good life

SJWs At Y Combinator Ban Startup Founder Andrew Torba

by Brett Stevens on November 11, 2016

Internet startup incubator Y Combinator, which specializes in discovering new and useless dot-coms to give money so that its members can profit off of re-selling the stock after the IPO, banned Gab.ai founder Andrew Torba after he typed “build the wall” on Facebook.

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Tags: andrew torba, censorship, curtis yarvin, gab.ai, hacker news, paul graham, sam altman, twitter, y combinator

The Ivory Tower’s Troikas

by Daniel Maarat on November 5, 2016

New York University professor Michael Rectenwald was put on paid administrative leave for his controversial Deplorable NYU Prof Twitter account that exposes how the Ivory Tower uses social justice warring and identity politics as methods of social control. His reprimanding proved him right.

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Tags: censorship, colleges, communism, diversity, free speech, multiculturalism, political correctness, self-censorship, totalitarian, twitter

This Ain’t No Fantasy: A History Of Punk’s Most Iconic Band, The Misfits

by Johan Pettersson on September 6, 2016

Metalheads tend to be wary of punk, recognizing it only for its role as an influence on metal. This attitude obscures the fact that the best of punk is worth exploring on its own terms and merits, starting with perhaps the greatest influence of punk technique and heightened aesthetics in that genre, hardcore punk‘s The Misfits.

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Tags: Crossover, Earth A.D., glenn danzig, Hardcore, Hardcore Punk, punk, punk rock, the misfits, Thrash

Interview with Undead

by Brett Stevens on August 22, 2016

We recently reviewed the 2015 EP from Undead entitled Blood Enemy. This underground metal release combines the best of late 1980s speed metal with the architectural song transitions of Swedish death metal. Fortunately, the band were on hand to answer our questions about their music, approach and the art of death metal.

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Tags: death metal, Speed Metal, Undead

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