After spending years analyzing political propaganda and bad philosophy, you might think that manipulation reveals itself like flatus in an elevator, but it does not. You get lulled in, doze off in your inner critical faculty, and then suddenly wake up screaming once the horror becomes too real.
29 CommentsTags: documentary, movie
From the ancient archives, an English translation of Det Svarte Alvor (1994), resurrected in the bowels of the Old Internet:
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Tags: Black Metal, det svarte alvor
article by Belisario
There are many movies that portray heavy metal, but the ones addressing extreme metal could be counted on the fingers of one hand, and all of them are rather recent. In such a mainstream format as cinema, it is no wonder why extreme metal has remained largely out of radar, although it has to be pointed out that the treatment received by more conventional heavy metal has actually never been really thorough. Since the popularity peak of the genre in the late 70s, almost all its appearances on the big screen have portrayed a musical genre essentially grounded in rock music, with no clear differences discernible between both fields. That is the case of Wayne’s World (1992), Airheads (1994) or, for those familiar with Spanish cinema, the two parts of the Isi/Disi saga, Amor a lo bestia (2004) and Alto voltaje (2006). All of them share a stereotyped and humorous vision, which on the other hand always eschews any disquisition of the music itself or its fans.
20 CommentsTags: cinema, heavy trip, lords of chaos, metal movies, metalhead, pop redemption
The classic film portrayal of Bret Easton Ellis’s viciously dark novel American psycho has an incredibly open-ended ending that ultimately leaves the film’s conclusion up to the viewers. Chronicling the growing insanity of Christian Bale’s outstanding Patrick Bateman character, the film never makes a firm establishment of how real any of what we were seeing actually was. After eluding what seemed like certain doom in the form of confessing a massive killing spree to his lawyer, Bateman himself wonders if his murders really did happen.
This leaves the opportunity to make a case for three different theories:
My belief was always the least popular of these three theories, but before I elaborate let’s take a moment to examine the other two.
12 CommentsTags: American Psycho, consipricy, ending theory, film, horror movies, Kate Spade
As promised, here’s Sammath‘s promised video of “Thrive in Arrogance” off the most excellent Godless Arrogance.
3 CommentsTags: Black Metal, festivals, jan kruitwagen, live, ruud nillesen, sammath, video, wim van der valk
Check out this video of Sammath rehearsing “Stalingrad”, featuring their new drummer Wim van der Valk (Inquisitor):
30 CommentsTags: Black Metal, death metal, news, rehearsal, sammath, tour dates, video
Lord Wind, the currently medieval folk side project of Rob Darken (Graveland), released a music video of new material on their Facebook page.
16 CommentsTags: folk, lord wind, Medieval, music video, neofolk, news, poland, rob darken, spinal tap, video
Blood played an inspiring live show at Cafe Central in Weinheim, Germany just two years ago.
No CommentsTags: blood, death metal, germany, Grindcore, live, live shows, video, youtube
Incantation released a music for the track “Messiah Nostrum” off their sure to be lame upcoming album Profane Nexus which comes out on Relapse Records later this year on a date I do not care enough about to Google or read the description of the Youtube video for. Neither should you as you absolutely should not pay money for this excuse to tour.
8 CommentsTags: boring, death metal, incantation, modern metal, music video, new track, relapse, relapse records, techdeaf, tek-deth
Desecresy premiered a music video for the third track, “Percussive Necromancy,” off his upcoming excellent fifth album, The Mortal Horizon, which Xtreem Music is releasing on CD August 14th.
21 CommentsTags: Black Metal, death metal, desecresy, Finland, Finnish Black Metal, Finnish Death Metal, minimalism, minimalist, music video, new track, xtreem music
