Ozzy Osbourne, pioneering singer of pioneering proto-metal group Black Sabbath, has passed on to the great mountain of weed, cocaine, booze, LSD, metal, and good times in the sky.
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As part of their unholy blasphemous summer tour, Profanatica visited desolate Satanic wasteland Houston, Texas and put on a hell of a show despite failing air conditioning, thronging hipsters, and exploding toilets.
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Jason Goatcraft was able to capture a short interview with Profanatica/Havohej founder Paul Ledney:
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Metal and philosophy podcast Necropolis AD unleashes episode #3 “Sodomized by Structure” for your listening pleasure. We cover the use of structure in thought, music, and society. With host Jason Goatcraft and a panel of myself, Paul from Condemner, and Jakob Foli, a Danish philosopher and artist.
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What is the essence of metal? Inversion of an inversion: most pursue a stable mental state by denying that which we (often rightfully) fear. They deny the fear and become contrarians, which makes them addicted to falsely optimistic surface cheer. Metal brings dark reality instead.
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NSBM cannot deliver what it promises. A listener must be either easily satisfied by symbols or oblivious to their own culture, whose most threatening, offensive, and confident components NSBM purports to represent. If this music is supposed to be a potent manifestation of said culture, then we can only repeat after Nietzsche, that what already trembles should be further pushed.
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Goatcraft, Condemner, and DMU personnel unite for a round-robin on poseurs, escapism, fantasy, commercialism, and the world of metal.
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Original underground revivalists Dissidence published the stream of their new album, Seven Crosses Impaled, which you can listen to here:
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We get very few bands through here with enough personality and attention to reality to express something more than wanting to be in a band as “cool” as Death and Opeth, so it was a rare treat when the Dissidence Seven Corpses Impaled slide across our desks.
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