In recent years founding bands which unable to do big tours back when they were revealed as genre-builders, have emerged to undertake the professional tour experience now that they can do so easily.
No CommentsTags: beherit, Black Metal
The Blues Brothers (1980)
We thinking apes who live through memories of conclusions derived from event change in sense simulacra of the world find ourselves continually going over memory, wondering if what we know now is what we knew then and if it is even real.
No CommentsTags: capeshit, film, french revolution narrative, slapstick
Guitars Not Vocals Drive (Good) Metal
Metal scientists at the Institute of Hessian Studies (IHS) today revealed research that shows definitely how the guitar as the lead compositional instrument leads heavy metal songs but not rock ones.
24 CommentsTags: analysis, metal, music theory, vocals
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Very few movies manage to be relevant, or to show us something about life that makes us want to re-engage from our comfortable armchair debt servitude, and very few do it so insightfully and elegantly that they might be “classics,” but this film surely qualifies.
11 CommentsTags: cinema, francis ford coppola, john milius, joseph conrad, t.s. eliot
Runaway (1984)
As AI and automation rise into mass consciousness, it is worth revisiting this Michael Crichton film from 1984 which points out that if a tool is made universal, it will also be hacked by some dark actors.
7 CommentsTags: AI, cinema, michael crichton, runaway, tom selleck
Sammath Godless Arrogance Remaster 2025
When future historians sift through the remains of our civilization, they will recognize Strijd and Godless Arrogance as the defining albums from Sammath, which is fortunate because the latter just got a remaster.
5 CommentsTags: Black Metal, sammath
Kosuke Hashida – Moment of Silence (2026)
What makes a great album is not the parts, but the stringing together of those pieces so that they form a structure that resembles some part of our reality or ideation. Kosuke Hashida strips down music to find a voice in that vein.
4 CommentsTags: Hardcore Punk, kosuke hashida
Ossuarium – Onward (2013)
Sounding like Bolt Thrower with more of a NWOBHM influence and Graveland overlays in the melodic department, this band creates its own style of grindcore on the verge of death metal by focusing on a few themes.
7 CommentsSubversion Trigger – Subversion Trigger EP (2026)
No one wants to admit it, but thrash fits into transitional times because it skips all the politics, religion, and philosophy in order to focus on the lived experience of marginalized outsiders (skateboarders).
10 CommentsOnslaught, Warlord, and New Skeletal Faces Tour 2026
Transitional speed/death/punk/NWOBHM hybrid Onslaught shocked the world (or at least the five hundred metalheads paying attention) with their Power From Hell album that pushed metal further toward both extremity and an odd literary-mythological sense of authenticity instead of an individualistic one.
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