Old school hardcore punk placed many of us on the thrash-to-death pipeline where we started with Amebix, Cro-Mags, The Exploited, Discharge, or Agnostic Front and transitioned through DRI and Cryptic Slaughter into full-blown Sepultura, Slayer, and Bathory worship. These ancient bands ride again!
5 CommentsTags: agnostic front, Hardcore Punk, Thrash
We remember the fallen to celebrate what they strived to do because this embodies their spirit, and in some intuitive way we see spirit as the force that animates flesh. In this mindset we commemorate the life of Nils “Nisse” Joel Karlén, who passed away recently.
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Tags: Black Metal, nisse karlen, RIP, sacramentum
With The Baron von Aphid, of Tau Cross, Amebix, and Castle Keep Swords at the helm, the Knight of the Black Sun podcast explores a post-political view of life after modernity: how do we return to nature and reach to the stars at the same time.
9 CommentsTags: amebix, knight of the black sun, podcast, tau cross, the baron von aphid
WW2 is finally over and we realized the easy answer of world democracy, social benefits, patriotic obedience, Christianity, and civil rights was merely another form of Control. If you want Order, have a goal and reward the good; if you want Control, get a means-over-ends system that punishes individuality.
28 CommentsTags: commercialization, sadistic metal reviews, signal-to-noise ratio, smr, social media, the metallica problem, the pantera problem
Many of you like me had that old Turbo Records release from the early 1990s when death metal was as scarce as honest used car salesmen. Somewhere between death metal, early black metal, speed metal hybrids like Necronomicon, and doom metal, this album graced many a tape deck, turntable, or CD player.
30 CommentsTags: acheron, Black Metal, Satanism
Folter Records plans to release the third Kaeck, Gruwelijk Onthaal, on September 18, 2025. The album features art by Dylan Humphries in a handmade woodcut style and shows Kaeck arriving on Earth, stepping on the broken souls and corpses of humanity.
5 CommentsTags: death metal, kaeck
Until Paul gets back from county lockup, the team finds itself shorthanded, but still assembles Jakob Foli and Jason Goatcraft to talk about the nature of evil and how it manifests in metal music, also why philosophy both affirms and rejects the notion of absolute categories like good and evil.
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Tags: evil, jakob foli, necropolis ad, podcast
Word has gone out that Jill Lisson (formerly Daily and McEntee) has passed on to the rainbow bridge from a combination of heart ailments and diabetes at age fifty-four. Lisson, the longtime bassist of east coast earthmover primitive death Funerus, will be missed by many.
11 CommentsTags: funerus, jill daily, jill lisson, jill mcentee
In our special subterranean laboratory within the pits of hell, the wizards of the Dark Legions Archive and Death Metal Underground have concocted the ultimate in radio: a 2020s-style podcast with 1990s-style production and musical sensibilities. Deny resurrection!
Metal Cosmos (#4) (download, 80mb)
Tags: metal cosmos, podcast, radio
Exploring the new format that podcasts in the media firehose of mostly hollow hits out there, the NADS crew plus a familiar voice join up to rank the albums that were junctures in the branching path of evolution that brought us death metal and black metal.
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Tags: Black Metal, death metal, necropolis ad, podcast
