Alongside Hellhammer, Bathory, and Sodom, Slayer helped invent the raw sound of death metal, which combined the literality of hardcore with the imaginative atmospheres of heavy metal and the structural composition of progressive rock and classical.
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Today in our studies of entropy, we look at how humans in groups motivated by self-interest will tear down anything good. As a case for study, Wormwood Nattarvet shows us how cruft and the desire to be unique leads to a reversion to the mean, in this case the 70s rock from which black metal distantly emerged.
6 CommentsTags: Black Metal, easy listening, wormwood
Famed for being a crypto-realist who lives in a world of imagination, Glenn Danzig laid out the brutal truth about political correctness:
6 CommentsTags: glenn danzig, kafkatrapping, political correctness, punk, sjws, the misfits, woke politics
Longstanding death metal band Pestilence, attempting to hybridize its musical core through the vision of Patrick Mameli with a new generation of metal, has released the first track from its upcoming album Exitium named “Morbvs Propagationem.”
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Legendary artists Darkthrone, who began in death metal before embarking on a black metal period that ended with Total Death, now begin to show signs of their punk-influenced era moving into something more like the epic rock and metal that inspired them back in the day.
28 CommentsTags: Black Metal, darkthrone
Every time possesses its own culture, since culture exists in transparent layers based on who you are and where you are. Your civilization, often an empire, is the lowest layer, but then you add nation, social class, religion, general life philosophy, and any elective layers like enjoying death metal.
8 CommentsTags: Ambient, ambient music, cycles of music
For those who have not yet listened to the local hipster whisper gossip train, Plague of Tyranny is a megaband composed of Paul Speckmann (Master), Alex Bouks (Goreaphobia), Jim Roe (Incantation), and Chuck Sherwood (Incantation).
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As the aging and dying of both Western Civilization and heavy metal converge, more people are studying the meaning of both and trying to figure out how those of us who are not in denial can re-create and possibly exceed the greatness of the past.
13 CommentsTags: metal theory, podcast
In life, we seek that which has what we lack. An author who can write some way that we cannot becomes instantly fascinating, just like music which expresses what we lack words to convey. Underground metal attracts those who are seeking to explain in philosophical terms what the mood, emotions, atmosphere, and texture — almost like a wall scripture from an Egyptian tune — conveys.
11 CommentsTags: Heavy Metal, inside-out, outside-in, spirit
Coming to us from the wilds of Sicily, Morticula Rex derive their influences from classic heavy metal and death metal, but create a style of doom-death with the same heavy metal influences that drove the Greek and Sardinian scenes to have unique voices, even if hybridized ones.
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