Legendary Swedish progressive death metal band At the Gates, fresh on the heels of passing on to the dark realm of vocalist Tomas Lindberg, has commissioned faithful re-issues of its first three albums.
20 CommentsTags: At the Gates, death metal
Diabolus – Diabolical Procession (2026)
From the early days of death metal, a hybrid of Sarcofago and Deicide adds its own flavor through a modern death metal style internal dialogue of riffs producing moments of great clarity from seemingly random visions of darkness.
7 CommentsTags: death metal, diabolus
Kaeck Stormkult Remaster (2026)
Kaeck Stormkvlt has been remastered by Zwaertgevegt Productions and released on vinyl for diehard metal fanatics to appreciate an even fuller sound.
36 CommentsTags: Black Metal, kaeck
Metal Cosmos (#5)
The time has come for us to accept that modernity has died. The notion of universal, absolute, and objective “truth” has died because we realize that other people simply “game” our symbols and manipulate us to destruction.
19 CommentsTags: Ambient, ambient death metal, death metal, metal cosmos, podcast, radio
Pipe Tobacco – Massacra (2026)
About a decade ago, I designed a personal pipe tobacco blend. It used a lot of dark fired Kentucky Burley, layered Virginias favoring the blonde variant, mucho dark burley, a pinch of cigar leaf, and a dusting of Latakia.
3 CommentsKarbach – Texas Lager (2026)
So, you wanted an ideal summer beer. This comes very close. Tasting like a hybrid between 1980s Miller and Coors, it is an American adjunct beer which favors the barley flavor but keeps the easy drinking sweet soft texture of Murkan beer.
No CommentsWatch the Skies (2025)
For a movie that preserves the 2010s type of speculative sci-fi in a 1980s story arc, Watch the Skies delivers quirky Swedish weirdness in a story that makes sense without being saccharine.
10 CommentsThe 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.
6 CommentsTags: capeshit, film, french revolution narrative, slapstick
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
