Almost thirty years after black metal terrorized Scandinavia by igniting 77 churches in a dramatic statement against the politically-correct nature of humanism as taught in the church, burning churches are back in the news as houses of worship blaze across the West.
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As black metal winds down into trope-type repetition and pattern entropy, dungeon synth and related genres are taking off just like medieval world music did the first time black metal burned out, and now those two subthreads are converging.
16 CommentsTags: Abyssum, Ambient, dungeon synth, electronica, evleb, medieval world music, Nigromante, Ritual
As an alternative to “groove,” death metal has its own native form of smooth moving rhythms, which we might call the “cruise,” in which drums and guitars interlock to provide a sense of fluid continuity which forms contrast for more percussive or oddly-shaped riffs to come.
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On May 24, 2019, Blood will “sodomize the weak” in Chicago on May 24, 2019, with a live show along with grindcore legends Anarchus, late speedmetal shredders Viogression, direct impingement high intensity death metal Nunslaughter, and grindcore vomitors Squash Bowels.
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Apparently, Metalsucks wrote an article recently which alluded to Finnish late model black metal band Horna being Nazis for (a) having members who worked with NSBM-ish bands in the past (b) having members who were in NSBM-ish bands in the past and (c) possibly being friends with NSBM-ish people.
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Netflix categories The Dirt as a “dark comedy,” but more accurately it belongs to the new genre of victimhood/confessional documentaries that this film studio likes to produce. Like I, Tonya, which was the first of this type of documentary witnessed by your author, it admits wrongdoing but pairs it with a sense of being wronged.
3 CommentsTags: film, motley crue, movie, netflix, the dirt
Over the years, people have debated whether music about evil, violence, disease, the occult, death, doom, despair, misery, sodomy, war, killing, mutilation, and desecration can be healthy. The thinking generally goes that exposure to these things makes us more likely to act out “fantasies” of them.
2 CommentsTags: death, disease, Horror, psychology, violence
From Scientific American, an interesting theory of the mass of sound:
4 CommentsTags: collective excitations, music, photons, sound waves
What would Hessianism be, if it were expressed as a philosophy? The idea that beauty is found in whole structures and not textures; in other words, when you see all that is there, you understand the role of darkness and how the beauty in it is essential to have other good things, and when we deny it, we fall into an abyss of ourselves and suck in everything around us, choking ourselves out with our own weight.
57 CommentsTags: anti-work, hessianism, jobs, jobs are jails, Philosophy, politics
Let us say that genetics may be upstream of culture, but culture including philosophy and religion is upstream of politics, and therefore, that if we want to understand politics, we need to read it as philosophy, just like we need to read religion as literature to understand its point.
What, then, would be The Metal Philosophy™? (more…)
8 CommentsTags: distortion, Heavy Metal, natural laws, Philosophy, the metal philosophy
