This evening featured a great podcast with Aureus Press on death metal, Plato, and the art of living well.
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Happy International Day of Slayer XIX!
Metal music stood against its time by endorsing the mythological-historical view of our world instead of linear progress driven by technology, metaphysical dualism, and peer pressure. As such it is the ultimate minority voice calling for realism among the blur of human emotions and fears.
87 CommentsRussia (not Soviet Union) Announces Intent to Censor Deathmetal.org
We received the following announcement apparently from the Russian state today:
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Tags: asiatics, censorship, christian sodomy
God Jul, Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, Heri za Kwanzaa, and Happy Hannukah
At the end of the year, we celebrate that our fledgling species — we like to think of ourselves as apex, but really we are at the start of our evolutionary arc — made it through another year without doing too much damage to ourselves.
68 CommentsTags: eugenics, god jul, happy hannukah, heri za kwanzaa, merry christmas
Metal Cosmos (#1)
Metal Cosmos (#1) (download, 40mb)
Tags: Dark Fury, Drawn and Quartered, grandeur, kever, metal cosmos, morpheus descends, podcast, radio, radiocast, rotheads, sammath
Our New Darwinian Comment Policy
Our goal in having comments on this site targets a single objective: enable the exchange of relevant information, including ideas, which are not so much factual as they are descriptive or aesthetic. To this end, owing to the huge amount of low-quality or insincere information out there, we need a comment policy.
56 CommentsInterview with Spinoza Ray Prozak on Necropolis Podcast
Jason Kiss of Goatcraft has reinvented himself again with a podcast called Necropolis, and he graciously invited me on to talk about ANUS, Dark Legions Archive, the classic underground, and the nowadays internet and corporate/hipster metal.
13 CommentsTags: dark legions archive, jason kiss, necropolis, spinoza ray prozak
Adramelech
As a related project to Demigod, the Finnish death metal band Adramelech aimed to create dark tunneling atmospheres of morally ambiguous and unstable spaces in order to snap people out of their bourgeois socializing and trend-following.
- Adramelech – The Fall (1994)
- Adramelech – Psychostasia (1996)
- Adramelech – Pure Blood Doom (1999)
- Adramelech – Terror of Thousand Faces (2005)
You can read more about Adramelech and Demigod in our current death metal news and reviews feed.
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Dawning Releases “Battle of Odin” From Forthcoming Album
Hybrid war/progressive metal band Dawning has issued a new track, “Battle of Odin,” from the forthcoming album Battle of Odin. Check it out at the Dawning Bandcamp!
8 CommentsSome Brief Thoughts: The Problem of Originality in Nowadays Metal
It is rather commonplace among certain circles to engage in lamentations over the current state of Metal and a perceived disconnect between the classic glory days of high adventure with contemporary mediocrity.
31 CommentsTags: Black Metal, death metal, Heavy Metal, nowadays, originality, some brief thoughts, spear of longinus, Speed Metal, thrash metal
