Remembering The Past

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A long time ago, in a (mental) universe far far away, the Death Metal Underground was part of a collection of pages known as the American Nihilist Underground Society, which itself was a continuation of a series of dial-up bulletin boards from the previous decade and the hacker/trouble group that emerged from them.

The pages were associated around the general idea of nihilism, or extreme realism that purposefully marginalizes the human perspective because humans are, well, morons — unless they embark on a difficult, reality-based program of self-discipline and have high native ability. Coming from the early days of the web, the site was a place where stuff just got dumped for others to reference and build on.

With the coming of television-internet in the early 2000s, the ANUS faded away behind the onslaught of wikis and social media which has currently turned the ‘net into a wasteland. The internet was once a place where you met the more capable humans with the purpose of exchanging dialogue; now it is a punchline, a place for life’s dropouts to pretend to socialize when they are engaged in the equivalent of watching daytime television (Ray Bradbury called this one, I think, but Aldous Huxley also springs to mind).

Every now and then, however, we remember our roots, such as by releasing a new flyer series to celebrate our many years of punching the ‘ole:

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14 thoughts on “Remembering The Past”

  1. fenrir says:

    Cool stuff here

    1. C.M. says:

      This is cool. The first ANUS material I read was the Arminass parable… lots of good stuff.

    2. old school ANUS says:

      Good stuff here.

    3. Pretty little flower says:

      How painful must have the artfag phase been?

    4. Now here is a real lost gem of the 90s ! You fags.

      Morgoth – Cursed (1991)
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jg0LDEB2cB4

  2. thewaters says:

    ANUS was amazing! Changed my life…..miss it

    1. old school ANUS says:

      Check out http://www.nihil.org/

  3. Ggallin1776 says:

    Ahhh the good old days.i’m trying to remember the name of a metal site i used to visit with ancient(s) in the title,had some hot blonde chic that modeled too.i think it was curse of the ancient or something along those lines.

  4. Karolis Gimbutis says:

    Is it still possible to read ANUS writings about metal somewhere on the Internet?

    1. Scroll down to the bottom and click on the Dark Legions Archive.

      1. fenrir says:

        Lovely.
        I remember coming in just when that format was in use.
        It was so…. underground.
        disgusting and enticing…

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