We discuss (not debate!) the intricacies of host culture, feeling of place, influence of language, and threads that contributed to the DNA of proto-metal and later underground metal. Sure, it’s a bit heady, but there’s also a lot of great metal content. With Paul (Condemner), Jason (Goatcraft), Jakob Foli, and yours truly.
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Ozzy Osbourne, pioneering singer of pioneering proto-metal group Black Sabbath, has passed on to the great mountain of weed, cocaine, booze, LSD, metal, and good times in the sky.
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As part of their unholy blasphemous summer tour, Profanatica visited desolate Satanic wasteland Houston, Texas and put on a hell of a show despite failing air conditioning, thronging hipsters, and exploding toilets.
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What is the essence of metal? Inversion of an inversion: most pursue a stable mental state by denying that which we (often rightfully) fear. They deny the fear and become contrarians, which makes them addicted to falsely optimistic surface cheer. Metal brings dark reality instead.
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NSBM cannot deliver what it promises. A listener must be either easily satisfied by symbols or oblivious to their own culture, whose most threatening, offensive, and confident components NSBM purports to represent. If this music is supposed to be a potent manifestation of said culture, then we can only repeat after Nietzsche, that what already trembles should be further pushed.
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Goatcraft, Condemner, and DMU personnel unite for a round-robin on poseurs, escapism, fantasy, commercialism, and the world of metal.
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Original underground revivalists Dissidence published the stream of their new album, Seven Crosses Impaled, which you can listen to here:
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Death metal thrived from 1985 to 1994. The early material of the proto-underground nature — Sodom, Master, Possessed, Bathory, Hellhammer, Slayer — solidified its metal/hardcore roots into something much more expressive by 1985, and then it was simply a matter of creating the classics.
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International Day of Slayer XX dawns upon us this June 6, thrusting aside lesser commemorations as we embark on a singular quest: boycott society, play Slayer.
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Antimelodic antichristian and antiherd black metal band Profanatica will be taking to stages across the failed state of the USA this summer with Knoll and Unidad Trauma. You can get tickets at Tone Deaf Touring or LiveNation:
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