We remember the fallen to celebrate what they strived to do because this embodies their spirit, and in some intuitive way we see spirit as the force that animates flesh. In this mindset we commemorate the life of Nils “Nisse” Joel Karlén, who passed away recently.
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Tags: Black Metal, nisse karlen, RIP, sacramentum
WW2 is finally over and we realized the easy answer of world democracy, social benefits, patriotic obedience, Christianity, and civil rights was merely another form of Control. If you want Order, have a goal and reward the good; if you want Control, get a means-over-ends system that punishes individuality.
23 CommentsTags: commercialization, sadistic metal reviews, signal-to-noise ratio, smr, social media, the metallica problem, the pantera problem
Many of you like me had that old Turbo Records release from the early 1990s when death metal was as scarce as honest used car salesmen. Somewhere between death metal, early black metal, speed metal hybrids like Necronomicon, and doom metal, this album graced many a tape deck, turntable, or CD player.
30 CommentsTags: acheron, Black Metal, Satanism
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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Tags: necropolis ad, podcast
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.
20 CommentsTags: black sabbath, Heavy Metal, ozzy osbourne, proto-metal
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.
20 CommentsTags: black magic social club, Black Metal, knoll, profanatica, unidad trauma
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.
32 CommentsTags: black sabbath, deathcore, ozzy osbourne, sadistic metal reviews, smr
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.
11 CommentsTags: Black Metal, kaevum, nsbm
Goatcraft, Condemner, and DMU personnel unite for a round-robin on poseurs, escapism, fantasy, commercialism, and the world of metal.
12 CommentsTags: condemner, goatcraft, necropolis ad, podcast
Original underground revivalists Dissidence published the stream of their new album, Seven Crosses Impaled, which you can listen to here:
20 CommentsTags: death metal, dissidence, original underground death metal, stream
