Music communicates an experience more than emotions directly; our emotions arise in response to it. The best music first manages to hold together as a consistent voice, and then explores its own take on the world, even if not original in style or necessarily profound; it needs personality.
Arktheos Cosmolith uses primitive rhythm techniques and quick chromatic runs to fill out its riffs which follow the whipping urgent style of Sarcofago crossed with an approach like early Demigod to fill in partial melodies gesturing at the unknown hidden within, and maintains an evolving protean atmosphere.
Like war metal, it consists mostly of rhythm but in the ratios and contrasts of that rhythm across multiple riffs, builts up a sensation of urgency in descent into primal chaos, and from that, is able to make some of its grander suggestions offhandedly like they would occur in nature, observed from afar without fanfare.
Tags: arktheos, death metal, War Metal
Not bad, I guess 2025 wasn’t so terrible.
Pretty good compared to the previous year I’d say.
I make these statements, not to be an egotistical prick, but so they are here fixed in time: as the hipster metal dies, real metal rises.
We can hope. I’d feel defeatist if I planned on a new Demelich album. But I’m living optimistic.
I don’t even really fuck with new metal if the tastemakers around here haven’t recommended it, even if i almost never find something worth hearing more than once, thats still better than the hurricane of cat turds that metal at large has become.
If metal dies, God Cries
staff? he’ll naw! This gotta be Brett’s AI “reviewbot” gettin’ all “chromatic” & “contrast”y B4 “resolution” or whatever. Siskel is turning in his grave (Ebert’s too fkn fat).
Decent first stab at Brett jingo bingo, but never forget the transcendence.
Ebert may be fat, but he outlived Siskel. So much for everything the establishment teaches us about health and longevity!
Time to review the new Ectovoid.
Is this the only place on the internet where genuine freedom of speech is allowed? Because it sure looks like it, I guess you carved a nice niche.
Almost every place I’ve seen in the last decade will get you eventually kicked/banned/ostracized if you deviate off the paradigm, and it doesn’t matter if it’s Left or Right anymore. It’s seems everyone is living inside their own pseudo-religious bubble, terrified of needles.
My favorite cheesy 80’s pop song is Stevie Nicks – Rooms on Fire (remastered).
Gonna exercise my freedom speech and say what a mealy-mouthed little cuck you are, and that the album under review sounds like you wife being raped by a black man?
You’re not far off. I mostly agree with Burt’s 2025 list, but this album doesn’t quite fit. At first it seems decent, but then I noticed the poutine has been spoiled by many black men…
Best drinking movies:
Barfly 1987
Cocktail 1988
Leaving las vegas 1995
And that’s it, I wish there were more great drinking movies, but maybe the next beer review will fix it.
I hate
Jews
Spics
Rappers
Italian fucks
Alphas
Assholes
Lower races
Any wanna genocide the above faggots please?
FUCK SPIC HIP HOP DONT DEPORT THE FAGS SHOOT THE FUCKERS TOO MANY HAHAHA
HEY BRETT WOULD YOU KILL YOURSELF IF YOU FOUND OUT
YOU WREE PART SPIC JEWISH OR ITALIAN I KNOW I WOULD HAHAHA
Watch my nuts bitch any one wanna fight?
Ice is cool tooooo
FUCK you watching me bitch wanna die?
So says
Rap is gay as FUCK and assholes who like it suck ass….
The
Mutilatorcons mosasaur police
Mauisaurus prime raprockzilla
Medieval metal
Murder hornets
I wanna hyperassfuck pussyfuck mouthfuck savannah sellers too FUCK you….
FUCK Steve asshole dumb shit shut up…
“Write a brief review of a random black metal album from 2025. The musicians use synthesizers and a raw wash of indistinct tremolo guitar to create an ominous + atmospheric + cosmic sound. The album portrays a tortured journey through ancient kingdoms of foreboding, cliché and gay limerence. End the review with a pithy + sophistic music-theory analysis, linking the so-called “chromatic” aspects of the music with the philosophy of Julius Evola.”
It’s all so tiresome.
I’m not even a metal fan really. I like old Emperor, Dismember and Slayer *musically* like every other asshole here, but most of metal is basically this; neverending normie shitstorm incoming:
– Anything with the label “progressive/avantgarde/transcendental”
– “Technical” death metal (aka techdeaf)
– Goregrind (aka 30 second toiletgrind)
– Power metal (no such good thing can exist)
– Nu “metal” (it’s not metal, it’s rap-rock)
– Stoner “doom”
– DSBM
– NSBM
– “Retro” thrash/speed (pass the vomit bag)
– “Retro” heavy/psychedelic (fuck Attic and all Coven-wannabes and fuck J-dawg)
– War-tranny-metal (some of it is good, but mostly just washing machine noise)
– “Raw” black metal (aka the sound of chimpanzee fisting)
– Nirvana worship (normies can’t ever let go of false TV metal)
– Chuck AIDS worship (normies think this is the best extreme band since sliced bread)
– Metallica/Sabbath/Maiden geezer boomerism (do I need to explain?)
– Yngwie Malmsteen-ism (guitar gooning)
– Folk metal
– Pantera rednecks and Opeth pseudo-intellectuals (at least these guys are funny as hell I admit)
And I could go on forever, so fuck metal, it’s too polluted. Just listen to individual bands, and specific albums that don’t sound retarded – that’s where I’m at.