Metalheads should never forget how once upon a time metal was music for outsiders:
106 CommentsTags: nkvd, richard ramirez, smr
Sadistic Metal Reviews: WW3 or Woke Edition
сука блять! When I first started working on the philosophy of parallelism, I saw a way around the modern fixation on singular cause-effect. It is more complex than polycausality, more like pattern causality, because many things have to be in place for a touchstone event to formalize what has already been in motion.
46 CommentsTags: buttchrist, eucharist, Exodus, smr
Anti-Religion: How to Worship Reality Instead of Tokens
Many of us came to heavy metal because we wanted an escape from everything that made up Society: consumerism, organized religion, big government, herd morality, and corporatocracy where jobs meant doing boring things in repetitive motions for the sake of keeping up an image.
28 CommentsTags: luciferianism, Occultism, Religion, Satanism, spirituality, transcendentalism
Sadistic Metal Reviews: Lose Your Mind And Your Ass Will Follow Edition
Yet another week passes as we watch the cope-hope reach maximum intensity through a form of frustrated and impotent rage. The narrative has failed; those who have staked their futures and wasted their pasts on the system find themselves both enraged and possessed of a furor to suppress those who step out of line. If this system fails, they will all feel as if they have made the wrong choices in life, so they are going to patch it up again to see if they can keep it kicking long enough to make it into the comforting sleep of Alzheimers or fentanyl.
17 CommentsTags: mainstream media, melodic metal, music, smr
So That’s How Grindcore Ends
Everything must run its arc, and for grindcore that arc apparently ends in being commercialized just like everything else. Rendered in plastic, served up on styrofoam, simplified to obsequious edginess, and yours for the low, low price of $19.99, the new Napalm Death Scum “Reaction Figure” glows in the dark just like your FBI agent.
34 CommentsTags: Grindcore, merch, napalm death, toys
How to Listen to Music
Some months ago, a good friend asked for advice on pipe smoking. It was clear at that moment that no top-level guide existed, mainly because most got stuck in a muddle of gear and preferences, but few mentioned the core of the practice: technique.
17 CommentsTags: listening, music, stochastic resonance
Smoking Outside the Box
They always tell you to “think outside the box,” as if having everyone focused on non-conformity will result in anything but a new variety of conformity. So much of life comes back to the mirror image, where we are staring at a representation of ourselves, and trying to change how it looks, despite everything happening in reverse since left is right and right left.
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Drawn and Quartered – Congregation Pestilence (2021)
Coming from an old school death metal background, Drawn and Quartered make a messy version of the heaving and battering style of percussive but primitive death metal that early Immolation and Cianide explored, mixing almost raw noise into thundering metal.
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Wormwood – Nattarvet (2019)
Today in our studies of entropy, we look at how humans in groups motivated by self-interest will tear down anything good. As a case for study, Wormwood Nattarvet shows us how cruft and the desire to be unique leads to a reversion to the mean, in this case the 70s rock from which black metal distantly emerged.
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Amazon Introduces Ability to Pay With Your AnusPrint™ at Checkout
Following up on its successful hand-print payment technology, Amazon today announced that it would borrow an idea from smart toilets and allow users to check out at their regular stores by using an anal scan.
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