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Ice Ages – Nullify (2019)

by Tyrell Dahlstrom on April 19, 2019

About a week before the writing of this present review, Richard Lederer (a.k.a. Protector of Summoning) released Nullify, the newest album from his Electro-Industrial/EBM project Ice Ages after 11 years of inactivity, on Bandcamp as somewhat of a minor surprise with this resuscitation only announced a few days before release.

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Tags: 2019, Austria, die verbannten kinder evas, ebm, electro-industrial, electronic music, ice ages, justin timberlake, protector, richard lederer, Summoning, synthpop

SMR – Liberty Or Death: Feasting Upon The Vanquished

by Ioannis Metaxas on March 30, 2019

Liberty or Death is our main dilemma on this sadistic article: whoever is not willing to die for his freedom, is not worthy of it.

Freedom and apocryphal rites of bestial devastation are foundational imageries commonly associated with metal. On this article, we will try to face the Thing that Should not Be, understand why ‘to live is to die’, crush our enemies, see them driven before us and hear the lamentations of their women.

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Tags: archspire, bad music, blind guardian, deathspell omega, evola, Fallujah, gorguts, Gorod, liturgy, macabre omen, metallica, Nevermore, plato, Rivers of Nihil, sabbath bloody sabbath, smr, Socrates, The Red in the Sky is Ours, Unleashed

Poison – Into the Abyss

by Ioannis Metaxas on March 19, 2019

Colorful in its use of chromatics and melody, this trippy demo travels the listener to places behind the wall of sleep by mixing black, death and speed metal in a morbid atmosphere.

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Tags: death, Into the Abyss, iron maiden, Poison, Powerslave, samael, slayer, speed

Jobs Are Jails

by Brett Stevens on March 8, 2019

What would Hessianism be, if it were expressed as a philosophy? The idea that beauty is found in whole structures and not textures; in other words, when you see all that is there, you understand the role of darkness and how the beauty in it is essential to have other good things, and when we deny it, we fall into an abyss of ourselves and suck in everything around us, choking ourselves out with our own weight.

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Tags: anti-work, hessianism, jobs, jobs are jails, Philosophy, politics

Keep Black Metal Evil

by Brett Stevens on February 27, 2019

We find ourselves at one of those terrifying and exciting points in history, like standing on the narrow point of a mountain ledge and feeling the cold northern breeze. The old system has failed; we are going to change to something new, although most are still kicking their feet in a tantrum of protest at the threat of change. This opens up new spaces and possibilities.

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Tags: Black Metal, far-Right, national socialism, nationalism, Nazism, racism

The Role of Satan in Metal as Envisioned By Bathory and Darkthrone

by Ioannis Metaxas on February 25, 2019

This article attempts to pseudophilosophize on religious awe and its connection to black metal through the analysis of two songs that are connected beyond time. Herein, we shall Enter the Eternal Fire and Walk the Infernal Fields in pursuit of the archetype of the first romantic hero, that is, Satan. (more…)

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Tags: Bathory, Bridge of Death, darkthrone, enter the eternal fire, manowar, nietzsche, Paradie Lost, Satan, walk the infernal fields, will to power

Retrospective : Artillery – By Inheritance

by Nicholas Vahdias on February 9, 2019

Artillery are a Danish Speed metal band that have continued to sully their legacy with endless mediocrity that was so boring that even Metal Blade had to drop them in recent years. Despite all their recent shortcomings, Artillery were once an underground Speed metal that released two excellent albums before abandoning the underground in the pursuit of their magnum opus. Inspired in part by their journey to Tashkent in the former USSR which is now the capital of Uzbekistan, the band incorporated oriental sounds, a multitude of different riffs, haunting arpeggios and fist raising Heavy metal to create one of the finest releases in a genre which had already died at this stage.

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Tags: artillery, By Inheritance, flemming rasmussen, mercyful fate, metallica, Speed Metal, suffocation, Terror Squad

Scalpel – Methods To Delusion

by Ioannis Metaxas on February 6, 2019

Another rare breed of artists who use modern technique of slamming grind-death within old-school death metal structures. For all their shortcomings, this approach is aligned with their vision of telling a good horror/slasher story and the result does not disappoint.

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Tags: deeds of flesh, Methods to Delusion, scalpel

SMR – Ihsahn’s Couch Edition

by Ioannis Metaxas on January 16, 2019

Taking a brief look at the marketing tropes of the funderground in 2018 and having some fun in the process. Some bands are okay. Some others not so. Most are not even metal by any standards.

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Tags: Antaeus, Arghoslent, At the Gates, behemoth, dissection, house of atreus, ihsahn, neckbeard deathcamp, Philip H. Anselmo & the illegals, primordial, Sleep, The Armed, The Sciences, Ulver, watain

Possessed – “Abandoned”

by Guest Contributor on January 8, 2019

article by Empire Algol

When you’re talking about death metal bands that have a great discography, Possessed is likely going to be mentioned. Seven Churches is largely considered one of the greatest albums of the genre, and while Beyond The Gates is generally an inferior work, it still has some good moments. Even the demos from 1991 and 1993, which featured a very different lineup than the “classic” lineup, are a curiosity to listen to.

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Tags: Abondoned, jeff becerra, possessed, seven churches, terrible music

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