With Sacrilege Infernus, Lethal Prayer offers a faithful yet expansive continuation of Spiritual Decay, and it adheres to the variegated song structures that defined earlier works from the band while allowing broader influences to permeate the release.
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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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There was almost no metal content because we were all shocked by the sudden death of Ozzy Osbourne, who we all thought was indestructible at this point, but the discussion centered on the differences between anarchism, anarcho-capitalism, and monarchism with insights from Western philosophy.
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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.
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
Jason Goatcraft was able to capture a short interview with Profanatica/Havohej founder Paul Ledney:
9 CommentsTags: Black Metal, havohej, profanatica
Metal and philosophy podcast Necropolis AD unleashes episode #3 “Sodomized by Structure” for your listening pleasure. We cover the use of structure in thought, music, and society. With host Jason Goatcraft and a panel of myself, Paul from Condemner, and Jakob Foli, a Danish philosopher and artist.
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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.
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.
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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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