For a movie that preserves the 2010s type of speculative sci-fi in a 1980s story arc, Watch the Skies delivers quirky Swedish weirdness in a story that makes sense without being saccharine.
10 CommentsBeherit, Imprecation, Morbosidad, Unholier, and True Iron Will in Houston, TX September 20, 2025
With great anticipation, most of the metalheads in Houston crowded into the White Oak music hall to catch a massive bill headed by one of the most stories names in black metal, the inimitable Beherit. The excitement was memorable.
44 CommentsTags: beherit, Black Metal, houston, imprecation, morbosidad, true iron will, unholier
Interview: Lethal Prayer
Twenty-nine years have passed since Spiritual Decay was released, the last full-length from Lethal Prayer. Now, without any digital fanfare, we are presented its long-awaited successor: Sacrilege Infernus. No press release. No Bandcamp. No algorithmic offerings. No social media presence.
32 CommentsTags: death metal, Florida Death Metal, funderground, interview, Lethal Prayer
Profanatica, Knoll, and Unidad Trauma in Houston (July 19, 2025)
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
Sadistic Metal Reviews: End of Hippies and White Picket Fences Edition
Death metal thrived from 1985 to 1994. The early material of the proto-underground nature — Sodom, Master, Possessed, Bathory, Hellhammer, Slayer — solidified its metal/hardcore roots into something much more expressive by 1985, and then it was simply a matter of creating the classics.
16 CommentsTags: AI, arthur schopenhauer, draugveil, generation x, neural resonance theory, sadistic metal reviews, smr, sodomy, stochastic resonance
International Day of Slayer XX
International Day of Slayer XX dawns upon us this June 6, thrusting aside lesser commemorations as we embark on a singular quest: boycott society, play Slayer.
21 CommentsTags: death metal, hessian studies, international day of slayer, National Day of Slayer, slayer, Speed Metal
Sadistic Metal Reviews: Invert the Cross Edition
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Apparently Facebook, after shutting down my account for suspicion of “impersonation” a decade ago, has now decided to ban our page. The current framework of beliefs by which modern people live is shaking. Eighty years has revealed only the weakness at is core. Sea change is coming.
100 CommentsTags: AI, apostasy, blasphemy, heresy, sadistic metal reviews, sea change, smr
Imprecation, Necro Blade, and Mephitic Corpse in Houston April 26, 2025
The record release celebration for Vomitum Tempestas, a collection of songs featuring drummer Ruben Elizondo pieced together after his untimely death, showed Houston death metal band Imprecation in its most refined and vicious form.
18 CommentsTags: death metal, imprecation, mephitic corpse, necro blade
Sadistic Metal Reviews: Fuck Your Feelings Edition
Life philosophies differ across the Bell Curve. In the middle, where the big bucks are, people want to avoid unpleasant thoughts about their status in the world; on either end, people know that their role is not what most idealize and, as a result, have accepted their limitations (left) or duties (right).
57 CommentsTags: censorship, fisting, free speech, say FUCK for FREEDOM, smr
Sadistic Metal Reviews: PTSD and Age of Symbolism Edition
When you start writing about metal, you rapidly find that metal connects to lots of other stuff. Not just by lyrics and imagery but by sound alone, since listening to metal seems to shape consciousness toward viewing reality differently than what The Herd wants: oblivion, free stuff, nudes, and donuts.
36 CommentsTags: ptsd, sadistic metal reviews, smr
