Ah, post-Reddit metal: a bunch of sweaty basement nerds with an axe to grind against anyone who has succeeded — sort of like in late hardcore, which went commie/christian as well — raging about a genre that they could not reproduce or even understand.
15 CommentsTags: cancel culture, censorship, fuck christ, fuck liberalism, political correctness, riptide
One of our staffers is on location and liveblogging this epic and exhausting metal festival which stretches an onslaught of bands over three days. Best to bring your comfy chair and maybe a Kindle so you can sit through the poseur bands.
27 CommentsTags: absu, adorior, ares kingdom, Arghoslent, communion, crucifier, death strike, demoncy, diocletian, graveland, infernal war, Inquisition, invocation spells, magnus, master, Necrovore, necrowretch, omegavortex, sadistic intent, usurper, weregoat
With The Baron von Aphid, of Tau Cross, Amebix, and Castle Keep Swords at the helm, the Knight of the Black Sun podcast explores a post-political view of life after modernity: how do we return to nature and reach to the stars at the same time.
9 CommentsTags: amebix, knight of the black sun, podcast, tau cross, the baron von aphid
WW2 is finally over and we realized the easy answer of world democracy, social benefits, patriotic obedience, Christianity, and civil rights was merely another form of Control. If you want Order, have a goal and reward the good; if you want Control, get a means-over-ends system that punishes individuality.
28 CommentsTags: commercialization, sadistic metal reviews, signal-to-noise ratio, smr, social media, the metallica problem, the pantera problem
In our special subterranean laboratory within the pits of hell, the wizards of the Dark Legions Archive and Death Metal Underground have concocted the ultimate in radio: a 2020s-style podcast with 1990s-style production and musical sensibilities. Deny resurrection!
Metal Cosmos (#4) (download, 80mb)
Tags: metal cosmos, podcast, radio
Exploring the new format that podcasts in the media firehose of mostly hollow hits out there, the NADS crew plus a familiar voice join up to rank the albums that were junctures in the branching path of evolution that brought us death metal and black metal.
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Tags: Black Metal, death metal, necropolis ad, podcast
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
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
