Kaeck releases its sideproject Death is the master of this world in an attempt to reclaim the more atmospheric moments from Kaeck, Sammath, and Graveland in a mixture of metal, sampled backgrounds, and ambient guitar riffing more at home on a Swans or Carbonized album than in the somewhat rigid environment death/black metal has become.
17 CommentsTags: Black Metal, death is the master of this world, kaeck, sammath
When traveling in California, you will encounter the Nice Guys and their good guy badges. They specialize in avoiding conflict with everyone and framing everything they want as a social need, not a personal one.
40 CommentsTags: Black Metal, eddie lee mosley, fiction-absolute, good guy badges, LGBT, Nihilism, sadistic metal reviews, smr, thomas pynchon, tom wolfe, william s. burroughs
Black metal ran off the road long ago because it said what its inventors in the early 1990s wanted to express, then watched the world catch up. As it attempts to find a new mythos, many turn to philosophy, which is how we get Texas’ Amorphophallus Titanum.
19 CommentsTags: amorphophallus titanum, Black Metal, garden gnome, goatcraft, texas
You know how when you first got into underground metal, your parents and friends were like, “All these bands singing about Satan, they’re just doing it for the money, you know?”
37 CommentsTags: concentration, king charles, metal theory, sharon osbourne, smr, tommy robinson
Welcome to the week where you will not be able to get through a day without someone mentioning the new Darkthrone album, Pre-Historic Metal. The legacy of this band lives on through its ability to stir up chaos.
30 CommentsTags: Black Metal, darkthrone, Guinness, late hardcore, lesbian black metal
When hardcore was new, it was a few innovators producing really interesting music not because they broke “the rules” but because they thought outside of the form of the aggregate of what had been rewarded so far.
53 CommentsTags: Classical, dave lombardo, late hardcore, physical media, radio, smr, william shatner
Sometimes death is waiting just around the corner. Sometimes death is the best option.
17 CommentsTags: AIDS Wolf, Aurora Disease, Black Reuss, Dark Phantom, Devil Empire, Epigram, Kaleidobolt, Karelian Warcry, Project .44, Sadistc Metal Reviews
The world faces massive change. Automation will replace massive numbers of workers, so the quest for warm bodies has been replaced by a jihad for migration. War threatens, especially over water, and global pollution has reached the point where half of us are going to die of cancers.
16 CommentsTags: death metal, sadistic metal reviews, smr
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.
23 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.
31 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
