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
Sadistic Metal Reviews: Sodomize The Holidays Edition
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 Automation will replace massive numbers of workers, so the quest for warm bodies has been replaced by a jihad for migration.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
Backlash Against Political Correctness in Metal Accelerates
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
Metal Threat 2025
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
Beherit, 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
SMR: Cannibalism of The Deceased and Sodomized Edition
We know the underground is dead. It has been dead for thirty years, and we have killed it, by accepting music that imitated the methods of the past without understanding of the why. And yet we soldier on, seeking the few exceptions.
19 CommentsTags: Black Metal, death metal, music reviews, sadistic metal reviews, smr
Sadistic Metal Reviews: Death to the Trivial
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
Interview With Dissidence (2025)
We get very few bands through here with enough personality and attention to reality to express something more than wanting to be in a band as “cool” as Death and Opeth, so it was a rare treat when the Dissidence Seven Corpses Impaled slide across our desks.
41 CommentsTags: death metal, dissidence
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
Gimme Danger (2016)
Early metal came from a mix of elements — proto-punk, dark progressive, and heavy rock — fused with soundtrack-style epic song structures, which along with the phrasal riffs that went along with power chords, made a new type of music that escaped the vocal-driven harmony-based tedium of Boomer rock.
3 CommentsTags: garage rock, iggy pop, jim jarmusch, johnny ramone, metal history, proto-metal, proto-punk, punk, the stooges
