Metal Cosmos (#3) (download, 40mb)
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Lethal Prayer – Sarcilege Infernus (2025)
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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Necropolis AD Show (#5): Culture of Place
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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Requiescat in Pace: John Michael “Ozzy” Osbourne, 1948-2025
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
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
Kaevum – Ultra (2025)
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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Metal Cosmos (#2)
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.
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Adversary The Winter’s Harvest Tshirts Are In
Unholy mackerel! I ventured to the post office box today, figuring that everything was going to suck ass because it is a Saturday and the normies are out but also they are in some kind of state of panic over some kind of war somewhere, which means mass confusion.
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Dissidence – Seven Crosses Impaled (2025)
Blending old school melodic Swedish death metal forms and the faster styles of New World underground metal like Mortem or Krisiun, Dissidence builds on its roots of melody with abrupt but precise riffs that project an atmosphere unique to the band.
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