Proto-metal band Master continue a storied career with Among the Seeds of Death, slated for release on Hammerheart Records. If you liked On the Seventh Day… this release continues that tradition.
7 CommentsTags: master, proto-underground metal
Death is the master of this world – Death is the master of this world (2026)
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
Do Not Enter (2026)
It is hard to imaging screwing up this plot: urban explorers break into a hotel with a long scary history, confront evil, and have to escape. But the MillennialMovie™ managed to make it boring.
6 CommentsMayday: Air Disaster (2026)
The corporate homsars got ahold of this one, so it has different names like “Air Crash Investigators” outside the JCSA, but this is a collaboration between Canadian filmmakers, the Smithsonian, and National Geographic that takes a Forensic Files approach to technical failures in aviation.
21 CommentsTags: cinema, forensic files, mayday: air disaster, television
Saint Arnold – Banger IPA (2026)
So what do you look for in a beer? As a fan of German beers, I would say no taste of decomposition or fermentation; I want a nice clean product. As a fan of IPAs, I would say a nice crisp piquant bitterness.
2 CommentsTags: banger IPA, beer, hazy IPA, imperial IPA, IPA, saint arnold brewing company, sodomy
Mike Browning (1964-2026)
It was with much sadness that we heard that Mike Browning (Nocturnus, Morbid Angel) has passed on to worlds beyond unexpectedly early. He provided guidance to death metal in its early days and developed the sci-fi subtype.
23 CommentsTags: death metal, mike browning, morbid angel, nocturnus
Sadistic Metal Reviews: No More Mr. Nice Guy
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
Citizen Vigilante (2026)
At some point, one is tempted by the hype, and has to check out the latest train-wreck from the movie industry. In this case, it is Citizen Vigilante, a Deathwish-style “delayed justice” flick.
46 CommentsPostmodern Literature
Although it currently gets a lot of flak from the Right-wing critics that no one reads but still get paid well, postmodernism offered a simple upgrade to modernism: what if relativity influenced perspective, as well?
38 CommentsTags: books, don delillo, gabriel garcia marquez, italo calvino, james joyce, jose luis borges, kurt vonnegut, lifestyle, literature, michel houellebecq, postmodernism, thomas pynchon, umberto eco, william blake, william faulkner, william s. burroughs
Hexbane “Nefarious Spells” Showcases Doom-Black Hybrid
We all miss the glory days of Greek black metal, and members of Rotting Christ, Emperor, Necromantia, and Electric Wizard are bringing it back with a new slower and more resonant form of metal that aims for ritual atmosphere.
13 CommentsTags: Black Metal, electric wizard, emperor, hexbane, necromantia, rotting christ
