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: 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
International Day of Slayer (2026)
The time has come again to enjoy the one holiday that celebrates metal culture and its power, the International Day of Slayer.
19 CommentsTags: death metal, international day of slayer, National Day of Slayer, slayer, Speed Metal, Thrash
Interview With Amorphophallus Titanum (2026)
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
Desecresy – The Secret of Death (2026)
Desecresy return with more keyboards and something closer to their original approach, which seems to finely-refined jazz technique applied to ambient death metal, creating a sense of free descent in an ocean cave of ambiguity.
48 CommentsTags: death metal, desecresy
Sadistic Metal Review: Fleecing Edition
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
Founders Brewing Company – All Day IPA
Brewers are not more competent now, per se, but they are much more attuned to the market, such that it is rare to have a truly horrible beer. This one is barely an IPA and tastes like tea but has a nice clean flavor.
3 CommentsTags: beer, founders brewing company, IPA
Wagner and the Revelation of Nature’s Truths in Art
Introduction
As the Romantic philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling emphasizes in the following passage, art is the most direct expression of nature’s truth, and philosophy can only artificially reconstruct the natural truths that art is able to access so intimately: “Art is paramount to the philosopher precisely because it opens to him, as it were, the holy of holies, where it burns in eternal and original unity, as if in a single flame, that which in nature and history is rent asunder and in life and action, no less than in thought, must forever fly apart. The view of nature which the philosopher frames artificially is for art the original and natural one.”[1]
11 CommentsEntropy and How to Fight It
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
