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.
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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
Sadistic Metal Review: Posers Fuck Off Edition
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
Aurora Borealis – Disillusioned by the Illusion (2026)
Over the last few years, death metal has been steadily invaded by speed metal and late hardcore just like black metal because these genres are easy to produce so everyone can participate, but Aurora Borealis pushes back against this trend with an album full of roaring old-school riffs and speed thrills.
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Kaine – Extinction’s End (2026)
If you can imagine a crossover between Mercyful Fate, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, and Sodom but with its own zest for life and flair for the majestic, Kaine delivers NWOBHM-drenched speed metal at mid-pace with old school riff composition.
15 CommentsTags: Heavy Metal, kaine, NWOBHM, Speed Metal
