In recent years founding bands which unable to do big tours back when they were revealed as genre-builders, have emerged to undertake the professional tour experience now that they can do so easily.
28 CommentsTags: beherit, Black Metal
The Blues Brothers (1980)
We thinking apes who live through memories of conclusions derived from event change in sense simulacra of the world find ourselves continually going over memory, wondering if what we know now is what we knew then and if it is even real.
6 CommentsTags: capeshit, film, french revolution narrative, slapstick
Guitars Not Vocals Drive (Good) Metal
Metal scientists at the Institute of Hessian Studies (IHS) today revealed research that shows definitely how the guitar as the lead compositional instrument leads heavy metal songs but not rock ones.
31 CommentsTags: analysis, metal, music theory, vocals
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Very few movies manage to be relevant, or to show us something about life that makes us want to re-engage from our comfortable armchair debt servitude, and very few do it so insightfully and elegantly that they might be “classics,” but this film surely qualifies.
11 CommentsTags: cinema, francis ford coppola, john milius, joseph conrad, t.s. eliot
Sammath Godless Arrogance Remaster 2025
When future historians sift through the remains of our civilization, they will recognize Strijd and Godless Arrogance as the defining albums from Sammath, which is fortunate because the latter just got a remaster.
5 CommentsTags: Black Metal, sammath
Onslaught, Warlord, and New Skeletal Faces Tour 2026
Transitional speed/death/punk/NWOBHM hybrid Onslaught shocked the world (or at least the five hundred metalheads paying attention) with their Power From Hell album that pushed metal further toward both extremity and an odd literary-mythological sense of authenticity instead of an individualistic one.
7 CommentsArktheos – Cosmolith (2025)
Music communicates an experience more than emotions directly; our emotions arise in response to it. The best music first manages to hold together as a consistent voice, and then explores its own take on the world, even if not original in style or necessarily profound; it needs personality.
22 CommentsTags: arktheos, death metal, War Metal
Merry Christmas (And Fuck Christ!)
The normie content you expect: let’s celebrate a very metal Christmas! Throw up the horns and hail Santa! What’s the best way you can think of to celebrate Christmas as a metalhead? By the way, there is no other content than this; it is simply the sleazy adult version of those reaction papers you wrote back in your mediocre high school education.
53 CommentsTags: AIDS, christmas, hannukah, happy hannukah, happy holidays, heri za kwanzaa, merry christmas
Wernesgrüner Brauerei AG – Pils Legende (2025)
When you travel through Germany, you encounter many cities and towns each with their own local brewery, and they all make beer slightly differently. Like Warsteiner, Wernesgrüner Pils Legende offers a light beer with a slight spicy malt flavor and relatively low sweetness.
14 CommentsTags: beer, pilsner, wernesgruner
Hirayasumi (2025)
The name translates to “regular day off” or other notions of a break from the manic pace of society, and this defines the charters involved, especially Hirohito the protagonist, who has essentially dropped out of the rat race to enjoy normal life to the dismay of all of those around him.
10 CommentsTags: hirayasumi, slacker culture
