With the International Day of Slayer coming up, it was hard to pass on one of these at SoundWaves. After all, you always need a Igloo™ Thermos.®
21 CommentsTags: consumerism, slayer
Gimme Danger (2016)
Early metal came from a mix of elements — proto-punk, dark progressive, and heavy rock — fused with soundtrack-style epic song structures, which along with the phrasal riffs that went along with power chords, made a new type of music that escaped the vocal-driven harmony-based tedium of Boomer rock.
3 CommentsTags: garage rock, iggy pop, jim jarmusch, johnny ramone, metal history, proto-metal, proto-punk, punk, the stooges
Extreme Blasphemy: Embracing Evil to Reject Good / Evil
One thing that has become clear over the past few years is that on the internet, format is more important than reality. Write up a post with the right buzzwords, bloggy pauses, emphatic words, and current vocabulary and people think you are a genius even if you are babbling.
135 CommentsTags: adolf hitler, censorship, kanye west, sheik terra
Sadistic Metal Reviews: Invert the Cross Edition
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Apparently Facebook, after shutting down my account for suspicion of “impersonation” a decade ago, has now decided to ban our page. The current framework of beliefs by which modern people live is shaking. Eighty years has revealed only the weakness at is core. Sea change is coming.
100 CommentsTags: AI, apostasy, blasphemy, heresy, sadistic metal reviews, sea change, smr
Imprecation, Necro Blade, and Mephitic Corpse in Houston April 26, 2025
The record release celebration for Vomitum Tempestas, a collection of songs featuring drummer Ruben Elizondo pieced together after his untimely death, showed Houston death metal band Imprecation in its most refined and vicious form.
18 CommentsTags: death metal, imprecation, mephitic corpse, necro blade
Beherit Live in Praha CZ (2025)
As part of its ongoing world tour, Beherit introduces a live set recorded with audio quality in mind for those who want to hear a medley of standouts from this band presented in a compact form.
16 CommentsTags: beherit, Black Metal
Solitvdo – Militia (2018)
Since it is being reissued, this album demands a revisit, which is fortunate because as metal casts around for a direction, Solitvdo present one option with their carefully-structured formalized style which periodically uses synthesized horns to present a martial and elegant front.
5 CommentsTags: Black Metal, solitvdo, War Metal
Outsiderness
Almost all revolutions begin with the idea that what you have known is wrong, and an alternative exists that although unproven will bring about a better world. The hangup is the word “better” — does it mean pragmatically (short term) better, realistically (long term) better, morally better, more profitable, more individualistic — and this detail bedevils the most adventurous of plans.
35 CommentsTags: blasphemy, censorship, Nihilism, obscenity, sodomy
Interview with Adversary (2025)
Time comes like waves, and your wave bounces off the shore and then heads out to sea while others follow it. You stay on your path, but now there are many more paths, and they may coincide with yours briefly, but you have to pursue your destiny, which is what the underground has done as metal bloats around it.
46 CommentsTags: adversary, bob burns, cursed productions, death metal, ed finkler, jack botos, jules seifert, metal curse, ray miller
Sadistic Metal Reviews: Fuck Your Feelings Edition
Life philosophies differ across the Bell Curve. In the middle, where the big bucks are, people want to avoid unpleasant thoughts about their status in the world; on either end, people know that their role is not what most idealize and, as a result, have accepted their limitations (left) or duties (right).
57 CommentsTags: censorship, fisting, free speech, say FUCK for FREEDOM, smr
