Metal died of democratization like everything else in the post-1990s world. Thanks to the internet, globalization, and mass media, nothing could remain obscure or beyond the reach of the hipsterized cultureless grey race masses for long.
76 CommentsAdversary The Winter’s Harvest Remastered
Northern Indiana resonant death metal band Adversary remastered and reissued its first album, The Winter’s Harvest, with new cover art and liner notes for those who are interested in the interstitials and nuanced crevices of the death metal organism.
17 CommentsTags: adversary, death metal
Imprecation – Vomitum Tempestas (2025)
Our first indication that the world had a hidden underlying order was the Poisson Distribution, which showed us that what we saw as random was in fact ordered and somewhat pre-determined, as if Plato and Prometheus had triumphed over B.F. Skinner and Jéhováh.
104 CommentsTags: blaspherian, death metal, imprecation, nuclear war now! productions
Demilich Nespithe Reissue 2025 Moves to Pre-Order
Classic innovative death metal band Demlich will ride on vinyl and CD again with the 2025 reissue of its classic Nespithe, joining a flurry of post-1990s interest in this once-overlooked but essential slab of death metal weirdness.
15 CommentsTags: death metal, Demilich, svart records
Lone Pint – Brewers Select Black IPA
American beer got a lot of flack, but that reflects the situation forty years ago. Now, a number of independent breweries make great beer, and as in everything else, if you avoid the normie product designed for cultureless desire zombies, you can find some good stuff.
57 CommentsSammath Re-Issues “De Ruïnes Fluisteren” demo (1997)
Following a massive US tour and rising interest in its latest full-length, Grebbeberg, Dutch-German war metallish black/death band Sammath unleashes a re-issue of its 1997 demo “De Ruïnes Fluisteren” via Docs Production.
95 CommentsTags: Black Metal, docs production, sammath
Joy Division Nominated For Rock ‘n Roll Hall of Fame
The dubious Rock ‘n Roll Hall of Fame is holding a popularity contest — sorry, democracy event — to select who gets included on the rolls of the famous, and this year, Joy Division has been nominated. You can vote here for this post-punk/new-age/proto-industrial band.
46 CommentsTags: joy division, new wave, punk, rock 'n roll hall of fame
Beherit North American Tour 2025
Nature is healing. Beherit will be touring North America — New Yawk, Houston, Chitcago, Denver, Portland, probably SF, Los Angeles, and Mexico City — in 2025, delivering to black metal fans the resurgence of ancient spirit and sci-fi futurism that the genre has always proclaimed.
38 CommentsTags: beherit, Black Metal, shows
Heavy Metal Romanticism
Romanticism — erupting in literature, art, politics, and architecture — may have been the original notion that humanity went too far into modernity, which we might describe as the society that has become successful enough to restyle the world in its own image.
52 CommentsTags: alt.fan.goat, objectivism, postmodernism, Romanticism
How Heavy Metal Died of Success
Some civilizations have public viewings of the dead; some bury them as soon as possible under cover of night. Some have wakes, others solemn commemorations. Human death rituals take many forms but they all serve to fix a discontinuity, to knit a past that cannot continue with an unknown future.
72 CommentsTags: assimilation, authenticity, commercialism, commercialization, conformity, entropy, Heavy Metal, non-conformity, selling out
