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.
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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
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
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
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
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
Way back in the early 1990s, Niko Skorpio helmed a zine named Hammer of Damnation in addition to handling vocal duties in Thergothon.
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Were you hoping for happy Christmas greetings? Of course not!
11 CommentsTags: abrahamism, agnosticism, antichristmas, atheism, christmas, jul, metaphysical dualism, monism, Satan
Apparently emerging from a podcast done by lead writer Mike Schiff, this documentary concerns the parallel lives and interwoven fates of heavy metal music and horror films, making a good case that people who do not buy into society’s nonsense tend to choose a path where power is more desirable than safety and popularity.
15 CommentsTags: alice cooper, anthrax, documentary, film, Heavy Metal, horror movies, iron maiden, king diamond, megadeth, metallica, mike schiff, the ramones
It does not matter what I write here because people no longer read articles. They read headlines and summaries, then skim for embedded media. Television finally took over through the computer. As usual, the voters/consumers are their own worst enemy, choosing the dumbest format they can find.
36 CommentsTags: sadistic metal reviews, smr
