As if to acknowledge that Chuck Schuldiner died of AIDS on Valentine’s Day, the official merchandisers for Death have introduced a new line of Death merchandise featuring pink and kittens.
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Peter Stokkebye – Amsterdam Shag
Pipe tobacco emerges from a weird uneven topography much like death metal. There are niche blending houses, big ones, and a few outliers that make no sense but delight those who resonate to their outlook. Today we look at one of the big blending houses and one of its exceptional products.
1 CommentTags: peter stokkebye, pipe smoking, pipe tobacco, tobacco
Varg Vikernes Releases Second Volume of Burzum Saga My Childhood Story
As predicted, Mr Vikernes returns with another segment of the saga of his introduction to metal and his unique take on the genre that became one of the pillars of black metal, which increasingly looks like the last interesting thing to come out of music.
47 CommentsTags: Black Metal, burzum, History, varg vikernes
Russia (not Soviet Union) Announces Intent to Censor Deathmetal.org
We received the following announcement apparently from the Russian state today:
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Varg Vikernes – To Hell and Back Again: My Black Metal Story (2024)
To Hell and Back Again: My Black Metal Story (Norway 1991-1993)
by Varg Vikernes
150 pages, Ancestral Cult Productions, $13
Tags: Black Metal, burzum, Euronymous, mayhem, multiple stab wounds, norway, varg vikernes
Varg Vikernes Pens Book About Black Metal History
Notable Burzum composer, Mayhem member, church burner, and antagonist of all things dualist/Abrahamist Varg Vikernes released his most recent effort, a 150-page history of the black metal experience in Norway as he experienced it from 1991 to 1993.
84 CommentsTags: Black Metal, burzum, Norwegian Black Metal, varg vikernes, weges
United States of Insanity (2021)
Ostensibly this movie fights the doomed free speech fight against the FBI categorizing fans of rap-rock group Insane Clown Posse (ICP), known as “Juggalos,” as members of a gang; more accurately, it looks into the ICP phenomenon and why it appeals to the growing group of dispossessed in America.
17 CommentsTags: aclu, documentary, faygo, fbi, insane clown posse, juggalos, movie, nu-metal, rap rock
Massacra 2.0
Times are tough, and tobacco prices are going up, so again people turn to the idea of making homebrews because depending on what you need, these can be mostly as good as the commercial versions for often half of the cost.
16 CommentsTags: pipe smoking, pipe tobacco, pipe tobacco smoking, tobacco
Master – Saints Dispelled (2024)
Many of us enjoy death metal and particularly Master, a crossover between garage rock and proto-death metal, but we might acknowledge the Late Stage Hardcore problem here: when a genre gets too solidified, it becomes formula, and the formula reduces its core to the same thing as everything else.
92 CommentsTags: death metal, late stage hardcore, master
Vulnificus – Inextricable (2023)
Very few bands these days seem to honestly enjoy what they do, more being focused on ticking boxes on the underground death metal checklist, but Vulnificus seem to enjoy making compelling structured noise with the urgency of old Pestilence or Suffocation.
28 CommentsTags: death metal, vulnificus
