Metalheads should never forget how once upon a time metal was music for outsiders:
106 CommentsTags: nkvd, richard ramirez, smr
Sadistic Metal Reviews: Lose Your Mind And Your Ass Will Follow Edition
Yet another week passes as we watch the cope-hope reach maximum intensity through a form of frustrated and impotent rage. The narrative has failed; those who have staked their futures and wasted their pasts on the system find themselves both enraged and possessed of a furor to suppress those who step out of line. If this system fails, they will all feel as if they have made the wrong choices in life, so they are going to patch it up again to see if they can keep it kicking long enough to make it into the comforting sleep of Alzheimers or fentanyl.
17 CommentsTags: mainstream media, melodic metal, music, smr
Best Death Metal of 2021
As the socialized world of love and trust winds down in revealing its own incompetence and corruption, we turn toward the dead genres of underground metal, hailing the few who carry on a message no one understands for the sake of speaking clarity into the howling void of sense that is human activity.
34 CommentsThe Future of Music
This seems as good a time as any to note that the music industry, which peaked in 1996, has since died from a lack of ideas.
9 CommentsSo That’s How Grindcore Ends
Everything must run its arc, and for grindcore that arc apparently ends in being commercialized just like everything else. Rendered in plastic, served up on styrofoam, simplified to obsequious edginess, and yours for the low, low price of $19.99, the new Napalm Death Scum “Reaction Figure” glows in the dark just like your FBI agent.
34 CommentsTags: Grindcore, merch, napalm death, toys
Biosphere – Angel’s Flight (2021)
Biosphere started out with songs that roughly followed a looping pattern, adding different sounds in layers, but with Angel’s Flight, aims to use themes more thoroughly, building each song around a melody and multiple counterparts in both sound texture and other phrases.
1 CommentAppreciating Music With Purpose
Every time possesses its own culture, since culture exists in transparent layers based on who you are and where you are. Your civilization, often an empire, is the lowest layer, but then you add nation, social class, religion, general life philosophy, and any elective layers like enjoying death metal.
8 CommentsTags: Ambient, ambient music, cycles of music
Jon Schaffer (Iced Earth) Makes Deal With the Feds
Sadly, it looks like Jon Schaffer from Iced Earth is going to jail for the Capitol riot:
25 CommentsTags: iced earth, jon schaffer, late stage democracy, Speed Metal
Macabre Releases Carnival of Killers on November 13, 2020
Technical death metal band Macabre, who straddle the line between death metal and grindcore with their tightly-choreographed songs on the topic of serial killers, have slated their newest album Carnival of Killers for release on November 13, 2020 via Nuclear Blast.
10 CommentsTags: death metal, Grindcore, macabre
Classic Roots Of Heavy Metal Revealed In Deep Purple
For those of us who have never been Deep Purple fans, the following analysis of their roots shows us the utility of classical music in making great heavy metal:
11 CommentsTags: Bathory, burzum, Classical, classical music, deep purple, Heavy Metal
