WW2 is finally over and we realized the easy answer of world democracy, social benefits, patriotic obedience, Christianity, and civil rights was merely another form of Control. If you want Order, have a goal and reward the good; if you want Control, get a means-over-ends system that punishes individuality.
28 CommentsTags: commercialization, sadistic metal reviews, signal-to-noise ratio, smr, social media, the metallica problem, the pantera problem
We know the underground is dead. It has been dead for thirty years, and we have killed it, by accepting music that imitated the methods of the past without understanding of the why. And yet we soldier on, seeking the few exceptions.
19 CommentsTags: Black Metal, death metal, music reviews, sadistic metal reviews, smr
What is the essence of metal? Inversion of an inversion: most pursue a stable mental state by denying that which we (often rightfully) fear. They deny the fear and become contrarians, which makes them addicted to falsely optimistic surface cheer. Metal brings dark reality instead.
32 CommentsTags: black sabbath, deathcore, ozzy osbourne, sadistic metal reviews, smr
Death metal thrived from 1985 to 1994. The early material of the proto-underground nature — Sodom, Master, Possessed, Bathory, Hellhammer, Slayer — solidified its metal/hardcore roots into something much more expressive by 1985, and then it was simply a matter of creating the classics.
16 CommentsTags: AI, arthur schopenhauer, draugveil, generation x, neural resonance theory, sadistic metal reviews, smr, sodomy, stochastic resonance
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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
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
When you start writing about metal, you rapidly find that metal connects to lots of other stuff. Not just by lyrics and imagery but by sound alone, since listening to metal seems to shape consciousness toward viewing reality differently than what The Herd wants: oblivion, free stuff, nudes, and donuts.
36 CommentsTags: ptsd, sadistic metal reviews, smr
When this site was started, back as an FTP server growing out of USENET and before that a collection of BBS g-philes, the paucity of information about underground metal was an issue. Now we have too much underground metal and too much information about it, almost all of it bad.
42 CommentsTags: aesthetics, ethics, genre, robert fripp, sadistic metal reviews, smr
As the world continues to burn itself through human arrogance, we turn to metal because we need a voice of an apocalypse that we would like to make triumphant. In destruction of the weaker, the stronger stands revealed. But first we have to remove the weak metal, which is why we have SMRs.
26 CommentsTags: Black Metal, clones, control, death metal, Nihilism, ramones, sadistic metal reviews, smr, social darwinism, sodomy
What is our purpose? Resurrecting a dead genre via natural selection, which means promoting the good, smiting the bad, and ignoring and accepting everything else.
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