And so the great fascination with the online world begins its fade-out: once the domain of nerds, then the place for hip people to content farm, now the internet is seen as the burnout zone it really is.
6 CommentsTags: anton long, books, david brooks, jean-francoise lyotard, paul woodruff, peter carroll, plato, richard lynn, Steven Pinker, william s. burroughs
Mosaic India Pale Ale is like the shooter at a bank robbery: everyone acknowledges he was there, but no one can describe him. It tastes like a Michelob-Miller crossover designed in IPA format, and is quite good.
2 CommentsTags: beer, community beer company, india pale ale, mosaic india pale ale
The beer lady at the biergarten said this one was popular. It is easy to see why: it is musky, smoky, and tastes like the sesame oil or soy sauce used in your favorite Chinese food or green onions in your barbecue.
7 CommentsTags: arrogant bastard ale, beer, india pale ale, stone brewing
Storming unruly black/death squad Kaeck reprised their 2016 appearance at the Under The Black Sun festival (pictured above) with a new live recording that shows the immense disturbance among the forces of good that this band creates.
18 CommentsTags: Black Metal, death metal, kaeck, under the black sun
From its upcoming album All The Shadows, classic swords and sorcery heavy metal band Cirith Ungol has released its first single, the title track. Hit the play button below to check it out.
39 CommentsTags: cirith ungol, Heavy Metal
All things in life strive to survive and perpetuate. This applies to genes, peoples, languages, ideas, and as a subset of that, musical genres. Black metal is a palatte for discussing a naturalistic, Nietzschean and Darwinistic view of the world that also retains a Romanticist focus on transcendental meaning and the possibility of hidden worlds beyond it. Like the rest of metal, black metal has been struggling to survive since 1994 when the genre bloated and floated, but some rise to the challenge with a sense of delight and the curiosity of discovery. This came to mind when Asgrauw floated across the review queue with their impressive Solips. Luckily the band were game for answering a few of our questions.
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Tags: asgrauw, Black Metal, Melodic Death Metal
Evoking the higher-speed precision work of On the Seventh Day…, the latest offering from Master merges early hardcore, 1960s heavy rock, and the early years of death metal into a driving force of dissent and alienation.
8 CommentsTags: master, proto-underground metal
Many are familiar with the section of this site, the Dark Legions Archive, that came to us as gfiles from BBSes in the 1980s, later modified for FTP, Gopher, and then web serving on the internet.
No CommentsTags: Black Metal, dark legions archive, darkthrone, death metal, death metal underground, Deicide, Demilich, desecresy, Doom Metal, Grindcore, Hardcore, ildjarn, morbid angel, sepultura, slayer, Speed Metal, Thrash
Metal has been a ruin since 1994, but a handful of acts show that there is some life in the corpse, and Solips from Asgrauw shows great promise with its melodic high energy black metal.
39 CommentsTags: asgrauw, Black Metal, Melodic Death Metal
