Metal died of democratization like everything else in the post-1990s world. Thanks to the internet, globalization, and mass media, nothing could remain obscure or beyond the reach of the hipsterized cultureless grey race masses for long.
And so, metal became another brand, like Harley-Davidson, Coca-Cola, McDonald’s, Whole Foods, and Jack Daniels, used to sell products when they needed to be “edgy.” Even black metal got taken over by corporates and communists, who seem to be more similar than they are different.
We see again that any time someone builds something great, it attracts all the people who no direction except themselves, and they promptly drown it until it decides to take advantage of a millionfold increase in audience and democratize itself back toward the mean.
Even the goat horns are not safe from HBO:
Hogan Gidley, former White House Deputy Press Secretary before serving a similar role in his re-election campaign, said that he knew Zelensky was done for when Trump was seen pointing two split fingers at the Ukrainian president.
The visual of Trump looked eerily similar to Paul Gualtieri, aka ‘Paulie Walnuts,’ from the seminal HBO mafia series The Sopranos.
Just what we should idealize in our final days as a civilization: criminal activity by the mixed-race remnants of the failed Roman Empire. Sort of like our admiration for Communism, and how some seem to like Hitler a bit too much like a fetish, we admire Christlike failure and self-destruction.
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Blood Incantation – Absolute Elsewhere: rebranded 1970s prog with jazz fusion as the dominant theme and an utter lack of melodic development and key experimentation, making it basically a crash between a metalcore album and the music you listen to at the cell phone store while waiting for them to transfer over all your contacts and the porn you hope you successfully hid in a folder marked “Tax Spreadsheets.”
Vlkoslak – Infernum Vagus: coming from that era of hybrids of 1970s metal with the nascent death/black movement — think Onslaught, Necronomicon, Venom, and Master — Vlkoslak crafts bold conflicts from basic riffs and then builds songs around the resulting contrast of theme as final statement and the verse riffs that explain too much in words and not enough in music, but avoids randomness and keeps consistent.
Slimelord – Chytridiomycosis Relinquished: the secret to this type of release is that it opposes continuity, much like rap loves the off-beat as a way of artificially managing expectation, so you get riffs based on strategic dramatic pauses, which forces songs to be structured around smashing down any continuity of thought or practice, resulting in music based on constant distraction and shapeless rhythm riffs. Slick aesthetics though if you like grungy plastic.
La Maison Dieu – Gang Signs at the Center of the Labyrinth: most noise and found sound music ends up being nonsense because it starts with a random sound, then tries to hit it with more randomness to make it important, and ends up being a uniformity of distraction that creates a noise-like experience even when musical, but La Maison Dieu (French for “Fuck France”) works in textures with what appear to be ritual rhythms often in expanded fibonacci and poisson sequences, essentially creating neural programming for being unable to think normie thoughts for a blissful eighty-eight minutes.
Vale Of Pnath – Between The Worlds Of Life And Death: they want to call this death metal but more accurately it is slowed-down speed metal with borrowed riffs from death metal, black metal, heavy metal, emo, and hardcore, resulting in something that structurally resembles theatrical rock music more than any kind of metal, and because of this, it has no inner conflict in the riffs, only through vocals and dynamics, making for a very equally dramatic and therefore boring listen.
Brutal Carnage – Butchery: standard deathcore aims to distract with fills but then returns to relatively plodding riffs played at high speed to disguise how little shape is actually there, which means that the drums lead and everything else fills in, especially lots of acrobatic bluesy leads that barely fit the song, but the songs hold together better than most “first draft” metal where they cut tape once they have enough riffs to fill the length of a song.
Illusions Play – Empire of Desolation: funeral doom metal built on the pop side of things, with elements of “modern metal,” but ultimately seems to be vocal-driven pop created in the doom metal template, and it never maintains the doom metal mood for long as a result, sounding like someone took stoner doom and dropped the alternative rock in favor of 1980s synthpop as the core, which makes this an interesting oddity but painful listening for metal fans (but probably not synthpop fans).
An Axis of Perdition – Apertures: fairly bog-standard metalcore dressed up as black metal with token industrial influences, namely slight groove and more emphasis of the drums in leading, which thankfully deprecates vocals somewhat but still gives this band nothing to work with except cycling between extremes in the hope of finding something connecting them, and rarely getting anywhere with that side quest.
Unholdun – Fœhn: how to make black metal into homework by slavishly emulating the tropes of the 1990s without uniting them under any sense of metaphor or interplay, this album shows us the crisis of modern black metal, afraid to leave the past and too prone to treat the genre like a wallpaper pasted onto other genres that are entirely unrelated, ending up in the middle with generic rock given black metal flavoring that satisfies no one.
Dysangelium (Germany) – Exxekratus: aesthetics in search of a reason to exist, this band combines Zyklon-B with RAC and the artier side of war metal, but ends up with songs that are random bits in conflict that never achieve a direction, therefore constant vocal and drum drama is required to distract from the circular wandering and riff association heat-death, which makes for a listen a lot like hearing an old school radio that changes channels every forty seconds.
Eigenstate Zero – Shape of God Thought of Sun: this album shows us exactly what people hate about “prog lite” namely random technical riffs balanced against fast fills of odd scales until the crooning vocals come in with all sorts of pretense and half-thought theories, but songs do not add up to a whole with a synergy of its parts like in King Crimson or Genesis, instead you just get suspended time as chaos rages and smirks until its energy runs out.
Kryptan – Violence, Our Power: every cliché of post-90s black metal comes alive in this album of random starts, sudden stops, divergent patterns, and lots of mid-paced sweeping through the classic patterns of melodic death metal given a slight black metal vibe by borrowing lots of technique, but on repeated listens this band seems to be making carnival music for the circus exhibit about black metal.
Tigguo Cobauc – Fountains of Anguish: more music based around chanting in death metal vocal style with formless riffs churning behind it and songs that are entirely linear, leading to a sensation of boredom that makes death seem preferrable to this constant stream of repeated 1990s and 1980s tropes with all of the testosterone of a chunk of tofu left out in the sun with an iPhone on top of it.
BTK (Bind Torture Kill) – Sauvagerie: grindcore based around jump scare stop/start riffing and vocals derived from late hardcore that aim more to try to express an emotion in their texture than nail a rhythm that accelerates the music, this band is just boring, and there is no nice way to say that, but grindcore seems to be in the exact same slump as black metal is, imitating the past and mixing in random influences to cover up the lack of anything meaningful to say.
Cadaver – “Maltreated Mind Makes Man Manic”: pre-release song shows us Cadaver still trying to do modern metal and incorporate oddball Scandinavian rock influences, but the strongest parts of this song happen after the rhythm riffs get out of the way and we get some classic Cadaver riffing with supporting melody that makes the song expand nicely, even if it develops to a point of conflict and not much further.
Pressure Points – The Island: expansive sound from minor key riffs exploding into open intervals makes this goofy like Coldplay, and despite some compelling lead guitar, basically a collection of random elements produced by those with extensive musical education but apparently no concept of how to make a song that produces a consistent mood or anything identifiable outside the atmosphere of a hairdresser next to a railway substation.
Ruttokosmos – Apoteoosi: in theory this should be pleasant, with direct Burzum lifts and a mid-paced melancholic atmosphere like Mutiilation, but you can always listen to those, and while this band actually writes songs, they seem to go nowhere except to establish contrast for the main riff to which the band returns, and so there is no growth and in fact a harsh lesson in the second law of thermodynamics despite the nostalgia-tinged 1990s vibes.
Edelweiss – Night of the Long Pipes: despite having the keyboards and metal/punk vibe of Mortuary Drape or early Gehenna, this band has more in common with pop punk acts like The Descendents, just with an aura borrowed from doom metal hybridized with stoner doom that keeps formality in the picture but disguises what is ultimately rather repetitive pop which is neither bad or good, just sort of there for awhile until the channel changes.
Pezz – More Than You Can Give Us: nicely low body fat pop-punk with metallic overtones in the riffing and choruses that fuse emo with early melodic punk like The Descendents or The Germs, making a pop-powered but powerfully nonstandard exploration of feeling outside looking in and alone in a crowd, made of layers of contrasting internal musical elements as well as vocal melodies, giving it more endurance than the norm from this genre.
Groin – Paid in Flesh: they call it powerviolence but really this is more like pre-emo hardcore with an emphasis on broken rhythms and antipatterns drawing conflict out of otherwise droning material, recalling 1990s powerviolence and grindcore, probably without any epic revelations but at least a sense of its own style and through it, an expression of a musical deviation from the current emo- and shoegaze-influenced hardcore.
Profanatica – Wreathed in Dead Angels: it seems to me black metal forgot what made it great, which was the changing texture of dark atmospheres revealing a will to fight in a naturalistic sense, instead of just repetitive high-speed blasphemy with very similar riffs droning on as if broadcast from speakers on a military base during the future war against the Abrahamists.
Abyssum – Abismales Tinieblas: it seems that Hvis Lyset Tar Oss, Pure Holocaust, and Transilvanian Hunger took over black metal although this tends more toward The Celtic Winter in its choice of melodies; slow-building layered music around a central riff and contra-figure makes this song work, although it ends up being more like an intro and atmospheric mood piece than a journey.
Rotting Christ – Live in Lycabettus: this band became chant-oriented heavy metal with pagan themes as its career advanced, and this retrospective mostly brings out the recent material, but has a few nods to the past as well, and provides pleasant listening although the newer material is unlikely to attract underground metalheads and is geared more for the modern metal audience, albeit the edgy ones who like ancient rituals.
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In other news, physical media seem to be returning albeit at ten percent of what streaming is doing as far as music sales:
U.S. music streaming services surpassed 100 million subscribers in 2024 while industry revenue hit a record $14.9 billion, up 4% from the previous year, according to the Record Industry Association of America (RIAA).
Physical media sales outpaced digital growth, with vinyl records increasing 7% to $1.4 billion, outselling CDs ($541 million) for the third consecutive year. Digital downloads plummeted 14.9%, now representing just 2% of industry revenue.
They do not tell us what genres are involved, but a safe guess is that mainstream genres account for most of the streaming and physical media is disproportionately geared to the former obscure and underground genres.
This calls to mind the importance in many cultures, tribes, and locations of the importance of ritual of music listening.
[Non-traditional activities that might not be immediately recognized as social] are known as social surrogates, which can buffer against loneliness, isolation and social threats, like rejection, just as well as time spent with others.
Parasocial relationships, such as the one-sided bond between fans and celebrities, immersion into the social world, and reminders of others, are all social surrogates.
“Listening to music alone operates as a social surrogate along all three of those pathways,” says Paravati.
In other words, something that makes you feel connected to goodness in life makes you feel less lonely, alienated, and frightened. Throwing on your favorite music grounds you in the goal of life, which is to survive and thrive by pursuing the good instead of being fixated on the bad or pointless.
Not surprisingly, metal introduces mental stability that translates into, besides a bunch of dope-smoking and beer drinking, into relatively well-behaved metalheads:
Although metal scenes and middle-class print media usually have been conceptualized as separate social fields due to mutual detestation, Florida’s death metal bands were not met with pure refusal, but rather launched a slow rethinking: While bands such as Deicide, Death, Obituary or Morbid Angel had been loathed by the non-initiated in the middle of the 1980s, ten years later they had a few more fans in the mainstream, but were rather perceived as a welcome opportunity to demonstrate the cultural diversity of the Tampa Bay or Ft. Lauderdale areas. The local population had learned how to deal with the vibrant youth culture, and (with the exception of some church officials and PMRC-supporters) had understood that violent lyrics did not accompany corresponding acts in everyday life. Hence I presume that the connections between the extreme music scene and the public were not as obscure and exclusive as believed.
Most people seek mental stability through indirect stimulation, such as buying a new Honda in order to feel prosperous and stable, or adopting the Christian religion or humanist ideology in order to feel wise and in control. Music-listening gets directly there by connecting to what we love about life.
Interestingly, listening to music forms a ritual, which can be highly dependent on procedure as is the case of one group’s love of the lowly cassette:
While the music is increasingly available on digital formats, many Kashmiris say that it’s best heard on cassette tapes.
“There is something unique about this machine that for me plays recordings of spiritual guides,” said Abdul Ahad, a carpet weaver. “It is a sacred ritual in itself to press the play button of a cassette player to listen to a song on spiritual moorings.”
“It is a different experience to listen to music on a tape recorder,” said Abdul Hamid Khan. “Tapes are smooth and you can feel the sound of every instrument, you don’t get that feel in these new players.”
Perhaps the same is true of this ritual: go to the garage or basement, turn up that 1970s analogue stereo, slip a disc on the player, and sit back in your favorite orange-and-green easy chair with your old faithful bong and a six-pack of Lone Star.
In less salubrious news, former Carnivore guitarist Marc Piovanetti got himself chalked up for a sex assault in addition to his other woes:
Marc Piovanetti, a guitarist with Carnivore and Crumbsuckers in the 80s, was arrested last week with his 50-year-old wife, Jennifer Piovanetti, after the girl was found in their New Jersey home, prosecutors said.
The 58-year-old musician was already a registered sex offender when he met the New York girl — who was between the ages of 13 and 16 — on TurnUp, a music-related dating app, NJ.com reported.
Authorities eventually located the child at the Piovanettis’ home on Feb. 23 after she started using the former rocker’s phone, and NYPD detectives were able to ping it, NJ.com reported.
You wanted guys living on the edge slashing out music about the hard streets, well, you got it, and so did this poor clueless girl.
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I like killing people because it is so much fun. It is more fun than killing wild game in the forest, because man is the most dangerous animal of all. To kill something is the most thrilling experience. It is even better than getting your rocks off with a girl. The best part of it is that when I die, I will be reborn in paradise and all that I have killed will become my slaves. I will not give you my name because you will try to slow down or stop my collecting of slaves for my afterlife. – Z
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It seems the outrage over antisymbols continues to roil modern democracy:
A Kansas bishop claims a group of Satanists stole sacred wafers and wine to use in a “Black Mass” they’re holding at the state capitol — but the unholy hell-raisers claim their body and blood of Christ merely came from “Pope Amazon.”
Stewart also brushed aside virulent reactions that his group’s plans for the March 28 Black Mass — a sort of inverted Catholic service he described as “a cathartic expression of sorrow, rage, and healing” — have inflamed.
“You’re going to see a book get torn, a cross get broken, a cracker get crunched, and wine get drunk, and that is the scariest bit of what we were planning to do,” Stewart said.
Formed of dual pillars of hubris — a humanist morality of sacrificing the essential so that individuals feel good, and a political ideology of equal importance to coopt lost people into the social group as labor — modern society, primitive and neurotic, fears symbols of the darkness.
As the current symbols fail, people will cling even more tightly to the old talismans and scapegoats, but at some point, the symbols invert: when proven to be incompatible with reality, the symbols of “good” and “evil” change places.
We are entering a new Satanic millennium, which is why so many of the current bands are trying for “trad” Christian approaches, but as always, the cracks between categories and the space beyond binaries holds what is most likely: a scientific paganism and a morality of celebrating only the useful.
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lol Sopranos fan, Mr. Stevens?
No, I try to avoid watching video in general. Usually a paragraph of text conveys the same information as an hour of video, which makes me think that people who watch a lot of video actually are afraid of their time alive. The rest of us want to maximize our time alive because we see it as valuable. The others are so afraid of making the wrong decision that they see time, life, and choice as burdens. I think it all comes down to whether the drunk uncle who molests you gives you candy or not afterwards.
But the Sopranos thing was in the article. I tend to avoid shows about… Italians.
What do you do for fun though? Give us the real human version, not some idealized dating ad description. We demand to know. Surely you spend a good chunk of time watching porn and all kinds of video, like everyone else.
No to porn. It does nothing but alienate me. Sex without some connection is just wanking anyway, and then the pursuit of sex in itself drives people insane. The women in porn are also generally not very appealing, and idealizing these weird people is not very healthy. I do not mind some television like for family dinner time or whatever, but the pool of stuff that does not bore me is small and getting smaller (yes, Disney’s new retarded Snow White is probably ridiculous Communist propaganda, but C.H.i.P.S. was pretty bad too).
Things I like to do: wander around the woods, fix stuff, talk to real people, really listen to music without doing something else at the same time, long walks with a pipe, occasional bouts of Red Alert 2 or 0 AD.
Brett, what’s your favorite films of all time? A list of at least ten. I know you say you don’t like video, but there has to be some films you like. I’ve heard you mention Repo Man.
Thankfully, I curated a list of films some time ago. Repo Man is the peak, but for repeat viewings I tend toward stuff like Caddyshack, Airplane!, Meatballs, and The Craft.
What is “fun”? There is no such thing, just distractions which make the ego feel immortal for a few seconds. You chill out, watch the stars, wonder at the sunset, ponder the eternal. Then you cook up some brisket, shoot a racoon or two, take a shot of whisky, and go to sleep on the porch.
Hahahaha Korn buttfucks Eminem NECRO slipknot
U know his Rap rock rap metal alt metal fags make money
Sucking cock hahahaha
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Hey Brett any way I can EXTERMINATE rap metal dudes and get away with it?
RACHEL MADDOW DESERVES TO BE FISTFUCKED IN HER Pussy MOUTH CUNT ASSHOLE BY A WELL HUNG NAGGER WITH A SPIKED DICK SLUT…
The termite
Thalassomedon rap rockzilla
Tylosaurus prime metal
Trilobite Saturnian police
Just remember this rap metal bitches
I LIKE WOMEN NAKED FROM THE WAIST DOWN CUZ I LIKE REAL WOMEN WITH CUNTS
NOT BOTTOMLESS HUNG DICKS LIKE FAGGOTS IN SLIPKNOT NECRO ECT LIKE YOU RAPCORE COCKSUCKING WIGGER BITCHES…
KILL ALL HIP HOP HOP DEAD…FUCK MINORITIES TOOOOO…
DIE…
Just checked the television. Alex Jones is going off on how AOC accidentally said that the Democrat party farts harder than any other party. I think it’s time to start a ahrd farters union to rescue ourselves from both sides.
Jump-metal is like most hybrids: unstable because it destroys the character of all of the bands involved. I point the finger at Pantera who worked hip-hop rhythms into their alcoholic tuffguy easy listening music.
Da bozz hwantz to hiave a leetle shat wid you.
I would like to slap all of the “metal” internet with these reviews.
They are failing and we are rising because they cockrode a trend instead of demanding that people have something decent to listen to.
Post our links everywhere :) and help STW. You know what that stands for, right? It rhymes with “bottomize the meek.”
Everyone should seek out reviews of e.g. that Vale Of Pnath album and paste this site’s review in the comments. Or even better, paste it to a forum that discusses the album. Then everyone be like, “WTF?! Who said that?” and then we’ll be like, “Oh, just some deathmetal.org review I read” and then they’ll look it up their minds will be blown.
Yes, I will personally analrape anyone benching less than 200 pounds. Fucking weaklings.
It might need a new genre name: prey animal metal. That is, “metal” for people who would be prey in nature. If sabre-toothed tigers can eat them, we can eat them too.
It seems we already have that covered under the “melodic ” tag, unless the band in question is Sacramentum or At the Gates.
Early Unanimated was OK too, and in theory, there can be no objection to the idea of metal with melody at its base… unfortunately Dissection drove a lot of imitators making mediocre heavy metal instead of black metal. Too bad, because that first album really was kind of a rarity. Maybe this was just the Mercyful Fate wing being led to its natural conclusion as former Candlemass clone bands took over?
Metal with melody at its base is great — in fact, I’d argue most metal falls into that category — but no one is calling “Onward to Golgotha”, “Joined in Darkness”, or “Under a Funeral Moon” “melodic” even though arrangement of different pitches is clearly the #1 axis their music was composed around. “Melodic” as a genre tag instead has come to mean “uses rock harmonies in a really sugary way”, in complete disregard of what the wordy “melody” means to anyone who has studied music.
I call Under A Funeral Moon melodic, but I’m an autist. I’m right though.
It is melodic because out of harmony, rhyhm, and melody, melody is primary in it. Metal is indeed a melodic kind of music, because it is based on a certain kind of melody, called riffs (distinct from the word’s etymological roots in jazz riffs), without which music can not be metal
I must say that album’s soul is in the rhythm department. It’s insanely precise and expressive.
Sheer ritual.
Vale Of Pnath SUCKS A VALLEY LOAD IF COCKS AND ILL JUST SHOOT U BITCH
Metal hasn’t been relevant since 1996 u homo…get over it..
I don’t need to fight you WIGGER I’ll just blow yr goddamn head off
Don’t even step in my room bitch stuff like stabbing will happen to you…hahaha…
White WIGGER faggot
Vale of oath is NAGGER black metal FAGGOTS die
It’s just black metal trying to be deathcore but sucking way harder than hell
Bench bitch all u like I’ll just snipe yr gay ass asshole hahahahaha
Go fuck necros wigger cock too bitch…
I guess I need a shotgun for yr gay ass WIGLET bitch…
EAT THE WEAK
If you weren’t aware, there is a novel (or “classified intelligence report”) bearing the same name as the Gang Signs album. Though I’m not sure what connections, if any, exist between them.
Hey Brett
What’s worse?
Eating aocs pussy or and Irish pussy?
So says the
Chaosia theoreticaraprockzilla Lawson the hung black Hawaiian tranny who rapes white cunts raw…in the band know as
the Tylosaurus prime
Space mercury Zilla
Rap metal police
Who wanna
Punishfuck
Dua lipas pussy lips
Katy Perry’s pussy lips
Mayim bialiks pussy lips
Sarah Silvermans pussy lips
By ripping them off and eating them raw
And still fucking their slut jew cum filled assholes harder than any asshole in the history of lose white pussy and white dirty white assholes ever…
Hey got any black jew jokes Brett?
And will the Jews ever become extinct it is that already happened happening huh?
Stop trying to sneak in Burzum as one of the “greats”. Hvis.. reminds me of Michael Jackson’s “Earth song”. Burzum is a horrible “band”, and Paul Ledney shits all over it, and rightfully so. Divorce yourself from the ideology, because I know you like that idiot because he more or less lines up with your politics, but you gotta keep a level head. Besides, I think he hates your guts anyway, and gee, I wonder why.
You don’t have an absolute monopoly on what quality is, you’re an autistic retard trying to be an internet warrior, and that’s all you’ll ever be.
I disagree. Burzum is musically quite memorable up through the first couple prison albums. After that there are moments, especially recently, but it is not as relevant in my view. Ledney did great with his first album but it is mostly grinding rhythm work that like the old hardcore albums can be enjoyed with repeated listens just not too close to one another.
Right back atcha.
Btw do you know if the Vidkun Quisling relation claim from Vikernes is true?
hey, just cuz brett sucks, doesn’t mean burzum does!
Or vice versa.
Touch darkness
Cool it with the anti-semitism.
Nah, Burzum is good
This has got to be one of the funniest posts I’ve seen in a while. So called “Truth speaker” thinks something similar is going on between HLTO and “Earth Song.” Could it get anymore ludicrous?
Early Profanatica doesn’t quite beat early Burzum but they’re both good in their own way. Burzum is more abstract so probably better not to think of it as a “band.” Might help with connecting to the high quality art that it is.
Look at this nigga dropping truth bombs here. I can listen to the first Burzum on repeat for days, but if I try that with Havohej or the Profanatica/Masacre split I’m finna go on a fent binge with a banana.
The problem with Profanatica is the problem of early death metal: almost exclusively chromatic rhythm music, therefore like most of hardcore the song is the structure and is demonstrative with rhythmic gestures rather than fully musical. This is why Profanatitas de Domonatia is probably the peak of the band.
Ledney is derived from Jewish ingredients?
He seems apt to a tragedic, lyric style of rythmic beat.
He is very good at what he does, but I think he needed to get closer to what Incantation and Demoncy were doing, which Profanatitas de Domonatia does ably.
Hey there, you haven’t seen any foreskins lying around? Or found a chalice with the blood of a Christian child? I’ll give you a twenty percent — I mean ten percent — oh look a 5% coupon for any living room furniture you might need (some exclusions may apply, expires on Purim).
Paul Ledney’s little more than a grifter at this point in time. Profanatica is what happens when an inherently limited idea runs long past its expiration date with zero self-awareness.
This may be true of most of black metal and death metal at this point. The only bands that have room to grow are the ones who were less technique-locked and more geared toward certain moods. Even Summoning faltered because there are only so many slow black metal songs you write around keyboard parts that you can do before you end up becoming Killing Joke. Havohej did one great album of pure blasphemy and followed it up with a number of interesting experiments but most of the band’s output has been trying to recapture that first track on Dethrone the Son of gOD.
Lol killing joke goes harder than any of this black metal bullshit that I like and that includes the murderers cuz they all have faggot reasons for doing it
Burzum is most definitely a great.
More so than Profanatica.
Another fine addition to your coveted DMU comment tree collection.
Funny how the people who want to manipulate you always have to tell you that they are telling you the truth, even if it reflects their need to have certain things be neutered so that they do not feel bad about themselves.
Funny how you Jews steal black ideas come off as passive aggressive bitches and hide and don’t do shit but run cowards…
Jordan Peterson is a pussy and so are you bitch…
Fuck spics wops Irish Italian Russian Chinese jap Jews…
eat a dick u don’t like my opinions bitch…
Wanna fight?
I live in Sacramento behind the food co jack n the box right by smart n final you faggot wanna go?
That’s a very complicated way of saying you’re gay. Early Burzum is supreme, this is known.
“you’re an autistic retard trying to be an internet warrior” Wait? He’s just like the rest of us?
When bands have names like An Axis of Perdition, they’re usually metalcore.
There’s something about adding “A” or “An” to the beginning that changes the vibe and signals a different type of music.
Compare names like “Transylvanian Funeral” to “A Transylvanian Funeral”, or “Black Reich” to “A Black Reich” and try to imagine what kind of music it’d be (I can’t think of any actual examples right now).
I have no explanation; just an interesting thing I noticed, like how most dogs who hurt babies are pitbulls
These people insist on interpreting everything through the perspective of social utility, but if the thing itself didn’t have an appeal, then it also wouldn’t have any social utility. Things don’t just happen to appeal to human nature for no reason so that humans can have things be social over and evolutionarily thrive.
For some things and some people, such as true metal and its true enjoyers, the thing itself comes first, and then, because humans are social and loving, people who partake in the thing want to share it with others. Or that stage never comes, and the guy makes and listens to music alone in a basement for life because no one else around him likes it.
You can try to explain the true appeal of metal to them but they just don’t get it, like those whining feminists a few years ago who said that the reason no women are in hailed metal bands is that the listeners of metal would never submit to a woman, implying that
1. people know and care who the fuck is playing the guitar, rather than how good the music coming out of it is
2. a woman couldn’t name herself some shit like “necrobutcher”, play sick riffs, and get listened to (assuming she could actually come up with sick riffs)
3. metal listeners are akin to some 14 year old fangirls sperging out over The Beatles back in the day and fantasizing about getting fucked by them
They do not understand. They are false and shall be denied entry
Ok asshole
Review the following bands ir artists for a buck Brett ok…
Skinless
Nile
Brutality
Grave
Coffins
Anal cunts
Coffins texts
The emtcepticons
Elasmosaurus prime raprockzilla
Egyptian death metal
Evil insect police
Acid bath
Mushroomhead
Motograter
Billie eilish
K pop
Tryptikon
Band devastator
Band called luxt
Kittie
Otep (I’m dying to know what u think if this dyke sluts music)
I am literally dying to know I must insist I gotta know what you think if these bands Brett ok?
Brutality and Nile were big hopes at the time. I still like the first Brutality and the Nile demos CD, but do not listen very often. Death metal always ran the risk of being assimilated by one of its components — rock, hardcore, heavy metal, prog — and Brutality was an early attempt to aim for prog but ran into being very heavy metal. Nile wanted to be Suffocation with an exotic air and had some cool musicality but the songs were not evocative enough to hold up over time for every song. The guys behind the band were solid and knew their stuff however.
Although I appreciate a lot about early Nile output, I always thought Morbid Angel did better with Formulas in terms of exploring a somewhat similar central theme. Plus MA laid it on thick with just one album.
On that note, I can’t help but wonder if Karl ever felt a bit boxed in or burned out with the whole Egypt angle. But I suppose if that’s where his passion still lies and he’s not just phoning it in (haven’t heard the last few releases) then good for him. I know he put out some solo material in the 2000’s. Might have to finally give it a listen.
He’s genuinely into that stuff. Plus Nile haven’t exactly gone soft over the years whatever you might think of their output. I don’t much like it myself though I do give every new Nile album a few listens but at the very least I can appreciate Sanders’ stamina. Guy’s as old as the Metallica generation and still making really heavy music.
Why did you never review any Malevolent Creation album?
I did, but I think it was for Evilmusic or a related site and not this one.
There’s this one on Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/RXLK11M9OUF7E/
Whatever happened to the “A dinosaur shaped car” Amazon review account that Brett had?
Anyone else notice how close “Brett” is to “Bot”?
He blames bots for violating our 1st amendment rights, yet is perhaps a bot himself.
Example:
“Hey Brett, play the Russian anthem and call Nick Fuentes.”
“Calling, Nick Fuentes” (phone rings)
“Hey Nick, how is your asshole today?”
“Hey Brett, it’s still as pink as a cherry blossom. How’s yours?”
“I don’t have an asshole, Nick, since I’m a bot. If I did, it would be tight and shiny.”
“Hey, you’re a laugh Brett, for a bot. Love the tunes! Gotta go, but say hello to Milo for me ”
“Sure thing Nick, till next time “
Any bot I create will be programmed to have a succulent pink anus frosted with digested Burrito Supreme.
Tony Lopez sucks cbs is gay haha Margaret Brennan is gay Slipknot is gay Korn is gay Scott is gay rap is SUPER FUCKING GAY Icp is GAY Necro IS OMNIPRESENT holy faggotity batman IN GAYNESS EATING MAN Sperm MILK FAGGOT
Behold the death of miscegenation has come!!!
I will decide who fucks which pussy from now on…
Hey Brett can race mixing work between me and a Filipino Hawaiian rapmetalzilla slut in shorts hahaha bitch ass Naggers hahaha…
The killcepticon
Kronosaurus prime raprockzilla
Kaiwhekea bug metal
Kourisodon Neptune police
I wanna butt rape AOC bottomless while building a big beautiful wall!!!
Fuck you
Wall time bitch
Back over there
Kim kuntdashian
Celebrity sluts love eating my nuts!
Jews make great punching bags!
I hope China kills us all
Samurai Jackson
Bonus tracks
The nothosaurus prime
Ninja rap rockzilla
Cops from hell
Amy Schumer has a itchy fucked out cooter!
Black pussy stinks
Cbs is gay
Rap is gay
Shitphen Colbertard
Don’t u agree Cher’s pussy stinks?
Ha! Kill yourself!!!
Slutbrina Carpenter
Can u smell the rock raping Necro’s mom?
Go to hell? Been there twice ok?
Butt fuck Taylor Swift’s pink and stink?
Eating shit sounds fun?
Prepare to inseminate nigger sperm in all cunts in the universe hahahaha!!!
AOC is overrated in my view. Big eyes, big mammaries, absolutely goony facial expressions and giant features. It would be like having congress with a stripper version of Ms Potato Head.
What’s wrong with big mammaries?
Do all Italian Americans have piano fingers like those in the picture? I’m in awe.
Yes, they said with prostate stimulation
Likely genetic drift for being Roman towel boys for Arab conquerors.
Or altar boys for the Christians…
I’ll take Sopranos and hotheated italians in general any time over the new generation of goddamn weebs with anime avatars who ban you on discord for something as small as disagreeing with the quality of a certain videogame. Pussy ass cancel culture is the worst.
At least Italians got some testosterone left, and don’t have fantasize about sex with animals.
Might I also add there’s way worse things than the Irish in the world as well. Wake up Brettnik, and change your politiks. Not saying go Left, just modify your Right to have more basic common sense in there is all…
We need culture, which requires a single regional ethnic group, which works for Western Europeans but does not with Southern, Irish, Eastern, and Mediterranean Europeans.
YES people have been saying THIS for three decades and they have all failed.
Quit grinding, start thinking.
Everyone fails. Everyone dies, Hitler, Rome, You. All good things must end.
I do not agree with your power bottom fatalism. Some things endure for eternity, others for massive lengths of time. Rome and Hitler croaked because of obvious flaws in their adaptive plans (Hitler would’ve used an iPhone, among other things). Who raped your anus to make you so bleak? It was probably a public school teacher. They love soft pink anuses. But seriously, think big, man. The world is infinite. What really needs to end is al-Jewsus and his merry band of bourgeois anarcho-communists. To the ovens!
Since even a compromise is probably an impossible future, might as well endorse what actually makes sense, no matter how farfetched it seems.
I’m not white enough to be allowed to stick around for people like Brett not to mention the more obtuse “racial realists” but fuck em cuz it’s never going to happen anyway and I have my own outlandish agenda which has nothing to do with politics and everything to do with you all sucking my dick
You will be happier in your ethnic homeland anyway.
Maybe. I’ve traveled a lot and appreciate western and northern European culture the most – Pacific islands a close second but that’s probably more just the natural environment than the basically childish social norms – not too different from North Africa – but predictably feel perfectly at home where I’m from which is coastal northern California. I’m curious where you would send someone who is half anglo (English Norwegian German) a quarter polish and a quarter “Mexican” (probably more Spanish than indo)
Luckily the Polish and Spane share the same foreign influences, so will collapse on each other. I think you would be happy in Poland, Italy, or Spain with that heritage. Fortunately northern Italy is basically like northern California with fewer fucking hipsters and cryptobros.
Blazemth: Gehenna (2025) – amazing release