Brett Stevens

Poetry Submission: “Church-Burner”

by Brett Stevens on January 21, 2022

They say you’ve born to the eternal kidness
and that was conceived by divine grace
that came to end with the perversion and evil
and died on the cross to humanity save

The perversion and evil only started after you came
because you were only a crazy liar
false saints were with you on your insanity
and the more stupids believed on you

Thieves and corrupts
now elited priests
they sell pieces
of cloth saying it was yours
the chief of insanity
now is reigning at rome
the perversion and evil
only started after you came

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Tags: buddhism, christianity, individualism, jesus christ, judaism

Sadistic Metal Reviews: Dumpster Rape Edition

by Brett Stevens on January 16, 2022

Some thought that American society died with Jerry Springers. Others like William Gibson, who should know better, think it died with the Bush presidency. Those of us with any attention span know that the decay even predated April 9, 1866, when the Civil Rights Act was signed. The decay is innate.

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Tags: Archemoron, ecryptus, helcaraxe, sadistic metal reviews

RIP Burke Shelley (1950-2022)

by Brett Stevens on January 11, 2022

On January 10, Burke Shelley — bassist, songwriter, and pathfinder of NWOBHM-prog hybrid outlier Budgie — passed away in his hometown of Cardiff, Wales. A hybrid that sounded like Black Sabbath, Grand Funk Railroad, and Yes in an infernal three-way, Budgie possessed its own style and vision of the world, leading to an enormous influence on much of metal and rock to follow.

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Tags: budgie, burke shelley, NWOBHM

Sadistic Metal Reviews: Forever January 6, 2020 Edition

by Brett Stevens on January 7, 2022

It is now painfully clear that modern society has entered its endgame. Our agricultural miracle based on fossil fuels has reversed itself, no one trusts the sham elections, intelligent people are not reproducing, our infrastructure has rotted, technological development has stalled, most people have gone insane, and hope-cope has replaced solid thinking as we try to rationalize the decline.

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Tags: advent of fire, angelcide, artwork for the blind, beyond deaths throne, duskmortym, holocaustum, hrafnskald, intricated, kluizenaar, living inferno, mantiel, Necrophor, nocturnal prayer, ordinul negru, Osculum Infame, redemptor, second wind, smr, tine, Undead, warzy

Proscriptor McGovern’s Apsû – Proscriptor McGovern’s Apsû (2021)

by Brett Stevens on January 7, 2022

The organization that was Absu before transsexualism destroyed it has been steadily moving away from songs in its works after The Third Storm Of Cythrául, with a brief jaunt into its influences with In The Eyes Of Ioldánach, but at this point it has become merely a riff carnival.

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Tags: apsu, Speed Metal

Ravenous Death – Visions from the Netherworld (2022)

by Brett Stevens on January 7, 2022

Offering many unique riffs and twists in songs, this album shows Ravenous Death following its heroes Vomitory in making primitive death metal that incorporates melody and even keyboards for atmosphere in the midst of speed-metal-influenced chugging riffs that build in a kind of basic groove.

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Tags: death metal, ravenous death, remains

Satanic Panic – Satanic Panic (2021)

by Brett Stevens on January 6, 2022

Making a rough but streamlined hybrid of war metal riffing and later thrash like SOD, Satanic Panic seemed to aim to capitalize on the recent resurrection of the 1980s trend of blaming “Satan” for every human stupidity, replacing climate change, racism, Communism, cults, and other bogeymen.

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Tags: satanic panic, War Metal

Seax – High on Metal (2012)

by Brett Stevens on January 4, 2022

To appreciate metal means that to a degree one appreciates its roots and constituent influences, sometimes even when they incorporate elements of newer subgenres. Seax makes classic heavy metal in the Iron Maiden or Judas Priest style as if it were Master covering it: stripped down, uptempo, and riff-powered.

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Tags: Heavy Metal, seax

Vinterland – Welcome My Last Chapter (1995)

by Brett Stevens on January 3, 2022

Where did black metal go wrong? Like Western Civilization, it forgot the goal and the why and focused on the how in order to keep together a growing group of people who were more interested in being shopkeepers than warriors, kings, geniuses, and shamans.

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Tags: Heavy Metal, vinterland

TAL – Sapiduz (2022)

by Brett Stevens on January 3, 2022

Comprised of medieval-style choral music sampled, distorted, looped, and layered, Sapiduz approaches the listener like ice forming on a lake, taking the free-form and slowly building structure out of it through interruptions as much as consistency.

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Tags: Ambient, TAL

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