Brett Stevens

Trench Warfare Prepares Split Album Paths to Victorious Perversion

by Brett Stevens on December 18, 2016

Necrotic war metal band Trench Warfare recorded four songs in late 2016 for appearance on a future split with Goatdusias and Bestial Karnage entitled Paths to Victorious Perversion. The band recruited drummer Lee Fisher (Commit Suicide, Psyopus, Overlord Exterminator) to record percussion for the upcoming release. Titles on the album include “Twisted Lies of a Wretched Pedophile,” “Astral Projection into the Shapeless Abysmal Void” and “Hatred Prayer.”

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Tags: Black Metal, trench warfare, War Metal

Visiting The Tobacco Barn (Brenham, Texas)

by Brett Stevens on December 8, 2016

When one traipses through the country outside of the lock-step conformist big cities, it behooves the pipe smoker to look for those varieties of tobacco favored in the less “civilized” areas of the world. This might bring one to Brenham, Texas, where the Brookshire Brothers grocery store offers up a unique and wonderful American tradition: the drive-thru Tobacco Barn.

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Tags: brookshire brothers, burley, cotton bowl twist, pipe smoking, pipe tobacco, pipe tobacco blends, texas, tobacco, tobacco barn

SJWs At Y Combinator Ban Startup Founder Andrew Torba

by Brett Stevens on November 11, 2016

Internet startup incubator Y Combinator, which specializes in discovering new and useless dot-coms to give money so that its members can profit off of re-selling the stock after the IPO, banned Gab.ai founder Andrew Torba after he typed “build the wall” on Facebook.

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Tags: andrew torba, censorship, curtis yarvin, gab.ai, hacker news, paul graham, sam altman, twitter, y combinator

Meditations On A Pipe

by Brett Stevens on November 11, 2016

There are no friends like old friends, although we always keep an eye out for new ones. That brings to mind the third symphony by Beethoven, which seems simple at first, but over the years reveals its nuance and detail.

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Tags: ego-death, five brothers, Nihilism, Occultism

Dutch Pipe Smoker Offers Bathory Goat Tshirts

by Brett Stevens on November 10, 2016

The author of the Dutch Pipe Smoker blog, Arno, is a death metal fan who also likes to smoke pipes. What could be more natural, then, than combining the Bathory goat with a pipe full of what we hope is Royal Yacht?

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Tags: Bathory, dutch pipe smoker, tshirts

Rotten Copper – Toxic Wasteland Jams (2016)

by Brett Stevens on November 2, 2016

Former Dawning/Nothing Left composer and periodic Death Metal Underground writer Steve Cefala has unleashed his latest project, an attempt to synthesize metal, industrial, punk and post-apocalyptic roadhouse improvisational rock into a soundtrack for the decline and collapse of human civilization.

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Tags: dawning, no god only pain, nothing left, rotten copper, steve cefala

Further Thoughts On Goatcraft Yersinia Pestis

by Brett Stevens on November 1, 2016

Although this album has already been appropriately reviewed, a few notes come to mind when contemplating it after having it in rotation for a few months: this is the best Goatcraft release so far, and fans who defend it as intuitive and critics who say it lacks epic and distinctive melodies both make good points.

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Tags: fruity tone generation, goatcraft, goatpiano, piano

Fourth Monarchy – Amphilochia (2007)

by Brett Stevens on November 1, 2016

Some rarities of excellence get skipped because they are misunderstood, and others because they are hard to write about. Amphilochia may be one of the latter: a black metal band that is difficult to describe except as a series of sensations organized around an unstated but pervasive theme, like mysticism in a technological age.

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Tags: 2007, amphilochia, Black Metal, fourth monarchy, Italy

Order Of Nine Angles Group Secuntra Nexion Publishes New Collection

by Brett Stevens on October 31, 2016

Order of Nine Angles associated group Secuntra Nexion has published a collection of manuscripts on its occult and metaphysical activities, available online (PDF, 5.3mb).

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Tags: nexion, numinous, occult, order of nine angles, secuntra nexion

Tarnkappe Releases Discography Tussen Hun Der Zon/Winterwaker

by Brett Stevens on October 28, 2016

Dutch insurrectionary black metal band Tarnkappe has released both of its albums on CD as a bundle for those who appreciate black metal that stays true to the late-90s form of the band, which is equal parts later Darkthrone and Zyklon-B.

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Tags: Black Metal, Dutch black metal, hammerheart records, sodomy, tarnkappe, the netherlands, War Metal, winterwaker

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