Brett Stevens

We Are Still Here (2015)

by Brett Stevens on July 26, 2016

Attempting to enter the bloated and mostly neurotic horror genre as it stands in 2016, We Are Still Here combines two genres: atmospheric horror and intense, violent supernatural horror. Expect a long buildup of an increasing sense of being unnerved, punctuated by moments of explosive terror, which ties into a simple storyline which pits humankind against its own worst impulses.

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Tags: atmospheric horror, horror films, man against man, paranoia, supernatural horror, violent horror, we are still here

The New Ten Commandments

by Brett Stevens on July 16, 2016

The former Ten Commandments were designed for societies not in decline. In the midst of the death of the West, I suggest the following:

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1. You shall have no other gods before Me.	1. Ignore all gods but reality. This includes God, who is part of reality.
2. You shall make no idols.	2. (this one stands as is)
3. You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain.	3. If you encounter the Buddha on the path to your objective, KILL HIM.
4. Keep the Sabbath day holy.	(this one stands as is)
5. Honor your father and your mother.	5. Honor your father and your mother insofar as they are realistic. This is especially relevant to Generation X. If your Boomerparents are insane, ignore them.
6. You shall not murder.	(this one stands as is, with clarification that murder = unwarranted killing; self-defense and idiot removal are other stories)
7. You shall not commit adultery.	(this one stands as is; one man, one wife, one eternal love, all else needs to burn)
8. You shall not steal.	(this one stands as is)
9. You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.	(this one stands as is)
10. You shall not covet.	(this one stands as is; it is perhaps the best advice in the Bible — when one ceases to covet, one focuses on adaptation instead of scapegoating)

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Tags: bible, morality, Religion, Satanism

Tape-Trading: The Secret Of The Underground

by Brett Stevens on July 14, 2016

What made the old underground so powerful? (more…)

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Memo From Prozakhistan (07/11/16)

by Brett Stevens on July 11, 2016

Greetings, fellow metalheads,

Times seem grim. The orcs have taken Osgilliath and approach the gates of the white city. Western Civilization is still dying, accelerated by democracy and consumerism, but rotten to its core with a lack of hope. Metal once gave that hope by showing us an alternate morality comprised of effective realism and epic mythos. Many of us want to live in that time again, but it will not happen through democracy or consumerism. We must choose our leaders and then all of us participate in restoring and advancing the greatness we have known.

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Tags: athame, destroyer 666, gevurahel, Grave Miasma, immolation, katharsis, Mythology, mythos, noire, order from chaos, path of samsara, profanatica, radio, restoration, The Curling Flame of Blasphemy

Back To Radio

by Brett Stevens on July 8, 2016

The most recent Nielsen rates provide food for thought:

Album units overall fell 13.6 percent, with 100.3 million total sales. (more…)

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Tags: funderground, music streaming, podcasts, radio, vinyl

How To Know Your Genre Is Played Out (And Suitable Only For Wal-mart Hipsters)

by Brett Stevens on July 8, 2016

A recent flyer for a record label of otherwise quality states:

On the one year anniversary of her critically-acclaimed, masterful debut full-length, M, Danish black metal artist MYRKUR unveils a captivating live recording from the historic Emanuel Vigeland Mausoleum in Oslo, Norway. (more…)

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Tags: Black Metal, hipsters, Myrkur, wal-mart

Sadistic Metal Reviews (07/04/16)

by Brett Stevens on July 4, 2016

Why write bad reviews at all? Good music is rare, and bad is everywhere, but if you do not explicitly identify the failings of bad, most people will find it appealing because it does not interrupt their steady stream of self-centered thoughts and is easier than seeking good. If you like good music and want more of it, you must bash as well as praise, as Machiavelli would tell you. And with that, the latest installment of the Sadistic Metal Reviews…

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Tags: acanthrophis, asperger's syndrome, coprophagia, Dead War, fetus logic, iron maiden, kreator, led zeppelin, manilla road, mental retardation, pantera, sadistic metal reviews, sunn o))), venom, Voivod

Fields Of The Nephilim Unleash Prophecy With New Metallic Direction

by Brett Stevens on July 3, 2016

Gothic rock band Fields Of The Nephilim are famous for their ability to mix the industrial-dance edge of underground goth music with the driving guitars of punk and rock. On their newest release, Prophecy, the band go in a new direction — one that will be familiar to metal fans.

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Tags: Fields Of The Nephilim, gothic, Gothic industrial, gothic metal, Gothic rock

Interview With Deathcore Band Monument Of A Memory

by Brett Stevens on June 30, 2016

Paramus, NJ band Monument Of A Memory creates what some call “modern death metal” and others, with a nod to its origins in a late punk/death metal hybrid, deathcore. The band is about to release its second recording, Catharsis, and vocalist Tommy Gehringer and bassist Josh Correa took the time to give us some insight on music and the theory of being a metal band in the current age.

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Tags: deathcore, modern death metal, monument of a memory

Lech Releases Misere EP

by Brett Stevens on June 30, 2016

Galveston, Texas doom music band Lech has released its second recording, an EP entitled Misere, which features a departure from its pure noise and bent sound style into a guitar-based style approximating a cross between Eyehategod and Sunn o))). (more…)

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Tags: doom music, lech

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