Underground metal was rapidly dying by the mid nineties. The more musically successful death and black metal bands became disenchanted with their resulting limited financial success as the hordes of poseurs poured in through the gates of Byzantium, creating commercial rock that merely imitated the tones and texture of the monumental statues of the metal greats. The more popular death metal bands tried and failed at becoming rock stars while many of the more luminous minds in Norwegian black metal bands were dead or imprisoned.
28 CommentsTags: 1999, arthur rackham, arthurian legend, article, Black Metal, excalibur, jan kruitwagen, john carpenter, king arthur, mythic, mythic imagination, Mythology, sammath, strijd
Dark Symphonies is reissuing Absu‘s debut Barathrum: V.I.T.R.I.O.L on CD from Proscriptor’s original DAT.
3 CommentsTags: absu, Black Metal, compact disc, Dark Symphonies, death metal, news, reissue, remaster, texas, texas metal
Iron Pegasus Records is releasing a demo compilation of Chilean speed metal band Ripper’s The Exit and Destroy the World demos.
1 CommentTags: anthology, chile, compact disc, demos, iron pegasus, iron pegasus records, news, ripper, Speed Metal, upcoming release
Polish death metal band Vader are top billed at the Undergrind Fest in Bangalore, India on September 24th.
12 CommentsTags: death metal, festivals, india, news, polish death metal, upcoming shows, vader
Hammerheart Records are making some Testimony of the Ancients t-shirts to go along with their upcoming remastered 2x CD version of the third Pestilence album.
2 CommentsTags: death metal, Dutch Death Metal, hammerheart, hammerheart records, news, pestilence, shirts, Technical Death Metal, the netherlands, tshirts
German grindcore gods Blood have made some patches and put them up for sale in their web shop.
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Matt Harvey of deathcore band Exhumed was called up to provide a contrary viewpoint on Decibel Magazine’s website to MetalSucks’ call for a proscription of Hells Headbangers Records, circlejerking around the Blast Beat advertising network.
26 CommentsTags: ben umanov, blast beat network, carpetbaggers, communism, communists, deathcore, decibel, exhumed, homosexuality, matt goldberg, Matt Harvey, metalcore, MetalSucks, national socialist black metal, Nazism, news, nsbm, poseur, poseurs, sjws, social justice warrior, social justice warriors
Hammerheart Records is pressing Pestilence – Consuming Impulse t-shirts to go along with their two cd reissue of Pestilence’s classic second album.
17 CommentsTags: death metal, Dutch Death Metal, hammerheart, hammerheart records, merch, merchandise, news, pestilence, shirts, the netherlands, tshirts
To be a writer, if you are any good, is to be a blasphemer. Humanity is an entropy engine because each person decides on what view of the world makes them look the best, and so the constant weight pushing down on us is that of the herd, of a group of individuals united only by selfishness, come together into a mob for the purpose of asserting their right to be different and unique, constantly leading away from an understanding of the world around us and any meaning that can be found in it.
38 CommentsTags: adolf hitler, AIDS, article, Black Metal, censorship, funderground, havohej, Heavy Metal, idiots, ildjarn, joseph stalin, lifestyle, meta, nietzsche, Nihilism, parliament, Philosophy, pipe tobacco, politics, Romanticism, samsara, sodom, sodomy, tobacco, yeast
