Sanctuaire hearken back to an imagined Canadian Viking past in the hope of explaining their national hockey skills. Le Sang sur l’Acier presents three black metal songs written in a style similar to their compatriots Sorcier des Glaces but genericized for mass appeal.
3 CommentsTags: 2016, Black Metal, canada, Canadian Black Metal, EP, Le Sang sur l'Acier, modern metal, quebec, Québécois, Sanctuaire, Viking Metal
As much as any sane person avoids the mention of our elites, we tend to shy away from names like “Brooklyn Brewery” because such trendy terms and locations can only be designed for the denialists who rule us through money, law and social pretense. Much as in the Soviet Union — another dying society in late-stage collapse — what is said in Pravda is never trusted and always mocked, but… very carefully. In Western totalitarianism, we still have the freedom to purchase, and so, we avoid those products tainted with the symbology of the elites.
2 CommentsTags: beer, brooklyn brewery, hipsters, stout
The concept is simple: take an ordinary steak or chicken quesadilla and make it twice as big for $1.20 less than you would have spent on buying two quesadillas. In my view, this is a long-overdue recognition by Taco Bell that the quesadilla alone is not a meal, and yet it is just a mite too pricey to be treated as an a la carte item like the smaller tacos and burritos.
38 CommentsTags: burritos, chips, doubledilla, fire sauce, salsa, Taco Bell, tacos
Two indie female-fronted bands (Wax Idols and King Woman) have dropped off pseudo-metal, psychedelic rock band Pentagram’s ongoing tour, breaking their separate agreements with promoters. The women in both bands were surprised when ex-junkie Pentagram frontman Bobby Liebling hit on them. The news of this passive-aggressive move being broken by Vice, both indie bands being backed by Vice, and subsequently embarking on a Vice-funded tour reeks of self-aggrandizing unprofessionalism.
16 CommentsTags: crypto-indie, drugs, hipster bullshit, hipsters, metalgate, pentagram, psychedelic, scantily-clad women, sjws, stoner rock, vice magazine
The unicorn of the wine world is an undiscovered, low cost but high quality wine that you can pick up (easily) on the way to a convivial gathering and have people say, after the lights are low, “What the heck was that?” This wine comes very close to unicorn status when you consider the price.
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Tags: merlot, paso robles, red wine, trader joe's, wine
My hipster/yuppie neighbors talked me into getting into wine. They like it because, per point of ABV, it is cheaper than beer and less abrasive than distilled alcohol. So we sat down by the hot tub and drank a few glasses, with the focus on “tasting” the flavor as we got steadily drunker.
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Tags: cabernet sauvignon, gorman winery, old scratch, swill, wine
Article by Lance Viggiano inspired by International Day of Slayer.
A candidate for the best work within a genre of music should capture every manifestation as best as it can and be able to answer the question: what is X? One might make the argument that the best album must capture the genre at its summit; still, that is a far more difficult essence to capture as in the case of metal, both black and death metal scaled adjacent but different peaks and therefore offer their own unique views of the same musical landscape.
13 CommentsTags: extreme metal, genre, hell awaits, music analysis, musical analysis, proto-death, Proto-Death Metal, proto-underground, slayer, Speed Metal
Blood Incantation have announced their debut full-length Starspawn out for release August 19th on Dark Descent Records.
6 CommentsTags: blood incantation, dark descent, dark descent records, death metal, news, Starspawn, techdeath, Technical Death Metal, technical metal, upcoming release
Article by Corey M.
Tags: 2014, Black Metal, Italy, mortuary drape, review, Speed Metal
Swedish blackened death metal band Vanhelgd announced the release of their fourth album, Temple of Phobos
6 CommentsTags: Black Metal, blackened death metal, dark descent, dark descent records, death metal, Pulverised Records, Sweden, Temple of Phobos, Vanhelgd
