We talk often here of how form-over-content/means-over-ends thinking has predominated in Late Heavy Metal. That is, people got good at the mechanics but forgot what the music was supposed to express, so now heavy metal is wallpaper to signal anger and partying for normies.
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As death metal has matured into an income-producing property, a series of really informative compilations have emerged, with Sentenced Death Metal Orchestray From Finland joining the movement as the latest to show us the origins of death metal.
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We write; you complain; everyone else ignores us. Later on, the world catches up, and everyone hides how they read it here first. We call the metal trends by looking at reality instead of social influences, and this makes people feel like the small puny slave power bottoms they really are.
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What is our purpose? Resurrecting a dead genre via natural selection, which means promoting the good, smiting the bad, and ignoring and accepting everything else.
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We received the following announcement apparently from the Russian state today:
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To Hell and Back Again: My Black Metal Story (Norway 1991-1993)
by Varg Vikernes
150 pages, Ancestral Cult Productions, $13
Tags: Black Metal, burzum, Euronymous, mayhem, multiple stab wounds, norway, varg vikernes
Notable Burzum composer, Mayhem member, church burner, and antagonist of all things dualist/Abrahamist Varg Vikernes released his most recent effort, a 150-page history of the black metal experience in Norway as he experienced it from 1991 to 1993.
84 CommentsTags: Black Metal, burzum, Norwegian Black Metal, varg vikernes, weges
Back in the 1980s, praising Satan or even talking about Him in any context other than condemnation put you in the middle of the culture wars. Unable to talk about demographics, conservatives backed themselves into the corner of fundamentalist religion and saw Satan everywhere.
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Coming from the genre of fan films pretending to be documentaries, Death by Metal tries to make Death frontman Chuck Schuldiner into a legend of metal who invented death metal out of thin air. In doing so, it panders to the nostalgia and hard rocker audience but misses many opportunities.
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Let us review how we got here, how things are going, and where we are going.
122 CommentsTags: Heavy Metal, history of metal, sadistic metal reviews, smr, spirit of metal
