For this Christmas season, a new view of underground metal. Presenting the:
Dark Metal Compilation
17 CommentsTags: dark metal, death metal, Doom Metal, merry christmas
In The Age Of Ideology Dying, The “Political” Album Also Dies
Growing up, I always detested “political” albums because people were ranting to me about partisanship from an adult world that I knew had already failed. It really was shuffling deck chairs on the Titanic to demand one failed version of the current order over another. It also violated what I felt was sacred about art: its abstraction, metaphor, and connection to the naturalistic experience.
28 CommentsTags: Carbonized, discharge, eminem, hip-hop, political album, queensrÿche, ronald reagan, sodomy
Ministry Releases “Antifa,” Promptly Sets A Trashcan On Fire And Collapses In A Pool Of Its Own Urine
Continuing his existence as a walking anti-drug ad, Cuban/Norwegian musician Al Jourgensen and whoever he has hired this week released “Antifa,” a track from the upcoming Ministry album AmeriKKKant on Nuclear Blast Records. In a desperate bid to remain relevant, Jourgensen has adopted a hybrid of Millennial politics and Baby Boomer sanctimony in a move that will alienate his Generation X fanbase.
16 CommentsTags: al jourgensen, antifa, heavy music, Industrial, industrial metal, metal, ministry, punk
Sadistic Metal Reviews: Grey Clouds of Boredom
Tags: abhoth, acid, adult contemporary, aima, anvil strykez, AOR, aosoth, Atreides, black 'n roll, burial ritual, carnal decay, cryptic brood, czar, deathcore, desolate shrine, drought, female vocals, hard rock, heavy baby sea slugs, illimitable dolor, insanity cult, metalcore, mindful of pripyat, mortifica, nyogthaeblisz, poseurs, post-hardcore, rites of thy degringolade, sadistic metal reviews, screamo, solitary, stadium rock, stench of profit, stoner rock, Summoning, Supremative, synth pop, synthpop, synthwave, the charm the fury, the ossuary, War Metal
Sonic Youth – Goo (1990)
For Generation X, droning sounds were good sounds. The train passing at night meant that order was restored, the Hoover vacuum passing the doorway meant that a parent was home and somewhat engaged, and the relentless churn of machinery meant that the order that was would not collapse quite yet.
25 CommentsTags: 1980s, 1990, 1990s, pop music, punk, review, sonic youth, tedium
Sadistic Metal Reviews: The Big Sleep for Bandcamp
It is time to put the piss-poor recommendations of these bonzos to bed. Forever.
34 CommentsTags: bandcamp, blood incantation, boring, dead congregation, death metal, deathcore, encoffination, Father Befouled, Grave Miasma, grave upheaval, incantation, Portal, poseurs, sadistic metal reviews, stoner doom, stoner rock
Atmospheric Dendrophilia
Recently, I found a Youtube channel called “Atmospheric Black Metal Albums” devoted to what hipster urban lumberjacks have termed “atmospheric black metal”. We must call attention to the horrible Youtube, supposedly “black metal” sub-genre festering right under our noses for it is wholly different from the Eastern European flowing varietal.
31 CommentsTags: article, atmosphere, black 'n roll, boring, celephaïs, drone, emo, enisum, GRID, hippies, hipster bullshit, popol vuh, poseurs, post-hardcore, screamo, the howling void, youtube
Meditations on the Death of Wishful Thinking
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
Incantation – Profane Nexus (2017)
Incantation rehash past riff phrases of theirs into drawn out, incredibly boring heavy, speed, and doom metal tracks on Profane Nexus.
9 CommentsTags: 2017, boring, cash grab, Doom Metal, Heavy Metal, incantation, lame metal, mainstream metal, profane nexus, rehash, relapse, relapse records, review, sell-out, selling out, shit, Speed Metal
Roots of Evil: The Origins of Metal
With the fiftieth anniversary of metal music around the corner, forthcoming years will witness an increase of publications dealing with the history, legacy and defining characteristics of the genre. This could finally resolve the lack of consensus that still exists regarding the definition and origins of heavy metal.
25 CommentsTags: Ambient, article, black sabbath, cream, electronic, Genesis, hard rock, Heavy Metal, heavy metal history, heavy rock, metal history, origins of heavy metal, progressive electronic music, progressive rock, proto-metal, psychedelic rock, punk, tangerine dream, the stooges
