“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
20 CommentsTags: 2025, best of, Black Metal, death metal
Graveland On Metal Threat 2025
Political correctness followed the Moral Majority, and both used the same technique, which is shame gaslighting to remove anything but their chosen agenda. The Moral Majority for example spoke of “Satanic” metal so much they created it, and PC brought an ethno-nationalist backlash.
5 CommentsTags: Black Metal, christianity, graveland, metal threat, moral majority, nsbm, political correctness
Beherit, Imprecation, Morbosidad, Unholier, and True Iron Will in Houston, TX September 20, 2025
With great anticipation, most of the metalheads in Houston crowded into the White Oak music hall to catch a massive bill headed by one of the most stories names in black metal, the inimitable Beherit. The excitement was memorable.
44 CommentsTags: beherit, Black Metal, houston, imprecation, morbosidad, true iron will, unholier
Kaeck – Gruwelijk Onthaal (2025)
When you think of the impetus behind Sammath and Kaeck, think of cooking: a careful adjustment of the ratio and granularity of ingredients in order to achieve the perfect effect. Trying to meld aggressive death metal and sinister black metal requires precise intent, like martial arts or assembling nukes.
24 CommentsTags: Black Metal, death metal, kaeck
Nils “Nisse” Joel Karlén (1974-2025)
We remember the fallen to celebrate what they strived to do because this embodies their spirit, and in some intuitive way we see spirit as the force that animates flesh. In this mindset we commemorate the life of Nils “Nisse” Joel Karlén, who passed away recently.
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Ave Sathanas! Acheron Rites of the Black Mass Re-issued
Many of you like me had that old Turbo Records release from the early 1990s when death metal was as scarce as honest used car salesmen. Somewhere between death metal, early black metal, speed metal hybrids like Necronomicon, and doom metal, this album graced many a tape deck, turntable, or CD player.
30 CommentsTags: acheron, Black Metal, Satanism
Necropolis AD (#5): Top Death Metal and Black Metal Albums Ranked
Exploring the new format that podcasts in the media firehose of mostly hollow hits out there, the NADS crew plus a familiar voice join up to rank the albums that were junctures in the branching path of evolution that brought us death metal and black metal.
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SMR: Cannibalism of The Deceased and Sodomized Edition
We know the underground is dead. It has been dead for thirty years, and we have killed it, by accepting music that imitated the methods of the past without understanding of the why. And yet we soldier on, seeking the few exceptions.
19 CommentsTags: Black Metal, death metal, music reviews, sadistic metal reviews, smr
Profanatica, Knoll, and Unidad Trauma in Houston (July 19, 2025)
As part of their unholy blasphemous summer tour, Profanatica visited desolate Satanic wasteland Houston, Texas and put on a hell of a show despite failing air conditioning, thronging hipsters, and exploding toilets.
20 CommentsTags: black magic social club, Black Metal, knoll, profanatica, unidad trauma
Interview with Profanatica
Jason Goatcraft was able to capture a short interview with Profanatica/Havohej founder Paul Ledney:
9 CommentsTags: Black Metal, havohej, profanatica
