To delve into the work of Finnish black metal musician and artist Shatraug (Ville Pystynen) is to quickly […]
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The traditions of Swedish blackened death metal run deep into the ultimately ragged obscurity of first half of […]
Again the occult black/death unorthodoxy of Valdur rises but this time roughly a month short of a year […]
Where so many artists have succeeded in recreating the rotten, swamp-cursed occult majesty of ancient Hellenic black metal […]
The most inevitable path of the undeterred skeptic is to salt the earth with true and certain nihilism. […]
The grand Altiplano Cundiboyacense plateau in the most ancient eastern Colombian Andes dates back thirteen thousand years as […]
The dawn of Maius (May) signaled the Lemura’lia, a Roman festival said by Ovid to have been initiated […]
Contempt in any connotation is a judgement, an inequitable destroyer of relationships, and ever-looming threat to any fragile […]
Through ritualistic transubstantiation orthodox Christianity has long retained fealty between followers and imagined spectre of creation’s impetus in […]
Believed to be written by an Antwerp based dramatic society the low country, lower-class prose of sixteenth century […]
Here I present Part VII of the latest in a series of a comprehensive sub-genre analysis features that I began […]
In granting one’s self the True Will, a ‘nirvana’ of sorts achieved through Crowley‘s Thelemic mysticism, the road […]
First known for his founding of notable depressive black metal project Austere in the early-to-mid 2000’s Desolate (aka M. […]
Nāḥāš (נחש) the Hebrew word for serpent has been translated by biblical scholars numerous ways as they scramble […]
No lesser a deity to his cult but pantheonically a daimon by tradition Dionysus appears in recanted visions […]
Say what you will about Aleister Crowley, and there is a lot to say, but one of the […]
In the iteration-thirsty, attention-deficit inducing world of extreme metal a span of six years is a literal lifetime […]
No matter how often journalists, aging fans and various other fools tout the vital contributions of Swiss legacy […]
The murderous stench of Christianity’s seeming eons of human enslavement and cruelty has dribbled into every great civilization […]
Tapping into the vein of Teutonic thrash’s influence upon early Greek black metal as well as Scandinavian blackened […]
