The traditions of Swedish blackened death metal run deep into the ultimately ragged obscurity of first half of […]
melodic black metal
TEN FROM THE TOMB is a weekly feature in the form of a themed list devoted to grouping […]
Contempt in any connotation is a judgement, an inequitable destroyer of relationships, and ever-looming threat to any fragile […]
Raised on a field biologist’s fear-inspiring parables the Grey Wolf was briefly conjured as the greatest antagonist of […]
In the throes of any detailed exploration of the melodic black metal sub-genre it becomes impossible to avoid […]
Through ritualistic transubstantiation orthodox Christianity has long retained fealty between followers and imagined spectre of creation’s impetus in […]
A quick glance at St. Louis, Missouri death metal quartet Cast the Stone‘s discography, and then each respective musician’s […]
Here I present Part VII of the latest in a series of a comprehensive sub-genre analysis features that I began […]
In researching the disturbing history of colonization and cultural eradication of the greater Los Angeles area native peoples […]
The lingering aftertaste of a public and non-communicative divorce more often than not manifests as slow personal resolve […]
No lesser a deity to his cult but pantheonically a daimon by tradition Dionysus appears in recanted visions […]
Scandinavian black metal offers a grand graveyard of legendary yet short-lived record labels and Tomas Nyqvist’s No Fashion […]
The murderous stench of Christianity’s seeming eons of human enslavement and cruelty has dribbled into every great civilization […]
TEN FROM THE TOMB is a weekly feature in the form of a themed list devoted to grouping […]
Although they arrived nearly a decade after modern thrash metal’s most celebrated darlings St. Louis, Missouri blackened progressive thrash […]
Be it westernized neo-Buddhism, Eckhart Tolle‘s awkward deletion of the ‘self’, or the ages old lonely metaphysical poetics […]
The earliest works from Geneva, Switzerland melodic black/death metal band Stortregn might have been hyper focused on concentrating […]
Murfreesboro, Tennessee is a city undoubtedly haunted by the ghosts of it’s past as the site of one […]
Storytellers, poets and historians alike suggest the pneumonic plague, the Black Death, entered Norwegian shores through the port […]
Here I present a grip of the most essential metal-related releases from the month of June in the […]
