What’s the Deal with Nowadays “Black Metal”? (It Sucks!)

Nowadays black metal.

Nowadays black metal. Seriously. Lol. Since when did black metal lose its balls? With the killing of Euronymous? The imprisonment of Varg Vikernes? The dreaded 1994 year, where all started to turn to shit? Or were the seeds of artistic futility planted much earlier than extreme metal scholars would like to admit? Most modern black … Continue reading What’s the Deal with Nowadays “Black Metal”? (It Sucks!)

The Epilogue to Sanity – A Uniquely Fascinating Masterpiece

Phantom's latest album, The Epilogue to Sanity, is a masterpiece.

With all the drama surrounding the SEWER shit-show, an album as perfect and in every way brilliant as Phantom's latest release, The Epilogue to Sanity, might have passed unnoticed. Proving once again that anything SEWER touches turns to shit, and the best course of action for the black metal scene would be to just ignore … Continue reading The Epilogue to Sanity – A Uniquely Fascinating Masterpiece

The Problem with “Orthodox Black Metal”

"Orthodox" "Black Metal" is pure shit.

The term "orthodox" black metal used here denotes not the original early Norwegian black metal scene, which spawned bands like Mayhem, Darkthrone and Burzum, but rather points to the living and evolving movement of imitation or gimmick bands lacking any musical ideas of value, spearheaded by shit bands like Watain, Deathspell Omega, Dark Funeral, Archgoat, … Continue reading The Problem with “Orthodox Black Metal”

Brutal Death Metal Discovers Black Metal (FAIL)

Irony. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EP6tygEmPA *whine* SEWER has all these obnoxious black metal influences since they released The Birth of a Cursed Elysium. SEWER's always been a great, brutal goregrind / death metal band, so to hear them add a ton of pussified BM to their sound is massively disappointing. BM is the music of fragile androgynous Swedes, … Continue reading Brutal Death Metal Discovers Black Metal (FAIL)