wrapped in a fuzzy blanket made of burning bodies
For me, and I suspect a lot of other people, Viking metal is musical comfort food: not too challenging, not especially good for me, but very satisfying. While there are exceptions (on the progressive...
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TOTALIZED MISANTHROPIC ARMAGEDDON
If I had to choose a single word to describe Anaal Nathrakh’s style of heavy metal, it might be “unyielding”. Another good choice would be “totalizing”. From the very start, their music has been dense,...
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Sometimes the nicest surprises are the ones that come attached to no expectations. Every so often I’ll throw something on my iPod just because it looks sort of intriguing and end up liking it a lot...
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The first time I ever ran across Swarm of the Lotus, I thought they had a really stupid name.The first time I actually heard Swarm of the Lotus’s When White Becomes Black, I thought it was tune-free...
View Articlewooo Friday night
I’m so metal that instead of being out tonight getting shithammered (y’know, like I usually do), I’m sitting at home listening to Korpiklaani sing Finnish drinking songs while I rip the Black Sabbath...
View Article2008/05/28
Stuck in my head this morning, after a long spell of waking up with a head cluttered with thoughts of moving or cleaning or unpacking or working: “Vampira” from Synchestra by The Devin Townsend Band. I...
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