Tyler interviews Jan from black metal band Sammath to discuss their new album Grebbeberg and other topics. Also give Godless Arrogance a listen if you haven't yet. https://www.sammath.nl/ https://sammathhhr.bandcamp.com/album... https://www.hammerheart.com/artists/s... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcnwurR-sY4

Serpent Corpse: Blood SabbathOut 5th July on Temple of Mystery Records Montreal’s Serpent Corpse offer up an honest if underdeveloped debut of basic death metal signifiers on ‘Blood Sabbath’. A concoction of Swedish d-beat and the playful loose blues of Autopsy weaves into a recasting of death metal as an exercise in repetition. Songs are... Continue Reading →

Tyler and Rafael interview Nisse Karlén from the legendary melodic black metal band Sacramentum! For info on the upcoming Sacramentum US tour, check out the Sacramentum Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/sacramentumofficial/ Official Sacramentum website: https://sacramentum.se/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wubwkVwHFyI

Friction free consumption, product driven lifestyles, and gatekeeping bogeymen The slow erosion of the public realm forces us to define our identities by our purchasing habits. Our sense of self foregrounds hobbies and culture because these are malleable marketing demographics, fluid and susceptible to persuasion compared to identities defined by place, community, and class.    ... Continue Reading →

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Sammath: GrebbebergOut 16th June on Hammerheart Records Sammath are one of those hidden shibboleths in black metal. We are given license to judge another’s credentials based on their attitude toward (or ignorance of) this band. Those that know, know. Having formed back in the 1990s they have remained a firm holdout of Dutch black metal... Continue Reading →

Letalis: Bestia OccultaOut 6th June on Trauma Records Originally released in September 2022, the debut LP from this Chilean speed metal powerhouse sees an international release on Trauma Records this month. ‘Bestia Occulta’ dispenses with any self-conscious navel gazing. Completely untroubled by whether it meets some contrived quota of credibility, this is nothing more nor... Continue Reading →

Maud the moth & trajedesaliva: Bordando el manto TerrestreOut 26th May on Time Released Sound, Woodford Halse This collaboration between the dark ambient outfit trajedesaliva and Maud the moth - a Spanish born/Edinburgh based neoclassical musician - sees the creation of an idiosyncratic exercise in genre alchemy, one that is put in service of a... Continue Reading →

This episode is sure to cause an existential crisis! We discuss legacy bands and how these has-beens clog up relevancy. Special guest Keith Preston from Attack the System joins to grant his own perspective. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4n_busw2zs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZE-kLSFmX8 Full text: In 2021, born of the euphoria of lockdown boredom, my co-host on the Necropolis podcast Jason, aka Lonegoat from the necroclassical project Goatcraft, started a joke/parody/satire DS project he dubbed Garden Gnome,. The project was to be kept anonymous, with only a chosen few knowing Garden Gnome’s true identity. It rapidly spat... Continue Reading →