Reveal!: DoppelherzOut 10th December on Sepulchral Voice Records Execration, Horrendous, Atvm, Morbus Chron (deceased), what do these artists have in common? Well, whatever divergence in quality one could argue for, between them they represent an interesting progressive direction quietly beavering away in the bowels of death metal, seemingly unbeknownst to today’s self-congratulatory taste makers still... Continue Reading →

Necropolis Podcast #36 – Dobber Beverly (back with a vengeance): Dobber Beverly (Oceans of Slumber, Necrofier, Malignant Altar, etc) returns to Necropolis to talk about his bands. Much insight of the industry is cast in this episode. We originally just planned to talk about Necrofier but decided it would be best to just cover Dobber... Continue Reading →

Here’s a crazy notion: maybe the modern music fan is more open to dense and extreme music than at any point in the last seventy years, and maybe they don’t require another reader’s digest of poppy death metal spoon fed to them by the gabbling pondlife of metal’s internet fandom. The modern listener is happier... Continue Reading →

Celtic Frost’s ‘Into the Pandemonium’ was an interesting watershed for extreme metal. Despite the mixed response at the time and the album’s undeniable inconsistencies, it should be credited for strengthening metal’s relationship to eccentricity. In 1987, at the height of down-the-barrel thrash, heavy metal bombast, and burgeoning underground extremity, came this unsure, faltering and unbearably... Continue Reading →

I'll forego my usual year-end-list bashing this time around and simply share some of the music I've been enjoying in 2021. It's been a tough year. Despite the brief jubilation felt by many at the return of live music, it has been dampened somewhat by repeated false starts, and what looks like another round of... Continue Reading →

Necropolis Podcast #35 – Boyd Rice Boyd Rice joins to discuss his worldview. Music talk is sparse, a great deal of time is spent talking about his worldview. A legend in his own right, we thank him for his time. NB from Hate Meditations: The discussion was tense but cordial. Fyi this episode will not... Continue Reading →

Dead Space Chamber Music: The Black HoursOut 3rd December, self-released ‘The Black Hours’ is the second LP from the Bristol based neoclassical group known as Dead Space Chamber Music. We’ll call it neoclassical for now, but this word must stretch ambiguously across the many moving parts of this album that require unpacking. Everything from ritual... Continue Reading →

Earlier this year I shared my thoughts on Spotify’s “Loud and Clear” mission statement. Spotify operates an unjust business model for artists and their attempt to dispel concerns about this only served to draw greater attention to their stingy payment structure. But I argued that the implications of this for the average user and independent... Continue Reading →

Krvna: SempinfernusOut 26th November on Séance Records Krvna may be from Australia, but their heart is very much Romanian, as mastermind Krvna Vatra explains: “this album very much was a way of harnessing the very utilities that helped diminish these superstitions and other darker aspects of 'Balkan' culture to, in fact, become a means of... Continue Reading →

Sometimes critical acclaim can be the worst thing to happen to an artist. Carcass in their current guise are not so much Carcass as they are the Heartwork Appreciation Society. Varg got so caught up in his legacy that he conceived a desire to rework some of his greatest hits into the warm diarrhoea that... Continue Reading →