Meditations on music and philosophy
2026
Messagate and the dark art of playlist metal
2025
There were beats and there was yelling: 2025 audit of the year
The Beato trap: when clickbait works
Please read the following scenario carefully
Obsolete tears: understanding Sacramentum
Is the party over? (video version)
Texas’ Deep Extreme Metal Underground on the Brink (guest entry)
EVERYTHING’S CHANGING!!! – https://hatemeditations.substack.com/
Book report: Into Everlasting Fire
Why is metal obsessed with its past?
Book report: Dark dungeon music
What is left of blasphemy? (guest entry)
Is the underground dead? (A death metal case study)
2024
The Skorian // The Greyleer Review (guest entry)
The evolving politics of metal (video)
Massacre, and why they don’t exist
Book Report – The Scott Burns Sessions
Book Report: Black Metal – Evolution of the Cult
Mefitis, ‘Emberdawn’ five years on
Metalhead burnout, entrepreneurialism, and the chore of modern listening
AI and file sharing: unhelpful remarks
You’ve all been fooled! “Industrial metal” isn’t “real” (guest entry)
Summoning and continuity black metal
Why you should hold metal in contempt
Hate Meditations 