Meditations on music and philosophy
2026
How not to criticise Sleep Token
What we get wrong about streaming
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 