Meditations on music and philosophy
2024
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
2023
Metal after the fall: cultural zombiism
I have liked the beats and I have liked the yelling: 2023’s top 40
What have hipsters ever done for us?: a retrospect
Book report: decoding the Malazan
I like the graceful adagio and I like the crooning
Stop listening to bands I like: not a review of Godflesh
The casualisation of fandom – Friction free consumption, product driven lifestyles, and gatekeeping bogeymen
Review – Tonight it’s a World We Bury
YouTube reaction videos: the last metal subgenre
What is beer metal and why does it suck? (guest entry)
Beherit: Homemakers of musical dismemberment
The oxymoron of English black, and the lessons of USBM (video version)
Arch Enemy: Anthems of Rebellion (what’s in a gateway)
2022
2022: there were beats and there were yelling (full list)
Review: Organisms from an Ancient Cosmos by S. Craig Zahler (guest entry)
Metal is (good) conservative art
2022: there were beats and there were yelling: 40 of the best – part 4 of 4
2022: there were beats and there were yelling. 40 of the best – part 3 of 4
2022: there were beats and there were yelling. 40 of the best – part 2 of 4
2022: there were beats and there were yelling. 40 of the best – part 1 of 4
On Biosphere’s broadcasts to the periphery (the further listening series)
Criticism as an act of creation
Formative Septic Flesh: lessons from the apotheosis of Hellenic metal
Review – Extreme Metal: Music and Culture on the Edge
On Tangerine Dream’s transmissions from Sol (the further listening series)
Gorgorth’s opening triptych – a triumph of art as administration
Nocturnus and the death of amateurism
On Killing Joke’s screams from the machine (the further listening series)
Dungeon synth might in fact be good
On Dead Can Dance’s message to the within (the further listening series)
On King Crimson’s despatches from the rabbit hole (the further listening series)
Making Burzum a contested space
Beyond the North Waves: shifting the narrative of 90s black metal
Review – USBM: A Revolution of Identity in American Black Metal
2021
Review: The Green Sea, 2021 (guest entry)
Death metal for the general listener
I have liked the beats and I have liked the yelling: 2021 top 40
On Spotify Part II: nails, coffins, and art on the battlefield
Proscriptor McGovern’s Apsû and metal appreciation societies
Metal’s Retromania Part VI: until the light takes us
El Negro Metal Interview Polemicist
Metal’s Retromania Part V: whither is fled the visionary gleam?
Metal that is progressive and a night of emperial wrath
Metal is deterministic (guest entry)
Metal’s Retromania Part IV: the Icarus factor
Metal’s Retromania Part III: the eternal return
The oxymoron of English black, and the lessons of USBM
El Negro Metal Interview Mefitis (Pendath and Vatha)
Metal’s Retromania Part II: the great explosion
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