Addendum/new arrivals: Chilean thrash combines a retro fun loving bounce with a complex array of contemporary anxieties. #criticaldefiance #thesearchwontfall

Addendum/new arrivals: Folds elements of melodeath into an increasingly degraded Deicide formula, in lesser hands this could have been a total disaster, but the result is an archetype of b-tier entertainment. #deicide #serpentsofthelight

Addendum/New arrivals: emerging from the creatively lawless late 90s, this Romanian oddity of melodic death metal meets clunky gothic rock bends & breaks the listener's sense of aesthetic hygiene, pleasing in that surprises this acute are an increasing rarity. #deimos #insane

Addendum/New arrivals: although lacking the focus of the follow up, the addictive concoction of thrash whimsy & neoclassical flair is present & correct on this debut. #demoniac #intemperance

Beats and yelling: Sacrilegious Crown hatemeditations.com/2024/08/26/bea… #sacrilegiouscrown

A mammoth of an album devoid of filler. Each track leaps off the page, telling its own self contained story, in turn contributing to a greater, coherent whole. #fieldsofthenephilim #thenephilim

Understated, whistful, lavishly melodic goth numbers emerge from a fog of ambience, concluding in an extended repetitive drone punctuated by souring guitar lines cracking the sky. A perfectly structured continuous piece of music revealing new layers on each relisten.

To celebrate our 100th episode, we sink some beers and chat gatekeeping. We hope you get no enjoyment from this whatsoever. youtube.com/watch?v=hgbFFe…

Serviceable Finnish thrash that excites more than it challenges. #foreseen #helsinkisavagery

Beats and yelling shorts, 9th September 24 hatemeditations.com/2024/09/09/bea… #desultory #darknessfallstheearlyyears #gigantophis #clactonian #krypticy #mementomori #mayhemic #sepulchralvoicerecords #coldcell #aop

Translates late 2nd wave tremelo riffing into an uninterrupted flow of simple melody, percussion is relegated to providing a perennial static undercurrent, resulting in an alternative reading of ambient black metal to the version popularised by Burzm disciples by the early 2000s

Beats and yelling shorts, 12th September 24 hatemeditations.com/2024/09/12/bea… #aeonwinds #atmf #hornsandhooves #stygianblackhand #invictus #gravenoire #seasonofmist #sanctuarium #mesacounojo #blackseed #tourdivoire #antiqrecords #ifrit #brilliantemperor #gutterprincecabal

Takes black metal's naturalism to a very literal place, as sparse and vast as the wilderness it worships, before ending with a surprisingly intimate folk intpromptu. #forest #foredoomingthehopeforeternity

Tried to do a positive video on metal...didn't work. youtube.com/watch?v=SYbWTd…

Although the format hasn't changed, this is still Forest's best. The melodies are more confident, the ambient and folk elements clipped back allowing for a more fluid, holistically bleak experience. #forest #asasongintheharvestofgrief

Beats and yelling: Deceased hatemeditations.com/2024/09/18/bea… #deceased #hellsheadbangers

Surprise late career hit from Funeral Mist. Marduk is the least interesting thing that the members of Marduk are involved in. #funeralmist #deiform