I’ve talked before about how Games Workshop, despite the name, isn’t great at designing “games.” For all the work I put into my Warhammer armies, I’m not about to go recommend the actual game to anyone who doesn’t also want […]
Today's song isn't the first song I discovered through a heavy metal cover. However, unlike Gamma Ray's "It's a Sin," Sepultura's version of "The Hunt" was NOT the standout on its album. Sepultura …
Despite losing a bit of his underground allure over the last decade through a combination of a newly trendy fascination with his accent and working on a goddamn Star Wars tv show, acclaimed German filmmaker …
I've taken a closer look at the various ways the neo-Nazi black metal underground hides in plain sight before. For every band that has the word "aryan" in their name and a swastika in …
My Minor Key Monday picks mostly fall into three categories: weird shit I listened to as a kid, music used in movies, and youtube autoplay happy accidents. Today however I had a rare "heard …
I’ve never been the biggest Sam Peckinpah fan. He’s just a little too revisionist, a little too obvious, and a little too over-reliant on slow-motion bloodbaths. While nothing will ever compare to peak pre-revisionist …
Though I have no formal religious education, I have actually learned a fair bit about Christianity over the years, both via apophatic deduction applied to my metal collection, and, through cinema. In this recurring series, I …
15 years ago, after heading back home to hang with the family over Christmas, I decided to have all the random movies I watched over break BATTLE TO THE DEATH in a brutal tournament to …
A while back (15 years ago to be exact--I've been writing this blog for a bit) I did a post on the various lessons I'd learned in the kitchen over the previous year: Isley's cooking tips …
Long ago, in an Age of the Sun far removed from our own, our world was a place of enchantment and lure undreamed of to our current race of Men. However, not all of its …