The New Wave of Indigenous National Socialist Black Metal
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 …
Music with guitars that have some bite.
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 …
I am fully aware that even the "frightening" black metal outfits are mostly just kind of silly and impractical (depending on how extreme they go with the carpentry nails). But, if you can buy …
Uriah Heep, I had always assumed, was one of those bands like Molly Hatchet. You know the bands I'm talking about, the ones whose music is light years behind the potential of their album …
Heavy metal has always been just a little too white for it to ever claim any level of racial enlightenment. And, when you take a genre that is already just a tiny step down …
I'm a little further behind the times with this post than usual on the whole "woman yells at a cat" thing, but a while back I made a bunch of metal related variations, and today …
There are a lot of things black metal bands love: monochromatic color schemes, renaissance fair cosplay, problematic immigration views…and an almost fanatical devotion to J. R. R. Tolkien. However, one thing all black metal …
The genre of Heavy Metal is absolutely no stranger to homoerotic album covers. For every album cover featuring an un-erotically posed dragon or wizard, there are at least TWO covers featuring oiled-up, ridiculously over-muscled …
Looking over the past few years of these "best of" posts, I've noticed that after my top 5, I usually end up with more and more reservations about the albums I call the "best" of …
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While cleaning up my computer desktop recently (ok, fine, I was just doing my usual: drag and dropping everything into an "other" folder) I came across a few random metal memes that I made for …