Metal Music
5 More Black Metal Cover Photo Cock Shots
In 2018 I did a post called “The Top 5 BEST Black Metal Cover Photo Cock Shots“–a tribute of sorts to a somewhat less rare than you would think trend in the black metal underground. I was unprepared for both how popular (based on my google hits since I posted it) the post would be,…
Read MoreThe 5 Types of Black Metal Fans
Black metal is a silly genre of medieval posturing, unlistenable production aesthetics, and reprehensible personalities. As such, it is bound to attract a unique set of fans. Today I’m taking a look at 5 of the most common types of black metal fans, and some of their more common characteristics. For, when one gazes into…
Read MoreKVLTing the Silents 1: Dovzhenko’s Earth (1930) paired with Крюкокрест’s Ауфидерзейн
Silent films were never actually played silent–even prior to the 1900s they almost always had some manner of musical accompaniment. From a simple house pianist to a full blown orchestra for larger cities, there was always some type of a live soundtrack. And, while some films (especially in the later silent period) had either musical…
Read MoreThe Top Five Most Brazen Heavy Metal Rip-offs
Metal [or, at least the metal I listen to] is a simple genre, and if a large part of your riffage is confined to a palm muted e string and simple tremolo picked minor scales of questionable originality, there are bound to be a few accidental rip-offs here and there (and everywhere). So I’m not…
Read MoreTop 5 Great Metal Bands That Share a Name With a Shitty Metal Band
Metalheads love gatekeeping, and most common way to gatekeep is to keep a running list of UNTRVE bands. Sure, we haven’t actually LISTENED to the bands on our list, but we know if we hear the name Five Finger Death Punch or Sevendust, it’s coming out of the mouth of a poseur. Today, I wanted…
Read MoreEuropean Black Metal by Country – A regional breakdown
I’m in the middle of a built-in record shelf project to house my vinyl collection, and, because I’ll finally be able to consolidate all of my various overflow shelves into one place, I’m getting pretty excited to go full Pepe Silvia on the organization. I mean, my albums are currently organized by genre (Heavy Metal/Death…
Read MoreMemes I Missed 23: More Metal Memes
I know I just did a “going through my C://users/Isley/desktop/organize/RANDOM/desktop_stuff_to_organize folder and posting a bunch of random memes I found” post, but I had a few more memes of a heavy kind. As usual, these are mostly deep cuts of dubious quality, but for those of you who always pop at my very specific use…
Read MoreGone to the Wolves by John Wray: how TRUE KVLT is this book?
FUBU metalhead books are few and far between, so even though John Wray’s new novel Gone to the Wolves features neither assassins nor dragons, I was happy to add it in to my standard rotation of Badass Books. And, overall, it was pretty good. A little overwritten (I’m sure it was a leitmotif, but every…
Read MoreThe 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 their logo, there are 20 others that hide their fascist tendencies behind a multilayered defense network of dog-whistles, wolf-symbology, cultural “celebration”,…
Read MoreTop 5 Least Frightening Black Metal Fashion Choices
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 into it a bit (as you must to appreciate black metal in the first place), all the nails and bullet belts…
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