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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 …

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Minor Key Music 87: New Model Army – The Hunt
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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 …

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Werner Herzog Describes the Ending of Dirty Harry
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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 …

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The New Wave of Indigenous National Socialist Black Metal
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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 …

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Minor Key Music 86: The Watersons – The Good Old Way
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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 …

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My Favorite Movies 78: Pat Garret and Billy the Kid (Sam Peckinpah, 1972)
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Cinema Scripture School 4: David and Bathsheba (Henry King, 1951)
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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 …

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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 …

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