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Armchair rhetoric on extreme metal

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Beats and yelling: Draculum

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#draculum #chaosrecords
Beats and yelling: Draculum
Poems of SpellcraftOut 24th October on Chaos Records The debut album from this German entity draws on a thread of UK black metal (such as it is) most infamously expressed by Cradle of Filth and Hec…
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November 12, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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Beats and yelling shorts, 5th November 25 🔥🔥🔥

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#atavisticpassage #manifestationofhatecreations #irr #monastyrrecords #berggeflvster #preciousblood #kvad #puritythroughfire #funeralharvest #amorfatirecords #abominator #hellsheadbangers
Beats and yelling shorts, 5th November 25
Atavistic Passage: Demonstration TwoOut 9th October on MoH Creations Ritualistic dark ambient collides with raw black metal, creating a sense of occasion through simple melodic refrains reduced to …
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November 5, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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A broad brushstroke of extreme metal challenges the listener into traversing its contours, but on repeated spins reveals an array of cogs and competing impulses working at the molecular level beneath.

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#thaumaturgy #mementomorirecords
Beats and yelling: Thaumaturgy
Pestilential HymnsOut 20th October on Memento Mori Thaumatrugy upgrade themselves from the competent but commonplace chasmic death/doom of the debut into a more holistic statement of extreme metal.…
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November 3, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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Only Death is Real: Existential Death-Obsession Prevails Over Nihilistic Death-Obsession (guest entry)

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Only Death is Real: Existential Death-Obsession Prevails Over Nihilistic Death-Obsession (guest entry)
Words by Jason Kiss Only Death is Real “Only Death is Real” is one of the most endearing slogans of the extreme metalunderground. The phrase was first brought into metal lexicon by Hellhammer, late…
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November 3, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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Beats and yelling shorts, 29th October 25

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#victimarum #signalrex #pest #heidanshart #penthos #darknessshallriseproductions #dysylumn #spøgelse #welfareandsoundsrecords #heteropsy #caligarirecords
Beats and yelling short, 29th October 25
Victimarum: Seitsemän soihdun valossaOut 11th October on Signal Rex This brighter iteration of melodic black metal manages to achieve a sense of activism and storytelling in a way that pushes back …
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October 29, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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Beats and yelling shorts, 27th October 25

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#hadopelagyal #amorfati #ritualhammer #werewolfrecords #inritvm #ealproductions #illusivekey #mørke #truecultrecords #vileapparition #mesacounojorecords #darkdescentrecords
Beats and yelling shorts, 27th October 25
Hadopelagyal: HaematophoryktosOut 19th September on Amor Fati If we were to regard this in terms of presentation alone we would come away with the impression that Hadopelagyal are interested in lit…
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October 27, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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Beats and yelling: Cultic

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#culticband #eleventhkey
Beats and yelling: Cultic
LoreOut 3rd October on Eleventh Key I often use the term “world building” when writing about music. It’s probably worth clarifying what I mean here. History may remember early 21st Century music no…
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October 22, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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Thanks for Necropolis AD for having me on the podcast to discuss Schopenhauer's aesthetics and how it relates to extreme metal, great discussion.

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Necropolis AD #11 - The Will to Metal (Schopenhauer + Metal Discussion)
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October 22, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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Beats and yelling shorts, 20th October 25

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#isen #northernsilenceproductions #echoesofgloom #atmf #dunesofash #signalrex #kingdom #osmoseproductions #blackchambermusic #umulamahri #ordovician
Beats and yelling shorts, 20th October 25
Isen: Zaklinani posledni zimyOut 5th September on Northern Silence Productions Basic, repetitive black metal achieves a sense of triumphalism through a gradualist development of riffs. Each one is …
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October 20, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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Beats and yelling: Heruvim

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#heruvim #redefiningdarknessrecords
Beats and yelling: Heruvim
MercatorOut 12th September on Redefining Darkness Records Heruvim locate the carefree bounce of Pestilence circa ‘Spheres’ within the dark chasmic setting of modern death metal, flattening off prog…
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October 17, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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If you’re a fan of metal, you either accept the discomfort that comes with the territory and choose to learn and grow with it, or you don’t really like or understand metal as an artform in its totality.

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#rippedtoshreds #andrewlee
Please read the following scenario carefully
Please read the following scenario carefully. A discussion will follow. Scenario One: Andrew Lee is an American of Chinese descent. He has a death metal band called Ripped to Shreds. Ripped to Shre…
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October 15, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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Beats and yelling: Kaeck

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Beats and yelling: Kaeck
Gruwelijk OnthaalOut 18th September on Folter Records It’s been ten years since Kaeck’s debut ‘Stormkult’. Where that album consolidated an austere reading of early second wave black metal into an …
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October 13, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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Beats and yelling shorts, 10th October 25

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#eldur #atmf #execrari #hessianfirm #pestilentialshadows #northernsilenceproductions #brilliantemperor #cultburial #cultmember #loyalbloodrecords #impendingrot #bloodharvest
Beats and yelling shorts, 10th October 25
Eldur: Rituals of Death and NecromancyOut 25th August on ATMF Combines the purposeful militarism of simplistic Swedish black metal with a mystical eccentricity borrowed from modern occultist metal.…
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October 10, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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Beats and yelling: Porenut

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#porenut #nomadskydiaries
Beats and yelling: Porenut
Výstup k svätej KundeOut 29th August, Nomad Sky Diaries Porenut harness a wealth of competing strands both in and outside of metal to craft a surprisingly compact statement of uncanny black metal f…
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October 9, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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Beats and yelling: Medieval Demon

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#medievaldemon #hellsheadbangers
Beats and yelling: Medieval Demon
All Powers of DarknessOut 22nd August on Hells Headbangers Medieval Demon, erstwhile outliers of the classic Greek scene, continue their eccentric second life with a run of occultist horror metal p…
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October 7, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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Beats and yelling: Castrator

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#castrator #darkdescentrecords
Beats and yelling: Castrator
Coronation of the GrotesqueOut 15th August on Dark Descent Records Modern death metal is often guilty of running away from itself. Either gesturing at lofty, pseudo esoteric avant-garde affectation…
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September 30, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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Beats and yelling, 27th September 25

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#incinerated #blackseed #cancervoid #mesacounojorecords #ironfortressrecords #ashen #redefiningdarknessrecords #vindicator #rauhnacht #antiqrecords #mjolne #atmfrecords
Beats and yelling shorts, 27th September 25
Incinerated: The Epitome of TransgressionOut 14th July on BlackSeed Lifts the clustered melodic density of late second wave black metal (think Cirith Gorgor or Gorgon) with a thread of fatalistic l…
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September 27, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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Beats and yelling: Lethal Prayer

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Beats and yelling: Lethal Prayer
Sacrilege InfernusOut 25th July, self-released Access to culture has never been easier. Deciding what to access and spend time with near impossible. People idolise the traditional underground for i…
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September 18, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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Beats and yelling: Endless Dismal Moan

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#endlessdismalmoan #hessianfirm
Beats and yelling: Endless Dismal Moan
Lord of NightmareOut 25th July on Hessian Firm (originally released in 2006) Endless Dismal Moan, the brainchild of one Chaos 9, who sadly took their own life in 2008, was an enigmatic Japanese bla…
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September 12, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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Beats and yelling shorts, 11th September 25

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#decryptal #mesacounojorecords #rottedliferecords #lepra #blackseedrecords #mouthofmadness #darknessshallriseproductions #oskoreien #ancienttorment #eternaldeathrecords #malthusian #relapserecords
Beats and yelling shorts, 11th September 25
Décryptal: SimulacreOut 11th July on Me Saco Un Ojo/Rotted Life Attempts to forge links between the old and the new in death metal via a survey of muscular old school traditions through the crushin…
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September 11, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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Beats and yelling shorts, 9th September 25

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#mortalhanegra #helldprodrecords #putridity #willowtiprecords #belethstrumpet #korpituliproductions #lyuaoien #centipedeabyss #eminentiatenebris #antiqrecords #sunkenmonolith #prehistoricsounds
Beats and yelling shorts, 9th September 25
Mortalha Negra: NecromanteOut 18th June on Helldprod Records Essentially a thrash metal rendering of ‘Under a Funeral Moon’. Excitable yet austere, riffs reach through the old school filter, reinje…
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September 9, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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An immersive, complete cinematic picture underwritten by an undeniable sense of power and overwhelming force, juxtaposed with a nuanced, near mystical will to conjure forces beyond the rational self.

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#imprecation #nuclearwarnowproductions
Beats and yelling: Imprecation
Vomitum TempestasOut 30th June on Nuclear War Now Productions Texan death metal engages in a distant but often proactive dialogue with the genre’s macabre roots. Blaspherian, Condemner, Imprecation…
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September 4, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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I was as shocked as anyone to hear of the tragic passing of Nisse Karlén. Sacramentum's small collection of recorded material is a unique statement of extreme metal at its most sophisticated, dramatic, powerful, reflective, and dignified.

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#sacramentum
Obsolete tears
Understanding Sacramentum I was as shocked as anyone to hear of the tragic passing of Nisse Karlén. Sacramentum were a very formative band in the development of my taste. I was lucky enough to catc…
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September 2, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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Beats and yelling: Drawn and Quartered

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#drawnandquartered #nuclearwinterproductions
Beats and yelling: Drawn and Quartered
Lord of Two HornsOut 27th June on Nuclear Winter Records Drawn and Quartered remind us that – despite my growing cynicism – you should never write anyone off before their time. 2021’s ‘Congregation…
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September 1, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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Beats and yelling shorts, 27th August 25

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#grog #helldprodrecords #patristic #willowtiprecords #witherer #hypaethralrecords #hexella #hellsheadbangers #beyondmortaldreams #lavadomeproductions #belethstrumpet #korpituli
Beats and yelling shorts, 27th August 25
Grog: Sphere of AtrocitiesOut 13th June on Helldprod A collection of generic brutal and semi technical death metal furniture, delivered with the random freneticism of grindcore. Swirling between id…
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August 27, 2025 at 4:46 PM