Metal Reviews

https://www.lo-fi-merchandise.com/colle ... hirt-black

Reminded of the existence of this.

https://www.blabbermouth.net/news/slaye ... -of-filth/

Far better than my low expectations!

I do like AngryMetalGuy as a site, but I find it interesting that they've recently made a big apology and fuss about recommending Inquisition in their end-of lists for being nazis (which I think was never actually proven, unless I'm forgetting something? Just the blog hearsay and associating with A Kramer...?) rather than for Dagon being a self-confessed paedophile.

I never heard anything about Inquisition being associated with Nazis, but I sure as hell remember the awful pedophile story.

Speaking of Nazis, Wikipedia's Nazi Black Metal page is about as fair and balanced as one might expect. Hate Forest is on there (which I can understand thanks to some lyrics from the early days) but Drudkh is listed on the page as well, with no real attribution beyond Blog Hearsay.

If Roman Saenko had a social media presence like his former bandmate Neige does, and begged for forgiveness and acceptance of his 'youthful mistakes', would he be allowed in the same spaces as Neige is allowed now? Roman clearly doesn't care about his perception in the West, and even revived Hate Forest with its past associations just to release a great apolitical record that promptly got banned by Spotify when he has 5 or 6 other band names he could have released Hour of the Centaur under instead.

What I found especially irritating is that Hate Forest got nuked at the same time as Nokturnal Mortum, when NM is exhibit A for idiotic flings with Nazism whereas Roman and his bands have been playing it as safe as Neige has for as long as Neige has.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inquisition_(metal_band)#Allegations_of_neo-Nazism I guess releasing stuff on a compilation album with a nazi flag isn't great, but also it wasn't necessarily up to them what their label does with stuff, soo...?

Drudkh definitely have tried to stay away from "politics" even with that fuss over their t-shirt calling themselves white art or some such. I wonder how much of these controversies come down to bad translations? And it all depends on the people themselves, there was a twitter thread the other day calling out that Perturbator synth fellow after he was seen wearing a Deathspell Omega t-shirt. Plenty of wild accusations from this guy: https://twitter.com/heresysquad with lots of "yikes, not a good look!"-type comments from Antifa types. I like the Bathory one starting with accusations of being a cop!

And you can tell Spotify pretty much just responds to the biggest outcries - a lot of Graveland stuff still up, but those later Nokturnal Mortum albums are gone over here, too.

That account is peak Twitter. Got as far down as Slayer and Exodus. Wonder if they pointed out that Metallica and Sepultura were seen wearing Nazi stuff back in the 80s too, just like countless punk bands were seen wearing that stuff in the 70s. Good luck cancelling James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich!

Speaking of being accused of being NS:

https://twitter.com/ave_mors/status/1483868392264142848

I'm pretty much over livestreams, but CoF doing Dusk and Her Embrace? Might be worth it.
https://lambgoat.com/news/35473/cradle- ... omments/#0

yes that would be awesome.

Classy response from the Watain camp. The wokelords deserve no less.

https://www.sludgedesk.com/post/coming- ... of-carcass

Interview with Carcass' original drummer about his aneurysm.

https://www.metal-archives.com/artists/ ... nsson/6180

Rip former Dark Tranquillity guitarist. Fucking cancer.

RIP.

Seemed like a good guy. I know he was a good guitarist. RIP.

Foo Fighters have some shitty horror film out soon and have released an annoyingly non-shit metal song to celebrate or whatever:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pj8XbTDBhXc

Not bad. Not annoying like the King Gizzard and Lizard Wizard 80s Metallica worship album from a couple years back which suddenly made thrash experts out of people who don't listen to metal.

Is Ukrainian nationalism an ok topic in metal now thanks to Putin, or are Drudkh and Nokturnal still personae non grata?

Good question!

I know Greg Puciato is one of your guys, Goat. I liked, not loved his first solo album(the weird stuff was good, wish it was weirder), figures he'd duet with Reba Meyers to lead off the second one. https://youtu.be/dyh5kFj2fSY

While I love their voices I wish the song was weirder or heavier.