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Steff Metal reviews Zebulon Pike “Space Is the Corpse of Time”
May 9th, 2012 | Brutal Tunes, Music | steff | No Comments
Have you ever listened to an album and had a hard time deciding if it’s brilliant or just downright absurd? This is how I usually feel about Zebulon Pike. Formed in 2002, the band’s previous releases – such as And Blood Was Passion (2004) and The Deafening Twilight (2006) – fluctuate between moments of brilliance [...]
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The Physicists “Oppenheimer” music video
May 7th, 2012 | Brutal Tunes, Metal News, Music | steff | No Comments Do you remember last year I reviewed an album by the Finnish band The Physicists, Observation. The music is mathdeathboogie, and it’s madness. I loved it so much I even stuck it in my list of the Top Ten Metal Albums of 2011. Well, the Physicists have just released a music video for their song [...]
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Steff Metal reviews Ptahil – For His Satanic Majesty’s Glory
May 4th, 2012 | Brutal Tunes, Metal Gods, Metal News, Music | steff | No Comments “Illumination through Satanic Gnosticism!” proclaims Ptahil’s marketing material. “Lyrically manuscripted from Satanic introspection and musically composed from dissonant flagellation.” I cannot make this stuff up. Described as Satanic black/punk/doom, Ptahil seem to have way too many “slashes” through their genre to be any good. (It’s usually my experience that the number of descriptive genre words [...]
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Steff Metal reviews Wardruna – gap var Ginnunga
May 2nd, 2012 | Brutal Tunes, Metal Gods, Music | steff | No Comments I had an article all planned for today, but then a friend at work introduced me to Wardruna, and I cannot get the music out of my head. You could describe Wardruna as “Viking elevator music”, if you weren’t fussed about your head remaining attached to your body. Wardruna is a musical project from Kvitrafn [...]
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Metal Scholar Stands Up Against Bogan Stereotypes
May 1st, 2012 | Ask a Bogan, Metal News, Tr00 Metal Life | steff | 5 Comments I was going to do a Linking Horn today, but this article from the NZ Herald came across my desk today, and I thought I’d comment on it. For folk outside of New Zealand and Australia unfamiliar with the term “bogan”, it means different things in both countries. As I understand it, in Australia it [...]
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- Steff Metal reviews Zebulon Pike “Space Is the Corpse of Time”Have you ever listened to an album and had a hard time deciding if it's brilliant or just downright absurd? This is how(more)
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- The Physicists “Oppenheimer” music videoDo you remember last year I reviewed an album by the Finnish band The Physicists, Observation. The music is(more)
- Cthulhu’s Closet: Corpsepaint Kitty TeeSo ... I haven't done one of these in ages. Cthulhu's Closet is a "what I wore" alt. fashion column, since I am still a(more)
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