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Hate Meditations @hatemeditations.bsky.social · 5d

Beats and yelling: Cultic

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#culticband #eleventhkey

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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Hate Meditations @hatemeditations.bsky.social · 5d

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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Hate Meditations @hatemeditations.bsky.social · 6d

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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Hate Meditations @hatemeditations.bsky.social · 10d

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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Hate Meditations @hatemeditations.bsky.social · 11d

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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Hate Meditations @hatemeditations.bsky.social · 13d

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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Hate Meditations @hatemeditations.bsky.social · 17d

Beats and yelling shorts, 10th October 25

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#eldur #atmf #execrari #hessianfirm #pestilentialshadows #northernsilenceproductions #brilliantemperor #cultburial #cultmember #loyalbloodrecords #impendingrot #bloodharvest

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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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Hate Meditations @hatemeditations.bsky.social · 18d

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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Hate Meditations @hatemeditations.bsky.social · 20d

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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Hate Meditations @hatemeditations.bsky.social · 26d

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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Hate Meditations @hatemeditations.bsky.social · Sep 27

Beats and yelling, 27th September 25

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#incinerated #blackseed #cancervoid #mesacounojorecords #ironfortressrecords #ashen #redefiningdarknessrecords #vindicator #rauhnacht #antiqrecords #mjolne #atmfrecords

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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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Hate Meditations @hatemeditations.bsky.social · Sep 18

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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Hate Meditations @hatemeditations.bsky.social · Sep 12

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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Hate Meditations @hatemeditations.bsky.social · Sep 11

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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Hate Meditations @hatemeditations.bsky.social · Sep 9

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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Hate Meditations @hatemeditations.bsky.social · Sep 4

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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Hate Meditations @hatemeditations.bsky.social · Sep 2

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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Hate Meditations @hatemeditations.bsky.social · Sep 1

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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Hate Meditations @hatemeditations.bsky.social · Aug 27

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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Hate Meditations @hatemeditations.bsky.social · Aug 22

The noise diaries XVII: Franz Schubert, Supuration, Plague Bearer

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Transience

The noise diaries XVII

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Hate Meditations @hatemeditations.bsky.social · Aug 20

Beats and yelling shorts, 20th August 25

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#nithe #caligarirecords #iaton #signalrex #cromlech #darknessshallrise #ikuturso #puritythroughfire #devsmortvorvm #apocalypticproductions #empalamento #haloranrecords

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Hate Meditations @hatemeditations.bsky.social · Aug 19

Beats and yelling shorts, 19th August 25

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#funeralbaptism #loudragemusic #trivax #osmoseproductions #mourir #distantvoices #waldkrypta #eternaldeathrecords #svartvinter #nonserviumrecords #onirik #ivoidhangerrecords

Beats and yelling shorts, 19th August 25

Funeral Baptism: In SolitudineOut 30th May on Loud Rage Music If you ever conceived the (admittedly niche) desire to know what Dissection would sound like playing depressive black metal it’s all he…

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Hate Meditations @hatemeditations.bsky.social · Aug 1

Ozzy died and I had a thought

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#ozzyosbourne

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Ozzy died and I had a thought

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Hate Meditations @hatemeditations.bsky.social · Jul 9

An outrageous assemblage of complimentary material is stuffed into a dangerously restrictive space, bringing an iteration of turbocharged late black metal into sharper relief.

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#warmoonlord #werewolfrecords

Beats and yelling: Warmoon Lord

Sacrosanct DemonopathyOut 16th May on Werewolf Records Reminiscent of Gnipahålan for its filling and oftentimes recklessly dense concoction of Nordic black metal leftovers. The result leaves a simi…

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Hate Meditations @hatemeditations.bsky.social · Jul 2

Beats and yelling shorts, 2nd July 25

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#antoramh #blacklionrecords #propheticsuffering #sentientruinrecords #escarnium #everlastingspewrecords #eleventhray #darkdescentrecords #veia #prehistoricsounds #unmerciful #willowtiprecords

Beats and yelling shorts, 2nd July 25

An Tóramh: Echoes of Eternal NightOut 9th May on Black Lion Records Mixing the despondency of latter day Esoteric with a lo-fi sensibility grants this album a greater degree of dignity than the ove…

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