Meditations
Meditations on music and philosophy
2025
Book report: Into Everlasting Fire
Why is metal obsessed with its past?
Book report: Dark dungeon music
What is left of blasphemy? (guest entry)
Is the underground dead? (A death metal case study)
2024
The Skorian // The Greyleer Review (guest entry)
The evolving politics of metal (video)
Massacre, and why they don’t exist
Book Report – The Scott Burns Sessions
Book Report: Black Metal – Evolution of the Cult
Mefitis, ‘Emberdawn’ five years on
Metalhead burnout, entrepreneurialism, and the chore of modern listening
AI and file sharing: unhelpful remarks
You’ve all been fooled! “Industrial metal” isn’t “real” (guest entry)
Summoning and continuity black metal
Why you should hold metal in contempt
2023
Metal after the fall: cultural zombism
I have liked the beats and I have liked the yelling: 2023’s top 40
What have hipsters ever done for us?: a retrospect
Book report: decoding the Malazan
I like the graceful adagio and I like the crooning
Stop listening to bands I like: not a review of Godflesh
The casualisation of fandom – Friction free consumption, product driven lifestyles, and gatekeeping bogeymen
Review – Tonight it’s a World We Bury
YouTube reaction videos: the last metal subgenre
What is beer metal and why does it suck? (guest entry)
Beherit: Homemakers of musical dismemberment
The oxymoron of English black, and the lessons of USBM (video version)