Meditations

Meditations on music and philosophy

2025

Some words on escapism

Is the party over?

The state of death metal

My friend sent me a mixtape

Metal’s Romanticism paradox

Book report: Into Everlasting Fire

Why is metal obsessed with its past?

Negative press

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)

2024: audit of the year

The evolving politics of metal (video)

Massacre, and why they don’t exist

The metal I like

Blood Incantation

Book Report – The Scott Burns Sessions

How to listen to metal

Book Report: Black Metal – Evolution of the Cult

Mefitis, ‘Emberdawn’ five years on

Metalhead burnout, entrepreneurialism, and the chore of modern listening

Review – The Hipster Economy

Metal and self-expression

Immortal’s lost legacy

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

Review – Black Metal Rainbows

YouTube reaction videos: the last metal subgenre

What is beer metal and why does it suck? (guest entry)

Voivod’s artisanal prog

Review – Death Metal

Beherit: Homemakers of musical dismemberment

The oxymoron of English black, and the lessons of USBM (video version)

Arch Enemy: Anthems of Rebellion (what’s in a gateway)

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