The noise diaries XX Appetite whiplash Appetites are strange things. Once an appetite returns it usually does so with interest. I lost my appetite for heavy guitar music last summer, when it returned it did so with whi…

he noise diaries XX: Negură Bunget, Eternal Champion, Jim Kirkwood

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The riddle of Immolation: a beats and yelling feature Immolation: DescentOut 10th April on Nuclear Blast Some Morbid Angel fans argue that they lost something following the departure of Richard Brunelle. Trey Azagthoth, for all his talents, benefited …

The riddle of Immolation: a beats and yelling feature

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Beats and yelling shorts, 14th April 26 Blasart: Depravatus Christianis SacrisOut 28th March on Lavadome Productions Overwrought black metal cloaks repetition with subtle shifts in emphasis and pitch, alongside some welcome decorative ac…

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US Power Metal | The Hate Meditations Podcast, Episode XIV YouTube video by Hate Meditations

US Power Metal | The Hate Meditations Podcast, Episode XIV

Joseph walks me through the basics of heavy metal from across the pond. Plus a quick chat about the current state of "trad" metal, and why it's popularity seems to be on the wane.

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Beats and yelling: DomJord

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Beats and yelling: Tulus Morbid DesiresOut 27th March on Darkness Shall Rise Productions Being Tulus must be a thankless task. Even the promo blurb accompanying this release can’t quite muster the requisite enthusiasm, boa…

Beats and yelling: Tulus

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Beats and yelling shorts, 7th April 26 Cruel Force: HanedaOut 27th March on Shadow Kingdom Sits at the playful end of German thrash, emphasising the melodic elements of Destruction circa ‘Mad Butcher’. On the basis of this material ther…

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Beats and yelling: Protrusion The Last SuppurationOut 13th March on Extremely Rotten Productions/Unholy Domain/Sevared Records Protrusion punt for a mix of early 90s Floridian death metal and early Gorguts (who were to be fair,…

Beats and yelling: Protrusion

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I am about to be “fooled” by AI music and that doesn’t matter the pleasure machine is here: a few thoughts Big questions tend to throw us in multiple directions at once. What does it mean to live a good life? There are simply too many factors to consider. No …

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Beats and yelling shorts, 25th March 26 A.H.P: Alltid Imot DegOut 21st March on Purity Through Fire Drab, pessimistic black metal lurches between torturous drone segments bolstered by little more than stumbling, slow rhythms into bursts …

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Beats and yelling: Deathlike Dawn A Monument I Shall Raise in FlameOut 20th March on Werewolf Promotion Poland’s Deathlike Dawn continue the direction set by their previous album ‘Noc czarna czernią otchłani’, extending their tendr…

As a work of dissonant black metal it stands apart for its ability to create clear if meandering statements of melodic intent. A project with much to offer the intellect even as it falls short in feeding the soul.

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The Sixteenth Six-Tooth Son of Fourteen Four-Regional Dimensions (Still Unnamed) | IOM Episode II YouTube video by Hate Meditations

The Sixteenth Six-Tooth Son of Fourteen Four-Regional Dimensions (Still Unnamed) | Interpretations of metal, Episode II

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Beats and yelling shorts, 19th March 26 Temora: DemoOut 13th March on Blood Harvest At face value this is fairly run of the mill old school death metal, delivered with a pleasing sparseness that presents as authentic as opposed to anothe…

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Beats and yelling: Imbolc Sette Cornici di PurificazioneOut 27th February on Masked Dead Records The third album from this Italian entity is an expansive, cinematic, and ambitious work of hyper charged melodic black metal. …

Beats and yelling: Imbolc

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Beats and yelling shorts, 13th March 26 Realms of Chaos: Torment of BelligerenceOut 14th February, self-released Precision timed, energetic death metal takes its cues from an earlier strain of brutal death metal that suppressed the hardc…

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Beats and yelling: Cryptic Shift Overspace and SupertimeOut 27th February on Metal Blade Records It’s been a slow rise for Leeds’s own Cryptic Shift. From clunky sci-fi thrash beginnings in the early 2010s to emerging as local sce…

Beats and yelling: Cryptic Shift

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Episode XIII we're finally talking about AI YouTube video by Hate Meditations

Joseph and Shelley are thrilled to be joined by two prolific metal writers, Josh from Mystification Zine and Andy from No Clean Singing, to talk about the possible implications AI has for music writing and metal fandom

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Beats and yelling shorts, 6th March 26 Unmother: State Dependent MemoryOut 20th February on Fiadh Productions Although not entirely terrible, Unmother suffer from the garden variety shortcomings of much RABM, in that the music appears d…

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The metal press: blame the audience In a recent episode of 2 Promoters, 1 Pod, co-host and Damnation Festival organiser Gavin McInally launched what some took to be an all out assault on the music press. His contentions were three fo…

The metal press: blame the audience

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Black Sabbath I - VI | The Hate Meditations Podcast, Episode XII YouTube video by Hate Meditations

Black Sabbath I - VI | The Hate Meditations Podcast, Episode XII

In an effort to catch up with current events we thought we'd doff the cap to Ozzy's passing by focusing on the part of his legacy that has impacted us the most, the first six Sabbath albums.

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Beats and yelling: Diabolus, Mecum Semperterne! Diabolus, Mecum Semperterne!Out 20th February on Terratur Possessions Dark, fluid, minimalist black metal creates a sense of grandeur by bolstering the near constant tremolo riffing with keyboard a…

Beats and yelling: Diabolus, Mecum Semperterne!

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Beats and yelling: Moonchapel Three Faced Trinity for a Two-Faced WorldOut 13th February on Horror Pain Gore Death Productions The obscurantist curveball that is Moonchapel continue their output apace. Following their harrowing…

Beats and yelling: Moonchapel

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The noise diaries XIX Careful what you wish for Following a turbulent start to the year, the constant rain finally relented this week and I got to see the sun for the first time in 2026, but this was conditioned on the …

The noise diaries XIX: Darkthrone, Cryptopsy, A Forest of Stars

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Beats and yelling shorts, 19th February 26 Psy-War: From Deep Depressions to the Borders of SuicideOut 27th November on La Caverna Records (originally released in 1992) Unsettling grindcore notable for shifting the traits of the genre – the…

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Beats and yelling: Petrale Goat at SunsetOut 1st February, self-released Croatia’s Petrale add to their significant run of releases with another subtle shift in direction. Where 2024’s ‘The World Down There’ was technically …

Beats and yelling: Petrale

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Necropolis AD #12 - Christopher Dick from Decibel Magazine YouTube video by Necroclassical

Thanks to Necropolis AD for having me on for this discussion on Decibel Magazine and the state of the metal press.

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Måneskyggens Slave | Interpretations of metal Episode I YouTube video by Hate Meditations

A closer look at specific metal tracks at the granular level, this week we take a closer look at Gorgoroth's 'Måneskyggens Slave'.

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Beats and yelling shorts, 12th February 26 Sanctvs: De l’Abîme au PlérômeOut 30th January on Osmose Productions Canadian black metal drawing on the Mayhem school in that the emphasis is more on jagged surrealism and light dissonance o…

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Beats and yelling: Rotheads Unfazed by DeathOut 26th January on Memento Mori (originally released in 2016) It’s been a while since we’ve heard from Rotheads. There 2022 effort ‘Slither in Slime’ was one of the best of that ye…

Beats and yelling: Rotheads

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Beats and yelling shorts, 9th February 26 Decimation: Between Two WorldsOut 27th November on La Caverna Records (originally released in 1992) Given the timing of this now forgotten demo – after death metal had “broken out” so to speak – it…

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