Darkthrone’s Astral Fortress: It Was the Best of Times, It Was the Kevork of Times Darkthrone’s 2022 Astral Fortress album boasts a few awkward, English-as-a-Second-Language turns of phrase that aim for surreal imagery and land dangerously close to non sequitur. Song titles such …

Darkthrone’s Astral Fortress aims for cosmic poetry and lands somewhere between the abyss and an ESL workbook. When does black metal’s broken language stop making sense—and start sounding profound?
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Quetzalcthulhu Rising: The Absurd Ecopocalypse of Kreator’s ‘Death to the World’ Kreator’s “Death to the World” is a particularly lame example of environ-metal — a subset of extreme music devoted to dramatizing ecological catastrophe with the same doomsaying gusto on…

A new deep dive into Kreator’s “Death to the World.” Spoiler — the planet is fine, we’re the ones who are screwed. Metal’s eco-message needs to grow up.
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