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Hate Meditations @hatemeditations.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Trims the fat of post black metal and adds some much needed melodic intention. #hænesy #garabontzia

Hate Meditations @hatemeditations.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

There's something about the first wave of neofolk that piggybacked off extreme that's just more...folky, flat vocals, messy reverb, modest musicianship, and a ritualistic, escapist sense of occasion despite the music's intimacy. #hagalazrunedance #thewindsthatsangofmidgardsfate

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Hate Meditations @hatemeditations.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

The meandering psyche and blues elements dates this album more than its contemporaries, but deserves its place alongside the pocketed riff work of a Zeppelin. #groundhogs #split

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Hate Meditations @hatemeditations.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Quality blues mixed with heavy psych and hard rock, a refreshingly straightforward setup that gets by on the fumes of sheer joy. #groundhogs #thankchristforthebomb

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Hate Meditations @hatemeditations.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Quality blues mixed with heavy psych and hard rock, a refreshingly straightforward setup that gets by on the fumes of sheer joy. #groundhogs #thankchristforthebomb

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Hate Meditations @hatemeditations.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

The Anthrax of the Swedish big 4. Satisfying in its revelry but comes across as argument without thesis when compared to their peers. #grave #intothegrave

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Hate Meditations @hatemeditations.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Conceptually loose, modest in design despite its rich tapestries, intuitively understands black metal as the recruitment of disparate elements (techniques, forms, vibes, contrast) into a project of world building. #granddemiseofcivilization #theblazeofabaddon

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Hate Meditations @hatemeditations.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Bought this one on a whim as it festures the Immolation boys, for all its flaws it's worth retrurning to for its idiosyncratic goth/doom/psych. #gospelofthewitches #salemswounds

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Hate Meditations @hatemeditations.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Typical of comebacks where bands fall into imitating the very music they influenced. A meaningless slough of dissonant sludge and mathcore. #gorguts #coloredsands

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Hate Meditations @hatemeditations.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

A watershed moment for death metal that wasn't understood as such until dissodeath became popular enough to be named. This monumental work stands apart from its unfortunate legacy however, a feat of compositional daring, organisational discipline, and flirtation with chaos. #gorguts #obscura

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Hate Meditations @hatemeditations.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Gorguts' best "typical" death metal album, combining raw violence with the malevolent patience of gothic horror, it's testament to Lemay's abilities as an arranger that the album's many moving parts flow in coherent bundles of narrative material without feeling cluttered. #gorguts #erosionofsanity

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Hate Meditations @hatemeditations.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Brings a compelling macabre flair to the dry percussive death metal popularised by Suffocation et al. #gorguts #considereddead

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Hate Meditations @hatemeditations.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Surprise hit of last year, brutal death metal limited to persistently violent rhythms, the occasional nod to classical melodic forms supplementing a relentless atonal attack. #brodequin #harbingerofwoe

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Hate Meditations @hatemeditations.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Addendum/New arrivals: foregrounds black metal's childlike spirit through its rudimentary construction, whimsy, and sense of wonder and mysticism underpinning what is at heart animalistic metal. #ancient #svartalvheim

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Hate Meditations @hatemeditations.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

The shifting centre of power in Gorgoroth reflected wider tectonic trends for black metal in the new century, from a violently creative force over & above the controversy it courted, #Gorgoroth #admajoremsathanasgloriam

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Hate Meditations @hatemeditations.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

The revolving door gets out of hand, with each track featuring a different lineup. The result is not a liberating Desert Sessions style collaboration but reams of unfocused filler suffocating what could otherwise have been a decent album. #Gorgoroth #destroyerorabouthowtophilosophizewiththehammer

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Hate Meditations @hatemeditations.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Brief, far reaching, fearlessly original, this short album boasts some of Gorgoroth's strongest material, showcasing their sophisticated melodic signatures beneath the adrenaline fuelled rage. #Gorgoroth #antichrist

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Hate Meditations @hatemeditations.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Early Gorgoroth came across as a black metal jam band, it feels like we're in the rehearsal room, witnessng a group of musicians work themselves into a ritualistc fury, aided by Infernus' effortlessly flowng melodies, somethng that set them apart from their fellow Norwegians. #Gorgoroth #Pentagram

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Hate Meditations @hatemeditations.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Much like Demilich or diSEMBOWELMENT, Gorement's sole full length released in that halcyon year of 1993 was a paragon if its kind. #gorement #theendingquest

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Hate Meditations @hatemeditations.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

As if to course correct after the carefree experimentation of the predecessor, Godflesh veer back into autopilot by delivering another lukewarm, by the numbers slog of half baked industrial groove metal. #Godflesh #purge

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Hate Meditations @hatemeditations.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

In many ways the album 'Us and Them' should have been. A slicker, more self assured integration of industrial grooves and weirdo electronica that - despite the cliche title - conveys its concept well. #Godflesh #postself

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Hate Meditations @hatemeditations.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Par for the course for 2010s comeback efforts. The initial fanfare gives way to the realisation that it's little more than a tepid rerun of past successes, stripped of the essence that made it so special, superficial and a little lost. #Godflesh #aworldlitonlybyfire

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Hate Meditations @hatemeditations.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Even Godflesh's successes are an awkward prospect, this brief EP delivered after a long hiatus boasts some of their strongest material since 'Pure'. #Godflesh #declineandfall

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Hate Meditations @hatemeditations.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

The false swansong swings wildly in the opposite direction to its predecessor, with Godflesh acting like a jam band, closer to Helmet than anything remotely industrial, along with the often remarked upon signposts to Jesu. #godflesh #hymns

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Hate Meditations @hatemeditations.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Retaining a late 90s futurist charm, this is the album Godflesh teased at for years, but falters in the execution, resulting in a bloated, unfocused slog, but one eclectic enough to warrant sporadic revisits. #godflesh #usandthem

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Hate Meditations @hatemeditations.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

A more successful meshing of metal and electronica was yet to come from Godflesh, for the time being this makes for a superfluous revision of their weakest album. #godflesh #loveandhateindub

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Hate Meditations @hatemeditations.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Godflesh directly engaged an industrialised vetsion of alt metal, a genre they were pivotal in developing. The result is a step down despite the reenergised humanity of the rhyme section. #godflesh #songsofloveandhate

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Hate Meditations @hatemeditations.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Godflesh shift their interest to post grunge. Whilst it's tempting to view this as a commercial move, the abstract riffs, stumbling drum patterns, and longform drones still make for a hefty undertaking. #godflesh #selfless

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Hate Meditations @hatemeditations.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

A brighter, flatter rerun of the debut. I've seen people lament the production on this album, but the uneven levels, burrowing repetition, and bloated length all work in its favour in my view. #godflesh #pure

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Hate Meditations @hatemeditations.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Supplements the arbitrary abrasiveness of the debut with regular electro pulses, a curious early tangent anticipating later deviations from this artist. #godflesh #slavestate

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Hate Meditations @hatemeditations.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

The first (and possibly only) successful synthesis of industrial and metal, achieved by transforming metal's reverence for the grandiose into an imposing wilderness of humanity's making, communicating the alienation, hostility, and unknowable complexity of late 20th century urbanism. #godflesh

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Hate Meditations @hatemeditations.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

The best thing about early Napalm Death was the freedom its members exercised on departing. Cathedral, Scorn, Painkiller, and of course Godflesh, here evolving away from the Swans worship of Fall of Because into a hazy, mechanised dread. #godflesh

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Hate Meditations @hatemeditations.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Ending the Abyss series with possibly their finest work, wide ranging, calming, ripe with finality. #goatcraft #sictransitgloriamundi

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